Cancer fashion




ByJackie Clark for The Dolls Factory

Feeling beautiful and staying fashionable is an important goal for a wide variety of women. However, many women may feel their need to stay beautiful drops after a cancer diagnosis. Getting a prognosis of mesotheliomalung cancer, skin cancer or any other serious cancer can create a sense of feeling doomed. Cancer diagnoses don’t have to be a death sentence. Instead take that diagnosis and bring out your inner beauty.


Being confident may help focus a person on defeating cancer and may help them get over it more successfully. One way to stay confident during your treatment is to stay focused on fashion and feeling beautiful in your own skin. Not only will this make you look strong in the eyes of others, it will help you feel better in many ways.


Start by selecting a series of clothes from the store. These clothes will make up your wardrobe. Select clothes that go well together and which highlight your natural beauty. Create very formal outfits that are perfect for serious occasions, such as cancer awareness fundraisers. However, make sure you have casual outfits for days when you are relaxing or recovering from your treatment.


Pick colors and styles that look the best on you and highlight your skin tone and hair color. You are going to lose hair during your treatment and may even begin turning paler. Choose red colored clothes to off set your pale skin and wear hats if you feel uncomfortable with no hair. You should try to avoid wearing hats only if you feel uncomfortable. Try to be comfortable with no hair and you will begin to gain confidence. Soon, you will look beautiful with no hat on your head purely through your confidence poise.


Don't forget to pick a series of cute accessories such as bracelets, necklaces, watches and earrings to compliment your outfits. Each of these accessories should be tailored to a specific outfit. Creating a fully realized and cute outfit not only looks great but also shows off your ability and confidence in ways that words simply cannot do justice.


Basically, focusing on fashion and looking beautiful helps to take your mind away from your cancer prognosis and your treatments. It focuses your mind elsewhere and keeps you distracted during a difficult period. Naturally, your condition will always be at the back of your mind. However, keeping something else at the front of your mind will help your condition from taking over your life.


And that is the most important thing about using fashion in this way. Fashion and beauty helps keep your mind away from your condition and stops you from dwelling on it. Stress and worry can contribute to a weaker mind and body, which is the last thing you need now.

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Jackie Clark is a research assistant at the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance. She has written this article on The Dolls Factory as part as her work in cancer support programs, and social media campaigns to raise awarenes and give support to the cause.

You can reach Jackie at JClark@mesotheliomacanceralliance.org.


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