Polish Your Inner Beauty

I'm happy to introduce my very first guest blogger, Jackie Clark. Jackie approached me a few days ago with a request to do a post on my blog. Since the topic she supports is really strong and stands by what I believe, I had to give her the opportunity.

Polish Your Inner Beauty with Chic Looks
By: Jackie Clark

While skin-deep beauty fades, the confidence that comes from chic looks and inspired fashions can bring hope to women struggling with life-threatening disease. When the prognosis is grim, like it is for so many with mesothelioma, uterine cancer and other cancers, the challenge may seem to completely overwhelm a woman’s font of inner beauty.

Self-care easily slips into the abyss of despair and hopelessness as treatments become difficult and the demands of others suck any leftover energy you might have. When the constant schedule of doctor visits and treatments takes its toll, sometimes the best therapy lies in the confidence chic fashion can provide.

The bright colors and large patterns of 2012 fashion can revitalize the spirit to polish a woman’s inner beauty to a better-than-new shine. Paisley has entered the fashion world with a modern twist and form that brings new life to flirty skirts and sensual dresses as appropriate at the office as they are for a walk in the park or a night out on the town.

Motorcycle jackets bring out the hidden rebel in the tamest female. The woman who needs a little attitude to buoy her spirit will find self-confidence in the classic leather design that tells the world she is not easily defeated.

Clothing doesn’t provide the only chic option for nurturing flagging inner beauty. The pick-me-up pink debuting this year in chic business wear also inspires the jewelry of 2012. Dangly earrings in every shade of pink, perhaps accented with purple or white stones set in silver or even the pinkish hue of rose gold, provide a gorgeous frame for the feminine face. Bangles, dainty wire-work cuffs and stacks of woven bracelets can bring out the wonder woman in struggling cancer patients.

Each woman has unique needs and personal style. She needs to find what best suits her. Perhaps it will be a chic haircut or color that emphasizes what she has. Fabulous pixie dos and spiky short cuts show off a little as though it were a lot. Both earth and jewel tones featured in the season’s hottest headgear prove that bad hair days cannot daunt fashionable women in 2012.

Whatever the outward means, chic fashion and inner beauty work together to bring hope and courage to those poised to succumb to fear and doubt. It is time to stand tall, to polish the face of inner beauty so she can shine like never before. Hope comes in many packages. While outfits and accessories can never repair the body racked by cancer, the confidence and self-care that comes with attending to personal appearance takes mesothelioma sufferers to a new level of tenacity. Looking good entwines itself with the reality of how a woman feels. New found hope never goes unrewarded.

Lavanya.