{"id":21444,"date":"2020-03-17T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=307740"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","slug":"cancer-patients-get-free-beautiful-henna-crowns-from-local-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/cancer-patients-get-free-beautiful-henna-crowns-from-local-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Patients Get Free, Beautiful Henna Crowns From Local Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

An artist who lives in southwest Florida but is known internationally is putting her skills to use by helping cancer patients feel pampered and beautiful.<\/span>Micky Maddux is an artist of many talents. According to her website<\/a>, \u201cShe specializes in custom art pieces utilizing many types of medium such as oil, acrylic, charcoal, stained glass and metal work. Micky is well versed in special-effects makeup other specialties include woven rugs, baskets, pottery, and custom furniture.\u201d<\/span>She has worked with multiple charities<\/a> over the years, but her latest experience was an event of her own making: offering free, beautiful henna crowns to cancer patients.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 4 Now<\/span>
\n<\/span>She currently works at Painting With A Twist<\/a>, which is a public art studio in Port Charlotte, Florida. The studio holds fundraisers once a month, but Maddux has added her own charity events at the studio. In March, she held her first free henna crown event \u2014 the same month the studio had a fundraiser that donated to cancer research.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 4 Now<\/span>She created the event with the intent of encouraging and uplifting anyone with cancer. The henna ink she used is plant-based<\/a> and can last about three to four weeks.<\/span>\u201cFeeling strong and confident is a big part of this. They have to know you\u2019re gonna make it through this,\u201d Maddux said.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 4 Now<\/span>
\n<\/span>One of the patients she worked with at the event was Southarak Wathanaphone. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, but is now grappling with her third recurrence of the disease.<\/span>\u201cThis is my third fight. I\u2019m still fighting,\u201d Wathanaphone said<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 4 Now<\/span>Living in Florida can make wearing a wig problematic since it gets so hot there. For Sharon Hirkey, another one of the women who took part in the event, wigs get so uncomfortable in the heat that she normally just wears scarves. Losing her hair has been the hardest part of fighting the disease. Getting a henna design was a positive experience for her.<\/span>Other businesses and neighbors in Port Charlotte donated gifts and services<\/a> to the event to put into care packages.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Micky Maddux<\/a><\/span>Maddux says she hopes to hosts events like this every month, and not just in Port Charlotte.<\/span>\u201cThis is the first of many henna crown events I will be hosting in different cities throughout South Florida in the next year and I will ALWAYS offer my services for FREE to anyone battling cancer,\u201d she wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 4 Now<\/span>Learn more in this video.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An artist who lives in southwest Florida but is known internationally is putting her skills to use by helping cancer patients feel pampered and beautiful.Micky Maddux is an artist of many talents. According to her website, \u201cShe specializes in custom art pieces utilizing many types of medium such as oil, acrylic, charcoal, stained glass and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44318,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21444\/revisions\/44318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}