Will the Real Slim Shady please stand up? Part One

I walked into a store in Adeniran Ogunsanya mall and asked for their cosmetic products. They showed me some MAC stuff, priced at N2,500 and upwards. I laughed and removed myself from the shop without making a purchase.

All the MAC they had was fake.

Welcome to buying fake cosmetics world. It is has become exhausting trying to find makeup that isn't fake: I've bought fake MAC, fake Iman, fake Mary Kay, it has become ridiculous. The fakes are so well-done you ca't spot the difference, in particular Mary Kay and Iman. Here are images to prove my point:

Left or right, which do you think is fake? Can you tell?

 

Here they are from the front.

In both pictures, the one on the right is original, the other is fake. It is easy to be deceived, unless you know what to look out for.

I'm not trying to be a snob, there's nothing wrong with affordable cosmetics. But I like knowing what ingredients are in the products I'm using on my face, and my clients' faces. I've seen fake cosmetics burn the skin (nasty stuff). And if I'm gonna pay for stuff, I'd like to know what I'm buying is the real deal, the real McCoy, the real Slim Shady. And I'm out of metaphors with that sentence.

In my next post, I will talk about how you can identify real from fake.