You might have spotted a favorite or two makeup products in the blog preview picture. This is the second post from the “identical dupes” series. If you missed the first part, click on the link to go over the edit. CLICK HERE FOR PART ONE
It’s a series where you will find makeup/beauty products there are very well known side by side with their proved dupe. Now let me tell you something. Reading about a product being a dupe of another one is a tricky thing, as without really seeing the comparison, you end up buying the dupe and it’s not delivering at all. Your money needs to be well spent and not wasted and it’s really hard to understand why some magazines/bloggers/influencers would do such a thing, misleading the readers. How many times I’ve purchased “dupes” of the Sidecar eyeshadow from Urban Decay, only to find out it’s not similar at alll.
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For this second part I have prepared 5 items with their correspondent dupe. The dupes come from the drugstore and they are much more affordable than the product they have an identical final result with. So let’s get started and be mesmerized of what I found for you (and especially me) this time.
These two lip glosses are truly amazing. If one of them is discontinued or out of stock, you have the alternative. Have in mind only that the drugstore one is less than half the price of the high-end one. The smell is also different, one smells like vanilla , the other one like coconut, but in the way they look on the lips and how they perform, they are absolutely identical. Both Fussy from Fenty Beauty and Moon from Maybelline are light-medium pink with pearl finish lip glosses. They are packed with conditioning ingredients that also moisturize the lips beside giving them the intense shine.
You can check here a short video with swatches of the 2 products.
This one was a tricky comparison. All over the social media , people swear the Maybelline liquid lipstick in Seductress is an identical dupe for the Velvet Teddy. Swatching them, the difference is visible. The Maybelline has a gray, more cool undertone, but on the lips, once it is dry it looses a bit from it. And still they are not identical. Not 100%. Resembling, both medium rosy-brown matte shades, but the Mac with a warm undertone. The 065 Seductress shade is part of a liquid lipstick range that is crazy long-lasting on the lips, making it perfect for weddings and all kind of events. The only downside is that it does dry out your lips, but not more than any other resistant-proof liquid lipstick.Â