How to: Spot a FAKE Benefit Porefessional

I went to Myers and headed to the Benefit counter to try out a few items. One of them were Pore fessional, when the SA applied it on me it finished with a soft and silky powdery finish. It went on nicely almost translucently (the product that came out of the tube threw me off cause it was beige).

I liked it a lot so when I got home, dumb enough I went on Ebay and brought one off a seller with 6776 star rating. It cost me $25 all up. I took it out and tried some on the back of my hand and tried dabbing it in, it just wouldn't blend in and didn't feel anything like the one at Myers so I started looking online for information about fakes. Apparently Ebay is riddled with fakes even sample ones can be fakes as well.

I brought it to the the Benefit counter to confirm my suspicion  of this being a fake.
The SA at the Benefit counter took out the tester bottle and compared the bottles:
- There were printing discrepancies
- The bottle texture was different
- The bottle is smaller
The product didn't finish to a silky powdery translucent finishing. It didn't fill in any pores and had a lotion/oily finishing that you get with bad foundation.

-  "Minimize" is meant to be in bold
- The curve line is too long where I circled, its meant to stop before where I circled it.

 That says 1S2A the SA said its was wrong its meant to have a V in it sorry I can't really remember the exact details

 Its not turning translucent, even if I try to rub it in.

I saw in another blog that Benefit doesn't dot their "i" instead the "f" flows over the "i"



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