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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Sunday, June 26, 2005 3:34 PM (Eastern)
A few places still list cosmetic copycats. Beauty Buzz still has a section to the best of my knowledge, and we have a section here, replacing my old page here.I'm very slow to add in a look-alike, because to me it has to be similar enough to make it almost interchangeable. The quality has to be comparable. Slight differences are okay, and to be expected, but there has to be a strong, inescapable similarity...that feeling of "I just bought something that I already own."
A recent example for me would be Neutrogena MoistureShine tinted lip balm in "Sunny." I did not discover the Neutrogena tinted lip balms; Carol and Madjenny reviewed this product, that is how I came to look at them and buy a couple.
Wearing "Sunny" a few times, I started to get that nagging look-alike feeling that I was wearing something remarkably similar to a lipstick I had already owned. This would be MAC "Jubilee" Lustre lipstick; I'd used it up and was holding it for a future Back to MAC.
Digging Jubilee out--by "used up" I mean I'd worn it down to the metal, not dug it out with a lip brush, so there was a little bit left--I put some on my upper lip and put some Sunny on my lower lip to make the comparison.
Very, very similar. Not the same by any means. Sunny has a bit of shimmer, and Jubilee is not shimmery. Sunny is slightly deeper in tone.
But, having owned both, to me they are virtually the same lipstick. If you own Sunny, there would be no need to own Jubilee, and vice versa.
MAC Jubilee Lustre lipstick
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