Here I sit this Sunday morning and feel the life in me! ♥

The duvet in the bed felt unusually fluffy and nice so I still did not step up but got coffee served by Miska! He is sitting and working at the kitchen table with our cat Viktoria in his arms, the sun is shining in, I feel in a really writing mood and in a few hours we will actually go on a house tour and be amazed!

This week there has been a lot of "sit and wear work" at the computer + had customers. So I do not have very interesting job pictures unfortunately but I have managed to put together a post anyway;)

Starting to look at houses!

A year ago, Miska and I thought that we would not buy anything in Sweden until it is time to realize our Spanish dream! Or Sydafrikadröm which is the new thing;) That we will live in Annika's little guesthouse until then.

Meen there is so much going on now with my hopefully future make-up brand, Miska has started with permanent makeup and we are doing a lot with the salon. So we will not move to Spain in the next year but have decided that we have another Swedish residence in us before we move to Spain.

We have always said that we will move to Spain before I turn 30, so we still have a few years on us;)

We started counting on Sverigehus and if we find the "right house" that is not so expensive to operate, the monthly cost will not be much higher than what we have in rent today, if you disregard the repayment on the loan but you pay it "to yourself" In a way, the new house will be an investment as well.

So when I realized that I can exchange the "playhouse" we live in for our own villa for about the same monthly allowance, I became incredibly impatient and want to move now!

However, there is almost nothing for sale now that we like, even though we do not have such high demands, but if you know someone who is eager to sell and wants to make a smooth deal without brokerage costs, you can suggest;);) ;)

Our wishes:

• Somewhere between / around the Alunda-Uppsala route.
• Preferably a little off, type in the forest, no residential area but like to have some forest near the house node and can imagine driving a bit 5-10 minutes from the "main road".
• Price about 1.2-1.3 million, we can not afford more expensive.
• We would very much like to have superficial renovation needs, ie a cheap house because not very nice but with great potential to increase the value by fixing it. But not renovation needs of the type moisture damage and mold, roof replacement or drainage problems - but rather fix walls and floors and type rebuild an old barn into a sauna and stuff :)
• Preferably an old house, love wood stoves in the kitchen, old stoves and worn wooden floors.
• Does not have to have a large bathroom but it must have room to fix a bathtub somewhere, I do not intend to live in a single home without a bathtub hahaha.

I throw this out in the universe and hope that the law of attraction gives me what I ask for ♥

We were looking at a house with exactly all these properties, but it was so damaged by moisture that the ceiling in the kitchen hung down and the renovation that had been done was so carelessly renovated (electrical sockets were crooked, etc.) so we did not really dare to do it…

This Friday afternoon we took a weekend (I thought I would say but we worked at the salon all Saturday so it was not a weekend hehe) and enjoyed the afternoon sun down by the lake with a coffee thermos.

We talked so much about future houses, wall paints, gardens, my dream bathroom and various stock investments haha. Think what luck that I fell in love with a guy who has the same future dreams as me ♥ It makes it easier haha :) Love to dream like this, it's important!

Healthy relationship with invested money

Last spring I wrote that for the first time in my life I have bought shares! Felt incredibly grown up, right? ;) At the same time it feels a bit like gambling? There is a lot of talk about gambling addiction but have never heard of anyone who is addicted to stocks, you can win and lose money on that too, I think?

I'm far from stock dependent anyway haha, I think I have a pretty healthy relationship with that money actually! Miska and Annika were so worried in the beginning when I was totally overexcited when it went up "I have earned 50 kroner in one hour now !!" and therefore became nervous about how I would react if things went badly. That reaction, on the contrary, had not been fun;)

You should celebrate when things are going well without panicking too much when things are going badly. You never celebrate unnecessarily, happy feelings are always positive! But you have actually neither earned nor lost a single penny until you sell, so provided you do not need the money now and now, it can turn around again.

Honestly, I had to put that theory to the test when my shares suddenly made a dive a month after I bought them! Low minus SEK 23,000 for a while! I do not know what you who read have to do with money, but SEK 23,000 for a small business owner like me, it is kind of equated with a million haha.

It really was not fun! I thought a lot of thoughts like "yes but it was a good lesson anyway, expensive but valuable". It may sound like I'm faking my optimistic thoughts, but for me it's more of a survival technique, if I were to think too much about how much the money actually means and is worth, I would have perished.

But it turned back as luck would have it and if I had sold everything at the time of writing, I would have earned SEK 25,000! WOW! It was a good interest rate, for so much money it is not there I can say;)

Here I sat in the car and counted how many days are left until my first dividend! And realized how extremely color matched my cardigan + makeup stains on my hand matched my pants.

Answer yes I have a green scarf and red jacket for this outfit .. If you have spring feelings, you have!

It would be perfect with a house move in early April .. Then I have time to get the dividend, then sell my shares and invest them in a property instead;) iiiiiiih!

The Law of Attraction, can it be TOO strong?

The law of attraction is always talked about in a positive way, but I have noticed a scary connection: as soon as I think less about a business area, everything decreases there, even though all that physical is as before - the only thing that has changed is my thinking power.

I sound completely insane now, I know :)

The economy goes up and down all the time in a company, it is never a straight line. But almost always you know why, e.g. that they did less marketing the month before, that it is January, etc.

But for us it is not so. If I e.g. is on holiday and has prepared everything before: posts are published as usual and the colleagues take care of everything at the salon (otherwise they do). The only difference is that my brain takes time off. What happens? Suddenly the bookings decrease drastically!

It has happened several times and during different seasons, so I find no explanation haha.

Same with the webshop: If I regularly go in and check the reports and statistics, the numbers increase and become very nice. If I have a period when I do not check often (but work as usual anyway) then the amount of customers in the webshop is halved. The only difference is that I did not sit and stare at the numbers and think "increase increase increase!".

It's both good and bad, it's an insecure company if it is to depend on me always being raw-focused in my thinking power haha. But at the same time it feels nice that you can influence so "easily" too;)

Am I crazy and / or lacking in faith because I get anxiety attacks?

This is what 85% of the week looked like! The rest 15% has been with customers and in the make-up / photo corner.

My to-do list is very long and mixed right now so I have been really dizzy. I have to make an even clearer structure for next week, I feel, it has been too much "multitasking" now and it is both energy draining and inefficient in the long run.

Hope you liked the Sunday post even though I talked more generally and not as focused on exactly what I did during the week :)

Hugs are!

Hi fine ni!

Hope you had a great start on Sunday, I have! A little morning sleep and late coffee and write this blog post with my cat in my arms ♥ Cozy!

Last week, the Sunday post was about our safari trip, the first week of work after the holidays, I was a bit tenacious in fact. Not that I became unproductive but just a feeling, you know how it is :)

But now I're back on track!

News, news, news!

New lipsticks: I have used Paese's lipstick for probably 6 years now, I think, if I do not use them for a while, I still think that they smell "like the time when I had webshop stock in my mother's garage". And I still like them a lot! :)

Paese has changed its lipstick range over and over for a long time, so the color range has only decreased and decreased, but now we have brought in news so it will finally be like old times again - 15 shades to choose from!

Here I sit and test and double check all shades before the order is made.

We still have not received them yet, but the order has been placed and it will arrive soon!

I have already started with the preparations so that we can lay out the lipsticks as soon as we receive the delivery, so it was a whole evening in the photo studio when I took swatch pictures in all 15 shades. Both close-ups on the lips + full shots, so it took a long time because I screwed up / down the camera on the tripod between each close-up and full shot.

I not only take one picture per color either, but take about 10 close-ups and then 15 full-length photos on the face so I have a choice later. There were 534 pictures in total haha!

Here are sneak peaks on two of my new favorite colors:

We ordered this shade of peach / coral extra many because I think it will sell very well this spring! So nice! 51 is called the color.

The shade 33 is also a spring favorite! Love this purple color !! It does all the make-up, you need like nothing else :)

New treatment: Do you see my nice eyebrows in the picture above as well? It takes us to the next news that came to the salon after we came home from vacation and it's BROW LIFT that I blogged about in this post.

Here Olga does brow lift on me :)

I was a test person so we tested longer effect time on me than we do on customers, I forgot the details that I have already done brow lift once + had a fever and heat can make the fluids ache more effectively so it became a bit well effective on me, so my straws are a bit worn now haha BUT still great!

New skin care? We are also eager to bring in Pixi's skin care products. We sold skin care before (other brands) but it did not sell so well because we are mostly focused on makeup .. But I think Pixi's products can be an exception?

They are so nice, so popular on social media and also a good balance between "simple" and "active". You do not have to be a dermatologist to recommend them, but the customer can choose what you want, while they are still active and make a difference!

What do you think? Do you want to see them in our range? :)

New from glo Skin Beauty: I also had a meeting with glo Skin Beauty this week where I will also test some news that will hopefully come soon.

Here we sit in the waiting room and check out color shades!

One of the products I really think will be a spring and summer success! :) So fun!

Not a mascara: I tested another potential novelty as well - a caring mascara. Sometimes you are happy to put the products to the test before you buy stuff! Later in the day I looked like a panda:

This one qualified not into our range!

Nicer waiting room

When we moved to a new location 1 year ago, it was a stress move, you can safely say, for various reasons (which I do not have to write about again) we basically had to throw everything away and make the best of what we had. And due to double rents, we could not afford to buy new things either.

Now, however, we have booted in properly and feel that we can stay in the room for a while longer, (it is in the smallest team, we were unsure of how it would go with it) so now we have started to look at it a bit ! :)

We started with the waiting room which now looks like this:

Improvements:

1. Moved the coffee machine, a screen and a shoe rack. It was so crowded .. Now it's airy!
2. New chairs, ours have been used extensively for 4 years and squeaked when you sat down. In addition, these are smaller so we can fit with 4 pieces, before we only had 3.
3. New coffee table! Actually a pouf and washer, so the pouf can be an extra seat if needed.
4. Dark gray curtains from the ceiling, cozier :) There is a curtain all over the wall to the front door.
5. Changed places on the paintings, just to feel that it "became a little new".

Unfortunately I did not photograph a role model and blame everything on Miska haha. When he gets an idea, he starts now in a second, a trait I love! But therefore I did not even know that we would redo the waiting room until he has already started moving things;)

But here you can see a little what it looked like before:

All in white and as you can see, the office with the coffee machine is very tight.

Speaking of the new waiting room, I also want to show how cozy the colleagues did there on Valentine's Day:

I worked from home last Friday but saw this nice picture on our Insta Story!

Work remotely

I am constantly thinking about building my / my future companies so that I do not have to be stuck in a specific place. I want to be able to work from anywhere!

I really benefited from this now that our car did not go through the inspection and we only had time to choose from to have time to repair before the re-inspection.

Then I did not have to take time off to go to the car workshop;)

It was our incredibly kind friend Per-Magnus who helped us so it was no ordinary car repair shop :) Better!

I popped Spanish music in the speakers, sipped my take-away coffee (which I took from the salon before, good to have my own "café" in town) and sat and worked on the stairs while Miska and Per-Magnus changed wheel bearings on the rear tires.

IF I had a checkered butt afterwards? Answer yes. Semi-comfortable to sit on a beam of stairs;)

Good name for makeup brand?

I have also worked a lot with my future make-up brand. We have booked a trip to Cosmoprof in Bologna in March where I have 3 booked meetings with producers and packaging manufacturers :)

I have just received new samples of one of the packages that I have already tested but wanted to make some changes to .. I get a little stressed that it is time consuming to be as picky as I am haha.

In addition, I am waiting for packaging samples for one of the other products as well, it is a simpler type of packaging so I will mostly evaluate size, dimensions and small details.

And then I tested a new sample on a formula too! SO pep to get started with this really!

Another step that I need to finish as soon as possible is the entire graphic profile with name, logo and packaging design. I think the most difficult thing is the name, I come up with a lot of them, but of course the good ones are already busy. I have some good ones that I have "tasted" for a while but which do not feel like "YES WE TAKE IT!" and so you want it to feel right?

This is how I sit in the evenings and cheat, google and test different name variants .. I got a pretty nice offer on a service where you get help with name selection, maybe it's worth it! But coming up with one yourself is free;) and a little more fun! Must think ..

By the way, in this picture you get another sneak peek at one of the lipsticks that will be coming soon!

Vacation planning & new employee

Many hours have gone into scheduling for the summer as well, it's not easy! The balance between satisfied staff and a good schedule for the company is fine.

Sweden is a bad country for our industry, because we have most customers in the spring and summer, but that is when all staff want a holiday. But there is nothing to do about it, just to like the situation :)

The staff has a holiday for a total of 15 weeks, but luckily we received a clean job application at the turn of the year from a girl who is on maternity leave from her own company (in this industry) and who would like to work all summer even though we can not promise her employment. continues this fall. Her name is Madeleine! Will present her in more detail later :)

At least now I have opened the summer schedule + blocked holidays for our regular staff! Pjuh! :) Now only Madeleine's times remain, but I have come a long way in them as well.

Other

• Had staff meetings at work, both the whole team and individual conversations
• Miska has been given a new assignment with website construction, so we are planning it together as I will probably take the pictures.
• Freelance job at the company Disruptive Materials, made up for portrait photography for their "about us" page on the website. They hire new people on the conveyor belt!
• And so some fringe and brow customers too, as usual!
• When we came home from the trip, it was a new month as well, so have been sitting with statistics, reports, salaries etc.

Had no suitable image for these points, so end with a message from a satisfied customer in the webshop that I helped online (with images + text) to choose the foundation shade of glo Skin beauty Pressed Base:I have worked with these nuances since I went to high school and done many online consultations that have been good. But I am always clear that there are no guarantees over mail. So much fun when it works well!

Now I think I should do something fun in the photo studio, I just tested some samples for the makeup brand (got an idea I had to test so took a break from writing the posts). So now I have already started to put on some make-up so I might as well continue :)

Hugs are! ♥