When I was a kid, I wished I was born beautiful. Since I thought my genes had forsaken me, I had to find another way to transform into a swan. I had this crazy idea that imitating the personalities of beautiful people will do the trick. I don’t know why I thought that way, but that led me to imitate characters in cartoons and telenovelas.
You must be thinking that I was one of those kids who played with mother’s make-up, but I wasn’t. Finding a sailor moon lipstick palette in the balikbayan box didn’t even excite me. I didn’t want to paint on beauty; I wanted real beauty.
All Nice-d up and Pretty
My first beauty idol was Cinderella from the anime TV show in ABS-CBN. She was a good person, so I thought that if I were as nice as her, then I would become beautiful. I began being sweet and kind to others, then, slowly, I saw the potent effects reflected on my mirror.
It worked; I was beautiful.
Cruella de Beautiful
I was content with my new beauty regimen, that is until I watched La Usurpadora. It’s a story about twins who were separated at birth. Although they had the same physical features, I thought that the evil twin was more beautiful than the good twin. This made me think, So when you’re good, you become beautiful, but when you’re evil, you become even more beautiful. I started training myself to be a snob.
It worked; I was even more beautiful.
Huh?
Why was I such a weird kid?
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