Look Good Feel Better Helps Women With Cancer

 

 

Each month I look for programs to help support by featuring them in our monthly dandelion moms Project Kindness and asking our lovely moms to help in any way they can.  Together, our community has raised donations – monetary and items for the Project Night Night Tote Bags, hundreds of children’s books to a new library in the Dominican Republic and so many other wonderful acts of kindness that have been far-reaching.

This month I have been looking for a project to support and just came across a wonderful organization called Look Good Feel Better that is working hard to help support women who are fighting breast cancer.  Just within the past few months I learned about several high school and sorority sisters fighting breast cancer as well as my sweet neighbor who just turned 50 this year.  She found out right before the holidays and I have seen her experience the fear that comes with waiting to find out if the cancer had spread into her lymph nodes, if the black spot on the X-Ray indicated that it had penetrated into her bones (luckily it is localized), and her going through aggressive chemotherapy.  I saw her the other day getting picked up by her family to head off for another round of chemotherapy.  One of the things I noticed was her stance and how gorgeous she looked.  She was dressed in this gorgeous outfit and had this beautiful black scarf tied around her now-bald head.  She gave me and the world the impression that she wasn’t going to let this disease get her – she had her makeup on, dressed to the hilt – ready to fight to regain her health.

 

Look Good Feel Better:

This program was created in 1989 by the Personal Care Products Foundation and has gone on to help thousands of women regain their confidence during their journey of battling cancer. This excerpt comes from their website: “Look Good Feel Better is a non-medical, brand-neutral public service program that teaches beauty techniques to cancer patients to help them manage the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment.”

 

 

I love that the Look Good Feel Better works with women across the country and internationally to help them feel better about themselves which I think is so important while fighting cancer.  They are working with Elizabeth Arden who is donating one lipstick to women signed up with the program.   Go here to learn how you can help.  It is really easy – just Repin their message and they will donate a lipstick!

 

 

Here are some ways you can get involved:

 

 

Volunteer Beauty Professionals:

They are looking for experienced beauty professionals such as hairstylists, aestheticians, makeup artists, and nail technicians to work as volunteers to help conduct group programs and/or one-on-one salon consultations. The commitment is three to five hours a month. A four-hour certification class and a biannual refresher course are also required.

 

General Volunteers:

Every local Look Good Feel Better program requires well-organized, caring, friendly, dynamic volunteers to work with the American Cancer Society or host sites to help make everything run smoothly. These volunteers help organize group programs at host sites, promote participation, place reminder calls to patients, organize supplies, set up rooms, and provide assistance during the sessions.

 

Other ways you can help include talking to  local hair stylists, aestheticians, makeup artist to join and volunteer some of their time to the program.  Also, you can contact them and ask for flyers that talk about the program – and leave them at local doctors offices where women undergoing treatment might be visiting.  Thanks lovely dandelion moms for helping this great cause!

 

 

To get more information how you can help support this wonderful program go here.

They offer a huge list of helpful resources here.

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