Appreciation post: that $19 "viral red light face mask" from a TikTok shop did nothing after 8 weeks

Margaret Walker · 2026-10-09T17:45:04.602004+00:00

I caved in March and bought one of those $19 red light masks everyone on my feed was wearing, the one with the before and after slideshows. Used it 5 nights a week for 8 weeks in my bathroom in Columbus, no change in my skin, just a warm face and 160 hours gone. Turns out the actual study those videos cite used a panel that costs over $1,500 and ran for 12 weeks with a dermatologist checking progress. The listing even reused a photo I found on a clinic site in Australia from 2019. Curious if anyone here has tested one of these with a real light meter, because I want to know if it puts out anything at all or if I just warmed my cheeks for two months.

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