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Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:21 pm |
Whether it's dermarolling or skin brushing, it's tough to find legitimate (not photoshopped or fake) before & after pictures.
Why is that so, and are you, too, frustrated by it? |
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Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:45 pm |
My thought on this topic is because 99.9% of all anti-age products don't do diddly squat so they have to photo shop the before/after to make said product sound fantastic so we all go out and buy it. |
_________________ The best way to locate your cat is to open a can of food. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:36 am |
VeronicaM wrote: |
Whether it's dermarolling or skin brushing, it's tough to find legitimate (not photoshopped or fake) before & after pictures.
Why is that so, and are you, too, frustrated by it? |
I think it is due to MARKETING. I am not frustrated by it because I am horribly accustomed to being Marketed At and I dont take any notice. |
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Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:37 pm |
everything is marketing. I work at a cosmetic clinic and we only use pics of patients with the best results to use for our before and after pics. Patients with no results, we do not bother to advertise those ones. |
_________________ Late 20's, clarisonic, Vit C serum, hormonal acne, congested pores, combination skin, living in Vancouver Canada |
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Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:37 pm |
BCgirl wrote: |
everything is marketing. I work at a cosmetic clinic and we only use pics of patients with the best results to use for our before and after pics. Patients with no results, we do not bother to advertise those ones. |
Wow, that is unbelievable. |
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Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:09 am |
VeronicaM wrote: |
BCgirl wrote: |
everything is marketing. I work at a cosmetic clinic and we only use pics of patients with the best results to use for our before and after pics. Patients with no results, we do not bother to advertise those ones. |
Wow, that is unbelievable. |
What do you expect? It's all about the dollars. |
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Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:46 am |
I find it most frustrating these anti aging cream commercials that use 20-year-old models, especially for age spot creams. They add some fake age spots on them and show them disappear with 4-8 weeks of use. Oh brother...give me a break!
If these companies really want to sell their product, get a 30- or 40-year-old on there with real age spots and show her 8 weeks later with the faded spots, with claims under the photo that the before and afters were not photoshopped or althered in any way. I'll bet women would be emptying the shelves of that cream in stores. |
_________________ 49 years young, brown hair/eyes, Careprost, Ageless If You Dare, Tanaka massage ツ |
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havana8
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Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:40 pm |
Thanks Havana, I forgot how much I like Dr. Irwin site. I can't believe those before and afters. I would have fallen for most of them. |
_________________ Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it |
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:20 am |
This was very informative. |
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:49 am |
Great find Havana! I wouldn't have guessed those examples either. I find it so frustrating for sure, and surely it can't be legal. Like Anne Cosse's before/afters page that time with her accupressure facelift product, the models and before and afters were from something else entirely different as someone on EDS posted and found out! Its so infuriating |
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:04 pm |
"Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear"
How do you "know" photos have not been shopped unless you have the software to figure it out? Granted, some is so amateur as to be laughable.
The only photos I can take srsly are ones from bona fide research studies - NOT ones from manufacturers' sites or brochures.
Who says you are going to get the same results as the model in the photo anyway? Why even put any stock in before/afters? |
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:35 pm |
I've found this to be true even when trying to take personal before and after photos at home. Lighting is everything. You need to find the most unflattering light possible - like direct sunlight from a window - and take the photos at the exact same time of day in the exact same position under the exact same conditions - same clothes, same amount of make or no make up at all, hair pulled back - nothing can vary. It's really very difficult. The photos taken in a doctor's office using a black screen background are ok, but there is nothing like natural sun light to show every flaw imaginable. Over head lights won't pick up the wrinkles like sun light coming from the side |
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:43 pm |
fawnie wrote: |
"Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear"
How do you "know" photos have not been shopped unless you have the software to figure it out? Granted, some is so amateur as to be laughable.
The only photos I can take srsly are ones from bona fide research studies - NOT ones from manufacturers' sites or brochures.
Who says you are going to get the same results as the model in the photo anyway? Why even put any stock in before/afters? |
Good points
BEFORE > (oh, no, my eyeballs are loose)
AFTER > (I used Product X and now my
eyeballs stay put)
Wow. It works. Magic. Gotta buy some Product X. |
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Scinofi
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Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:38 am |
I am surprised companies are not hauled before a court more often for this. It's such blatant false and misleading advertising - fakery, fraud, whatever you want to call it.
Even some companies that base their pitch on a lot of so called 'science' do this. e.g. Skin Biology has been accused of extreme photo falsification. Not only that, their 'afters' are for a different chemical than the one they are trying to sell you!
I think the funniest of all is when companies can't even bear the expense of taking two photos! They use the exact same photo of the person, pixel for pixel, then just alter the second copy. As if someone could pose in a pixel-perfect identical angle and expression weeks later! Or they use vague, fuzzy shots. A technical company can't take a clear photo, for bleeps sake!
The weird thing is when companies seem to have run pretty good trials and have a decent chance of a genuinely effective product. Even then some can be quite bad at showing proper before and after photos. |
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