annual philadelphia youth orchestra showcase and performed six different ensamble and the blue daniel waltz and the mc for the night was our own rick welcomes and women treated for cancer were treated for pampering in university city a welcome brake for the women who have been through a lot physically and emotionally and action news reporter trish hartman has more. >> reporter: lucreatia alston a 26-year-old mother of two has been looking forward to this makeup lesson for a while. >> how to do makeup because i don't know how. >> reporter: the model for makeup and mimosa and battling breast cancer and under going chemotherapy. >> it helps you because it helps you feel beautiful like i don't have no hair right now so i don't have no eyelashes. >> reporter: events raises money for the cancer center and makeup artist and organizer behind it lost her mother exactly one year ago to long cancer six days after being diagnosed. >> deterioration. >> reporter: not long after tammi toliver lost her mother she was contacted by a client who was battling cancer who wanted her makeup done and says she was