Sunday 25 August 2013

Fake MAC

Hey Lovelies, hope your all okay, here's a different type of post for you today, I think everyone would like high end brands for cheaper and you will find different sites with cheap products but here's how to tell if it's fake or not.

At first glance you may think these look same but when I show you, you will see lots of differences that are very noticeable.

The real MAC on the left is slightly bigger than the fake MAC and the real MAC packaging is a slight dark shimmer around it while the fake MAC packaging is noticeable gold shimmer.

Satin Taupe is a frost finish and when you see the real MAC the texture looks a lot different to the fake MAC, the fake one just looks shimmery but in the pan they look a similar colour. You can also see that the packaging is very different the real MAC packaging is a dark black and slimmer than the fake MAC.
The back is very noticeable, the real MAC writing is dark like the packaging and the fake MAC writing is a light colour. The code A71 is very faint on the real MAC and you can see it on the fake MAC. The real MAC also has a zip code with London while the fake MAC just says London.
Lastly the colour, the real MAC is a metallic bronzey colour while the fake MAC is a metallic light goldy brown colour.

The fake MAC is not as good quality or as pigmented as real MAC.

As you can see there are a lot of difference that you can look out for when your purchasing MAC products so you know there real.

I hope you enjoyed the post.

Ashleigh xx

18 comments:

  1. This is a great post, thanks for sharing :)

    http://peace-loveandmake-up.blogspot.co.uk/

    Stacey x

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  2. This is really interesting! It's good to know the tell-tale signs :) I'd love to see more posts with different brands!

    Thanks for the heads up :)

    Rosie xo
    rosiemickhaiel.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Thank you and yeah it, if I find anymore fakes with different brands I will share them with you x

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  3. It's always good to know the tell tale signs, it's nice to see them put head to head like this to see how subtle the differences are .
    x

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  4. Great post! I wish eBay would do something about fake MAC as they could be so dangerous! xx

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  5. Great post hun! they are similar would be hard to tell the difference if you didn't have MAC products already and photo's on like eBay also aren't that clear.

    Sophie
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    www.pocockins.co.uk

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    1. Thank you and yeah it is and fake products should be band xx

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  6. Oh dear! It is so difficult to tell the difference between the two without a real one to compare :o I'll be sticking to buying mine from the mac shop! Great post - thankyou! :) xx

    Thriftyskies.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Thank you and yeah it's best to just buy from the shop so you do know it's real and it is hard to tell the difference :) xx

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  7. This is a great post thanks for sharing :-) xx

    Kinderhealthandbeauty.blogspot.co.uK

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  8. Yeah really can see the difference in the pigmentation of the shadow, again like the one i posted the stickers and letter font as well as packaging give it away. You should leave the link to this on my post hun so other people can see it too

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