You make me spend hours fixing my hair,
Dabbing concealer everywhere
Jewelry strewn around you on the floor
There used to be Barbie dolls there before

Applying mascara that doesn't run
I spend more time with you than I do having fun
I use all my money on this make-up to please
Even though I don't want half of these

Eyeshadows in every shade of blue
I use them whenever I'm with you
Eyeliners and rouges for my face
The determine my status at school, my place

You hold me down from time with my friends
Once I start staring it just can't end.
So I wonder why I don't take you off my wall
I cannot for my reflection is my all

Because people I know judge me by how I look outside
The amount of beauty controls my pride
They don't care about what's inside my mind
Just the lipsticks and jeans that I can find

I don't care for imported clothes from afar
I'd rather write songs and strum on my guitar
I want to dance to the music, feel good being me
But they want me to be different, and that's the reality

No one cares for the smarts in my brain
The warmth of my heart, my joys and my pain
No one accepts what I want to decide
They don't know how to look inside

No one knows me to the core
Even I'm not sure of who I am anymore
Under my thick foundation mask
Covering my true self is an everyday task

I need you to help, you're the only one who knows
That I don't want to pretend, I don't want to feel low
So why do I tell you this - you don't even care!
You just force me to stand here and play with my hair

What if I can't stop doing this? I fear
But you cannot answer, for you are my mirror.

- Carol Chow