It’s called Mirror Fasting, and the first time I heard about it was some time ago, in the report of an American blogger, the sociologist Kjerstin Gruys, who wrote a book about this particular experience: spending a year without looking at yourself, anywhere. part, and not have the faintest idea of ​​what he looks like. The book is called Mirror Mirror off the wall , an almost untranslatable title in Italian, since it takes up the famous formula “Mirror, mirror of my desires” said by the witch Grimilde of Snow White.
We could translate it with Mirror Mirror away from my desires, but in short, the important thing is to have grasped the meaning. What’s the point? If you are a woman, the mirror is a very important friend / enemy, as is the aesthetic factor. Raise your hand all the girls or ladies who would leave the house without make-up and without knowing how their clothes fall not to go shopping (even if I know some who don’t go out if they don’t feel one hundred percent perfect), but to go out. with someone, and, in short, be seen around, or go to work. Few, right? And go out without ever having mirrored yourself since waking up?