Thursday, 15 March 2012

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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2 comments:

  1. Bee3 July 2012 at 09:54

    I bought one JUST like yours it is so convincing.
    I don't know what to do. If i go to the sellor and they offer a refund then I'll still have to pay the postage of sending it back. This will still leave me out of pocket. I want to report it as fake to ebay but dunno how. All I can find is how to open a case against the seller =/ so annoyed

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  2. Lilly4 July 2012 at 19:26

    I'm sorry that, this happened to you. What I did was contact the seller and told them it was a fake and I extremely unhappy and will like a refund because its fake. If they refuse tell them that you will report them to Ebay and and Paypal for counterfeit items. Be polite then threaten them.

    If you want to report them as fakes go to the description tab follow the line to the right and you should see the words "print" or "report items" choose "report item" and go from there

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