Benefit Porefessional Fake !!!!

 Most people with oily and break-out prone skin are bound to have pores on their cheeks... Its a choice whether to address them with makeup or not... All the while I chose to ignore them but when I am looking at incorporating a primer into my makeup routine, thought I will address this 'pores' first.... So few months ago got the market leader and much talked about Benefit Porefessional... being a high-end and expensive product I thought I would try a sample first and bought mine from ebay. I wasn't particularly impressed with this primer after using it and din't really use it more than couple of times as it dint do much to my pores.... maybe because it was fake it dint do its job...

Today as some of you might already know,  Glamour magazine is giving Benefit sample size freebies... So I picked the copy with Benefit Porefessional. I come home and realize what I had all the while was a fake... CLEARLY...

The packaging of the fake one is old as you see the original Benefit Porefessional has a lady holding handbag on it. The size of the tube is also different... the fake one is lightly taller. Sorry about the orientation of the picture, I tried multiple ways but it just wouldnt upload right :(

The Benefit logo is the catch... The fake one has a non-emphatic 'f' in the word Benefit while the original Porefessional has a bold italic 'f'. Also the 'i' in the fake one is clear while the original Benefit logo has no dot in the letter 'i'.

Ofcourse if you really get to the product it is way too different. The original porefessional is light pink in color and blends completely into the skin. while the fake one is a little darker .. the consistency of the original one is more watery.. it is lotion like and blends beautifully. (cant emphasize enough on that!) while the fake poressional is of a cream or concealer kind of consistency and does not blend well.... its more like a pigmeneted cream and you will still be able to see the streak of color as you blend it... and trust me it does nothing to the pores...

I am glad I purchased the fake one as I could write this post to help others from doing the mistake. So I hope this helps you people from distinguishing the fake Benefit porefessional to the original one... !! Did anyone else get a fake like me?