HSN Cares Partners with Look Good...Feel Better® Charitable Program to Help Cancer Patients Manage Effects of Their Treatment

-Tune in and support charitable campaign's three on-air events featuring beauty brands on Thursday, June 9, 16 and 23 on HSN-

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Jun 09, 2011, 12:35 ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

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HSN Cares, HSN's charitable campaign, has partnered with Look Good...Feel Better®, a free, non-medical, brand-neutral, national public service program that helps women with cancer manage their treatment and recovery with renewed spirit and greater confidence. Through the program, volunteer beauty professionals teach cancer patients easy and effective techniques to help manage appearance side effects of their treatment.

In partnership with Look Good...Feel Better, HSN will host three on-air events in June featuring ten beauty brands and will donate $5 for every product sold to the Personal Care Products Council Foundation to benefit the Look Good...Feel Better program. In addition, HSN customers will have the opportunity to support the event through individual contributions on HSN.com.

The beauty brands participating in the three charitable beauty events to benefit Look Good...Feel Better include: Clean, Fusion Beauty, Ready To Wear, and Stila on June 9; Elizabeth Arden, Benefit Cosmetics, and YBF on June 16; and Couture Color, Elysee Cosmetics, and Korres on June 23. For more information, please visit http://www.hsn.com/look-good-feel-better_at-2502_xa.aspx?rid=2037

The contributions of HSN and the participating beauty brands will help support Look Good...Feel Better's nationwide, free services, including group workshops in thousands of locations across the country; one-on-one consultations; self-help materials; and an interactive web site. The program is open to all women with cancer who are receiving any form of treatment. Each year, 50,000 women participate in more than 14,500 group workshops, and since the program began, 750,000 women have been helped. There is also a program and comprehensive web site for teens with cancer, and information and a web site for men with cancer.

For interviews with Look Good...Feel Better executives, graduates and volunteers, please contact Mary Foster [email protected], or Alexandra Fishlinger [email protected]. For interviews with HSN, please contact [email protected].

About HSN Cares

HSN Cares is committed to supporting women and families in need by raising awareness and funds for trusted global causes. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL, HSN is a leading interactive multichannel retailer, offering a curated assortment of exclusive products and top brand names to its customers. HSN incorporates entertainment, inspiration, personalities and industry experts to provide an entirely unique shopping experience. At HSN, customers find exceptional selections in Health & Beauty (e.g. M. Asam, Benefit, Carol's Daughter, Coty, Elizabeth Arden, Signature Club A, Andrew Lessman, Lancome, My Life Mary J. Blige, Perlier, Serious Skin Care, Stila, Wei East, ybf Beauty); Jewelry (e.g. Heidi Daus, Iris Apfel, R.J. Graziano, Rarities: Fine Jewelry with Carol Brodie, Amedeo Scognamiglio, Tori Spelling); Home/Lifestyle (e.g. Jeffrey Banks, Nate Berkus, Bissell, Colin Cowie, Dyson, Easy Exotic by Padma Lakshmi, Todd English, Emeril Lagasse, Happy Chic by Jonathan Adler, Joy Mangano, MoMA Design Store, Wolfgang Puck); Fashion/Accessories (e.g. American Glamour Badgley Mischka, Joan Boyce, Curations with Stefani Greenfield, Libby Edelman, Sam Edelman, Chi by Carlos Falchi, Diane Gilman, IMAN Global Chic, "Timeless" by Naeem Khan, Twiggy LONDON Sharif, Serena Williams Signature Statement); and Electronics (e.g. Sony, Kodak, Acer, Olympus, GE, Panasonic).

A leader in transactional innovation, HSN is the only retailer offering live streaming video in HD on three screens: TV, online and mobile. HSN broadcasts live to 96 million households in the US in HD 24/7 and its website – hsn.com – is a top 10 e-commerce site, featuring more than 15,000 product videos. Mobile applications include HSN apps for iPad, iPhone and Android. HSN, founded 34 years ago as the first shopping network, is an operating segment of HSN, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSNI).

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.

Donations from the HSN program go to the Personal Care Products Council Foundation to benefit Look Good...Feel Better. Look Good...Feel Better is a registered trademark of the Personal Care Products Council Foundation.

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