Is this false advertising??

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I just wondered what other people think. Is this some kind of false advertising. Celeb influencer types advertising products but clearly there is more to it. Collagen powders and other supplements with the advert discussing how youthful the advertiser looks due to the product,. I think it’s quite obvious it’s not down to the product alone but a little bit of help from Botox/fillers. The products are advertised on social media but the comments from followers telling the celeb how good/youthful they look got me thinking. Yes they do look good but a bit of powder isn’t knocking ten years off and removing lines. Do people really believe this? Should there be more honesty in the advert or from the person being paid? Maybe this occurs with a lot of advertising or maybe we need to be less naive as consumers.

I think he less naive. I don’t need influencers to declare any and all work they’ve had done on every post advertising a product, I don’t care. I’m capable of doing my own research just like anyone else with access to the internet. Also some people watching these influencers have also had work done so it’s still relevant to them. I’m sure people on tv/shop posters who advertise have also had work done in some cases.

Well yeah I think all beauty adverts are deceptive. Print and TV ads have been called out for decades on excessive use of retouching, VFX, Photoshop, false lashes, wigs, extensions, you name it.

So I wouldn't trust an influencer any more than a professional advertising agency. I'd only trust a real person who I knew and could see in the flesh.

Just don’t buy anything endorsed by dumb influencers?

If we all ignore them, maybe they’ll blow away

It’s all absolute bollocks. I view any ad on Instagram as less than honest. And all posts are ads. As soon as you accept Instagram is a selling platform first and foremost you can de-influence yourself quite effectively.

None of them are using all the millions of creams they promote, or the hair stylers or whatever. They use it once for a post (maybe) then sell it on.

I think most of us have known about these deceptive practices, which apply to all products e.g. hamburgers which look great on TV but are flat and grey in reality, toys for kids where animations are used to suggest they do more than they do, weight loss products where someone loses 4 stone in a week etc. for many, many years.

We can, as experienced beings, tell the less experienced about what we know versus what we're told to believe. I think that's why most of us know without needing a formal disclaimer by the advertisers. When that fails, people will quickly learn, as they have always done, through experience.

I wouldn't rely on advertisers, who are being false at the outset, to be honest about the true limitations of the thing they are selling.