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Waverley Private Hospital has relaunched the Look Good Feel Better program for patients experiencing side effects from cancer treatment, after the initiative was temporarily paused due to the pandemic.
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Burt s Bees Launches Campaign to Support Women Facing Breast Cancer
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Toronto makeup artist Jodi-Ann Blackwood represents the community
TORONTO, March 8, 2021 /CNW/ - A leading personal care products company Burt s Bees has launched a campaign with
Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) to celebrate and support women facing cancer. Jodi-Ann Blackwood, the face of the campaign and a Toronto-based woman who recently underwent cancer treatment, was invited to represent this community across Canada.
Burt s Bees Looks Do Matter
Women with cancer often reach the point of no longer recognizing themselves in the mirror. Blackwood has expressed that she feels self-conscious, making it difficult to play with her children, embrace her husband, or go out in public, and many women undergoing cancer treatments express similar sentiments. LGFB workshops help women learn techniques to manage the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment with skincare, cosmet
It all started seven years ago when a client of Frances Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer. Since then, she has made countless wigs for other women going through hair loss associated with chemotherapy.
Makeup tutorials aim to give cancer patients a boost in pandemic
Surrounded by lipstick and eye-shadow, Aisha Quashie brushes her cheek with foundation as she mirrors makeup artist Laura Hunt thousands of miles away in London.
The 39-year-old, who finished treatment for lymphoma in March, is doing a private online makeup tutorial while shielding at her Mississauga, Ontario home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When you’re going through something like cancer, you tend to stay away regardless, because sometimes you’re not feeling well,” Quashie told Reuters.
“But that additional isolation, just it makes it even that much harder not being able to see family (and) friends. It’s definitely tough mentally.”
The UK charity Look Good Feel Better is dedicated to improving the self-esteem of people undergoing cancer treatment, giving advice on how to deal with treatment side-effects like losing hair, eyebrows and dry skin.
With limited opportunities for face-to-face support during the pandemic, make-up artist and volunteer Laura Hunt has found a way of boosting patients self-esteem from home. She s providing people who have gone through chemotherapy with online make-up tutorials.
Hunt, who is based in London, said the aims was to help patients with their self-esteem. Doing make-up lessons just lifts their spirits while they are going through cancer treatments.