elleread
Well-known member
Hey all,
I recently depotted a whole lot of eyeshadows, and found something strange with three of them! I bought these three from an ebay seller called charleyandemily, who (belatedly) I've found on here as having sold fake pigments in the past.
So- the thing is, I've only got one of the boxes and one of the pots still, having thrown the other boxes away and returned two pots for B2M (I would never have done it if I'd suspected they were fakes!! This is how good they are!)
The thing with the pans is, they are a different shape from regular, genuine Mac pans- they have a kind of ridge around them underneath- like this:
The boxes and pots looked soooo real to me, but now I look closer at the box it may have some differences. Firstly, it is not glued together well. The card seems slightly different in colour to the genuine box (compared in these pics with Malt- genuine, bought from Mac). The sticker on the top is kind of glossy, rather than matte.
The pots themselves seem identical, although the font on the label is slightly different- however, some of my genuine e/s have slightly differing fonts.
Malt (genuine) on left, Twinks (suspect) on right
Finally, the swatch test! Here on NW15 skin, daylight, no flash.
and the shadows themselves:
I'm really sorry this has been long, please help if you can, I am really concerned that if these are fakes, they're so good they are really hard to spot!
TIA
X
I recently depotted a whole lot of eyeshadows, and found something strange with three of them! I bought these three from an ebay seller called charleyandemily, who (belatedly) I've found on here as having sold fake pigments in the past.
So- the thing is, I've only got one of the boxes and one of the pots still, having thrown the other boxes away and returned two pots for B2M (I would never have done it if I'd suspected they were fakes!! This is how good they are!)
The thing with the pans is, they are a different shape from regular, genuine Mac pans- they have a kind of ridge around them underneath- like this:
The boxes and pots looked soooo real to me, but now I look closer at the box it may have some differences. Firstly, it is not glued together well. The card seems slightly different in colour to the genuine box (compared in these pics with Malt- genuine, bought from Mac). The sticker on the top is kind of glossy, rather than matte.
The pots themselves seem identical, although the font on the label is slightly different- however, some of my genuine e/s have slightly differing fonts.
Malt (genuine) on left, Twinks (suspect) on right
Finally, the swatch test! Here on NW15 skin, daylight, no flash.
and the shadows themselves:
I'm really sorry this has been long, please help if you can, I am really concerned that if these are fakes, they're so good they are really hard to spot!
TIA
X
