12 year old cancer patient gives make-up tutorials

Talia Joy Castellano, a 12 year old girl is suffering from cancer but surprises everyone by giving exceptional makeup tutorials on her Youtube channel Taliajoy18. She has two aggressive cancers - neuroblastoma she's been suffering from since 2007 and the preleukemia that's recently sprung up in her bone marrow.

Multiple bouts of chemotherapy have left her bald for years, but the rising seventh-grader embraces makeup as her own kind of wig, a way to feel confident and take control over her appearance in a fun, creative way. Many of her makeup videos focus on the products themselves (classic "haul videos") and others on technique, like this wild New Year's Eve look.

But as Talia says in her August 2 video - "This channel is not strictly a beauty channel. It's whatever I want." She adds, "When you guys see my beauty videos, you guys don't really know what's going on in my cancer world."

Her current condition has left her with four months to a year to live. But the upbeat, articulate tween tells the camera that she's going to continue with the videos as long as she can.

"Having cancer has been a gift yet a horrible, horrible, terrifying thing. But I've gotten so many benefits from it... Having a Youtube channel and having to inspire people and having people look up to me and explaining to you guys how I love and adore makeup, using it as my wig and having so much self-confidence to go out to the grocery store without a wig... it's just amazing."