For 20 years, Lori Ovitz has applied makeup to top celebrities and models, as well as to major figures in business and sports. Her work has appeared in many national magazines and publications, television commercials and newscasts, and videos.

Ovitz began perfecting the art of makeup for people undergoing chemotherapy, radiation and other cancer-related treatments. For the past eight years, she has been applying makeup in private sessions without charge for patients at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Lori Ovitz currently sits on the board of directors for the University of Chicago Hospitals Cancer Research Foundation.

From the many cancer patients that Ovitz has met, she learned a great deal more than just makeup solutions; she also learned firsthand about the enormous energy that looking good gives to a person with cancer. Ovitz has written Facing the Mirror with Cancer with the tools of the makeup kit in her hand and the love of helping people in her heart.