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Old 11-17-2005, 02:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Flip-Top vs. Screw Top Eyeshadow
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Ok I have a question! I thought MAC eyeshadows could only be bought with the flip top because that is the only way I've ever seen them besides the palettes. I was on ebay.com the other day looking at Wishful from the Ornamentalism collection and they had the flip top and screw top. I've never seen the screw top so i thought it was fake or something!!! Could someone please clarify this for me and let me know the different ways they sell the eyeshadows! Just the other day i found out you can buy the eyeshadow by the pan only instead of the flip-top and I heard it's a few bucks cheaper? Is this true?

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Old 11-17-2005, 02:57 PM   #2 (permalink)
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the older style shadows (i.e when MAC first came around) had a screw top. the newer design is the flip top =)

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Old 11-17-2005, 03:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Hey!!!!
Just the other day i found out you can buy the eyeshadow by the pan only instead of the flip-top and I heard it's a few bucks cheaper? Is this true?
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yes that's true, the refills are only 10$

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Old 11-17-2005, 03:10 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I might be wrong but I would think that if they have wishful as screw top then it might be fake cause wishful just came out with ornamentalism.

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Old 02-15-2006, 09:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
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yeah the ooooold mac shadows were screw top, and twice the amount of product. My grandma gave me her carbon and its a screw top. It's HUGE. It's 3g, current mac eyeshadows are 1.5g i believe. wishful should not be in screw top because they stopped doing screw top quite some time ago if I'm not mistaken.

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Old 02-15-2006, 11:53 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I might be wrong but I would think that if they have wishful as screw top then it might be fake cause wishful just came out with ornamentalism.
I was thinking the same thing!

I have Phase in a screw top - my only one, gotten from a lovely swapper right here

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Old 02-16-2006, 04:01 AM   #7 (permalink)
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It's probably real but pretty old [= I wouldn't use something on my eyes that's like 5 years old even though unused shadows probably don't "go bad", but still].

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Old 02-16-2006, 04:56 AM   #8 (permalink)
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It's probably fake but someone could have put it in an old screw top container......

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Old 02-16-2006, 09:13 AM   #9 (permalink)
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yeah the ooooold mac shadows were screw top, and twice the amount of product. My grandma gave me her carbon and its a screw top. It's HUGE. It's 3g, current mac eyeshadows are 1.5g i believe. wishful should not be in screw top because they stopped doing screw top quite some time ago if I'm not mistaken.
Screw tops came in two sizes - 1.5g and 3g - I have quite a few examples of both. When M·A·C changed to flip top they continued with the 3g size for a short while. I have a couple of 3g flip tops.

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Old 02-16-2006, 09:20 PM   #10 (permalink)
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It's probably real but pretty old [= I wouldn't use something on my eyes that's like 5 years old even though unused shadows probably don't "go bad", but still].

I have older MAC shadow and other brands that are still good and dont bother my eyes, if I threw out all my stuff after 5 yrs I'd have barely anything!

Powder doesnt go bad unless its mixed with something, I have an old Lancoome e/s duo that I was 15 yrs ago and its still good.

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Old 02-16-2006, 10:39 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Yeah, I would say those 2 are fakes...they are to recent of colors to be in screw top pots. MAC doesn't not make e/s in screw top pots any longer. Not in years. I do have a few and treasure them. And yep, MAC does sell e/s in pan form so you can slip them straight into your palette! It's cheaper, yes, but then you have nothing to depot to get a free lippie!

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Old 07-14-2006, 02:51 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I have Gesso in a screwtop pot from back in the day... can someone tell me what year MAC switched to the flip-top? I just want to date my shadow... you know, like a fine wine...

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Old 07-14-2006, 08:15 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I have Gesso in a screwtop pot from back in the day... can someone tell me what year MAC switched to the flip-top? I just want to date my shadow... you know, like a fine wine...
Look for the manufacturing code underneath (i.e. A63, etc) and that'll give you an idea of how old your e/s is.

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Old 07-15-2006, 08:56 PM   #14 (permalink)
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yeah the ooooold mac shadows were screw top, and twice the amount of product. My grandma gave me her carbon and its a screw top. It's HUGE. It's 3g, current mac eyeshadows are 1.5g i believe. wishful should not be in screw top because they stopped doing screw top quite some time ago if I'm not mistaken.
cool gramma!

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Old 07-16-2006, 09:07 PM   #15 (permalink)
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And yep, MAC does sell e/s in pan form so you can slip them straight into your palette! It's cheaper, yes, but then you have nothing to depot to get a free lippie!

if you do the math, the money you save on the e/s refills themselves is more than the cost of a lipstick, but then you gotta factor in the palette to put them in.