I need help! pigments ..

[nocturnellejoy]

Are these fake???
the one on the far left is fairylite

 

[panda0410]

the only one I would query here is the tan - the black sticker should NOT be on the base of the jar. However - I have known people to place the black top of box sticker on the base of the jar when the base sticker has come off though and this looks very much like a top of box sticker so this may be the case here. Question your seller and see, black stickers on otherwise new/recent pigment jar bases are a no-no.....

I cant see the name of one these ones either, but all your other pigments shown are fine

 

[MACATTAK]

Agreed with Panda. Everything looks good except Tan. Also, I don't know why there are black numbers on that jar. None of my pigments have this.

 

[darkishstar]

Yeah, it all looks fine except for Tan.

 

[panda0410]

none of mine have it either! I have seen dot coding on boxes before, but not on the jars...

 

[nocturnellejoy]

Are the labels correct on the others?
=/

 

[MACATTAK]

Yes, everything else looks perfect..though it's hard to tell on the blurry one, but from what I can tell it's good.

 

[panda0410]

yep

 

[nocturnellejoy]

Is it suppose to say the word 'sample' under White Gold?

 

[panda0410]

MAC uses working names and samples in pre-release pigments - working name pigments will have WN printed under the name, sample jars will have SAMPLE printed under the name. Your jar White Gold is obviously a pre-release jar of pigment, but authentic none-the-less

 

[panda0410]

I want to make a quick amendment - some VERY OLD piggies/glitters did have black base stickers (my lust dust is an example), but we are talking old, old - not new, and all of the of the black base stickers I have ever seen have STAMPED batch codes. Now, the dot matrix print on the bottom of that jar of Tan reminded me of an earlier post - - see this example pic courtesy of eowyn797 - this is a jar of Red matte d'cd which the owner queried authenticity of - it not only has dot matrix coding on the base of the jar similar to the tan but also the base sticker (even thoug it is clear) was not printed with a batch number similar to the tan. The red dot code is like newer 3 digit codes, but the tan has a 5 digit code not disimilar to the old 5 digit coding on very early MAC products.

maybe the tan is just a super old pigment - specktrettes what do you think???

 

[MACATTAK]

^^ This is true. My Lustdust does in fact have a black sticker on it as well. That could be true about it being an old version of "Tan", so now I'm not sure.

 

[Xqueeze_me]

I have a Red Glitter Brillants and the label on the bottom of the jar is black with no batch code. Just "RED".

 

[panda0410]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xqueeze_me I have a Red Glitter Brillants and the label on the bottom of the jar is black with no batch code. Just "RED".

an awful lot of the glitters dont have batch numbers - my lust dust is a black sticker with stamped batch code, but my Red, Pink, all the reflects glitters and my Jewelmarine glitter are all missing batch codes. I think it was just the pigments that had to have the codes for individual runs because they obviously have an expiry date