Makeup Tips for Cancer Patients

"I hadn't thought about by eyebrows or lashes. ... My hair had started to grow back, but I lost them almost overnight. It was a crippling blow to my self-esteem," she says. "But I remembered I had been taught how to deal with this." Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts feather hair extension The key to recreating brows is placement, according to the Look Good campaign. The spot where a pencil, held straight against your nose, hits the brow bone would be the start of the brow. Use the pencil to create a diagonal line from the bottom corner of your nose to the outside corner of your eye. That's the end point.VonGerichten penciled in her brows with eyeliner and no one but her seemed to notice the change, she says.Teresa Lopuchin, a lace wigs Philadelphia-based makeup artist and volunteer with Look Good since its launch 20 years ago, offers other strategies:Tiny dots of eyeshadow along the lashline, preferably applied with a disposable brush or cotton swab, can mimic lashes.Use a cream eyeshadow instead of a powder, because the skin is very sensitive and powder is more likely to flake.The best color for lashes and brows would match or be just slightly darker than your natural hair or wig color.Patches of dark skin, which range from the size of freckles to much larger, are best camouflaged with a cream concealer slightly lighter than naturalfront lace wigs skin tone. Lopuchin suggests sticking to peachy shades.The Look Good Web site also recommends color-correcting concealers for more specific issues: a green shade will help with redness, and a yellow can mask blue discoloration.Dry skin needs gentle moisturizer and gentle lip balm -- and a very gentle cleanser. That's the step often missed, Lopuchin says.