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LONDON (Reuters) - 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.”
REGINA Dionne Warner, well-known in Saskatchewan for her courage and perseverance through her public battle with cancer for more than 25 years, has died after the disease returned just after Christmas. Her husband, Graham, said in an email to CTV News that she died by choice using the province’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. She was 55. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, and since then she fought through liver cancer multiple times, brain cancer twice, bone cancer, lung cancer and more. She beat the disease nine times.
HER CONTRIBUTION Warner received multiple awards and accolades throughout her public battle with cancer. In 2010 she received a Woman of Distinction award for her volunteer work at the Allan Blair Cancer Clinic, she was named one of 32 international Heroes of Hope by the American Cancer Society in 2011, she was CTV Regina’s Citizen of the Year winner in 2015 and was named one of 25 heritage heroes by the Look Good F
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Posted: Feb 02, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 3
After nine bouts of cancer over 25 years, Dionne Warner of Regina died Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Throughout her life, she won multiple awards for sharing inspirational messages with other cancer patients. This 2017 photo, shows her being recognized as a Heritage Hero by the Canadian charity Look Good Feel Better, which runs workshops to help cancer patients cope with physical effects such as loss of hair, eyelashes and eyebrows. (Look Good Feel Better)
Imperfect influencers featured in YouTube-only campaign
Cassandra Bankson, who has attracted nearly 650,000 subscribers by speaking openly about her acne, is one of the people featured in Dermablend s Camo Confessions initiative running until the end of the year.
March 19, 2014
Two years after shrewdly teaching the world not to judge a book by its cover with a video of a young man removing his makeup to reveal a body riddled in tattoos, Dermablend is back at it, this time with a trio of intimate confessions from online influencers and an invitation for others to join.
The global Camo Confessions campaign is a YouTube-only initiative, developed and executed by boutique-marketing agency Tuxedo in Montreal, that empowers men and women with minor to severe skin imperfections to confess on video how they “blend in to stand out.” For every confessional video uploaded to the brand’s YouTube channel, Dermablend will donate $1 to the Look Good Feel Better organization for women