Salon in Stockholm Hår 3000

Never been to a hair salon for the last few years. I remember when I was young in my early 20s, I went to a hair salon every 2 days to wash and blow dry and also once a month to trim or cut, doing hair treatment, perm or colouring. Then as I get older, with tonnes of white hair, I gave up going to a salon. I don't know why but I am so lazy to maintained my hair anymore. I just kept long, colour myself once every few months.

Then I came back to Stockholm for a visit this summer. This time my daughter booked me into her school for a haircut last week. Her teacher told me that they don't charge mothers. So I get a free haircut in her school. Then this week, she booked me again to her work salon for a hair colouring. I am so pampered. Usually for staff working there, they will be charging for the amount of hair colour that are used but this time her boss said he will not charge for her mother. So I get another free service in her work salon.

I have two different colour on my hair as my original hair have grown from the roots about 7 cm. So the first step, she did a hair colour for the outgrown hair from the roots to match the lower colour.

Then after 20 mins under the heat, she wash and blow dry. The second step was to do highlight with an aluminium folio. this took the longest time. As it is too detail work with a small strand of hair being pick up in every one cm. After whole head are done. Wash again and then she applied more hair lotion again which will help to maintained the colour and be seen clearly. Then my head was wrap in a plastic for another 20 mins before it is wash again and blow dry.

I love the end result, it was well worth sitting for 6 hours but I can never do it often as I am so fidgeting when I am asked to sit so long. My next step when she have learnt to cut short, I am ready for a really short hair called the Posh bob.

Short hairstyle for 2015

Every since my daughter took her hairdresser course, she has been successfully doing my hair which I really appreciate it very much. It has been years since I actually care about going to a salon to cut or coloured my hair. I usually trim or colour the hair myself for the past few years.

After I get back to Sweden this summer, she had booked time for me to go to her school where she took her course and have my hair nicely trimmed to the short length I have always wanted to.

This is where the classroom where the course is conducted every day. It is is Nacka, Sweden. Very nice classroom and very well equipt. Recommended anyone who wanted to take up the hairstyling course to apply there. Some days, they had mannequin  head to work with and someday they will bring in a model who will come in to work on the hairstyle. So that day it was me, she had to work with.

I have requested for a short bob hairstyle. Her teacher a young and cool trendy lady was guiding her throughout the way of how it is supposed to be done. She is lucky to have such a nice teacher.

I really like the end result. It is simple, short and so much easy to handle now. Before I had a long hair for several years and I felt that the changes made me feel fresh and different.

The 3rd time of cutting shorter in one month. I take stages to cut my hair short this time round. The 4th time of trimming more will be in 2 weeks, even shorter :)

It is quite a lot of hair has been cut away but I am very happy. Next Monday I will go into her work salon where she works every day after her school to have my hair coloured by her. Cool, when my daughter can now do my hair and the best part is, everyone have to pay for the service or products used but I get it for free as I am her mother and mother don't pay. It is such a privilege.

Will update after the colour on Monday :)

Weekend in Örebro, Sweden

After coming back to Sweden this summer and staying with my younger daughter Vel, my eldest daughter, El invited us to stay a few days in Örebro with her.  Since Ellie's boyfriend is staying in Stockholm weekdays, he offered us to go back with him to Örebro in his car. 

The weekend in örebro was indeed very nice, fun and relaxing. 

We were lucky on Saturday as the weather was very sunny and nice. We woke up have breakfast and decided to take a walk. 

Ellie and her boyfriend are living right in the middle of the city with nice surrounding.

Right in front of her house there is a big park wth several outdoor restaurants, cafes, and plenty of beautiful growing colourful spring flowers.

While walking along the water, I spotted several big beautiful houses.

Gabriel and sis El :)

Those colourful flowers just blooming.

I love these nicely shaped sculpture trees. They are so beautiful.

In the evening, we decided to barbeque since the weather is shining and its a clear blue sky.

This sweet couple went to get all the meat, etc and we invited Emil's mom and brother to join us.

This is Emil's mom. Really like her and we click the first time we met. She is very friendly, easy to be with and we laugh a lot that night. 

As the evening gets, it was a little bit chill to be sitting long outdoor. Emil's took his winter jacket for Gabriel as it started to be a bit cold.

We went inside the house after our dinner and Emil's younger brother Denise, who had a fantastic voice of a solid strong vocal, sang for us some songs of his choice. It was amazing to hear his voice.

Then came the 2 brothers showing off their golf movement. 

It was a lovely weekend in Örebro and we will go there again next time together with Vel and her boyfriend too.

Summer in Stockholm

The past few weeks staying at my daughter's and her sambo apartment was nice. It has been lesser stressful after being here. Love the surrounding area of this place too. Peter and I took our walk an hour or more a day,depending on the weather. I am waiting for a nice sunny weather one day before we could do some bbq.

 Did Lasagne one day for the family. We had a nice simple lifestyle and being home doing simple things like this would be more than happy.