Before & After

The web is indeed a many-splendored thing. You only have to type the words "Before and After" into Google to be treated to a truly eye-popping selection of images, brought to you mostly by either "satirical" cultural comment sites, or spare-room enterprises peddling wonder-drugs and software tutorials.* Behold the jaw-dropping results of...

Weight loss:

Athletic weight gain:

Ageing:

Ill-advised plastic surgery:

Retouching:

Property development:

Crack:
And, my favourite, being turned into a weird little orange man:

*I am neither of these, honest.