This page describes how guides on Beauty Tool Guide are researched, written, checked and corrected. It is a description of what we actually do, not a statement of ambition.
Sourcing
Guides are built from documentation that can be cited and checked: manufacturer manuals and support articles, safety and regulatory guidance from public bodies, published standards, and peer-reviewed literature where a claim depends on it. Every guide ends with the sources it used. Links are checked to make sure they resolve; a source that goes dead is replaced or the claim comes out.
Where a question has no good published answer, the guide says so. “We could not find a manufacturer specification for this” is a more useful sentence than a confident guess.
We do not test devices
No device described on this site has been tested by us. We own no test equipment and run no trials. Any sentence on this site that reads as though we handled a product is an error — report it to editorial@beautytoolguide.com and it will be removed.
This is a deliberate limit, and it shapes what we will write. We will explain what an error code means according to the manual. We will not tell you which of two devices “feels better in the hand”.
Use of AI tools
AI language tools are used to draft and structure guides. They are not used to decide what is true. Every draft is read and edited by a person before publication, claims are checked against the cited sources, and anything the tools could not support is cut rather than smoothed over.
Illustrations generated by AI are labelled as AI-generated wherever they appear.
Safety content
Several categories covered here — intense pulsed light, LED therapy, heated styling tools, UV curing lamps — can cause injury when used incorrectly. Safety instructions in a guide follow the manufacturer’s documentation and published guidance. Where those conflict, the more cautious instruction is the one printed, and the conflict is noted.
Guides do not offer medical advice and do not attempt to diagnose. Where a reader’s situation calls for a clinician, the guide says so plainly.
Corrections
Corrections are made on the page itself, not quietly. When a guide is changed after publication in a way that alters its meaning, a dated note is added at the foot of the page saying what changed. Typographical fixes are made without a note.
To report an error: editorial@beautytoolguide.com. Please include the page address and what specifically is wrong.
Independence
No manufacturer pays for coverage, reviews content before publication, or has any say in what a guide concludes. If that ever changes, this page changes with it and the relationship is disclosed on the page in question. See the advertising and affiliate disclosure for how the site is funded.