I love how friends see the best in each other.

Flaws and imperfections don’t matter. We’re blind to unkind comparisons or the cost/brands of her clothes. All that we see is the beautiful side of our friend – her kindness and humor, sunny smile and caring eyes, all the things that make her HER and all the blessings she brings to your life.

For too many of our girlfriends, Cancer is taking away our girlfriends’ feeling of beauty. They may struggle to see the beauty that we still see in them. And they may be weighted down with the difference in appearance that they didn’t expect – like losing your eyelashes and eyebrows or other side effects of chemo.

So an organization has stepped up to help women dealing with cancer feel the beauty that we see in them. In fact, they’re helping women “Look Good (and)… Feel Better.” Look Good…Feel Better is a free, non-medical, brand-neutral, national public service program created to help individuals with cancer look good, improve their self-esteem, and manage their treatment and recovery with greater confidence.

Here’s a great video to explain their beautiful program:

Celebrating 20 years of helping women find beauty in an ugly situation, Look Good … Feel Better is hosting a contest to celebrate the wonderful women whom they’ve helped – but who have also inspired them!

Look Good…Feel Better^® is reaching out to program graduates and cancer survivors to share their stories of hope, courage, and determination for the “Women of Hope is Beautiful” campaign. The “Women of Hope is Beautiful” are women with firsthand Look Good…Feel Better experience who can demonstrate the emotional and physical transformation that the program offers.

Five women will be selected as the “Women of Hope is Beautiful.” They will be featured on the Look Good…Feel Better website, and will win a trip to the DreamBall at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on September 24, 2009 as well as receive a professional makeover.

On a totally different note – This blog is strangely written within hours of the announced loss of life to cancer for superstar Farrah Fawcett. The women with ‘the hair’ was the icon for admiring men, allured boys and even women who just wanted to be like her – admired, full of life and oh so beautiful!

I read on Wikipedia that many thought Farrah losing her hair would be traumatic – she was THE HAIR girl. She accepted it with grace and beauty. As her “Charlie’s Angels” co-star Kate Jackson responded: “She didn’t do this to show that ’she’ is unique, she did it to show that we are all unique. It was…meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them.

And inspire she did and will continue to do. I know she’d love the “Look Good … Feel Better” program.

p.s. Thanks MomCentral.com for bringing this very cool program to our attention and for spreading the word on how women can “Look Good … Feel Better.”

Related articles: 10 ways to be a friend to a girlfriend with Breast Cancer, Cancer is a Bitch, Friendship & Breast Cancer, Pink Gifts for Girlfriends and Interview with TAMI BOEHMER – Breast Cancer survivor.

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Tags: Cancer, cancer survivor, Charlie's Angels, Farrah Fawcett, feel better, Kate Jackson, look good, Wikipedia

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