Fake Iris Apfel eyeshadows

rockin

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I've just received from an ebay seller two Iris Apfel eyeshadows - Early Bird and Robin's Egg, which I am now suspecting are fake, unlike the Gameela eyeshadow they sent me, which appears to be genuine.

I can't seem to find any mention of fake Iris Apfel eyeshadows anywhere. Is anyone else aware of them?

The first thing that alerted me was that the writing on the label on the pot is not grey, and around the very edge of the label it is light (the cut edge of the label). Then I noticed that the dots in M.A.C on the clear part of the lid are just that - dots rather than tiny dashes. The catch has those champfered edges, and the slot into which this goes is different to that on Gameela and 'Artificial Earth', which I grabbed at random for comparison, knowing that it came direct from MAC. The double-arrow logo on the pot label appears to have pointed rather than slightly curved tips to the arrows, and the shadows themselves smell very talcy, rather like some of the fake pigments I have come across.

The actual boxes look quite good, apart from the fact that the boxes do mark slightly if you run a nail on them, and the barcode looks like it was printed white on top of the black, giving a greyish appearance rather than a sharp white as on Gameela and Artificial Earth. Also the barcodes on the two 'Irish Apfel' eyeshadows are printed in slightly different positions on the flap.

Obviously I am going to have to contact the seller about this, but I was wondering if anyone could confirm whether the batch codes of A71 and A61 would be correct, and if these particular shadows would have been made in Canada, as I am aware that some are made there and some in the US.

The seller has a wide range of MAC items available, and I'm wondering whether I just happened to pick on the two fake items he/she had, or if there is a lot more in their listings. Nothing particularly stood out as being obviously fake.
 

rockin

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The dimples in the hinges - those aren't there on Gameela or Artificial Earth





The top two are the 'Iris Apfel' shadows - see how grey they are compared to the other two? Also note the positioning of the barcodes.





Pot labels




Dots rather than dashes between the letters
 

rockin

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The seller has agreed to refund me, including postage, if I return the eyeshadows to her. She says she had no idea they were counterfeit, and I believe her since the other 2 things I got were genuine.
 

erine1881

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The seller has agreed to refund me, including postage, if I return the eyeshadows to her.  She says she had no idea they were counterfeit, and I believe her since the other 2 things I got were genuine.
Make sure she refunds you BEFORE you send them back!!! Don't send anything before you get your money back!
 

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