Kaminoke
Member
I've been informed these are genuine, but I'm gonna leave this up anyhow
So... I've been lurking here for a while, and I spent this morning reading about counterfeits. I have a ton of pigments and a few lipsticks/glasses/blushes I'm perfectly happy with, but I've recently decided to get some eyeshadows and give those a go. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a pro-pan comparison, so if there is one and I'm wrong here, please point it out to me
These are the first ones I bought, and I've no problem with them - they're pretty much what I expected to receive (one broke in transit, and the hell of blue-green in the packet said HELLO I'M MAC AND I'M FULL OF PIGMENT
to me).
Now... these I received this morning from someone on MUA. Like I said I'm new to shadows and they might be perfectly fine, but they're not what I expected.
I think this picture says it all really. They're absolutely flat blocks of colour, no shine, no shimmer, no nothing. I know MAC do matt eyeshadows as well, but I expected there to be something to them. There's slight hetching around the edges but that doesn't show up here.
Compared to Plum Dressing from my previous purchase. You can see a slight shimmer on the pink, but it's from trying to swatch all of the colours to compare them. I assure you, the colour is completely flat. And in swatching them, these two don't feel like my pigments or the other shadows. The blue feels really really smooth, almost greasy like swatching chalk. But the pink is very hard, and it's difficult to get any colour off of it at all. My happy-MAC shadows I run my finger over and pick up colour, rub it harder and I get more colour.
The backs of them. This was the second thing I thought a little odd, especially the Passionate. Off-center I can understand, but MAC is a high-end product and yet they can't get the magnet to be completely on the pan? And the printing on passionate looked rough, whereas the Plum Dressing printing looked 'clean'. And are they supposed to all have different weights?
This I noticed accidentally. I was trying to work out the lipstick I got with these (I'm a bit meh because the sticker printing is wonky, but it smells good and the stickers on the ones I have are all different so I can't tell
) when I noticed the height of the product in the pan. The MAC ones I already had don't completely fill the pan - not from use, but it looks like how they're made. There's a lip of pan around the edges, and the edge of the shadow is very clean and almost looks like it goes downwards. It's most obvious from the passionate, but these look like they've been filled, and then wiped across the pan to make them flat. On the blue, the edge of the shadow goes up into a small lip and looks rough, not smooth like my others. You can see that most in the Passionate in this picture above -> http://www.kaminoke.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mac3.jpg
As I said I did try to swatch the colours, but as I'm not caucasian (half Jamaican) it's difficult for me to compare swatches. I can have a go if that would be helpful to anyone
So if someone would now like to tell me that I have wasted an hour this afternoon on products that are absolutely genuine, you would make me a very happy bunny! I traded these for products I KNOW are genuine (unless US department stores now sell fakes
), so if my first swap turns out to be a dud, I'm going to be pretty pissed.
Thanks ^^
Edit#2 - I forgot - boxes. These didn't come in boxes. They came taped in some thin plastic and bubblewrap. The plastic was sealed around three edges (manufactured that way, not by the swapper) like a small bag, and the pan dropped in and taped.
So... I've been lurking here for a while, and I spent this morning reading about counterfeits. I have a ton of pigments and a few lipsticks/glasses/blushes I'm perfectly happy with, but I've recently decided to get some eyeshadows and give those a go. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a pro-pan comparison, so if there is one and I'm wrong here, please point it out to me
These are the first ones I bought, and I've no problem with them - they're pretty much what I expected to receive (one broke in transit, and the hell of blue-green in the packet said HELLO I'M MAC AND I'M FULL OF PIGMENT
Now... these I received this morning from someone on MUA. Like I said I'm new to shadows and they might be perfectly fine, but they're not what I expected.
I think this picture says it all really. They're absolutely flat blocks of colour, no shine, no shimmer, no nothing. I know MAC do matt eyeshadows as well, but I expected there to be something to them. There's slight hetching around the edges but that doesn't show up here.
Compared to Plum Dressing from my previous purchase. You can see a slight shimmer on the pink, but it's from trying to swatch all of the colours to compare them. I assure you, the colour is completely flat. And in swatching them, these two don't feel like my pigments or the other shadows. The blue feels really really smooth, almost greasy like swatching chalk. But the pink is very hard, and it's difficult to get any colour off of it at all. My happy-MAC shadows I run my finger over and pick up colour, rub it harder and I get more colour.
The backs of them. This was the second thing I thought a little odd, especially the Passionate. Off-center I can understand, but MAC is a high-end product and yet they can't get the magnet to be completely on the pan? And the printing on passionate looked rough, whereas the Plum Dressing printing looked 'clean'. And are they supposed to all have different weights?
This I noticed accidentally. I was trying to work out the lipstick I got with these (I'm a bit meh because the sticker printing is wonky, but it smells good and the stickers on the ones I have are all different so I can't tell
As I said I did try to swatch the colours, but as I'm not caucasian (half Jamaican) it's difficult for me to compare swatches. I can have a go if that would be helpful to anyone
So if someone would now like to tell me that I have wasted an hour this afternoon on products that are absolutely genuine, you would make me a very happy bunny! I traded these for products I KNOW are genuine (unless US department stores now sell fakes
Thanks ^^
Edit#2 - I forgot - boxes. These didn't come in boxes. They came taped in some thin plastic and bubblewrap. The plastic was sealed around three edges (manufactured that way, not by the swapper) like a small bag, and the pan dropped in and taped.
