At the time of writing, I am sitting in the car on the way home from our friend Jonny, with whom I slept yesterday. I borrowed his bathtub! IF I feel like a new person today !? :) I kind of AM a new person! Type 2 kilos lighter, 1kg mentally and 1kg dead skin cells that I scrubbed away haha.
I packed with me a whole ICA box of beauty products and have scrubbed all over me, done all sorts of peels and wraps and even manicures ♥ At the same time I had the computer next to the bathtub and watched romantic movies. MYS!
Best end to a pretty intense week and best start for the next!
Effect makeup on the artist Kiddo!
I felt good on Tuesday, not good because I worked hard (I did that in itself too) but do you know when I think I / others are the most good? When you go outside your comfort zone and do it well! It's such a nice feeling afterwards!
As you know, I can do effect make-up in terms of knowledge, but I do it 1. very rarely and 2. only on myself. In addition, I basically never do freelance work anymore (except for Disruptive Materials) but sometimes I get the feeling to say yes, then I set a high price and if they approve it, it's worth the circumstances haha. It is so fun to pack all a thousand products and shades and with travel time etc. it is rarely worth the effort.
Now you can probably guess what I did last Tuesday;) a freelance job and effect makeup at the same time!
The artist Kiddo (check out Spotify, awesome songs!) Releases a new song in October and her album cover is an animated picture of her where parts of her face are skeletons. Now they would do promotional photography and films for the song release and she would then be made up as on the album cover.
So since I had a clear picture of exactly how they wanted it and the skeleton is not a super high degree of difficulty either, I said yes and went to Sony Music in Stockholm!
I would never say yes to a job that I can not do well, it would not only have been shameful but also incredibly disrespectful, but since there were skeletal parts down my neck and hands as well, I should not stick under the chair that I was outside my comfort zone.
But I tested myself at home first and got approval from Miska and Annika that it looked good haha so I did not have to be nervous on the way there anyway :)
Here you see a sneak peek! As I said, I did exactly as in the picture on the album cover so the idea or design is not something I had my hands free with.
But I really want to strike a blow to go outside your comfort zone every now and then, you get a high return afterwards when you have succeeded and if you always only do things that feel "safe", it is difficult to develop - and you want to ju :)
Freelance at Disruptive Materials
This week it was a freelance job two days in a row! The other freelance day, however, was 100% in my comfort zone because I did makeup at Disruptive Materials where I am quite often and help with makeup for photography.
They do portrait photography of all new employees to the about-us page on their website and Disruptive Materials is growing so fast, before I "felt" everyone there but now there are always lots of new faces when I get there! Great fun!
So it is the company that works with the material Upsalite that is now starting to become an ingredient in the cosmetics industry :) Also had a small mini-meeting before a larger meeting before more contemporary collaborations around Upsalite, exciting!
Here I am doing make-up on a conveyor belt and talking to all the good people who work there! Always just as nice!
Lots of customers!
I have not only had my own customers this week but also babysit Mileya (who is now 8 months old) while Annika had customers. You might think it's not a job to look after a baby, but for me it's a bit like that - because if I look after Mileya, Annika can take customers and because her treatments draw in type 500% more money than mine (note not counted, but you take haha) so it's more worthwhile for the company that I take care of Mileya.
This week I have been to the salon more than usual because Annika has had three working days and then I multitask with work and childcare in the meantime. But even though you are tired after having customers for several hours in a row, it is nothing if you compare with how tired you are after taking care of a baby! Mileya has started to stand up to things now so you really have to keep track and she is 98% of the time.
Last Monday I took care of Mileya alone for an hour, Annika tattooed in the room next door and I had the worst poop-everywhere disaster and was so stressed when I cleaned everything from the floor, sink, pot, Mileya herself and changed her clothes at the same time she screamed hysterically and I just thought "Annika and the customer must not come out now, they must not come out now !!”. I had just had time to clean up all the evidence (almost) when they came out to a happy baby, a sweaty Helena and a smelly room that I tried to ventilate. What a press!
Last Friday, it was me who had many customer bookings instead. Two make-up consultations in a row (3 hours of make-up talk in a row) and immediately after that several fringe and brow customers for a few more hours. But I was still a thousand times more alert after that whole day than after an hour of poop chaos haha!
And on Wednesday I received this message on Instagram:
Gets so warm in the heart !!! :)
Kickoff planning is complete!
Thursday was the only day when I did not have to go into town but could work undisturbed at home, which was extremely much needed!
I have written before that I, Miska and Annika had meetings about goal picture etc. before our kickoff but nothing has been written clean and the numbers have not been 100% counted on. And since the kickoff is next week, I needed to finish the presentation and all the other preparations, which requires that you can sit down in peace and quiet without being interrupted, which I then finally had time to do on Thursday. Nice!
When it was finally done, I had the rest of the to-do list to deal with things I had not had time to do when I flung around the rest of the week, but everything went quickly and smoothly so I was really light in body and mind in the evening sen :) Wonderful!
You feel a little dizzy after a day like this! Sat and compared numbers with previous years, renewed report templates and had me.
But still more alert than when I took care of Mileya this Monday;) haha!
In the middle of all this, we also took care of our sick hen Guldlock, she had a wound on her foot which even though we tried to take care of it with disinfection, bandages, etc., it still became infected :( Nothing was visible without us noticed that she got tired, but the vet said that she had a chance and cleaned her foot properly and got ointments and stuff, so we did not have to kill but even though we fed persistently with vitamin water and etc., she fell asleep this morning ♥
I have such a bad conscience that we did not kill her immediately. The same thing was with my cat Carl-Philip before, you kept the hope to the last and did everything you could but with the result in hand you wish you had killed immediately instead so that they did not suffer for several days .. I feel me just shitty now! :(
Miska, Mileya and Guldlock before the situation became critical ♥
Now I'm going out into the woods and picking mushrooms! It's good to be in nature when you feel a little fragile, should walk away my bad conscience for Guldlock.
A 3-hour bath and a forest walk is probably the best way for me to end this week :) Then there will be a fire in the stove and homemade puree, vegetarian meatballs and hopefully chanterelle sauce for dinner if I'm lucky in the forest!
Have a great Sunday everyone! :)
Hug!!
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