- Me inside the mirror
Me Inside the Mirror is by Junko Sagari.It is a part of the manga series I Can't Sleep Alone. It starts as a girl called Misaki heads into a mirror shop and is tricked into buying a mirror which controls the user into making themselves attractive by chanting aspell every day. She first tries to fix her hair by keeping it straight instead of it being braided. Then she buys contact lenses.Then she started to starve herself to lose weight, she catches anemia. Then the next day her beauty goes away and her schools popular girls make fun of her by showing her her face. She slams her bag intoone of the faces and severely hurts her. She goes back to the mirror shop the shop keeper showed hera fantasy of her face thinking it was real, the shop keeper reminded her of what he said in the beginning"Mirrors Can Lie". She didn't understand the way the shop keeper meant and kept looking into mirrors until she was beautiful and ended up smashing them all. At the end she quotes that she hates mirrors because they lie.
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