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Beauty Product Genocide MAG
The foundation bottles lay, cut open,
Strewn like carcasses in the aftermath
Of a beauty product genocide
The ground is smeared with my running mascara
and my mangled hairbrush
Looking like a war happened with no
Winning side
Just chaos without cause and violence
Without passion
But that's not entirely true
Seventeen magazine told me all the ways
I could look prettier
If I tried
And Vogue made this ideal seem even more
Unattainable
So I did what any sane woman would do:
I killed that which only made me feel beautiful
On the outside
But whispered to me that I'd never be truly so
On the inside.
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