Before and After Tricks

granddi · ‎03-16-2010

I just turned on the Laura Geller show. When they show the before and after, notice the color of the teeth. In the before, the teeth are yellowed. It appears that some sort of filter is being used to alter the actual "afters"

I happen to like LG products and I don't think they need these tricks because the producrs are good.

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

In before & after pics (no matter the products) it always comes down to filters &/or lighting.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

2blonde · ‎03-10-2010

Yes, I've noticed that sort of thing before. Also, when they are selling tooth whitening products, in the "after" picture the teeth look much whiter, but so does the hair.

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Q4u · ‎03-17-2010

They used to be very obvious with under garments.... the after pictures always showed the model's neck and arms slimmer as well as her body. Now we know that the neck and upper arms are not affected by undergarments that slim. The other trick was very slightly reducing the overall size of the after picture... I would compare the backgrounds and inevitably there would be windows/wall striping/shelving or something you could compare with the before picture. So obvious that I've lost respect for any before and after pictures presented here.

BTW, the real estate business do their little tricks too. We've been going to open houses here (selling our home).... and I find them on Realtor.com where the pictures show the house to be ultra roomy!! Then you get to the house and it's dinky and you realize the photographer used a wide-angle lens! They'll also take a dining room table (with chairs) and push it right to a wall!! Which is actually detrimental to what they want to accomplish. I see it on line, look at the pictures, go to the open house and am SO disappointed with how small the house is in person. (I now always check out the actual sq footage of the room sizes first)....

But same thing with QVC's before and after pictures. You get the item home and it doesn't do what they showed you it would do, and you send it back....

*~"Never eat more than you can lift......" Miss Piggy~*

Katcat1 · ‎07-21-2011

All the Befores and Afters are so phony to begin with especially when it comes to skincare ---- they can touch up anything they want and you are spending $$$ believing it will work for you!

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kelsey17 · ‎04-10-2012

@Katcat1 wrote:
All the Befores and Afters are so phony to begin with especially when it comes to skincare ---- they can touch up anything they want and you are spending $$$ believing it will work for you!

I agree....i don't watch the beauty shows....but all the before/after pics i have seen don't really look different at all...i have seen quite a few in channel surfing.....but what gets me is the demonstrations also....like the vacumm (small little dried goods....of course it would vacuum right up) and the steam cleaners.......liquids "just spilled" on a piece of carpeting which normally if you do that in 30 seconds it would come up pretty easily with a cloth and quick rub...but how many of us if entertaining, etc. can immediately run over to clean up a spot or a spill we don't even know happened til after the fact.......nothing is dried in or stained in before the demonstration......or the grime on things with the cleaners...you can tell the vendors hardly put force into rubbing the "old cleaners"....and put more muscle into the new cleaner to get the stains out............the one that gets to me the most is the powerwash products...that clean not stained on mold, spots, etc., but dried sand/dirt which my reg hose could clean off too!!!

Serena Sue · ‎03-11-2010

BEFORE & afters never look truthful to me whether it's PTR, Josie Maran or whoever.

It's always fake looking.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@Serena Sue wrote:
BEFORE & afters never look truthful to me whether it's PTR, Josie Maran or whoever.
It's always fake looking.

That is probably because it is fake. They put MU over MU & touch up the pictures.

DJs mom · ‎06-06-2012

I also notice the before is no makeup and the after will have a full face (when they are only selling mascara). Of course the after will look better. Why not show before no makeup/mascara and after JUST mascara/no other makeup. Or on the Wen shows when the after is styled by a professional. Show before with shampoo styled by professional and after with Wen styled by professional. Those Wen before pics look the person just rolled out of bed sometimes. Of course the after they are all glammed up and styled by Chaz & his team.

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Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@granddi wrote:
I just turned on the Laura Geller show. When they show the before and after, notice the color of the teeth. In the before, the teeth are yellowed. It appears that some sort of filter is being used to alter the actual "afters"

I happen to like LG products and I don't think they need these tricks because the producrs are good.

@granddi

Not all Before and After photos take place on the same day. This isn't new, by any means.

If a vendor is doing a full makeup on screen, well that's one thing. Makeup certainly can be done in one day. However, due to QVC program time constraints, even full makeup applications may take place on another day.

OTOH, if a woman is showing a B&A for a diet plan, her weight is the Before ..... and the After photo is taken after weight loss, probably months later.

It always depends on the product being promoted.