Topshop makeup and Mac makeup the same things?

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Well at least that's what I was told in Topshop today. I was getting a new foundation brush (flat top kabuki style one, looks pretty good) and the assistant said their make up comes from the same supplier as MAC's. I had a sniff at one of the lipglosses and thought it had the familiar vanilla scent. Can anyone shed any light on this ?

MAC is owned by Estee Lauder. They own other cosmetics companies like Bobbi Brown and Smashbox. I can imagine that they could make the make up for Topshop. It doesn't mean they are the same quality though.

I agree, they're owned by the same company but that doesn't mean they're automatically the same quality or made in the exact same way

hmmm... I do know that chanel and bourjous make up are made in the same factory and that certain other brands - YSL and Lancome are owned by the same company, same goes for clinique, mac and estee Lauder, all owned by estee Lauder.

I suppose when you think about it there are hundreds upon hundreds of cosmetic brands and they can't all be made in dedicated factories. They may be made in the same place but that doesn't mean that the product is the same.

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A lot of the price of premium products is taken up by the packaging, glossy adverts, special counters and over made up assistants. in other words, the shopping experience. The very act of going to a special counter and having a sales person fawn all over you makes the purchase feel more luxurious. The difference in quality isn't as much as the difference in price may lead you to believe. Obviously there is a difference or we'd all decamp to the bourgeois shelf rather than the Chanel counter but its not massive. New innovations will arrive in the more expensive products first but eventually filter their way down. A bit like designers and their diffusion lines.

Deborah while I do agree with you please do bear in mind that those sales assistants are just doing their job.

You might think they are fawning all over customers and that they are over made up but that is what the big companies demand of them.

They are also trained extensively in their products and for the most part are not just there to flog cosmetics, the ladies and gents I have worked with and trained are more concerned that you are buying what is right for you. If that's not happening then you've picked the wrong brand!

I think the quality of Topshop makeup, especially the lipsticks, is fab.

1947rach, I was being somewhat tongue in cheek. If you train Christian Dior or bare minerals, well done. They're the only ones who've managed to match my skin to foundation first time. Several other counters, not so much :-(

This was on aanother thread recently
They might be made in same place by same people but not same ingredients/ recipes.... In same way a supermarket might make basic mid and posh beans!!