At the time of writing, I am sitting in bed with my floral bathrobe, a coffee cup in my hand and my cat Viktoria in my lap, so cozy!
Inspired, rested and happy, I would say that my feeling is. Harmonious at the same time as I am peppered as well! That kind of thing goes in waves but right now I feel incredibly good :)
Makeup LABB !!!
I do not know if you understand how fun I think it is to test products? I have not reviewed so much in the blog lately due to lack of time, I have to prioritize and it takes time as I nerd myself in every product, can not test things half-heartedly and my reviews are always quite long :)
That I have become good at make-up and beauty is due to 100% that I am interested in products, the artistic and creative is not something that comes naturally to me, I have practiced that.
The hard part about getting really nerdy, however, is that I can only test / feel the ingredients in finished formulations and google for information. I know all the usual ingredients such as mica, various silicones, iron oxides that give pigment, nylon-12 and everything that is available, etc., but how do they feel completely alone? What is the difference between the different silicones? What will be the effect for real as well as?
You can guess how much fun I had last Thursday when I booked a half day in a lab and got to do just that - learn more about the most common ingredients, feel, compare and nerd myself to the max! Heaven !!
This is research for my upcoming make-up brand I am working on developing, it is completely in the start-up phase but I am investing fully so that it really gets rid of!
I am not allowed to take photos from the lab of the very cropped image, but here you see a bunch of different silicones that I got to learn more about and feel the difference in everyone. SO useful info!
Then I made some of my own formulations based on what I tested during the day and now I have my FIRST TESTS at home that I will put to the test! So the first product samples for my own make-up brand, they are not only sent from a manufacturer but I have, as it were, made them myself!
Det vanligaste sättet (tror jag) är att tillverka sina egna formuleringar direkt med producenten, men det här gör jag för att snabba på processen för det är ändå en producent som kommer göra den färdiga formuleringen sen. Men om man kan säga direkt vilka ingredienser man vill ha + lämna med ett prov på hur man vill ha formulan – då är det väldigt enkelt för producenten att ta fram det man önskar. Till skillnad från att bara förklara “jag vill ha den känslan, den pigmenteringen i en sån här typ av formula” då är allt lite av en definitionsfråga och de första proverna från producenten kan vara ganska långt ifrån det man önskar.
Här står jag i “slussen” innan labbet där man får byta om och lämna sina saker utanför. Proffsigt ut i fingerspetsarna :)
It has not happened so much physically really, but purely mentally and in terms of planning, I have come a long way in a short time! I have established contact with two packaging manufacturers and am almost completely sure already exactly how I want the packaging. I also know which products we will start with (and which will be new) and in addition to graphic design, I know the entire start range! I have also calculated how much investment we will need to get started and approximately what prices and margins we will be able to have.
För bara några veckor sedan kände jag “var och hur börjar man?” för jag hade bara lösa trådar. Men nu känner jag plötsligt att jag har jättemycket jag kan sätta tänderna i redan nu! Är verkligen redo att kavla upp ärmarna ordentligt! :)
Work with children
Lately we have cared for Mileya a lot too! Partly when Annika worked, but I also had her alone when Miska practiced eyebrow tattooing because then Annika is with me.
It's fun to be with Mileya but it takes a lot of time and focus too, we sometimes try to work at the same time but it works for a little quick emails and fix pictures and such simple things, you do not become very efficient right away;)
Here Miska fixes some stuff with our website!
Here I am writing a beauty article for our web shop about making up pimples with products we sell. You can read the post here!
And here we have a staff meeting haha! We had both a group meeting with everyone and individual meetings with each person :)
Work to catch up on weekends and itineraries
I did not write a Sunday post last week because we went to Finland on Thursdays so it was still only three full working days. Next week we will go there again so due to that + childcare I have worked all weekend also to work to catch up!
Egentligen är jag bara sugen nu på att ha helt obokade veckor och jobba från morgon till kväll varje dag. Jag har så mycket motivation! Men samtidigt är det viktigt att inte alltid tacka nej till andra saker för minnen, relationer och upplevelser är också jätteviktigt för ett lyckligt liv :) Jag måste ofta påminna mig om det, t.ex. i somras när vi egentligen hade superlugnt med saker så frågade Miska om vi skulle ta en promenad och gå och bada och jag svarade “jag har verkligen inte tid” och det grämde mig ett tag efteråt (och sen gick vi och badade senare faktiskt) men jag kände liksom, vad håller jag på med? Jag jobbar hemifrån, det är jag som gjort min egen långa to do list för just den dagen, det var en vacker sommardag och jag kan jobba på natten om det ska vara så. GÅ och bada! Haha!
So in other words, there are some planned now that take time and focus from my work days but I have to be extra efficient the remaining time instead!
Here I sit and fix pictures in the car on the way to the Finnish boat. I have a hard time working in the car because I get sick easily if I look down, it's such a shame because it would have been the perfect time to take advantage of!
Miska continues with eyebrow tattoos!
Our price for permanent makeup 3D eyebrows with an apprentice is SEK 3,700, but right now in the beginning Miska takes SEK 2,700 and is already fully booked with customers for that price. On the other hand, he continues to offer before he goes up in full apprenticeship price and it is possible to book an appointment with him for SEK 3,200 now!
Email him at Miska@creativemakeup.se to book an appointment. Only a new tattoo as people who have done a tattoo before at another salon can be too difficult if you need to correct, but you can email a picture to him if you have a previous tattoo so he can decide if you can book in or not :)
The same day that I published the last Sunday post (but wrote it in the morning so this did not come) he had two customers from Uddevalla who went all the way to Uppsala to be tattooed by Miska!
Here he is drawing the shape of one of them :)
And here he is doing tattoos! It looks like a cake in the picture because there is so much tattoo color on it :) You can put it on while you tattoo on the other edge so that the color will sink in a little extra where you got the tattoo.
And here is the result:
Her mother was also involved and here is the result:
Then he had his first test persons where Annika did not have to be present! But then Ida or Olga is at the salon so he is not completely without support :) And I helped and approved the brow shape as well, I can not tattoo but brow shape and symmetry there I can support a lot!
Here are the results after the tattoos:
Fint va? :)
Det blev lite missförstånd mellan mig och Miska när jag frågade efteråt hur det kändes och han svarade “Det är jättekul! Känns jättebra! Jag behöver hitta djupet nu bara” och jag trodde han pratade om sitt konstnärliga djup eller liksom djupet i 3D-effekten, men såklart pratade han om hur djupt man ska tatuera ;)
It's not only that the straws should be nice but it should stick and be even as well! Soon he will start receiving the return visits from his tattoos and it will probably be very instructive!
Grateful for my customers!
Jag har en stamkund som gått hos mig i över 4 år nu (snart 5 år tror jag?) och förra gången hon bokade tid hos mig så sa hon “den dagen fyller jag år!”. Jag kunde ju då inte låta bli att förbereda en liten present till henne ;)
Since I do not review products to the same extent anymore and do not actively seek news for our own range, I do not receive work samples to the same extent anymore. But I have saved a lot since before (even though I did a major cleaning a year ago) and picked up a nice goodie bag for her as a birthday present!
She was so happy! Both because I remembered her birthday but of course for the nice products :) Great fun!
Would take a nice picture of it but forgot because it was so full before, but it came in the background of a video I filmed so just took a print screen on it haha.
So that was the corner week! I have had pretty good statistics in the blog lately and want to say BIG THANKS to all of you who follow me! I am so happy and grateful!
Have a nice Sunday and a good start to next week!
I myself will read my horoscope now for the coming week and then I will continue to work a little.
Hugs are! ♥
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