{"id":101873,"date":"2025-07-29T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101873\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:53:09","slug":"putting-their-best-faces-forward-skin-care-and-makeup-help-philadelphia-patients-after-medical-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101873\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting their best faces forward: Skin care and makeup help Philadelphia patients after medical trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Upbeat power ballads from Christina Aguilera, Lizzo and Diana Ross flowed throughout a small room inside Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffersonhealth.org\/locations\/moss-magee-rehabilitation-riverfront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riverfront location<\/a> in South Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>Several women sat around small vanity mirrors, some of them in wheelchairs. On the table before them was an array of makeup brushes, lip liners, eye shadows, face cleansers and other beauty tools and products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said you wanted to do your eyebrows, right?\u201d Rebecca Carpino asked Candice Davis, who nodded yes.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Both women are patients at the rehabilitation center and participants in a new kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/group-therapy-dungeons-and-dragons-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">group therapy<\/a>. The support program focuses on mental health recovery after <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/segments\/philadelphia-hospital-program-provides-mental-health-services-for-trauma-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical trauma<\/a> by using makeup and skin care to help reclaim confidence and independence.\n<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Thursday morning, the two patients were helping each other.\n<\/p>\n<p>Carpino added a dollop of brownish-black eyebrow pomade onto a clean palette and set it down before Davis, who then dipped an angled brush into the mixture and brought it to her left brow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I getting it?\u201d Davis asked Carpino as she leaned in closer to the mirror.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re getting it, just go a little higher,\u201d Carpino guided her.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,66269,1448,2830,1311,3610,8222,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-101873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jefferson-health","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-rehabilitation","14":"tag-self-care","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114936152274368491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}