I never had problem ordering Korean cosmetics through this site. As I have mentioned in previous post, I prefer to buy those online for the price since it's quite similar with the originals compared to Indonesian prices.
2 weeks ago I ran out of my Maybelline Mascara. Too lazy to go to the mall to purchase one (and kept forgetting to get one when I went to the mall), I decided to buy through a local online store, Lazada. I never had a problem with this market place before. I pre-ordered my Samsung Galaxy S5 here, I purchased the office's fridge, microwave, vacuum cleaner and many more here. Everything was fine, everything arrived in perfect condition. Until I decided to order my mascara here. I was greedy, there were 2 sellers but I chose the cheaper one (pretty much 50% off the original price in the stores).
The moment I opened my package I knew something was off. A lot of things were off, actually. First off, the packaging looked cheap and the print was smudged. When turned the cap, the inside part got loose and I got sticky ink-like liquid smeared my fingers from the brush like mozzarella cheese. At lunch time, I went to a pharmacy downstairs to buy lozenges and was surprised to see the same mascara on sale when I was never sold there before. So I purchased one (again) and compared it the one I purchased online just to satisfy my curiosity that I was indeed got deceived and received a fake mascara. You can click on the picture to see it in bigger size. Left is the original, Right is the (suspected) fake.
First: The Color of the Printing.
The color is already different. And this is only the front part.
The printing is available on both sides and voila, the fake one has different wordings on the the other side! If you pay attention, the original also has the production date, code and etc printed on the plastic with black ink while the fake one doesn't have it.
Second: Another difference in printing.
See the difference on the description that it contains collagen? Which one is more convincing to you?
Third: The brush and the liquid.
This is the difference that really set me off. Not only that the brush is different, if you enlarge the picture you'll see that the fake one on the right has a very sticky liquid on the brushes!
It took me less than 5 minutes to actually convinced myself that yes, I was deceived.
Lesson learned. Next time, I'll make sure to get my as off my seat to actually go to a real store to purchase this. And maybe other affordable cosmetics.
