Facing The Mirror With Cancer: A Guide To Using Makeup To Make A Difference

Facing the Mirror with Cancer is a guide to using makeup to make a difference. Written by Lori Ovitz, a sought after makeup artist to top models and celebrities for over 20 years, this beautifully photographed, 200-page book illustrates step-by-step tips and techniques for dealing with appearance issues during cancer treatment and beyond.

In her successful 20-year career as a makeup artist, Lori Ovitz attained a lofty peak, working with top models, broadcasting and sports personalities, and celebrities in television, catalogs, and magazines in her native Chicago. <P>While some may have set their sights on parlaying this sort of success into a career in movies or with fashion’s most prestigious magazines, Ovitz felt herself pulled in another direction. She is one of those rare people who make volunteering a priority no matter how busy her life may be. Her program is an overwhelming success with patients learning firsthand the enormous energy that looking good – or simply looking like yourself – can give to a person with cancer. Since 1998, Lori has offered her professional talents privately at no charge to patients at the University of Chicago Hospitals and other cancer centers. Today Lori is reaching out to millions more who battle daily to regain some semblance of their ordinary lives with this book.