Send out my orders!

This is sooo exciting (again!!). I send out my first 3 orders for my webshop. I ordered nyx make-up (lots of it, especially lipstick and lip gloss).

There is also lipbalms in following scents:
Raspberry
Strawberry
Apple
Pina Colada
Banana rose
I am using them right now and I adoooore these balms, they are so smooth on your lips.

I allso ordered perfume sticks. I've used mine for a week and you can't even see it has been used! I ordered 6 different scents and little sample vials too. The cutest thing is that they all come in a cute organza bag with a lollipop!

Got accepted again!

Taxes accepted the one change I needed to start my shop so yeeeey!!! I can start ordering on April 1.
I got one of the perfume sticks today and they are lovely. You can smell them all day. They are soft and melt on your skin but not in your hand.
The lipbalm is great too!

I made a new email adress for the business: beautybyelke@gmail.com . Now I need to ask my web designer to change my website so that I can host the shop there too.

My nyx order is already very big but I want moooooore :)

Things I do good

A few days ago I made a list with my beauty sins. Today I had a headache all day long, my class didn't go very well but that can happen. To cheer me up I've made a list with things I do right!

- I use moisturizer twice a day. I'm still in love with Lush' imperialis
- When I rinse my hair properly, I rinse with cold water. My hairs love it, I don't.
- I scrub my body twice a week and it's soooo much softer than it used to be.
- I use foot lotion every evening, it doens't seem to work but hey, it's the thought that counts!
- I also use hand and body lotion every night!
- I adore lipbalm and use it all day long.
- I try to take my make up off at night, I'm getting good at this
- I don't spend a lot of time sunbathing and if I do I use sunblock

Hm that's all I can think about now, headache is too strong.

16 march 08

I got this list from www.makeupandbeautyblog.com and since I'm bored I'm putting it here.

Mood: Bad, very bad. I guess it's a girls thing. I'm feeling weird and disoriented. A bit relieved that there aren't important lessons tomorrow. A headache coming up and my drink doesn't tast good.


Hair:Also bad, as usual :) Like said in my previous post I need to go to get a new hair cut soon.

Mascara: I haven't seen mascara in 2 days

Outfit: Blue jeans, black socks, brown top and black sweater. Sounds sexy don't you think?

Nails:Ah-ha! They are looking good but short. Wearing chocolate martini by orly.

My guilty pleasures:Since it's that girly thing I can eat as much chocolate as I want. I started with my nail polish name, then I bought chocolate rabbits this morning (can't find them anymore, wonder if I ate them already) and there is still some chocolate cake left!

I’m really great at _____:Euhm I've been making thank you cards for the last 1,5 week and they do look cute.

What’s for lunch?At noon I had bread with chicken and for diner it was salmon with veggies and potatoes.

What’s the weather like in your neck of the woods: Best day of the year and I'm inside.

Weekly goals: Getting a facial on friday, teaching kids to make keychains on friday, fotoshoot on saturday and wednesday. I hope to get approval of my accountant to start shopping for the shoot and I want my new visa for the shop.

I'm a beauty sinner

I got my inspiration for this post by reading www.deltacephei.nl.

Here are my beauty sins:
- Last time I got my hair done was in september 08. I don't have splitting points yet but my hair just falls down
- I hate rinsing out my hair when lying in bath, it's a real effort for me to do this
- I love the look you get the morning after the night you didn't took your eyeliner and mascara off.
- Putting extravagant make up on others is fun, I look stupid with it.
- I don't drink enough water because I don't want to go to the bathroom to much when I go somewhere.
- I'm a nail technician but I don't wear artificial nails myself.
- If I can't get my eyebrows done by someone else they wont get done.
- I love spraying perfume in my hair, very good for it, but not really.

Admit it, you have beauty sins too! I challenge you to write this list for yourself. Especially you Serena, I know you will be reading this someday!

Webshop + Estetika

Yesterday I went to my accountant and the bank to talk about my new webshop. Both agreed immediateley and were very enthousiastic. They gave me lots of helpful tips and in the end everything is so much easier than I thought it would be. A small tax thing has to be changed and I have to wait for my new credit card and then shopping will begin!!!

As I told before there will be NYX but it's very hard to start with everything they have, so I guess I have to decide which ones to take now and which ones later. I did it the easy way, I pick what I like best. I have the same problem with the lipbalms I'll be selling, which flavours to pick? Some samples are on their way here so I can make a better descision. Same with the perfume sticks. So exciting! I want to have everything ready to launch on July 1! That seems like a long time but I have to order, get it here (shipping can take long), photograph it, weigh it, get all shipping supplies,... oh and graduate in the meantime :)

Today I went to Estetika. It's a kind of congres about new products and techniques in the beauty industry. I had a long list with new things to try and things to buy. But it wasn't what it was last year. Instead of big halls filled with interesting stuff there were small stalls with French speaking people. And everything was the same, machines for weight loss. For some reason I am feeling so tired right now, but my mom promised me to bake me a chocolate cake tonight so everything will be fine :)

Take care!

Pictures + Biiiig News

I got the first pictures from my shoot with Jeroen and they are great! Also a great motivation to lose a few pounds :) Hehe but which girl doens't want that. Here are some of them:

And I got more big news! I have gotten approved to open a webshop with make-up items which include NYX make-up! If you look a few posts down you can see a review about this brand which I already adore! More news will follow soon.

Photoshoot

I still have to tell you about my photoshoot on wednesday! I worked with a photographer called Jeroen Strijbos (I always have to check his name) When I arrived it was like Oh-oh, it was at the end of a small road in a building with noone around. But once inside there were 2 nice studios, a dressing room, enough room for make-up. Very interesting.

We had to wait for a bit since there was no white paper for the background. When that arrived I changed my clothes. I hardly ever wear skirts so of course I chose to wear those ;) I also had a pair of new boots on that I love. I also wore a corset and more new shoes (that were only 9 euros a pair, can you believe it?). Jeroen was so nice to make a picture of my tattoo too. It looked very cool. I had this beauty for more than a year and still no decent picture.

The shoot went very relaxed, I would do it again anytime. Now the hard thing, waiting for the pictures! As soon as I have some (probably in a few days) I will show some.

The Secret Garden

I've known Serena for a while since she and her mom like to make jewelry too. A while ago she started her shop http://www.thesecretgarden.nl/ and it was time to check it out.

There is a a piece of shampoo bar in the organza bag. I got it for free if I would let her know what it was like. Last week I started a shampoo bar made by lush and I really like the idea. It smells neutral but nice.
In the other bag in a facial mask with oatmeal, milk and honey. Sometimes this smells really bad but this one is fresh! It does seem a small bag for 6 uses but we'll see. I'm going to use this tonight for a special thing tomorrow.
There are also 4 bath tablet. These aren't melts but they are like those bath bombs. I got Sweetie Pie (a favourite with lots of people but I'm not sure if it is my thing) and Orange & Grapefruit (this is a scent I do like a lot!)

They arrived right on time. Tomorrow I have an assignment for my make-up classes but after searching for 3 months for someone to work on I've given up. I didn't want to spend the day doing nothing so I arranged a photoshoot. Maybe we can't find a model and then I have to pose for the pictures! So tonight I'll have a long bath with my new stuff.