Look Good Feel Better

 

Yesterday, I attended a wonderful course at Brighton Hospital called Look Good Feel Better. LGFB is a fantastic charity that helps women cancer patients in a really practical and positive way. They offer free skincare and make-up workshops, to help combat the visible side effects of cancer treatment, the idea of which is to boost confidence and wellbeing.

 

There are no two ways about it; finding out you have cancer is daunting and life-changing. The added stress of the appearance related side effects of treatment is bloody demoralising and very hard to cope with. It has serious effects on your self-esteem and confidence, at a time when having a PMA is very important, so the fact that LGFB exists is absolutely brilliant.

 

 

I turned up at the hospital, was shown into a room with 8 other ladies, and was given a gift bag (suited to my skin type and shade) filled with products donated by companies like Lancôme, Estée Lauder, Clinique, Max Factor, Dior, Rimmel & Boots No 7.  We were then taken through, (by 4 lovely volunteers) the LGFBs specially designed 12-Step Programme which covered skincare and make-up. The volunteers taught us how to cleanse, tone and moisturise properly (using the products in our gift bag), and then how to apply make up, from foundation all the way through to lipstick. At the end of workshop you get to take away your gift bag.
 

Picture of my wonderful bag of tricks

The above picture isn't that great so here's a list of the LOVELY things I got in my bag:

·        Garnier Face wipes

·        L'Oreal Cleanser

·        Rimmel Eye Make Up Remover

·        L'Oreal Toner

·        Clinique Moisturising Lotion

·        Lancôme Eye Gel

·        No 7 Primer

·        Clinique Concealer

·        No 7 Brush Foundation

·        No 7 Loose Powder

·        Max Factor Blusher

·        Lancôme Eye Make Up Brush

·        No 7 Eye Shadow Trio

·        Lancôme Eye Liner Pencil

·        Lancôme Eyebrow Pencil

·        Estée Lauder Projectionist VolumeMascara

·        Clinique Lip Liner

·        Max Factor Lipsticks x 2

·        L'Oreal Glam Shine Lip Gloss

·        50ml Dior "Miss Dior"Perfume

The 2 hours spent at the LGFB workshop were fantastic, I felt free to show my balding head (as other ladies in the group took off their wigs and head coverings) and came away feeling truly pampered. If anyone reading this is going through something similar to what I am, I would urge you to get in touch with LGFB and book onto one of their sessions. You can do so via this link.

Thank You LGFB, it was a really lovely treat