Losing my identity or creating a new one?

Yesterday I had a bit of a technical hitch…

One of the side effects of the chemo is my skin drying out and surprisingly, that includes my finger tips!  Let me explain… I have a fingerprint reader on my laptop and yesterday, it didn’t recognise me!  I had been using it for so long, I couldn’t remember my password.  Luckily, I had also got Phil to scan in one of his fingers for access and his worked, Phew!

So I have updated my password and am now using even more moisturiser – I did get it to work once yesterday…

Once over this minor identity crisis, I went to the Big C  today for the ‘Look Good Feel Better’ workshop.  It was great, there was a team of beauticians that took us through our goodie bag filled with top quality products.  We cleansed, toned and moisturised before applying the make-up products.  These included foundation, blush, eyeliner, eye shadow, lip-liner, lipstick and the essential eyebrow pencil!!

It was great to learn some new techniques for applying make up and really interesting to meet 8 other ladies who are going through treatment for some form of cancer.  We were all receiving different treatments and having different responses to them.  You know, the doctors and other medical professionals all say that ‘everyone is different’.  Sometimes that feels a bit like a cop out, like they don’t want to tell you so they make it vague …but I was wrong, which feels good 🙂

Following the make-up workshop, Daphne from the Big C ran a scarf tying and hat workshop.  As a result, I have another new look!

I’m not sure where I was going wrong with my look before, but strangely, this range of looks I now have seem to suit me more than previous ones did.  Phil even smiles at me every time he sees me with nothing on my head, he really quite likes me bald too!

I can’t see this as anything other than an opportunity to try out new looks and I’m having fun with it!

Talk to you soon

Lots of love Mand xxx