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Check it yourself · about 53 min

Verify it yourself

At this point you are not taking anyone’s word for it — including ours. The things in this path can be checked against a state board, a federal database or a product label, and you write down what you found.

Reviewed Sep 16, 2026 · Education only, never advice

By the end of this path

  • Find the right board for your state and search a license
  • Check what a product is and what its label and FDA listing say
  • Read reviews knowing what the rules on them require
  • Keep a dated record of what you verified, and what you couldn’t

The steps

  1. Find your state’s rules and its board

    Read · 7 min

    Who may inject, who must supervise, and which board to search all depend on the state — each page names its source and the date we checked.

    Open it

  2. Search the license yourself

    Use a tool · 8 min

    A title is marketing. A license type and number can be looked up, and a lookup you ran yourself is worth more than a claim you were handed.

    Open it

  3. Identify the exact product

    Use a tool · 6 min

    Brand names can be looked up — maker, status, what it’s cleared for. Tiers like “premium” cannot.

    Open it

  4. Read reviews and before-afters knowingly

    Read · 8 min

    Both are marketing surfaces with rules attached, and both have patterns worth recognising.

    Open it

  5. Get the written plan for a complication

    Read · 9 min

    Who treats it, how fast, and who pays — settled before anyone needs it.

    Open it

  6. Compare your places side by side

    Use a tool · 5 min

    Not to pick a winner — to see which questions one place answered and another left open.

    Open it

  7. Write the decision down

    Use a tool · 5 min

    What you were told, what you verified, what stayed unknown, and what you decided — dated, printable, yours.

    Open it

  8. Practise on a hard one

    Practise · 5 min

    Newer offerings put the weight on words like “exosome” and “lift”. See how much a reading can actually establish.

    Go to the practice

Practice

Two minutes on a made-up ad written the way real ones are. Say what it leaves unanswered, then see the reading and what you’d ask first.

Practice · a made-up ad in a very familiar style

Microneedling with 'exosome' add-on, source undisclosed

“Supercharge your microneedling with our exosome glow booster for next-level regeneration. Ask about our signature protocol.”

Price shown
$450 with booster
Who
Skin specialist

Which of these does the ad leave unanswered?

Tick the ones you think it doesn’t settle. There’s no penalty — the point is to see the gap between what an ad says and what it establishes.

Want more? Twelve menu lines — “baby tox”, “RF microneedling + PRP”, “stem-cell glow facial” — to split into what they name and what they only imply: practise on menu lines.