Real misleading images. Exposed and explained by the community.
Before and after using vitamin C serum.
Lighting · Pose / angle · Photoshop
The “before” is shot in harsh, flat lighting that exaggerates shadows, scars, acne, and texture. The “after” is clearly airbrushed. A vitamin C serum can help brighten and even out skin tone over time, but it cannot erase pores, remove every fine line, or create glass-perfect skin.
Before and after using 1 syringe of filler for full face and 8 units of neurotoxin in forehead, frown, crow's feet, masseters, and platysmal bands.
Lighting · Pose / angle · Photoshop · Same Photo
You can’t achieve this result with 1 syringe of filler and 8 units of Botox for the full face. It’s the same photo, edited in Photoshop or a makeup AI app (most likely). The “after” is not a real picture.
Noticeably thicker, fuller hair growth after using the promoted hair serum.
Lighting · Photoshop · Other
No serum restores a hairline this clean and this fast. Darker lighting and flattened hair in the before, lifted roots and better light in the after — plus that suspiciously perfect new hairline. Serum, transplant or Photoshop? We know it's not the serum. 😄
Improved melasma and brighter, more even skin after a 6-month treatment plan including peels, microneedling, and medical-grade skincare products.
Lighting · Photoshop · Other
The after image appears brighter and slightly cooler in tone, which can make pigmentation look lighter and more even compared to the warmer, slightly shadowed before photo. Even small exposure changes can significantly reduce the appearance of melasma in photos.
Major skin improvement after 5 sessions of home skincare combined with MAX and LED treatments.
Lighting · Photoshop
LED therapy genuinely great for skin. Not great enough to erase pigmentation, nasolabial folds, lift your jawline AND replace Photoshop in 5 sessions though. A smile helps too, apparently. 😄
Visible muscle gain and body transformation in 12 weeks
Pose / angle · Muscle engagement / posture · Photoshop · Other
The before photo shows slouched posture and softer lighting, while the after photo has flexed muscles, better posture, and brighter lighting. This makes muscle definition appear more dramatic. The transformation may be partly due to posing and lighting rather than just exercise results. 12 weeks, huh
RF result before and after. Didn't even try.
Lighting · Photoshop
literally the same photo twice. identical brow hairs, identical skin texture, identical eye shape. they just smoothed the skin, pumped up the brightness and contrast, and shipped it. the "after" eye is also somehow greener. Radiofrequency: good for wrinkles, great for iris pigmentation apparently. 💩This isn't before/after, this is before/Ctrl+L.
This "Hair transplant result" is actually two different people!
Not same person
Bro. BRO. The nose is completely different. The jaw is completely different. The guy on the right is literally 30 years younger. No hair transplant gives you a new face, and takes 25 years off your age. They just grabbed two random stock photos and called it a transformation. I've seen lazy fake before/afters but this one isn't even trying. 😭
Antiwrinkle serum, 3% retinol. Spoiler: retinol apparently also does a blepharoplasty
Photoshop
When retinol also does a blepharoplasty?! The "after" has a completely different eyelid shape. No serum does that. That's surgery. On top of that every single wrinkle and texture has been Photoshopped out until the skin looks like porcelain. For reference, even the strongest Tret take months to show subtle improvement. A 3% serum doing this? Not in this lifetime.
They used three tricks to fake this "6 week" transformation and none of them come in a jar
Lighting · Time gap unclear · Other
Same woman, two photos, three tricks. The "before" uses harsh lighting to exaggerate every line and texture. Then comes the makeup and groomed brows. Then Photoshop smooths out every pore until the skin looks like plastic. No skincare product does that — ever. Wish I could replace my laser and retinoids with a 6-week cream. Genuinely would love that. But this isn't it.
