Clarisonic® Celebrates Hope & Empowerment With $500,000 Donation to Nonprofit Look Good...Feel Better® During AFI FEST 2010 Presented by Audi

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- This past weekend Clarisonic announced a $500,000 donation to Look Good...Feel Better, a national program in which beauty professionals empower women with cancer to deal effectively with treatment-related skin changes and hair loss in group workshops and other settings.  Look Good...Feel Better inspires and helps restore self-confidence to more than 50,000 women each year.  Clarisonic has championed hope for cancer patients since 2007 by raising funds for cancer prevention and awareness. Clarisonic, a sponsor of AFI FEST 2010, hosted the check ceremony in Hollywood at the week-long annual film festival to celebrate its partnership with Look Good...Feel Better.  AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi was the perfect stage for Clarisonic to applaud new films that capture empowering, transformational performances.

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"Our partnership with Look Good...Feel Better is a natural fit since we are both committed to empowering women to look and feel beautiful," said Jack Gallagher, president of Clarisonic. "We are honored to contribute to this dynamic program that is helping thousands of women each year."

Geralyn Lucas, acclaimed author of "Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy", led a panel discussion about "The Lipstick Theory" and how beauty tips learned through Look Good...Feel Better help restore the hope and confidence cancer patients need while battling the disease. Other panel members were Look Good...Feel Better graduate Dawn Charles, fitness trainer to high profile and celebrity clients, and Robin Enos, Look Good...Feel Better national volunteer award winner and cancer survivor. Guests enjoyed makeovers in Clarisonic's beauty suite, attended a pre-screening cocktail party, and saw a special screening of "Rabbit Hole", starring Nicole Kidman at Hollywood's famed Egyptian Theater.

Look Good...Feel Better is a national public service program that helps women with breast and other cancers manage their treatment and recovery with renewed spirit and greater confidence. Through the program's free workshops, volunteer beauty industry professionals teach patients easy and effective techniques to help combat appearance-related side effects of their treatment. Operated through a national collaboration of the Personal Care Products Council Foundation, the American Cancer Society and the Professional Beauty Association | National Cosmetology Association, and supported by a nationwide network of more than 14,000 volunteer beauty industry professionals, Look Good...Feel Better's two-hour workshops empower women by teaching them how to overcome side effects of cancer treatment such as skin dryness and hair loss. The program also teaches techniques for makeup application and nail care, and offers tips for selecting and caring for wigs. There are nearly 14,500 free workshops held each year.    

In honor of Look Good...Feel Better, Clarisonic recently introduced a limited edition Clarisonic Hope Mia^® Skin Cleansing System ($149) with a design inspired by the Look Good...Feel Better "Hope is Beautiful" public service campaign and from which $15 from every Clarisonic Hope Mia sold will be donated to the program. Additionally, throughout AFI FEST 2010, Clarisonic has engaged attending celebrities to autograph Clarisonic Hope Mias to be auctioned during the holiday season with all proceeds benefitting Look Good... Feel Better.

Look Good...Feel Better will also be the beneficiary of funds raised from Clarisonic's broader ongoing PINK campaign which includes $5 from every Clarisonic PINK Classic and Clarisonic PINK PLUS Skin Cleansing System purchased, and $4 from every Clarisonic PINK Mia Skin Cleansing System sold.  

"We feel very fortunate to have Clarisonic as an involved corporate partner of Look Good...Feel Better and thank the company for its  generous contributions, which will help us build awareness and expand our programs," said Louanne Roark, executive director of the Personal Care Products Council Foundation and Look Good...Feel Better.

For more information about Clarisonic's partnership with Look Good...Feel Better, visit www.clarisonic.com/pink.

About Pacific Bioscience Laboratories

Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. is a leading innovator in skin care and the creator of the Clarisonic Sonic Skin and Clarisonic Opal™ Sonic Infusion Systems. Clarisonic Sonic Skin Cleansing System is the first professional-caliber sonic skin care system for healthy, younger-looking skin and the cleansing standard of renowned spas, leading dermatologists and beauty retailers nationwide. Clarisonic Opal Sonic Infusion System is a breakthrough sonic delivery system for eye products that is superior to manual application. The encore innovations from the primary inventor of Sonicare^®, Clarisonic and Clarisonic Opal represent Pacific Bioscience Laboratories' ongoing mission to develop and market technically advanced and clinically proven products that make a clear difference in skin care. Clarisonic is distributed through dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, spas and prestige retailers such as Sephora, Nordstrom, QVC, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus, Bloomingdale's, Ulta, Beauty.com and Skinstore.com.  Clarisonic has been acknowledged as a beauty award winner by Women's Health magazine, InStyle magazine and by retailers QVC and Sephora. For more information, visit www.clarisonic.com.

Clarisonic is a registered trademark of Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc.

Sonicare is a registered trademark of Philips Oral Healthcare, Inc., which is not affiliated with Pacific Bioscience Laboratories or Clarisonic.

About Look Good...Feel Better

Look Good...Feel Better is a free, non-medical, brand-neutral national public service program created to help individuals with cancer look good, improve their self-esteem, and thereby manage their treatment and recovery with greater confidence.  The program offers group workshops, one-on-one consultations, a self-help video and workbook, and an extensive web site, www.lookgoodfeelbetter.org

Look Good...Feel Better is a collaboration of the Personal Care Products Council Foundation, a charitable organization established by the Personal Care Products Council, the leading national trade association representing the global cosmetic and personal care products industry; the American Cancer Society, the nation's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to saving lives from cancer; and the Professional Beauty Association│National Cosmetology Association, a national organization of more than 25,000 cosmetologists, wig experts, aestheticians, makeup artists and nail technicians.  For more information about Look Good...Feel Better free workshops and other services available across the country, visit www.lookgoodfeelbetter.org, call 1-800-395-LOOK (5665), or contact your local American Cancer Society.

The Personal Care Products Council Foundation, the American Cancer Society, Inc. and the Professional Beauty Association │National Cosmetology Association do not endorse any specific products and/or services.

Look Good...Feel Better is a registered trademark of the Personal Care Products Council Foundation.

For more information, contact Lisa Ruiz-Rogers at 323.866.6059 or via email at [email protected].

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