I just posted a new site under sites I like. It's called Look Good Feel Better. This organization offers classes to cancer patients on how to do makeup and hair to feel better about your looks during cancer. There are teen and adult classes and I think you leave with some free products!
I have a knack for fashion and I was able to rock the bald head, no eyebrows and no eyelashes to their fullest on my own (I called it Cancer Glam!), but my sister-in-law told me about the Look Good Feel Better organization when I first shaved my head and it felt reassuring to know I could get help with my looks if I needed to!
It doesn't matter how positive you are or how much self esteem you have going into cancer, when your hair is gone, your eyebrows are gone and you can count your eyelashes, not to mention possibly your fingernails are turning black, you have moments when you feel you look like an alien. You long for your old looks that you may have criticized in the past, but now know weren't so bad. So your hair was limp and wouldn't hold curl, so your eyelashes needed extensions you'd gladly take them back as they were and be more than happy to look "normal" to yourself when you looked in the mirror to brush your teeth.
I know when I would pass the mirror after my morning shower and see all of the above plus scars and silicone boobs I wondered (with disgust sometimes) how I would ever love that girl again. And then there were the times I was back on track and feeling good about the bandanna I made to go with the outfit I was wearing and then I caught a glimpse of myself in the store window and was reminded for the millionth time that I had cancer and looked like an alien with a matching bandanna! It takes a lot to get through chemotherapy and still love yourself, but you just keep recommitting to you yourself, reinvesting in the future over and over! That's how you face any tragedy and walk through to the other side.
If you need a pick me up click on the site Look Good Feel Better! Sometimes you need a little inspiration!
Don't give up put on your makeup (or not), dress up (or stay in your Pajamas), but reinvest in you and you'll make it! http://www.lookgoodfeelbetter.org/
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