Stop what you're doing and tell us what's going on here

Twitter (click on the picture) is at it once again with its mind games, there are two indistinguishable beauty images – painted fingernails held to a stunning pouty mouth, but they are; wait for it, two different colours… dun dun duuun, one is muted pink and the other a mysterious maroon.

Wow, that's trippy. pic.twitter.com/8qMhRZe3qH

— Life (@sayingsforgirls) March 6, 2015

These are two separate pictures you say? Wrong!

The difference between the two snaps:  the backgrounds. The maroon picture has been placed in front of a black backdrop and the pink, in front of a white backdrop.

The original picture shows that the lips and the nails are actually pixellated. What does this mean?

Well the pixels indicate that the image is semi-transparent, thus it can easily adjust to the different colours (in this instance, black and white), when they are placed behind the original picture on Photoshop.

This explains why you would see the beauty snap as pink on your Twitter feed, but it becomes maroon the second you click on it, this is because of the black background.

Unlike #TheDress we have a simple explanation instead of the usual social freak-out.

But how are you finding these illusion images making the rounds?