Surviving Breast Cancer– One Beauty Brand Founder Shares Her

27 Oct

Shutterstock / Jane Rix. It was a brutally cold day on the south side of Chicago, in January of 2009, when Arnett Faulkner was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. “Typically we discover 80% of individuals’s results are noncancerous and 20% are cancerous,” a radiologist told her. “But you fall within the 20% category.” Following this statement, understandably, every thing became a whole blur for Faulkner. “I feel that I toned her out and have become numb,” she explains. “I remember calling my husband to choose me up. I walked down the hall of the hospital praying that I wouldn’t run into anyone.” The silence continued even through the whole automotive ride home. “I knew, from that time on, my life would perpetually change.” She...

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21 Oct

Supporting Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors at DreamBall 2023

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Beauty, Featured

The Look Good Feel Higher BeautyCares DreamBall made its return to Recent York’s Gotham Hall on Oct. 11, drawing 350 attendees and raising $1.2 million in support. “Everyone here is working together to make a difference within the lives of others,” said honoree Debi Chirichella, president of Hearst Magazines, who sat in on a Look Good Feel Higher virtual workshop and said of the experience: “To see the ladies who were participants, to see their joy and increase in self-confidence; their courage and their vulnerability — it's something I'll always remember.” The evening’s other honorees were Amazon’s Melis del Rey; P&G Beauty‘s Alex Keith; OPI cofounder and Aloxxi chief executive officer George Schaeffer, and survivor advocate and NBC News correspondent Kristen...

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11 Oct

Breast Cancer At Any Age: After Three Generations Of

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Makeup, Featured

While breast cancer is commonly regarded as something to be proactive about after 40, on this series, Breast Cancer At Any Age, we speak to women who had scares or battled breast cancer at a much younger age than expected. “Generational.” That’s how Ashley Dedmon would describe cancer and the impact the disease has had on her family. “On my maternal side, my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother were diagnosed with breast cancer,” she tells ESSENCE. Her mother was 49 when she was diagnosed with metastatic or Stage 4 breast cancer, dying from it on the age of 52. She passed in early 2007, and months afterward, Dedmon received a call that may turn her world the other way...

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10 Oct

LYS Beauty Is Giving Back During Breast Cancer Awareness

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Tisha Thompson’s cosmetics line LYS Beauty has been inclusive since its inception in 2021. Now, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the brand is giving back via their latest Secure Brow Collection. 100% of the proceeds will go to The Pink Agenda through the top of 2023. This initiative is deeply personal to Thompson who lost her mother to the disease. That said, “I'm keen on supporting breast cancer research,” she says. “I believed The Pink Agenda was an incredible organization to support in her honor.” It also is smart that Thompson selected to launch brow products for this initiative. Even throughout her breast cancer battle, Thompson’s mother found joy in doing her brows every day. “It was a sweet reminder that...

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