My business week v. 19

Wow what a sunny and nice week we have had! So heavenly nice!

For us, sun means a roasting salon, but also really alert and happy customers, and that's about the memory I have over the week that has been. I have been out among the customers in the store more than usual and have not gotten as much "admin job" done as I usually do but it has not been a major disaster :)

Jobs at Disruptive Materials
This week it was time again for a make-up job at Disruptive Materials - the company that works with the material Upsalite that I wrote about in previous posts.

They are redoing their website and I have come in on several occasions and put on make-up for photography. Always just as nice to come and put on make-up and gossip with everyone who works there! 10 pieces would be made up in total, but there was only one that was "full face makeup" the rest was a little easier.

I love that they have a corner with a high table and high chairs in their staff room! It makes the whole freelance thing much easier :)

The hardest thing about freelancing as a makeup artist (who for me does not freelance so much that I would invest in a folding makeup chair and drag with me) is to make up people who sit on low chairs. Then you stand like a cheese bow and get to soot for it the next day!

I first put on make-up on the morning twig, then I had a gap that was too big to just take a lunch break but too small to go from there and work at the salon in between. So she as project manager the whole photography was cute and lent her office to me so I could work in the meantime, so nice :)

I have an office in the salon as well, but it's a dark room with a regular IKEA table in it. This felt like a "real" office with an office chair, desktop computer and post-it notes. Felt very professional in there haha.

I just had to choose one of the mugs with the company logo on as well, for an extra professional feeling as well;)

I too will be on a small part on their website when it's done, but my movies with the products + a quote about upsalite in makeup and a little "press picture". Cool!

Entrepreneurs & red days
As a self-employed person, you are one of the few people who are against red days, it bothers you, haha! We can be open if we want anyway, but it is usually quite quiet at the salon on red days anyway (do not know if people go away or if they just assume that we have closed without checking, you can think that it are on red days people have time to do treatments?) and then it is not worth paying extra salary if you do not earn it.

In addition, I know that as an employee, red days are very wonderful, so I turn my short-term economist-think that it is personnel care that is good in the long run, so it feels a little better;)

My own red day consisted of first leave spent in the garden with some chores, relaxing and mischief with my cat Viktoria, so wonderful! Then when the sun started to disappear, I worked in the makeup studio and in front of the computer in the afternoon and evening. Perfect with a job that is not always time-limited but you can control the days as you want. Love it!

Here I sit in a towel and put on make-up haha, finished at 8 pm and then I worked with the computer in bed :)

I also took product pictures and swatch pictures of our new lipsticks from glo Skin beauty that will be up in the webshop soon!

To be able to work in a computer
There are investments that feel huge when you open your wallet, but if you count ppa (price per use, which Tove Castor usually count on their clothes) so it is not so many kroner it is about. And my laptop really is such a gadget!

What if there were only desktops, what would my business look like then? My computer is with me everywhere, partly I take it back and forth to the salon every day, last Monday I had it with me on the freelance job at Disruptive Materials and on Tuesday I had it with me on my hairdresser's visit with Monica Werner at Color and the shape! :)

A visit to the hairdresser with balayage dyeing takes a few hours and these are hours that you can take advantage of when you still do not get anywhere :) Of course you may not be exactly as productive as when you sit completely screened in an office, but a lot can you get done at the same time as you become beautiful!

Miska tasks
Last Wednesday, Miska went fishing with a friend so I was allowed to survive without him, both emotionally and practically haha. At work, this means that I do a lot, much more reception work, ie answer the phone, receive customers, put anesthesia, make bookings, etc. And even though I have the computer and work with my own as well, it is not so much my own work as catch up because we have a full roll :)

It also means that I sent all the webshop packages! We have two other makeup artists who know it too, but none of them are here this week.

I basically never run the webshop anymore, I can't remember when I last packed a package. But I like it! So the webshop was my baby before when I only had it and the blog and it was just me who then handled the orders. So it gets a little nostalgic to be able to pack and weigh and stuff again, just cozy!

We always send handwritten greetings to customers and it makes me so warm in my heart every time I write these. I still feel "oh what a gullis who goes in and orders from us !!". It is of course great fun when people visit the salon / shop as well, but the webshop in particular has such motherly feelings around it so it's a bit different anyway haha ♥

Last Friday I did multitasking with a reception job and at the same time (among other things) prepared pictures of our new lipsticks from glo Skin Beauty which I am putting in the webshop! :)

By the way, I am by no means a person who works well with being alone, I need people around me who take focus and now the sister and children were also away so last Thursday I was completely alone all day and did not meet a single person. I immediately noticed how I became more sensitive and had a hard time letting go of things. At first I got kind of angry about a thing (private thing) that I saw on social media, which took a lot of my energy completely unnecessarily. Then when I took a break with the coffee cup in the sun I heard a song reminiscent of mom and so I sat there and was sad instead and felt super-pathetic hahaha! I who am otherwise quite good at shaking things off.

Never leave me alone again! ;) I'm like an anxious dog!

But now it's Sunday and Miska came home yesterday and the sister and the children come home from their sun holiday tomorrow, so then everything will be as usual again ♥

Have a nice Sunday everyone!