Skin support

Skin changes during cancer treatment can affect how your skin, brows, and nails look and feel. These classes offer simple, practical ways to care for these changes, with gentle techniques to help restore comfort, confidence, and a sense of recognition in your everyday appearance.

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Skincare Support

Dry, sensitive, irritated skin is a common part of cancer treatment and can leave you feeling uncomfortable in your own skin. This online class gives you simple, practical skincare steps to help calm sensitivity, manage dryness, and protect your skin day-to-day, including easy sun care guidance. You’ll leave feeling more comfortable, more confident, and more supported in your skin, along with a skincare kit to help you continue at home.

Brow Focus

Thinning or loss of brows can change the way your face is framed, affecting expression, balance, and how you recognise yourself day-to-day. In this online class, a brow expert guides you step by step through simple techniques to fill, shape, or recreate natural-looking brows. It’s supportive, practical, and easy to follow, with space to learn at your own pace. You’ll leave with brows that help bring shape and expression back to your face, and a brow kit to support you at home.

Hand & Nail Care

Dryness, splitting, ridges, and sensitivity in your hands and nails are common during treatment and can make everyday tasks uncomfortable or even painful. This online class offers simple, practical ways to care for your hands and nails, helping restore comfort, strength, and softness with easy routines you can fit into daily life. You’ll leave feeling more confident caring for your hands and nails day to day, with a hand and nail care kit to support you at home.

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What our participants have shared

Thank you so much for the amazing opportunity to be a part of this experience. I was 3 weeks into radiation to my head when I attended, and my skin is just starting to show signs of deterioration, so the class with the advice and products came at the perfect time for me to be able to cope with this.

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See our participants stories

“Every Monday’s blood, every Wednesday’s chemo, and then from there, it's downhill to the next Wednesday. But in between that I can have my appearance classes or my eyebrow classes or my exercise. At least once a week I had a class where I had something fun to do, it's just given me a bit of a lease of life.”

Melissa's Story

Frequently asked questions

plus minus What is Skin Support?

Skin Support classes offer practical guidance to help you manage skin, brow, and nail changes while facing cancer. They are designed to help you care for your appearance in a way that supports comfort and confidence.

plus minus Who is Skin Support for?

Skin Support is for anyone experiencing changes to their skin, brows, or nails during cancer treatment or recovery, and who wants simple, practical ways to care for these changes.

plus minus What topics are covered in Skin Support classes?

Classes cover skincare routines, managing dryness and sensitivity, brow shaping techniques, and hand and nail care, along with simple ways to support everyday comfort.

plus minus Why do skin, brows, and nails change during cancer treatment?

Cancer treatments can affect how fast cells grow and repair, which may lead to dryness, sensitivity, brow hair loss, or changes in nails.

plus minus How do Skin Support classes help?

They offer step-by-step, practical techniques to help you care for your skin, brows, and nails, supporting comfort and helping you feel more like yourself day to day.

plus minus Do I need makeup or skincare experience to join?

No. Classes are designed for all levels and guide you through simple techniques you can follow at your own pace.

plus minus Are Skin Support classes suitable during treatment?

Yes. The techniques are gentle and adapted for people currently going through cancer treatment or recovery.

plus minus What can I expect after attending Skin Support classes?

You will learn practical tools and techniques you can use at home to help care for your skin, brows, and nails with more confidence.

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