2023-12-29 05:00:02
In Martigues, the “heart providers” offer cancer patients a moment to let go for a makeover.
An enchanted parenthesis. This is what the collective of “providers of the heart” are offering during a photo shoot and a makeover at the Martigues hospital, this Thursday, December 28. Its founder, Manuela, is a trained makeup artist. She realizes that there is a “real demand” in 2016, when she herself was suffering from cancer.
Every week, the other patients in the hospital call out to her: “Well done Manu but you (don’t) look sick: you have beautiful eyebrows, you look like you have eyelashes, you have a pretty complexion… But what are you doing?“In response, Manuela explains how”bring back to life“to faces”a little gray and sad“because of illness.
Aged 39, Amélie is pampered by a beautician who is both a makeup artist and a confidante. This Marseille teacher has just relapsed.in October“last. Suffering from metastatic cancer, she knows she won’t have any”never finished” with illness.
But nothing will stop him from enjoying this moment: “The first manicure of my life, I got it during my first chemo. It’s my day“, she says.
With the illness, she had to tame a new appearance: “There was hair loss, regrowth… I had long, straight hair. Now they are curly, so you have to get used to that too“, she continues. But her cancer also taught her to treat herself to moments of relaxation:
Take time for yourself, put on makeup… before I was sick I didn’t really take this time, not at all. The illness took this time for me.
Amelie
at France 3 Provence-Alpes
Meanwhile, Sylvie poses in front of the photographer’s lens who immortalizes the moment. With her scarlet lipstick and sleeveless denim jacket, she hesitated a little before letting out a wide smile at her reflection in the mirror. Her new looka little rock“looks great on her,” encourages her stylist of the day.
Before falling ill, Sylvie would probably never have dared to do this makeover. So her breast cancer, for her, is “a bad for a good“. He allowed him to “see things differently“, to no longer “put up barriers” :
Before I said to myself: no but you can’t do that. Now the barriers have been broken down. I can afford anything.
Sylvie
at France 3 Provence-Alpes
Take the time, enjoy the present moment, trust yourself, dare… With this photo shoot, these uninhibited women treated themselves to a moment of well-being. An essential first step to regain strength and move forward.
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