Black Women in Europe®’s Top 5 Activities for a Glamorous Girls’ Weekend in Scandinavia
By Adrianne, Founder Black Women in Europe®
Known for long summer days and long winter nights, Scandinavia is also known for clean living, sustainable living, and quality of living. Add to this a fierce protection of work and life balance, it is fitting that Scandinavians take their free time seriously. The focus is on family, friends, and fun.
One definition of glamorous is: full of excitement, adventure, and unusual activity. In Scandinavia, friendships are hard won and sacredly protected and it is normal for women to maintain friendships over self indulgent meals and experiences. I think the Scandinavians are on to something.
Here are our Top 5 Suggestions for a Glamorous Girls’ Weekend in Scandinavia.
1. Makeup Master Class & Lash Extensions in Copenhagen.
What could be more glamorous than glossy lips, chiseled cheekbones, and giggles? The answer is learning how to enhance your natural beauty from a professional makeup artist, entrepreneur and beauty editor!
Barbara’s Makeup Master Class is perfect for groups who wish to learn the tricks of the trade to achieve your own makeup goals. It is a fun and informative way to get inside knowledge of the industry, and keep up with the latest trends and techniques. Finish it off with a set of eyelash extensions and keep that glamorous feeling for weeks. Head over to the Barbara Mensah Lash Extensions & Makeup Studio located at Classensgade 72, Copenhagen Ø. Contact the salon to arrange an appointment.
2. Attend Stockholm International Fashion Week.
Held in unquestionably one of the most beautiful and iconic venues in Scandinavia, Stockholm City Hall, Scandinavian International Fashion Week returns in 2022. You may recognize the gorgeously gilded interior from the Nobel Prize dinners. You may recognize the exterior from gracing the Stockholm skyline.
On May 13 – 15, 2022, you can experience City Hall like a VIP by attending Scandinavian International Fashion Week. You and your besties have plenty of time to plan your outfits, but don’t dally. Scandinavian International Fashion Week is the brainchild of designer Sonja A. Andersson. Always looking out for her next model, she may notice that you are able to apply the makeup tricks you learned from Barbara in Copenhagen. Who knows? You may be offered a strut on the high fashion catwalk.
3. Immerse yourself in Pan African Art, Food, Music and Poetry in Copenhagen.
SASAA promises to offer visitors more than a dining experience. SASAA offers community in it’s house of culture. Walk in for a holistic cultural encounter with sub-Saharan Africa. Eat Pan-African food, enjoy Pan-African art, and listen to Pan-African music and poetry. Choose your evening when a cultural event is happening and combine it with food from South, East and West Africa.
4. Stay one night or more at a floating hotel in Sweden.
If you time it right you may see the Northern Lights during a visit to Scandinavia. Perhaps you prefer to experience more hours of daylight than you thought was possible.
The Artic Bath Hotel is located in the micro-destination called Harads in the Lappland Region. It is a spa and wellness center with unparalleled views on the water.
Imagine enjoying an open-air cold bath under the northern sky, book a spa treatment with natural products or venture out for a fishing trip in a canoe or meet the Huskies that will power your sled. Track Moose or stay back at the hotel and try every dish on the sustainably produced menu.
5. Attend Good Hair Day in Helsinki.
Good Hair Day is a collective of AfroFinns. Originally conceived as a day for Afro hair care, once you bring people together with similar hair concerns, you’ve created a community. “Our activities are led by the for us by us principle, which means that we as AfroFinns define our own means of representation and are actively involved”.
What started as a yearly event has expanded to cultural, diversity and inclusion training to organizations in Finland. But the primary goal remains the same of strengthening and maintaining the well-being of the AfroFinn community.
Glamour is as glamour does. One size rarely fits all. These Top 5 Activities for a Glamorous Girls’ Weekend in Scandinavia are just an introduction to what awaits the group of friends seeking excitement, adventure, and unusual activities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: On December 6, 2021, Adrianne will make a blog post. She made her first blog post 15 years earlier on that day in 2006 when she founded what would become the multi-award-winning Black Women in Europe® Blog. In addition to producing the groundbreaking Power List: A List of Our Own since 2010, the Black Women in Europe® virtual footprint springs forward with a podcast debut in December 2021. The podcast, 15 years in the making, will be hosted by Adrianne and Angela. The duo have worked together on voter registration and voter participation for overseas Americans since 2017 and admit that their Get Out The Vote work is rarely glamorous. They now aim to change that.
Adrianne of Black Women in Europe
On December 6, 2021, Adrianne will make a blog post. She made her first blog post 15 years earlier on that day in 2006 when she founded what would become the multi-award-winning Black Women in Europe® Blog. In addition to producing the groundbreaking Power List: A List of Our Own since 2010, the Black Women in Europe® virtual footprint springs forward with a podcast debut in December 2021. The podcast, 15 years in the making, will be hosted by Adrianne and Angela. The duo have worked together on voter registration and voter participation for overseas Americans since 2017 and admit that their Get Out The Vote work is rarely glamorous. They now aim to change that.
