This week's "My business week" is in collaboration with Skyltmax.se.

This week I have had to fight a little extra hard to keep my energy up as I have had a fever for four of the days and a lot to do.

But with the results in hand, it has gone very well anyway! I have had a lot done, gone to bed just a little extra early and I have worked a little extra a lot at home over the weekend so I feel that I am in phase :)

To be an ingredient nerd
I have said several times that I wish there was a chemist education that only focuses on beauty products. An education that is very thorough but still so short and easy that you can educate yourself "just for fun". I think it's so much fun with the INCI list of beauty products and wish I understood everything everything everything!

I wonder how much time I spent searching for ingredients on Google .. haha!

But as the ingredient nerd I am, I happened to see the ingredient list on my favorite product Multi Treat had changed a little. How sick is it not really, who notices that? In any case, when there are such small changes, the brands do not usually get in touch with all retailers because it is an insignificant change, but since we print all inci lists in the webshop, it is very important to us that they are correct.

Among other things, I saw that Multi treat now contains the ingredient "Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate" which I became unsure whether it is a sulfate or not. It sounds like that on the name and the googling did not make me wiser. But a big point with Multi treat is that you should have it as a cleanser in the lengths instead of shampoo, because shampoos dissolve grease (most with the help of sulfates, sulfates are salty) and you do not have grease in the lengths. So it would be weird if Multi treat also contains sulfates now I thought.

So I emailed Hårologi about this and got an answer immediately! ”Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate is not a cleansing foaming surfactant without a greasy emulsifier”. So it is just a new emulsifier for the cream to be even and stable and not cut with the oil and water. In addition, the product contains only 0.5% of the ingredient.

Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. :) Now I just hope that some customer comes in and asks about this because then I can excel with my deep knowledge haha!

Nameplates and Beauty Guide sign from Skyltmax!
When I received the request for cooperation with Skyltmax so it was so fitting because we had just planned to order some new signs.

Among other things, nameplates for everyone at the salon because it is so often customers ask "what is your name?" at the checkout so they can book the same person again because they were so happy.

But also a sign to the waiting room that we have Beauty Guides with make-up tips and inspiration on the website!

Here is our waiting room and over the reclining armchairs you will see the new sign! :) It is a plastic sign that is ordered from the category "plastic signs”And the actual printing we have done ourselves and uploaded.

What do you think? :) Annika designed the sign.

Is very happy with the sign and thinks that the quality feels good and above all that the print is nice. I am otherwise picky about printing with photos because I work so much with the pictures and know exactly what shade all colors have on the computer. But I think it turned out great in color, no difference at all from our original picture!

The nameplates are from the category "nameplate engraving ”. Very nice I think! We chose brass and black engraving :)

Feels nice!

Summa summarum - I can recommend sign max! :)

Sick and baby times
This season really reminds us of our schedule! Customers cancel at short notice because they either become ill themselves or have children who are ill. And two of my colleagues this week have had to cuddle with their children!

It has gone well anyway in the end, but it will be a puzzle in the schedule and quick changes!

In addition, I myself have been ill, thankfully not cold but I had a fever Monday-Thursday. It has gone well anyway because I have survived on antipyretic tablets haha, but still you have to make an extra effort to keep the efficiency up and not get tired. You are still not at the top.

Also, I bled nosebleeds at work last Thursday, I usually never do! So it was as if the body was saying no. Meen the next day I woke up fever free so I did not have to take any drastic measures;)

My best combo that my mother taught me: 2 alvedon and 1 ipren. I joked with my sister that I do not feel bad because of the fever when the tablets start to go out of the body but because of abstinence because I eat so many haha!

But if you only worked the days you feel tip top, you would not get so much done in this world;)

Invest money
This summer, Miska and Annika and I sat and discussed various sources of income in the company. Having only income from one place makes the company quite insecure. Let's say we had only worked with teeth whitening, then teeth whitening is banned and suddenly we have no business left. Now, teeth whitening is not our biggest focus at all, but a good example that things in the outside world can happen that we can not control.

It is important to have several legs to stand on, for us these are currently 1. the salon 2. the webshop and now also 3. investments! Adult points I know;) and I can also add a 4. which is a type of consulting job and other income. Miska has helped other companies with technology stuff such as websites etc. and I have worked a lot with Disruptive Materials which I wrote earlier.

This week we had a meeting with the CEO of one of the companies we invested in. However, I was not part of it but thought it was very inspiring when Miska recounted everything. I myself am interested on a more superficial level but I am happy that Miska thinks it is more fun and takes hold of the decision part so that things are done :)

We have invested in 3 different companies, all of which are high risk and two of them will (if it goes as planned of course) give returns very quickly. They are completely new but have a lot of experience, sky-high visions and if their forecast is correct, we will return several million in just 2 years. That would be cool!

I think it is SO fun to invest with high risk, when you are involved in starting a company, there are so many opportunities to make the money grow!

All companies we have invested in are technology companies. Two of the companies work with VR, ie virtual reality, but with two different specializations. The third company took me half an hour to understand myself so there is no point in me starting to explain in text;) but it is in the technology-system-game-future-turn. But Miska knows so you do not have to worry haha!

Had to sneak a photo of Miska when he sat and looked so smart;)

To be a good boss
The word boss is something that I have a very hard time identifying myself as. Even though I have all the tasks and responsibilities that a manager has, that word feels like I would automatically be "above" everyone and have lots of more experience. But that is certainly not the case! I look up to everyone who works here and many have more experience than me in many areas.

But the fact remains, I am the manager and it is my job to make the team feel comfortable at work, make everyone develop as people and feel involved in the company's development. Simply enjoy the job!

So I have realized more and more that I am actually a boss, and above all, I actually think I am one Good boss too! Can you say that? Lol. Not a perfect boss then but still a good boss! I think it is so important that everyone is happy and sometimes I feel bad because you always want to be able to do more.

But there is still a lot that we do for everyone at Creative Makeup:

• Everyone got their holidays they wanted this summer, although it was not really the most optimal solution for the company.
• If you are scheduled for Christmas Eve, you are free with pay.
• You only pay material costs for expensive treatments such as permanent makeup. How many get a free eyebrow tattoo at work as well! :)
• Everyone got a lot of makeup and products as a Christmas present
• We have offered many dinners and at the time of writing are planning a date for the next dinner in early April. And our kickoff day we arranged at Odalgården (cozy conference place) and had a very cozy time together with coffee and dinner.
• Everyone is involved in the company's development and in principle all improvements that are desired we take on.
• All makeup artists got to go to a make-up fair together during working hours (ie full pay all day!) As a fun thing to do together :)
• Everyone has been given areas to develop in so that it is not boring and "the same same" at work. We have regular meetings both together and in person.
• We value our staff and the basic salary is already well above salaries according to collective agreements for this industry in the case of new employment.
• Occupational pension and insurance corresponding to collective agreements.
• If you work overtime, you get paid time for it, and you can take it out how you want as long as you say so in time. I know that there are several workplaces where you get time off, but that it can only be taken out when it is "quiet" so you can not take a whole day off, e.g.

Surely it's a pretty nice workplace, right? :) I do not have much experience of being employed myself so I do not have much to compare with. It is also a balancing act between that you also have to put the company first, if e.g. the economy is going down, there is no workplace at all and that is not nice either.

In fact, I'm a little eager to get a mentor for the whole boss part. We are 3 people who are helped, so it is not really needed, but sometimes you would just want a ballpark with an outsider, what can you do for improvements, etc. Anyone who shows up? :)

A bit fitting picture anyway in some way, haha!

Otherwise, there have not been so many special things this week, I have worked hard to update the web shop, made material for blogs and beauty guides, had several customers, made new pictures for our touch screen in the store that we use when we talk about our different treatments. So it has been a bit of a creative job too! :)

Hope your week has been good and that you are not too cold and snotty ♥

Hugs are!