Empowering lives of children and young adults with cancer

Our goal is to benefit children and young adults with pediatric cancer in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

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Redefining Beauty. Restoring Hope.

The Bald Beauties Project^® was conceived and created by Kelsey Taylor Luria during her treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Although Kelsey lost her battle with cancer, her spirit, legacy and desire to positively impact the lives of children with cancer lives on through the Bald Beauties Project^®.

Your Donations Change Lives

Your donation helps provide life-changing photography sessions that restore confidence, celebrate inner beauty, and create lasting memories for young cancer warriors and their families during the toughest moments of their lives.

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Photo Shoots

The chance to see themselves as strong, beautiful, and courageous – capturing moments their families will treasure forever.

Our Primary Objectives

Beauty and Self Confidence

The Bald Beauties Photo Project will empower children and teen cancer patients who lose their hair through chemotherapy by providing them a professional photo shoot to help them gain courage, strength and confidence while also enabling them to feel beautiful even without their hair.

Kindness Through Comfort

Teens with cancer have unique needs often unmet by typical hospital gifts. The Bald Beauties Project® provides Teen Comfort Kits with age-appropriate items and offers random acts of kindness to support them during treatment.

Research

The Bald Beauties Project® supports ongoing research of Acute Myeloid Leukemia to help “kick cancer’s ass” altogether, so no one else has to fight this insidious disease.

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Queen Bee 🐝 Carry a Bead

Each time you purchase an exclusive Queen Bee Carry a Bead kit, you support the mission of the Bald Beauties Project® and Beads of Courage®. Each kit contains a pair of custom, handmade “Queen Bee” beads by bead artists Shannon Vickers or Jeannie Cox.

After completing your own adventure return one Queen Bee along with words of encouragement to Beads of Courage. Your Queen Bee bead and your message of support will be given to a child with a serious illness on a tough treatment day or to celebrate a treatment milestone.