Youthful eyes, bright with wonder and amazement stare back at the two year old as she discovers mirrors for the first time. She's happy and giggly as she plays with her reflection.917Please respect copyright.PENANAks7tJ45lb6
917Please respect copyright.PENANAdu6uiS2BlQ
Once flawless skin has become covered in adolescent marks at the age of twelve. But she keeps looking in the mirror, seeing other parts of her that are still very pleasing. 917Please respect copyright.PENANAmpsLCM1Xy1
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.917Please respect copyright.PENANAsgyD6qHI7B
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 917Please respect copyright.PENANAdrCeDb2l52
She continues to look in mirrors, grasping on to her self-esteem while others try to put her down. She won't let anyone tell her that she's unattractive. She doesn't believe them.917Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4YtAyDUJO
917Please respect copyright.PENANAxwHbPYaIW2
Vain917Please respect copyright.PENANAXv4KhoqVn2
Narcissistic917Please respect copyright.PENANAgDeW3wpyDI
Arrogant917Please respect copyright.PENANAaYszISRT2U
917Please respect copyright.PENANA6ICj0gnpQv
Those were just some of the words she was called in High School at the age of seventeen. But in her mind, she's telling herself that she's beautiful, that what people say don't bug her. In reality, it's starting to get to her. 917Please respect copyright.PENANAFmQJR98jWr
The constant noise of social media telling girls how they should look and act has become a virus; spreading from female to female. But she won't be like them. She won't give in to the false pretense of what beauty is.917Please respect copyright.PENANAD3j451uJ7S
917Please respect copyright.PENANAaEu3X3zjzX
Twenty years old, she's living with some roommates; women who have their own independent thinking. They see the way she acts, the way she constantly looks in the mirror after classes. Hearing words she says to them, about how they're just like every other girl; fake. 917Please respect copyright.PENANA8UdfVdYFVL
They ask why she thinks like that; why she thinks that every girl is fake. She speaks of experience. She says that looking in mirrors and seeing how she looks keep her from giving in to false beliefs of beauty. Mirrors are her friends. 917Please respect copyright.PENANA8ebSnLuGzk
917Please respect copyright.PENANAYucc0EN8ZT
Twenty-one years old, sitting in a psychologists office and telling her story. The man across from her hands over a handheld mirror and asks what she sees in her eyes.917Please respect copyright.PENANA5rgqjtwZ07
917Please respect copyright.PENANAOoqWhVZcFi
She looks.917Please respect copyright.PENANAt1ZFXTOQC6
The twinkle of her youth is gone.917Please respect copyright.PENANAp9V7QS4sxd
Dull and faded.917Please respect copyright.PENANA4FZcIKGaNT
Filled with bitterness and anger.917Please respect copyright.PENANAbYeicHvJSZ
A sharpness that could shatter glass.917Please respect copyright.PENANA8VB6h5fOt0
Then reality strikes.917Please respect copyright.PENANA5T9dcZddUg
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.917Please respect copyright.PENANAo8AStA1Dtw
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.917Please respect copyright.PENANAsIGLvjpsO7
She's been the fake all along.917Please respect copyright.PENANAFfZG98kG6f
She looks in mirrors no more.917Please respect copyright.PENANAGSbFhXRz5S
917Please respect copyright.PENANAXhGVxsER6R
917Please respect copyright.PENANAV5RdLe83fV
917Please respect copyright.PENANAm43ikMkGKz
917Please respect copyright.PENANA8IMzKIGLJl
917Please respect copyright.PENANAvXx0UbSeJd