Look Good.... Feel Better!

One of the first things I was introduced to on my new Adventure was a program put on by volunteers in conjunction with the American Cancer Society that provides information and free make-up products to cancer patients.

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.

Look Good…Feel Better group programs are open to all women with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, or other forms of treatments.

A Girls Night Out and free make-up- where do I sign up? The first class I could go to was on Day 7 of my first Chemo so I was hoping I could make it; if I wasn't deathly ill or too tired. They told me I could bring someone with me if I'd like. Of course, this is NOT a Hubby thing but that's why I have a Beauty Consultant, right? Unfortunately, my Beauty Consultant decided that she'd fly over to Hawaii for the week, (for real this time! Can't believe she chose sunny beaches and alone time with her hubby over a beauty make-over for me. LOL Just kidding lady! Hawaii was totally the way to go! ;)) so my Life Coordinator took her spot for the evening. Thanks KBro for being my date for the  night.
The class I signed up for was held at the American Cancer Society building here in Fargo. [They had another one at Roger Maris on different night] It was a pretty good class. Nothing that blew me away or anything but got some neat free stuff. I always laugh at make-up classes cuz it seems that they want me to do 40 extra steps than I normally do. I just want them to tell me a few tips how to make me beautiful quickly! Guess I'd put the make-up industry out of business if they put me in charge. LOL
Lisa was our instructor for the night and she told us this was the largest class she's ever taught. We had 3 Cancer survivors, one daughter, the instructor and of course, my lovely Life Coordinator. It was a fun group! We watched a short video about the program and then she handed out our make-up bags. When you sign up for the class- you tell them your skin tone and they bring an appropriate bag for you. They must put them together sort of like the humanitarian kits we've put together in Relief Society in the past because no 2 kits were alike. We got some really neat stuff but had a few good laughs over some of it. Like the white powder one lady got- you know the kind they use on the movies where you go into a puff of white smoke and come out beautiful. Just for the record- you come out more like Casper the Friendly Ghost! LOL or the fact that the only eye shadow I got was stark white (I mean Moonbeam! LOL) or the other lady ending up with at least 3 lip colors. She was totally spoiled! It was pretty funny! I did end up with what I was told was some amazing mascara from Chanel. I guess that's some fancy stuff! Wahoo for me!
When we were all beautied up- we headed to the back to check out hats, wigs and scarfs. I had come prepared with my stash so I may have commandeered the class a bit at this point. Oops! Sorry Lisa. I showed them a bunch of things I had bought from the TLC website (from the American Cancer Society), some of the ways to tie scarfs, the T-shirt Wrap that Violet showed me yesterday, and let them try on some of my hats. Lisa did show us this really cute way to tie a bandanna with a flower on the side (the one on the lady in the front of the pic) Bummer is that is was a home-made bandanna that was a custom size. I wanted to measure it but she had already tied it up and the lady wanted to keep it tied to take it home. Oh yeah- they let us take a bandanna or scarf or two home. Such a fun group of ladies to spend the evening with. Here's my cute new friends:

One cute thing-- I had brought my new Breast Cancer shirt that just came in the mail to show them. When I showed the ladies- the older one said it reminded her of a husband that had come to Chemo with his wife on Friday that had worn a black T-shirt with something like "Tough Enough to Wear Pink." I laughed and said- "That was my Hubby!" We had a good chuckle about being there at the same time and said we'd see each other on the 18th for our 2nd Chemo. Small world, I guess!

Thanks again to my Life Coordinator for stepping in for the evening. We had some good quality one-on-one time and with my new hairdo- we look like twins (or we will as soon as she gets over herself and gets her cute little A-line cut she wanted BEFORE I bought my hair and stole her thunder. Who cares if people think we look alike? Maybe we WANT to!) ) After class, we did a little shopping and went out for ice cream. We stayed out really late and it was way too much fun! We got some BIG "positive clicker" plans I'll have to tell you about as soon as we iron out all the details. We are such great thinkers/doers together. Just love ya, Lady!