Repairing make-up workshop: improving the image, a complementary therapy paara women with cancer.

-Tejerina and Ángela Navarro foundations organized a restful makeup workshop to teach treat the face during oncological processes

-In the workshop dealt with skin changes such as extreme dryness, dermatitis, Erythema, spots, loss of hair, etc

-patients appreciated learning how to draw eyebrows that have lost by chemotherapy, hide the stains of the face and enhance the visual sensation of lashes with an eye pencil

Madrid, April of 2013- La Tejerina Foundation in collaboration with the Fundación Angela Navarro has organized a workshop of make-up repairer to help patients correct abnormalities caused by cancer and cancer treatments. As explained by Dr. Armando Tejerina, scientific director of the pathology of the breast Center, a positive mood favors the effectiveness of any medical Protocol ”.

The workshop was practical. The attendees showed tricks to cover stains or hide them, draw and fill eyebrows with a pencil or give greater expressiveness in the eyes. The image has an undeniable therapeutic value. When we are well, we feel better ”, Ángela Navarro explained.

As result of treatments, most of us have lost eyebrows and eyelashes. In the workshop started to make-up only half-face, allowing us to observe how the makeup is able to change the appearance and achieve a greater resiliency ”, explains Rosa Bernal, one of the attendees.

the patient, Rosa Bernal, in a moment of refreshing make-up workshop.

The session was developed in the classroom of the woman of the Tejerina Foundation on March 21 and is part of the set of activities that both foundations have been set up to improve the quality of life of patients, from the field of aesthetics applied to health.

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In recent years, the treatments have managed to increase the rate of cancer cures to unsuspected levels, pharmacological contributions have not allowed the control of alopecia and alterations in skin and nails, which contribute to the deterioration of the quality of life of the patients.

The workshop dealt with skin changes such as extreme dryness, dermatitis, Erythema, spots, loss of hair, etc.

About the Foundation Tejerina

The Foundation Tejerina is within the pathology of the breast Center, created in the mid-1970s in Madrid with the aim of providing comprehensive assistance in this area of medicine, under the scientific leadership of Dr. Armando Tejerina.

Tejerina Foundation was established in 1998, with the aim of promotion, development, protection, dissemination and promotion of all kinds of studies, as well as procedures and research related to the health and life sciences, cancer in general, breast cancer especially, the development of medicine, law and the humanities, teaching, research and health technology innovation ”.

About the Foundation Angela Navarro

The Foundation Angela Navarro has been a pioneer in the study and development of methodologies applied to reparative aesthetics, especially focused on people who need these techniques to reinforce your self-esteem and make progress in his recovery by illness or accidents.

The Foundation was created in order to give esthetic solutions to these people, using their knowledge in the care of personal image and experience in this field after more than one decade of work with patients.