Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
Hey all! This review isn’t going to be a normal
review. As the title itself says, it is about a “FAKE” product: A fake MAC
product to be precise. We all are aware of endless shopping pages on Instagram
which sells fakes of almost every high end brand possible: be it MAC, Balm
cosmetics, Kylie Jenner cosmetics, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Too Faced- they
have it all. Why, they don’t even spare drugstore brands like Colorpop and NYX!
Yes, they have fake Colorpops out there as well. While people like us who are a
bit literate in the field of makeup can distinguish which ones are fake, I see
tons of unsuspecting ladies buying fakes and believing it to be true. Read on
to see what was the point of me buying a fake MAC product when I knew perfectly
well this is not the original?
What
are “first copies”:You will see most of these sellers on
Instagram admitting that the ones they sell are “First Copies” and not the
original (While I have also come across sellers who blatantly lie that their
products are original when they clearly are not). First Copies are also fakes of
the original product but “better quality duplicates”. While we were in student
life, I will admit that I had no clue what MAC, Dior, Channel was and I quite
happily used the “MAC” pencils which retailed for Rs.20/- and “Channel”
eyeshadows which retailed for Rs.60/- I was not aware of ingredients hazards
but thankfully nothing had happened to me after using those. One of my Chinese
native friends had told me that First Copies are nothing but the batches of
products which are a tad less than 10/10 quality of the original one and gets
rejected at the factory while the selection process is going on for the
original brand. To believe this or not is unto us at the end of the day.
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
But now, since I have been blogging for more than
two years now, I wanted to find out the difference and also check the
ingredients. My first pick was this palette from MAC. This palette was
astonishingly similar to an earlier launch by MAC called Spring Color Forecast
whose fourth set had this eyeshadow quad. Have a look at the original quad. Although this image looks more brownish, if you google up the reviews of the original quad, you will the insane similarity between that and the fake one!
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| Original/Official image of the MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
The quad is magnetic and housed four eyeshadows. As described by MAC the four eyeshadows are:
* Manila Paper – Pale frosted white gold (Veluxe Pearl) (Limited Edition)
* Flip – Bronze gold (Frost) (Limited Edition) (Repromote)
* Aztec Brick – Frosted true copper (Veluxe Pearl) (Limited Edition)
* Creole Beauty – Frosted dark golden brown (Frost) (Limited Edition)
This fake MAC palette costs about Rs.450 (First
giveaway to it being fake!). The packaging is super impressive though! It has a
matte black outer carton like the original MAC products and inside that is the
most wonderful quality magnetic palette I have ever come across! :-o I was
expecting a super flimsy palette but the quality of the magnetic palette just
bowled me over. It is so sturdy and the lid “click locks” so beautifully that I
had even tried to check if I can depot the shadows and use the palette for
other original eyeshadows :-/ The scary part was there is absolutely NO
difference with the original packaging. You can check Temptalia blog for the
original review.
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
Coming to the shades, they are exactly as described by
the MAC site: A pale frosted white gold, a frosty bronze gold, a frosted true copper
and a dark brown with frosted gold.
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
When swatched, the difference from the original is
stark. There is very less pigmentation in this fake palette. But when used with
a primer, the colors actually bloom beautifully and last ridiculously long too!
But even then, the pigmentation comes nowhere close to the original MAC eyeshadows.
Have a look at the swatches!
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
Now coming to the most important part: INGREDIENTS!
Although I am not sure if they do include everything
they mentioned in the carton or not, but then even with high-end brands I have
read controversies of them failing the “standard ingredient” tests. Just to be
sure, I have done a bit of research online of the mentioned ingredients and
these are my findings: (All the information regarding ingredients have been
taken from https://www.ewg.org)
1. Zinc
Stearate- Overall hazard : Low
2. Octyldodecyl
Stearoyl Stearate-A skin conditioning and viscosity increasing agent. 99%
harmless. Used in brands like Boots, Physicians Formula etc.
3. Caprylyl
glycolis- Used as a skin conditioning agent; has some antimicrobial
activity. Overall hazard low
4.Hexylene Glycol-Low
percentage concerns :Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), overall hazard low,
Hexylene glycol is a small molecular weight surfactant.
Now, from what I have read, glycols can be an
irritant to skin. So the presence of Hexylene Glycol can be a cause of concern.
The rest of the ingredients seemed pretty much what
I came across in other eyeshadow palettes.
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
Decision
time:
Whether or not you should try these palettes? Personally, these eyeshadows didn
not irritate my skin at all. I might use them sparingly sometimes, always with
a primer underneath though. But yes, if you have a super sensitive skin, you
should avoid anything fake. Also, looking at the pigmentation without primer,
you can get Maybelline quads at same price with way better quality. My
suggestion will be to opt for that.
I am currently trying to depot the shades so that I
can use this brilliant palette for other shadows as I mentioned ;) Where do you
get a super quality magnetic palette at this price otherwise? I will let you
all know if I could depot the same! ;)
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| Review/Swatches/Ingredients of Fake MAC Spring Color Forecast-4 Eyeshadow Quad |
Let me know in comments if you want me to do more reviews and comparisons on
fake and original products. We might even have a separate section for the same
if there are many requests :) That’s all for today ladies!! Stay
tuned for more such posts!
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