Meet the Angel Faces: How severely burned girls from all over the world learn to cope with life at annual retreat

The room rings out with the cruel nicknames that have haunted the teenagers for years: Crusty crab. Burnt toast. Snake skin. Freddy Krueger's daughter. Mutant. Scarface.
For the first time, it's the burn victims themselves who are shouting them.
The exercise is emotionally excruciating but also empowering for these girls, who come from all over the world to attend Angel Faces, an annual retreat east of Los Angeles.

Happy: Angel Faces is an annual retreat for young girls with severe burns or facial disfigurement. Larisa Hertz, left, and Bethany Essary, right, look at a photograph of themselves at the retreat