*Intro Music* Hello friends and welcome to another video Today I'm gonna be examining fake makeup items and their real counterparts under a microscope. Now, recently I've been seeing a lot of videos where people will look at their skin Or their makeup under a microscope To see whats really going on down there So I, ever a fan of makeup science decided that I wanted to get in on the action And take a closer look at some bad makeup So a BIG shoutout to Tina Yong who I believe started this trend And I'll link her original video down below As well as few other microscope videos So throughout my time buying questionable things online I've stumbled upon a few fake makeup products Which are basically like knockoff designer handbags, but just makeup Where some manufacturer out there will replicate The packaging of a well known or desired makeup product And fill that packaging with a presumably lower quality product to sell at a lower cost Now fake makeup has become kind of a prevalent issue in the last couple of years not just because they rip off other companies, but also because they kind of operate outside the law There's no oversight as to what ingredients are used in them So when fake makeup has been seized and tested people have found a bunch of gross stuff in there like bacteria, lead, and animal feces. Yum. so I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at some of this fake makeup and the products they seek to replicate on my skin But first a big shoutout to Honey for sponsoring this video If you guys don't know, Honey is a free browser plugin that automatically checks for the best promo codes every time you shop for something online which I do a lot So basically if you download it right before you check out, it'll check out its database to see if there are any promo codes available to save you some money It works on a lot of popular makeup websites like Ulta Morphe and Sephora and I've personally saved some money on those sites as well as some more random stores like anese, which is where I get my butt scrub That's a real thing. So if you're interested in trying it, you can download it at Funny coincidence that honey rhymes with money. I wonder if that was intentional But anyway, for now onwards to the science So for our experimentation today We have like five different categories of makeup Now we got all of our 'fake' items at this alley downtown that's notorious for selling like the 'knockoff' products except for the foundation, which we got from our Wish makeup video And that, coupled with the price that we got them for makes me like 99% sure that these are fakes, but of course there is some possibility that they're real But 'I'm pretty sure', that's my disclaimer So we're gonna start with the eyeshadow So let's just dive right into there And uh, start looking at the stuff. So for our eyeshadow, I chose the Too Faced Sweet Peach palette And I have to give props to the fake product here because the packaging on the outside looks like really really similar I actually wrote on the back of this one "FAKE" just in case I forgot Alright so these are the insides of the palette And I will say that the packaging, once again, like looks like very impressively similar And the fake one even smells like peaches I would say the fake one even smells slightly more of peaches But when you look at the actual eyeshadows the fake ones do look a little less saturated but we'll see how they look on the face So let's start with the real palette That seems like a good place to start It's kind of like our control of the experiment Tyler off camera: Yeah this is science So I think the look we're gonna go with is sort of like a simple look that has a matte shadow a glitter shadow and a shimmer shadow just so we can get a good mix of stuff going on underneath the microscope Tyler off camera: Oh it's like a pu pu platter Hopefully, there is no literal poo poo in the fake one Now we're gonna go in with the same colors on the fake palette And see what that looks like on this eye Also, another disclaimer. I am going to be putting fake makeup on my face, but I do not endorse using fake makeup Do as I say and not as I do Alright so first off I'm gonna go in with Peaches N' Cream That one doesn't look so bad And then the second color Summer Yum It doesn't really look the same as the real version And it also looks like there may be some debris in there I mean I see something It's not like super present but I guess it's not zero So the next color we're gonna go in for is Candied Peach which I did swatch already and I did also find little white dots in Oh that is such a different color on the eye That's not even trying to be the same And then the last color we're gonna be using is this shimmery shade Nectar Oh that's not so bad In some ways I almost feel like this shimmer shadow is a little bit more glimmery-er Like I'm seeing more glimmer to it Tyler off camera: Yeah! So obviously my eyes don't look exactly the same There's definitely a lot more stuff going on on the real eye Sort of fittingly, I kind of look like I have pink eye It may have been like a Freudian slip of the brush Besides that, I think that we got something going on so let's bust out the technology Alright, so here is our microscope which is a handheld digital microscope that we got from Amazon and you basically just stick it on your face and zoom on in Alright the moment of truth Oh my god! Tyler off camera: There we go! Oh wow Look at those wrinkles Oh my god. Do I have hairs on my eyelids? Damn it. Alright, so what I'm seeing here is basically a decent amount of little shimmery sparkles and them some sort of peachy color and a lot of wrinkles Alright, so why don't we take a look at like the inner corner of my eye This is where the glitter should be Tyler off camera: Oh I'm seeing some glitter Oh oh that looks- like a dinosaur I'm definitely seeing that color come through like the sort of like creamy champagne color I love having a microscope Now I'm gonna go in for like the outside part of my eye which is like where the peach and like darker brown colors should be I will say that we can definitely see the pink color for sure I think I'm just getting some serious like 'sunburned old dude' vibes It's like coming home from the nude beach at the end of the day Alright so with our control established let's go in for the fake So right off the bat I can more clearly see my little like eyelid hairs We definitely can see like no color at all basically and we can see sort of almost like a thicker glitter chunk Alright so that's kind of like the mid socket shot so let's take a look on the inner corner just to see the shimmer again Ooh Okay that looks kind of nice and also kind of like the shimmer shade on the other side And finally let's look at the outer corner which is where like the matte shadows are Okay there's like nothing over here Under the microscope my other eye like actually looked pink And on this eye you can see almost like a little bit of peach stuff in the crevices but you cannot see any pigment just on the eyelid I would definitely say that this is more of a crack situation Alright so I feel I think that's a pretty good look at like what's going on on my eye So before we wrap up the eyeshadows I was thinking we just really quick swatch a few of them on my arm just to like see what they look like on a flat surface and we'll do just like one matte and one shimmer just so we can see like the real difference Alright so those are my swatches Ooh I mean that looks very nice It's kind of like a very full coverage eye shadow like you can't see my skin tone pretty much at all I love when I just kinda squeeze my skin It looks like a weird animal breathing As for the fake swatch it looks sort of like it did on my eye where like it's settling into the creases of the skin and in the creases it's orange but then in between the creases it's almost just like a little bit of Cheeto dust or something Okay so I'm gonna take a look at the shimmer shades now Oooh my god Wow, I look like a lizard person Unlike the matte shade, you can see that the color doesn't get into the cracks as much like it more sort of like glides above them And then with the fake shade, I can already say that it looks better than like the fake matte color but it is definitely, one, not as dark as the original color and two, you can definitely see like more of my own skin through it Alright so with that, I feel like we've thoroughly investigated the eye shadow palettes. I think that in general, it's very clear that with the fake palette the mattes are almost like nonexistent and there do seem to be some weird like filler specs in the matte shadow specifically The shimmer shadows do replicate the original shadows better but it's still not exactly the same So that's the eyeshadow Let's move on now to the foundation. And for my foundation I have a fake and real Fenty foundation. So, obviously the packaging on these two look very different. The Fenty is kind of like a tall drink of water made of glass and this guy is like sort of like a little cylinder much shorter, and made of plastic. Alright, so this is the real Fenty foundation and it kind of comes out like a little watery and in like a large squirt. So I'm just gonna basically use this Beauty Blender and buff it over like this side of my face. The 'real' side of my face. The thing that I noticed right off the bat with the Fenty foundation is that it's pretty thick and it also dries down quickly. Like you kinda gotta work fast. Alright, so here's the fake. See, the thing that stands out to me about this fake foundation right off the bat is how sort of like... self-forming it is. Like, it's not very liquidy. It kind of like... stays in the little 'turd' shape. And then when I put it on my face it kind of has like a gel-like consistency, and you can also see like, in the finishes that the Fenty side is much more like dried down, and this side is just a little wet ( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°). I'm gonna do a few more squirts of that cause... it is actually a pretty good color match to the Fenty, but it is definitely not as full coverage. Alright ! I think thats something I will give it like a second to dry Like fan me for a moment You're not helping at all *laugh* What is this ? Flopping fish And then we'll jump in with the microscope Alright so that is my skin with the foundation on it You can definitely see like some of my skin through it And you can also see a couple of strategic cheek hairs It definitely does gather around the cracks But I would say that there is foundation kind of like in between the cracks On the smooth part of the skin Okay now lets zoom in a little closer Oooh THATS SO GROSS Wow look how oily my skin looks in between the foundation specs T: Thats fighting back S: Oh T: That's a hair follicle S: It focus right in the hair follicle Alright let's go to the Wish side I guess, not surprisingly, this side look a lot shinier. I do think you can see more of my own skin tone through this and I will say you can not see the cracks on this side of my cheek as much probably because this is a much wetter foundation Let's zoom in, shall we? Oh god, oh it's so oily down here It looks more like deep-fried hair alright that's pretty gross i think that you can definitely tell it's a lot oilier especially at this, like, closer focus point and though i think that like from the further away focus point, i looks like a little bit better it is because it is just not as full coverage versus on this side it's like that's the Fenty foundation combatting your skin alright, so I think that's pretty much our foundation investigation I mean, I think that they're VERY different foundations, I don't even know what they were thinking like, with the packaging, with the consistency, like, I think it's a pretty obvious fake alright, so with foundation finished next up is highlighter and, for highlighter, I have the Anastasia Beverly Hills "Moon Child" palette right off the bat, I can kind of tell that this is the fake one it's definitely got this thinner cardboard and it does not feel as heavy and then inside, they don't look like the same colors, pretty much, at all but they are called the same thing, and the font is, like, pretty similar
I really like when people talk about the science side of beauty, so this video was definitely made for me!
Ok Beautubers, I want all reviews to be under a microscope from now on. It's a bit gross but I love it.
Mmmmmmm yesssss a safiya video where she goes back to speaking normally and not like Mavis Beacon Reads Your Texts. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience.
I love her and I love her videos.She is so smart and creative,she feels like a breath of fresh air through all of the drama.
I watched this video because it's Safiya and I really enjoy her videos but, am I the only one that finds this kind of video annoying? Like how many times can you listen to a bg saying "Omg you guys! Look at my ____! So gross, ewww omg, I can't"?
I wish people would stop making videos with fake makeup. You don't know where they were made and what they contain. One study showed that they contain heavy metals and rat poop and other contaminants.
This video is interesting but the foundation bit was so gross. Wtf is in the fake foundation?!
I thought she was going to pull through with the lab ingredients tests at the end of this video. Itβs killing me that I donβt know what she actually applied to her face!!!
I really enjoyed the video but i was kind of surprised/disappointed that she applied all those fake products to her face... especially the eye products. I dont think its worth the risk and she could have easily swatched the makeup on a microscope slide, or only swatched on arms.
Also, i feel like this experiment could have been a little better if she used different application tools for each product. (Looks like she used the same beauty blender for the foundations). And if she wiped down the microscope to disinfect after each use to guarantee no transfer.