Identifying fake MAC eyeshadows - ***detailed guide with photos***

BubbleWrap

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Xqueeze_me

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Originally Posted by BubbleWrap
Perhaps too good to be true!

Indeed.

Seeing that the seller also sold those crappy GHDs to customers, I would personally avoid.
 
Ambi

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I bought an eyeshadow and somehow the texture of the shadow pot is funny, it's like very shiny and sleek where as my other MAC pots are this matte-ish texture that make a bit of a sound when you scratch it with your fingernail (especially the lid), but this one's just totally smooth and sleek and reflects light differently, also the shadow smells like, I don't know, like crayons? I've never noticed MAC shadows smell of anything but maybe I'm just being paranoid. Other than that the pot and package look like they're supposed to (but I guess that doesn't mean much nowadays). The seller is someone who's been praised a lot but then, even closetmustgo sold fakes so now I'm just a bit worried, do others have shiny shadow pots?
 
amber_j

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Ambi - I got an e/s off eBay that was also in a shinier pot than my store-bought MAC. The container somehow felt lighter, like the plastic was cheaper. Does that make sense? But when I picked up my auth Beauty Marked that also felt light. I returned the e/s anyway as there were a couple of other things I wasn't happy with. Fortunately the seller is a fair and honest person, and I got a full refund.

Re. the funny smell... I got another e/s (Twinks from charleyandemily) that has a faint odour. But my Beauty Marked has this also, and I bought that from Selfridges in London. I'm depotting the rest of my eBay haul today so will let you know what I find metal pan-wise.
 
amber_j

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OK, the Twinks I got from charleyandemily is most probably fake as it's in one of those ridged metal pans. I think the funny crayon smell might be an indicator of a fake (others have mentioned this).

However, my Beauty Marked which I bought from Selfridges in London has a funny smell (not like crayons, but I can't quite explain it). So maybe some MAC e/s do smell?
 
Ambi

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Thanks for your reply. The seller I got it from is rio5743, I don't really want to believe she'd sell fakes but who knows anymore, seems like certain sellers don't care about their good reputation anymore (wc-racer, closetmustgo etc).
 
amber_j

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I think some of these sellers genuinely don't know that the MAC products they're selling are fake. Anything else just doesn't match with their reputations on eBay.
 
Ambi

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Originally Posted by amber_j
I think some of these sellers genuinely don't know that the MAC products they're selling are fake. Anything else just doesn't match with their reputations on eBay.

I know, it's just funny they keep lying to us that they buy their stuff directly from MAC. (and I don't believe for a second any MAC store/counter/website would let you buy hundreds(/thousands?) of items a month the "power sellers" have for sale anyway, so who knows were they really get it, oh wait, their suppliers and warehouses! lol.)
 
SkylarV217

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Ladies when you find MAC Fakes on eBAY please go through the trouble to report them to Ebay. That way unsuspecting buyers don't get cheated !
 
vintagedivagodd

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Reporting to Ebay might help you get your money back, but to be honest it will do little else, unless lots of people report the same seller. Ebay know nothing about MAC and don't know fake from genuine- you might as well ask my cat! They will only take notice if you have a letter from MAC and we all know how hard that is to get
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To be fair to Ebay without proof from the company how are they to know what is fake and what is real? If they suspended sellers beacause of one or two complaints it would leave sellers at the mercy of unscrupulous competitors. It sucks beacause Ebay is flooded with really obvious fakes, which the uneducated buyer simply thinks is a bargain. (Witness the tonnes of 12 colour eyeshadow palettes, or the really cute eyeshadows with the mirror and applicators in- which I didn't know were bogus until I found Spectra)
 
Rennah

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Originally Posted by rockin
The MAC site only mentioned the 1.5g, which is confusing.

The stickers on the backs of the pans have the detail on them printed very differently, despite apparently both being made in Canada in 2006. Could you confirm for me whether I've been hoodwinked by Woodwinked, Juxt been had, or whether this is perfectly normal.

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I've photographed the fronts, too, although the colour doesn't look quite the same on screen. The Woodwinked looks very bronze in RL, and the Juxt is very similar in colour to the fake Chartreuse pigment I received. Annoyingly, I've managed to damage the front of the Juxt while getting it out of the packet
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I don't think you should worry - they both look real to me! I have a Juxt refill (from MAC store) as well, and the label is exactly the same as yours (even A16).

My Freshwater refill has a label the same as your Woodwinked (besides the name & batch number) - with "M573" and the different layout.
 
artisick

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maybe someone could help me out..

i recently won an auction off of ebay for a MAC eyeshadow and am now questioning the authenticity of it.
i went through minisprite's lj about fakes and everything she showed of what's real made me half believe that the product i received is authentic..
the only thing about the eyeshadow i got that made me feel iffy about its authenticity is that the MAC engraving on the top of the lid is not directly parallel to the hinge and clasp opening of the container.. does that mean its fake? =(
 
Xqueeze_me

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Originally Posted by artisick
maybe someone could help me out..

i recently won an auction off of ebay for a MAC eyeshadow and am now questioning the authenticity of it.
i went through minisprite's lj about fakes and everything she showed of what's real made me half believe that the product i received is authentic..
the only thing about the eyeshadow i got that made me feel iffy about its authenticity is that the MAC engraving on the top of the lid is not directly parallel to the hinge and clasp opening of the container.. does that mean its fake? =(

Any chance of telling us who the seller was and any pictures of the eyeshadow at all? Sometimes the see-through window/display on the top lid actually pops out if pressed on hard but can be pushed back into the top lid... maybe that's why the engraved MAC doesn't align parallel to the hinge and clasp of the container?

ps: If you would like to have a look at another eyeshadow packaging comparison, there's one in my signature.
 
artisick

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Originally Posted by Xqueeze_me
Any chance of telling us who the seller was and any pictures of the eyeshadow at all? Sometimes the see-through window/display on the top lid actually pops out if pressed on hard but can be pushed back into the top lid... maybe that's why the engraved MAC doesn't align parallel to the hinge and clasp of the container?

ps: If you would like to have a look at another eyeshadow packaging comparison, there's one in my signature.


Here's a few pics.. if there's something else specific you need to see let me know..
http://lh6.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_Oe...JPG?imgmax=512
See how the clasp of the opening doesn't line up with the MAC logo?
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http://lh6.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_O9...JPG?imgmax=512

http://lh4.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_PA...JPG?imgmax=512
 
Xqueeze_me

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Originally Posted by artisick
Here's a few pics.. if there's something else specific you need to see let me know..
http://lh6.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_Oe...JPG?imgmax=512
See how the clasp of the opening doesn't line up with the MAC logo?
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http://lh6.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_O9...JPG?imgmax=512

http://lh4.ggpht.com/tababanr/SHu_PA...JPG?imgmax=512

Oh dear, the first picture already gave me the evils. The box especially. Can't really see the eyeshadow packaging because the pictures are too dark to see the details.

Have you checked the comparison in the first post yet?
 
cherrypopsikkle

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I bought my first 3 eyeshadows a couple of weeks ago off Ebay. It wasn't from a powerseller or anything like that, just some girl getting rid of a bunch of make up. The batch included 3 Mac e/shadows, 'yeah yeah!'
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2 pigments by Go and Adoro cosmetics, plus 1 lip gloss and 1 lipstick. The lip products went straight in the bin as they were obviously used. Anyway i havn't left her feedback yet till i found out for difinate that the Mac e/shadows were fake. Everything looked legit until i took a knife to the pans and found that all 3 had this indented ring that is mentioned on here as a true mark of a fake. The colours were Surreal, Freshwater and Sushi flower. I'm gutted as like i said these were my very first Mac (or so i thought) e/shadows.
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Is it possible that Mac ever made some with indented rings? I know i know, i am clutching as straws asking that, it's just there seems to be soooo many out there with this indented ring and was thinking well that's a hell of a lot of fakes then. It's such a bloomin shame isn't it?

Off to leave my feedback now.
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