Beauty Pop (2006)

Start year: 2006

Issues in volume: 10

A Machiavellian undertone turns what might have been a run-of-the-mill shojo title into an interesting and unsettling study of just how much children—and, by extension, adults—judge books by their covers. Three boys using the name the Scissors Project give highly coveted makeovers to "ugly" girls at their school: "in the hands of those three, a girl becomes beautiful... she gets the guy of her dre...

Publisher: Viz

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