Cosmetics can play an important role in how you see yourself during cancer treatment and can help you to feel a little more like yourself again. A boost to your morale and an improved self-image are often the result, making you better able to face your cancer with greater confidence.
Look good feel good 12-step programme provides easy to follow tips and techniques designed to help you look good feel good during cancer treatment.
1. CLEANSE AND TONE
Use an eye make-up remover and cleanser to remove all traces of make-up. Use all over the face, once clear of make-up follow with a toner to freshen and complete cleansing.
2. MOISTURISER
To alleviate dryness and maintain moisture balance, moisturiser is dotted onto the skin and then massaged in using an upward motion. Use your ring finger to apply eye cream to the delicate areas around the eyes.
3. CONCEALER
Minimises dark circles under the eyes, facial reddening and blemishes. It should be applied where needed and blended gently with the finger tips.
4. FOUNDATION
Dots of foundation are applied to the forehead, nose, chin and cheeks. This is then blended with finger tips or a sponge to even out the skin tone and provide a base of colour.
5. POWDER
An application of translucent powder sets make-up and helps to make foundation last longer. Gently press powder all over the face and lightly brush off excess with a large brush or cotton pad.
6. BLUSH
Smile, so that blush can be applied to the 'apple' of your cheeks, blending along the cheek bone in an upward motion towards the ear.
7. EYESHADOW
A neutral matte base shade is applied over the entire eyelid and up to the brow. A darker shade is then blended in a 'triangle' from the outer corner of the eye towards the middle and along the lash line. Use complimentary shades to define and brighten the eyes.
8. EYELINER
To create the illusion of fuller lashes and define the eyes, a thin line is drawn along the upper lid and from centre of the lower lid outwards. This can be softened using a cotton bud.
9. EYEBROWS
Thin or absent brows can be recreated using short feathery strokes. Pencil in a natural arch by lining a pencil up with the edge of the nose and placing dots above the inside corner of the eye, the arch and the end point. The guide pencil should be held vertically against the nose and moved in an arc to line up with the outside corner of the eye. The resulting quide dots can then be joined using light upward strokes.
10. MASCARA
First use the tip of the wand to gently define lower lashes and then apply mascara to the tips and underside of upper lashes.
11. LIPLINER
Lipliner adds extra fullness to the lips whilst preventing lipstick from 'feathering' and smudging. Follow the natural lip line working from the centre outwards on both top and lower lip.
12. LIPSTICK
Even if you don't wear any other form of make-up, lipstick can brighten your look and lift your spirits. Fill in the lips using a lip brush for a richer, longer lasting coverage.
