BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Any person diagnosed with cancer and receives chemotherapy knows the side effects can be discouraging, but they don't have to be.

Look Good...Feel Better is a public service program offered for free to women to help them look good even at a time they may not be feeling so well.

For the 20 years the program has been running, Robin Enos, who owns a beauty shop in the southwest, has been volunteering her services.

Whether it's teaching women how to draw on their eyebrows they lost due to chemotherapy or covering their head with a wig or hat so hair loss is less noticeable, Enos knows firsthand where these women are coming from. She was there five years ago.

Enos said after teaching Look Good...Feel Better classes for 15 years, she got the news she had breast cancer.

"My questions were way more than what the doctor expected because I know most of this, so I need to know this. He was like 'wow'. So I went through a mastectomy. I got to experience everything that I've been teaching about and that I learned about," said Enos.

The free program provides women going through cancer treatment with beauty products. Cosmetologists like Enos then teach them how to use the products in a time they may be experiencing changes they've never had to deal with before.

"There's so many questions because this is a new thing that's happening to me," said Kay Smith who is battling breast cancer. "Like losing my hair and hearing that I'm going to lose my eyebrows and eye lashes. And I'm not a heavy makeup user so I needed to learn how to deal with this."

And looking good, Enos said, is the key to feeling good.

"Building of self-esteem that can get lowered with medicine and it really does help keep them going so they are tough fighters and they make it through. That's everything, being responsive about what's going to happen to you," said Enos.

Enos was recently honored for her volunteer efforts, and received a state and a national award.

To learn more about the Look Good...Feel Better program, you can contact the National Cancer Society at (661) 324-3421.