So excited to finally show this to yall! Comment the secret phrase when you see it! Have you ever bought a product like this? If so, where and what did you do?
@TheHair Diagram I'm so happy you got to see my video and that it is helpful to you and your family! Awareness is so important! Thank you for keeping consumers aware and adjusting packaging regularly to help everyone stay safe/informed. Looking forward to hearing from your team ☺️
Between this video, “Not So Pretty” on HBO, and “Rotten” on Netflix, it really makes you want to research everything that you buy. You taught me something because I though Target was safe 😩😩
I was cooking while I watched so I didn't see all the words haha definitely watched until the end. Now I'm reflecting on if I've ever used a counterfeit product (I'm sure most of of have at least once)
I’ve mostly seen this particular set up at beauty supply stores! It shocked me! At retailers the use of 3rd parties is where things get tricky if they are not authorized
This is why i will no longer purchase particular items on Amazon anymore due to fact i cannot verify it's truly from the actual manufacturer. So i started going directly to the manufacturer's website to purchase these items.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! Because of this video, I reached out to John Paul Mitchell Systems, aka Paul Mitchell and they informed me that their ONLY AUTHORIZED RETAILER is Ulta. If you see Paul Michell in Target and Sallys Beauty, they are NOT authorized retailers.
“Not so pretty” is a great documentary to watch as well, very eye opening about plastic packing and the chemicals in your everyday products. Thank you Bri for this, didn’t even know about counterfeit products!
@@sedecramarcedes And that’s just the tip of the ice berg, it’s so much more that they could have covered. It’s DEEP! For real for real, best advice I could give is “less is more”. All these simple sayings are reigning true in my life today. I’m 22, an environmentalist, and I honestly don’t want to give my money to like 90% of these companies! From testing on animals, to the recalls, to the harming of humans bodies, to not being responsible for there packaging, to greenwashing and much more! Be careful out there ✊🏾
I've had very little trust in Amazon for about 3 years, so I only shop there when there's no other choice. For some reason, I never trusted cosmetics from department stores and online retailers, especially because of expiration dates. It turns out that my suspicions might have been true all along!
Yessss I noticed that when I brought hair products from Amazon, everything would smell different or look different/ strange consistency from when I bought it from the store or from the products website so I stopped too.
As a stylist and a manager of a professional-only store, people need to see this video!!! This information is so important!!! I’ve always been super passionate about hair, so when I finally started my RUclips channel, topics like this was top of mind for me!
Ever since the deva curl situation happened, I’ve been conscious about reading product ingredients. Some product ingredients can often contribute to hair loss! 🥴
My body care, skin care and haircare are all clean. I only buy directly for the websites especially since my collections come from smaller own brands anyways
Sis came through with the receipts, graphics and the memes too, really informative and will definitely have my investigator hat on next time I visit different beauty suppliers
So many people are really struggling by continuing to use counterfeit products, not knowing this. I remember the first video about the gels. Oh my, it is so much worse now. Thank you, Bri! This is much-needed information.
just wanted to share i love your creative “nerd” energy and i hope you keep sharing things out here! would love to see content on allll the hobbies - skating, press on nails, making music and art, practicing a sport, whatever it is! as someone who wants to introduce more activities and creativity in my life i find it inspiring
Wow! This is such great insight. My friends always said it’s crazy to buy my hair products at the salon because I can get it “cheaper”. This video made me feel better about how I purchase lol
I am so happy this showed up in my recommendation. Big eye opener. This makes so much sense, considering from past product use experiences. Just like what I put inside my body and it rejects or react within 20 mins the same apply when I use a new product on my hair. If it strips, dries or alter my hair in any way...that's an immediate sign for me it's a chemical reaction that's not suited for my hair.
I bought some wireless headphones from Amazon & when they arrived I immediately realized that the power button was different. I contacted Amazon and told them I had received a counterfeit product. Amazon gave me a refund and told me to keep the headphones.
@@SmartistaBeauty That’s what’s so crazy. It was like a $2 difference. I order all the time so I know not to order an item that’s too cheap or that’s not shipping from Amazon.
Wow! I used to wonder about high end makeup being sold in unusual places. This is so troubling. Thank you for informing us! Your editing is top notch! You are appreciated 💛
Still watching, but OMG. I'm getting upset because I was so trusting when it came to products from major stores. I have purchased Olaplex from the beauty supply like a dummy. Smh, thank you for this report. 💫💯❤️
I completely understand the feeling! Looked at their authorized retailers list (USA) and it's Sephora, Bluemercury, Nordstrom (via Space NK), Bloomingdales (via Space NK), and ULTA Beauty. Glad this video is helpful!!
first of all thank you for all your hard work and caring enough about beauty consumers to share. I've really only heard 1 other content creator talk about this before and I've been trying to be more careful to confirm authorized vendors but you blew this whole thing up haha I'm like dang now we have to be on our toes with the authorized vendors as well. I pray this helps someone on their product exploring journey and yessss keep the information coming! Love learning new things especially since I do alot of product reviews on my own channel (I have to be careful where I link to as well). You are a gem Bri!!!!
Thanks Bri, valued information. I purchased Olay retinol 24 max at Ulta is $47.99 but when I go on Olay site, it is only $34.99. There is a $13.00 difference. I am wondering if I should just start buying my skincare directly from their websites instead of just going into these big chain stores. This has me rethinking.
They are most likely an authorized retailer, price hikes like those are often for the wholesale purchasing and distribution needed to get it into a retail store, but that’s a massive price jump!!
No No its true, I be wondering why the girls who get their hair products from PR, hair be growing way faster and I would use the same products. Thanks Bri!!
So my story… I used to dye my hair blue black! I’m naturally a Sandy brown/red head and always hated it (now embracing it partially because of this😕😂). I usually would buy Dark & Lovely Midnight Blue from the hair stores, but for some reason I called myself wanting to try a new dye in hopes it doesn’t bleed or ware away as fast. I took my grandmother to one of her fav dollar stores, “Dollar General” and I seen this brand name, ‘Schwarzkopf Keratin Permanent Hair Color Cream Midnight Black 1.1’. While I know dyes are chemicals and they do smell weird, but as you mentioned @Bri Hall in the ECO vid, it smelled like harsh ammonia. Straight up ammonia and it was STRONG! Guess what though, my dumb butt used it anyway. 🤦🏾♀️😒😞. Biggest regret because two weeks later my temples were thinning. Eventually became bald there. Took a LONG time to grow back. It grew back, but the hair there still ‘til this day doesn’t grow like the rest does it like it use to. It is like the hair has a stopping point. With it being a black dye, which is depositing colour vs taking out. I would not have thought this wouldn’t take my hair out. I was wrong. I hadnt had issues with any other dyes before and after. I don’t think the product was fake, but I do believe it was old! That type of brand doesn’t get looked at in the area that store was which is predominately black. Usually more “ethnic brands” get used more frequently and are always stocked regularly. Lastly, oddly enough it only affected my temples, which are sensitive, and made them super sore. During that time I wasn’t doing anything such as, stressing, taking meds, stressful hairstyles, changed my shampoo/conditioner/hair products etc… the dye was the only thing that was new to me at the time. So to avoid that I just stopped dying my hair altogether. I started using temp dyes, but it just don’t hit the same 😂. So now I embrace the red/brown 🙌🏾🔥
I’m happy you told your story!! Even though many dyes do contain ammonia as an alkaline ph adjuster, and the product may be real, expired/old products are a hugggge issue! Especially when they look like a steal!
Ma'am I understand! I once asked my grandma what you call this red-brown mousey color! I used to do the same as you with the dye, too. Yup thinned out my thick hair. Moved to hennas
This was _SOOOO_ well done! I applaud all your hard work, Bri! There is definitely a dark under belly to the beauty industry that "Big Business" doesn't want exposed. Keep bringing those receipts! This was MUCH needed, sis!😘🥰😍✌🏾
You did such a wonderful job bringing all of this information regarding hair care to light. A woman’s hair is her glory, and to know that I could be potentially putting my healthy hair in jeopardy with brands that are not always legit is mind boggling. I will definitely pay better attention to labeling for sure. Thanks Sis!🌟Yes, definitely do a follow up!
This video is soooo important and informative. We (the consumers) need to work together to spread the word!!! Empower friends and loved ones by sharing this video!
im always so scared of this when buying wild growth hair oil. i wanted to just order it from amazon instead of going into the beauty supply store but after reading the comments there was so many mixed reviews about the product being fake or real. and then i found out that the bottle needed a certain engraving to be considered real.
I cannot LOVE this video hard enough! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your diligence and research!!! I've been telling people this for years and I'm just the "crazy ingredient lady" I'm going to share this video, everywhere that I can. 💖💖💖
This really makes so much sense!!! Its been times that I’ve bought the exact same product and the product has seemed different and i just use to assume it was a bad batch but now i know to look closer! Also…. ☺️ can we get a updated wash & go routine??? When you have time to put in your schedule 🫶🏾😍😊🫣
There is another thing: returns. From Ulta to Nordstrom just depending on the associate/manager who accepts the exchange or return they may reshelf it as the real thing & a person got away with exchanging a counterfeit for the real thing.
Bri!!!! Thank you for this video! This legit has me really thinking back to unfavorable hair product experiences and considering where I had got them and how they reacted with my hair and scalp and how previously some worked fine but then didn't. It's crazy to think that the counterfeits are out there literally messing with people's hair/skin/body etc and no remorse nor consequences in sight about it all. This is both infuriating and deeply concerning. Granted I love to DIY and buy most of my products direct via the makers when I buy formulated products. But now I’m like only the Lord can guide when I hop to a store of any kind that I actually will walk away with a real product and it not be fake. Whew. Also loveeeee the editing and research, the intro and all a dat!! Welcome back to regular videos! 💚
I'm with you Bri! Thank you so much for this information. I always think i'm "doing good" because i'm a label reader but I've definitely bought cosmetics from marshalls, third party sellers on Amazon and found "better prices" online. And i'm usually only looking at ingredients not product authenticity. Everyone should really watch this. I will definitely try to be more diligent
kudos to you for going the extra mile. also buying direct from the specific retailer may seem like an inconvenience but alot of the times they offer better deals than the cheaper option website
This is so interesting! Crazy what people will do to capitalize on women using beauty products. Glad you showed how to know the real products vs counterfeit. Seems to me that it will take a closer examination before purchasing products.
Right! The trust level even walking into a major retailer feels like just checking the labels, but now authorized retailers and closer looks is the go to!
Good for you Bri - I thoroughly enjoyed this content. I don't live in the USA and do shop online and I don't have the luxury of return items because of my location. This is helpful and informative!
Just started watching and I'm already in love with the editing. Ok, back to watching! *Edit: super thorough and makes so much sense. I remember reading that cosmetics in Marshall's/discount stores were counterfeit but I never thought about the big box stores and salon products (I think commercials marketing cheap "salon quality products" made us believe that salon products should also be in stores). Great video!!!
Thank you so much for this very timely video!! I've been a BoxyCharm subscriber for almost a year (literally canceled in the middle of watching your video 😅). But I remember a flag when I was first considering signing up for BoxyCharm, wondering what's happening on the backend for them to be able to offer full-size products (that's what they hype up the most for the premium box) but for less than $40 a month (the math wasn't mathing). It just wasn't clicking why they can offer these full size products and several at a time for cheaper than what you can find in Sephora or Ulta or even directly from a brand. I still had the packaging left from some products I received in my boxes and compared them to the brand websites' product lists and there were new ingredients, some were missing or some had shifted to a higher spot in the list. Needless to say...I've received several counterfeit products in their boxes for brands like Farsáli, Frank Body, Glow Recipe and ABH. So again, thank you for this, it was SUPER informative. Only buying directly from brand websites now!!
This makes sense why some brands like Adwoa, you most likely never find it in stores you really have to order on their website. Maybe they realized this issue.
Thanks for this. I keep telling myself to stop buying my hair products from TJ Maxx but sometimes I see deals I can't resist. I have been buying from Ulta more lately but I think I'll stick to them or the manufacturer exclusively now. I can't afford to loose more hair. Plus I could be judging products wrong because I'm using something old, counterfeit, or diluted.
Wow!!! Thank you for this, Bri 🙏🏾🙏🏾 I just recently started only using water and oil on my hair (I have locs) and that’s it! I was just tired of all the products. I’ve saved so much money!!! I also use shampoo but it’s always natural from a small business or soap (dr bronners) Your hair looks AMAZING 😍😍😍🤌🏾
Thanks for bringing much needed attention to this Bri, it was a very well and thorough researched video. We need to all do our due diligence to ensure the products we're purchasing and using are authentic.
OMG!!! I HAD NO IDEA. GIRL!!! YOU GOT ME IN MY CLOSET CHECKING ALL MY HAIR PRODUCTS...LIKE MAYBE THAT IS WHY MY HAOR WON'T GROW PAST A CERTAIN LENGTH OR KEEPS BREAKING OFF!!! 😳😖
Regarding expiration dates... Look at the bottom of the product some of them have a 3, 6, 9 or 12 on it, those are how many months you could use the product from the time it is opened. They really need to have an expiration date that's bold, large and clearly visible from a distance.
Thank you! I think you just saved my hair & scalp. I’ve been noticing a change in my hair with regarding to thinning and bald spots and I just couldn’t put my finger on why. Came across your video and looked through products that i suspected was fishy but didn’t think anything of it. Turns out, they may very well be counterfeit. Thank God I stopped purchasing from them for 3months now but before then I’ve used their counterfeit goods for 3 consecutive months 😭 Thank you so much!!!
This is so good! I learned so much from this video. The first time I really started paying attention to the ingredients in my products was after watching a video you talked about the Think Dirty app. I also watched the video you shared about your EcoStyler experience. This is an important issue and deserves more awareness!!! Thank you for sharing.
This is putting the "Cantu dried out my hair" "Auntie Jackie made my hair fall out" into perspective for me because I did not understand, at most I thought "products vary due to ingredients allowed per country" if that makes sense but I genuinely forgot hair stuff can also be counterfit😭
Honestly this was eye opening and scary. I buy a lot of hair products and skincare products from marshalls to save money. Definitely just gonna have to go and buy the real thing
Bri!!! First thank you for the video because WHEW!!While you were talking my daughter and I started looking in the house and let me tell you! We found counterfeit hair setting lotion,hand sanitizer,moisturizing product,skin products and body wash products! We bought these items at a Major retailer! We still had like a little bit of each of these products left so we had the original bottles and compared and let me tell you I was drove! My son had an allergic reaction whereas his whole face broke out ,lips too using the moisturizer enough where we had to visit a dermatologist due to the burn marks and I thought " Oh it was a bad batch" as well, the body soap broke my grandson out and scarred his stomach from the irritation .So freaking over these counterfeits,people are seriously being injured for money! I remember one lady in particular coming into a salon as a buying agent to get the stylist hair products.The stylist laid into her because I suffered burns in my hair and her mom from the so called professional products.She actually call the police and made a report of fraudulent products being sold and sent the police to the address of the lady,but she wasn't there, the address was phony.She did get caught trying to sell products to one of my stylist friends at her shop in another city under another name.
Okay. This makes so much sense. Why did I not question the products I bought when they made my eyes literally water, dripping down my face with tears. I need to be WAY more conscious of where I’m buying from.
Thank you for doing this video, now I have somewhere to send people when I try to explain to them that a lot of these products are fakes coming out of China and that you have to be careful. I also think people buying anything on social media are just silly. I got GOT 1 time and that was more than enough for me.
Can't stop commenting. Bought a pack of Pepperidge Farm cookies this week. It was sealed. Comes in sets of 4 paper holders with four cookies each. Had only two paper holders and in one, two cookies were bitten into. This was a SEALED bag of Montauk cookies!! Buyer beware.
this was so eye opening. you really have to be careful with beauty supply products not only bc of counterfeits but a lot of products that are on the shelves are expired🙄… i bought a cowash that i’ve ordered from camille rose naturals site directly but i didn’t feel like waiting so i went to the beauty supply for the item and chileeeeee when i got home to use it, it smelled like play dough and the consistency was weird😵💫
Wow! You learn something everyday! Ugh I swear money is the root of all evil! How can ppl consciously do something with rat droppings in a product. But with all this being said, is this a wake up call that we should maybe stick to one or a couple of products that we use. AND maybe we should only buy from small businesses where they make products from their kitchen. I don’t know my brain is going off right now lol none the less, THIS was an awesome video. I love when you do your informative videos! You’re so smart Bri 🤓 please please keep coming out with whatever content you think will help us. It’s obvious we need it. We are listening 👂🏽
but then with the whole bottom line controlling the outcome and putting our health on the line we literally can't really trust anyone. Especially when they will consistently only get a slap on the wrist. Thanks for this Bri. But save us all is so right. Even a legitimate item or product can be placed with harmful ingredients so like we can't win
Amazon has sketchy hair product vendors as well! Some packages would be delivered already opened or safety seal removed, half empty. I always check the storefront info as well as the reviews now. I’ve even seen counterfeit health supplements on Amazon when trying to buy azo and vitamin c. It’s ridiculous
Yeah I bought (what I thought) was a milani blush off Amazon. But I'm pretty sure it was a counterfit due to the weird packaging. BRB, throwing it away now🥲
This was such an awesome and well put together video! I remember back when I first started college, my mom and I were in the BSS, and I was looking at some of the products (wasn't intending to buy any but I just wanted to look and see what they had), my mom randomly commented out loud "be careful, these people be mixing products and putting it on the shelf." It was something like that, I don't quite remember verbatim. Now when she said that I started looking around like "what!?!" Now mind you it didn't sound impossible, but it did sound crazy. Years and years later, I bought some gorilla snot from the BSS, and I'm telling you what I know the product to be because I used it for years and what I bought from the BSS?? 2 different things!!!!!!
Very well done video and unique approach to a serious problem. Kudos to you! This was incredibly helpful I'm a vine reviewer for Amazon and this opened to eyes to dupes on their marketplace. I can now report accordingly. Great work 😊
I had that experience too with the Eco gel. It made my eyes water and made them sensitive especially when I used heat from a dryer. It seems to give off fumes when it heats up. But companies are problematic too and need to make products accessible to thwart counterfeiters. The exclusivity model doesn't work anymore.
Lol your editing is just EVERYTHING MAN!! Keeps me engaged and helps me not to miss the point. Love your videos bri! Thank you so much for this information
This is crazy bc I bought some TGIN conditioners from target about a yr ago and one of them stank like relaxer! I never used it before and assumed thats just how it smell but i didn't use it and I couldn't take it back bc of the pandemic. Now im wondering if it was fake or gone bad or sumn smh.. crazy!
Girl...this was right on!!! Idk any of this. I am so grateful 🙏. This is where our Black entrepreneurs can really shine!! Use this info to your advantage and get your site out there. I, for one, am looking for all my BOB haircare homemade products, perhaps made to order. Thanks so much!
I love you!!! This was such a great breakdown counterfeiting. I am very skeptical when buying certain items online or on Amazon but after watching your video I’m side-eyeing major stores as well. This is crazy I had no idea the extent of how far this epidemic is going. Thank you so much for the research you have done, it has really opened my eyes and I will be more observing when buying products even more now.
Amazing video! So informative and I can’t believe all this happens right in front of our faces!😩 Definitely gonna implement those tips you’ve mentioned!!!💕
Man this is sad. People tend to order online to save money and to avoid needing to use transportation if they dont have the gas money, a vehicle or dont want to use public transportation. This hards the most at risk populations, the poor, disenfranchised and possibly disabled.
So excited to finally show this to yall! Comment the secret phrase when you see it! Have you ever bought a product like this? If so, where and what did you do?
@TheHair Diagram I'm so happy you got to see my video and that it is helpful to you and your family! Awareness is so important! Thank you for keeping consumers aware and adjusting packaging regularly to help everyone stay safe/informed. Looking forward to hearing from your team ☺️
Between this video, “Not So Pretty” on HBO, and “Rotten” on Netflix, it really makes you want to research everything that you buy. You taught me something because I though Target was safe 😩😩
I was cooking while I watched so I didn't see all the words haha definitely watched until the end. Now I'm reflecting on if I've ever used a counterfeit product (I'm sure most of of have at least once)
That's wild that even authorized retailers will mix in fakes with the real ones. Will definitely be buying directly from the brand when I can now.
I’ve mostly seen this particular set up at beauty supply stores! It shocked me! At retailers the use of 3rd parties is where things get tricky if they are not authorized
This is why i will no longer purchase particular items on Amazon anymore due to fact i cannot verify it's truly from the actual manufacturer. So i started going directly to the manufacturer's website to purchase these items.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!
Because of this video, I reached out to John Paul Mitchell Systems, aka Paul Mitchell and they informed me that their ONLY AUTHORIZED RETAILER is Ulta. If you see Paul Michell in Target and Sallys Beauty, they are NOT authorized retailers.
Wow
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Wow!!!!!! Thanks!
“Not so pretty” is a great documentary to watch as well, very eye opening about plastic packing and the chemicals in your everyday products. Thank you Bri for this, didn’t even know about counterfeit products!
I was JUST watching this last night. I had to stop because I was so sickened by everything.
@@sedecramarcedes And that’s just the tip of the ice berg, it’s so much more that they could have covered. It’s DEEP! For real for real, best advice I could give is “less is more”. All these simple sayings are reigning true in my life today. I’m 22, an environmentalist, and I honestly don’t want to give my money to like 90% of these companies! From testing on animals, to the recalls, to the harming of humans bodies, to not being responsible for there packaging, to greenwashing and much more! Be careful out there ✊🏾
What platform is this documentary on?
@@blackeneddove HBO max
@@aesinam thank you
I've had very little trust in Amazon for about 3 years, so I only shop there when there's no other choice. For some reason, I never trusted cosmetics from department stores and online retailers, especially because of expiration dates. It turns out that my suspicions might have been true all along!
Yessss I noticed that when I brought hair products from Amazon, everything would smell different or look different/ strange consistency from when I bought it from the store or from the products website so I stopped too.
As a stylist and a manager of a professional-only store, people need to see this video!!! This information is so important!!!
I’ve always been super passionate about hair, so when I finally started my RUclips channel, topics like this was top of mind for me!
Ever since the deva curl situation happened, I’ve been conscious about reading product ingredients. Some product ingredients can often contribute to hair loss! 🥴
They got a lot of Deva Curl products right now for ridiculously cheap at Marshals 🥴
I’m a witness, hair just now start growing back once I stop using them all.
My body care, skin care and haircare are all clean. I only buy directly for the websites especially since my collections come from smaller own brands anyways
Love shopping directly with small businesses!
@@SmartistaBeauty Even better when I purposely made it majority all black owned brands
I love how we’re waking up from the scams
Right!
Exactly it's time
Sis!@
Sis came through with the receipts, graphics and the memes too, really informative and will definitely have my investigator hat on next time I visit different beauty suppliers
IKR! Me too!
Had to! We need subista gang investigator hats! lol
...counterfeits and expired products at TARGET? 😱 That part really did shock me
This needs to go mega viral
Y’all got to watch that new documentary on HBO Max called Not So Pretty! It’s narrated by Keke Palmer! It’s shocking. It’s about all cosmetics
So many people are really struggling by continuing to use counterfeit products, not knowing this. I remember the first video about the gels. Oh my, it is so much worse now. Thank you, Bri! This is much-needed information.
**Runs to bathroom to check all products**🥴 Thanks for putting us on Bri!! 🙌🏽
just wanted to share i love your creative “nerd” energy and i hope you keep sharing things out here! would love to see content on allll the hobbies - skating, press on nails, making music and art, practicing a sport, whatever it is! as someone who wants to introduce more activities and creativity in my life i find it inspiring
& this is why I’ve been supporting you for so many years ! Thank you for providing this insight.
Wow! This is such great insight. My friends always said it’s crazy to buy my hair products at the salon because I can get it “cheaper”. This video made me feel better about how I purchase lol
I am so happy this showed up in my recommendation. Big eye opener. This makes so much sense, considering from past product use experiences.
Just like what I put inside my body and it rejects or react within 20 mins the same apply when I use a new product on my hair. If it strips, dries or alter my hair in any way...that's an immediate sign for me it's a chemical reaction that's not suited for my hair.
I bought some wireless headphones from Amazon & when they arrived I immediately realized that the power button was different. I contacted Amazon and told them I had received a counterfeit product. Amazon gave me a refund and told me to keep the headphones.
That is wildddd! Was there a price difference or anything you noticed outside of the button? shook! So happy you got that refund though!
@@SmartistaBeauty That’s what’s so crazy. It was like a $2 difference. I order all the time so I know not to order an item that’s too cheap or that’s not shipping from Amazon.
Wow! I used to wonder about high end makeup being sold in unusual places. This is so troubling. Thank you for informing us! Your editing is top notch! You are appreciated 💛
OMG THATS CRAZY!!😳 thanks for the heads up. This makes so much sense!
Still watching, but OMG. I'm getting upset because I was so trusting when it came to products from major stores. I have purchased Olaplex from the beauty supply like a dummy. Smh, thank you for this report. 💫💯❤️
I completely understand the feeling! Looked at their authorized retailers list (USA) and it's Sephora,
Bluemercury, Nordstrom (via Space NK), Bloomingdales (via Space NK), and ULTA Beauty. Glad this video is helpful!!
first of all thank you for all your hard work and caring enough about beauty consumers to share. I've really only heard 1 other content creator talk about this before and I've been trying to be more careful to confirm authorized vendors but you blew this whole thing up haha I'm like dang now we have to be on our toes with the authorized vendors as well. I pray this helps someone on their product exploring journey and yessss keep the information coming! Love learning new things especially since I do alot of product reviews on my own channel (I have to be careful where I link to as well). You are a gem Bri!!!!
Thanks Bri, valued information. I purchased Olay retinol 24 max at Ulta is $47.99 but when I go on Olay site, it is only $34.99. There is a $13.00 difference. I am wondering if I should just start buying my skincare directly from their websites instead of just going into these big chain stores. This has me rethinking.
They are most likely an authorized retailer, price hikes like those are often for the wholesale purchasing and distribution needed to get it into a retail store, but that’s a massive price jump!!
No No its true, I be wondering why the girls who get their hair products from PR, hair be growing way faster and I would use the same products. Thanks Bri!!
Exactly
So my story…
I used to dye my hair blue black! I’m naturally a Sandy brown/red head and always hated it (now embracing it partially because of this😕😂). I usually would buy Dark & Lovely Midnight Blue from the hair stores, but for some reason I called myself wanting to try a new dye in hopes it doesn’t bleed or ware away as fast. I took my grandmother to one of her fav dollar stores, “Dollar General” and I seen this brand name, ‘Schwarzkopf Keratin Permanent Hair Color Cream Midnight Black 1.1’.
While I know dyes are chemicals and they do smell weird, but as you mentioned @Bri Hall in the ECO vid, it smelled like harsh ammonia. Straight up ammonia and it was STRONG! Guess what though, my dumb butt used it anyway. 🤦🏾♀️😒😞. Biggest regret because two weeks later my temples were thinning. Eventually became bald there. Took a LONG time to grow back. It grew back, but the hair there still ‘til this day doesn’t grow like the rest does it like it use to. It is like the hair has a stopping point. With it being a black dye, which is depositing colour vs taking out. I would not have thought this wouldn’t take my hair out. I was wrong. I hadnt had issues with any other dyes before and after.
I don’t think the product was fake, but I do believe it was old! That type of brand doesn’t get looked at in the area that store was which is predominately black. Usually more “ethnic brands” get used more frequently and are always stocked regularly.
Lastly, oddly enough it only affected my temples, which are sensitive, and made them super sore. During that time I wasn’t doing anything such as, stressing, taking meds, stressful hairstyles, changed my shampoo/conditioner/hair products etc… the dye was the only thing that was new to me at the time. So to avoid that I just stopped dying my hair altogether. I started using temp dyes, but it just don’t hit the same 😂. So now I embrace the red/brown 🙌🏾🔥
I’m happy you told your story!! Even though many dyes do contain ammonia as an alkaline ph adjuster, and the product may be real, expired/old products are a hugggge issue! Especially when they look like a steal!
Your natural color sounds pretty!
Ma'am I understand! I once asked my grandma what you call this red-brown mousey color! I used to do the same as you with the dye, too. Yup thinned out my thick hair. Moved to hennas
I REFUSE to buy food or cosmetic products from a dollar store 😒
This was _SOOOO_ well done! I applaud all your hard work, Bri! There is definitely a dark under belly to the beauty industry that "Big Business" doesn't want exposed. Keep bringing those receipts! This was MUCH needed, sis!😘🥰😍✌🏾
You did such a wonderful job bringing all of this information regarding hair care to light. A woman’s hair is her glory, and to know that I could be potentially putting my healthy hair in jeopardy with brands that are not always legit is mind boggling. I will definitely pay better attention to labeling for sure. Thanks Sis!🌟Yes, definitely do a follow up!
This video needs more views. Well put together video, nicely researched etc. It gives me professional journalism vibes
This video is soooo important and informative. We (the consumers) need to work together to spread the word!!! Empower friends and loved ones by sharing this video!
Thanks for this video Bri, you are a real one looking out for us. It is disturbing, some of the stuff the FDA approves.
im always so scared of this when buying wild growth hair oil. i wanted to just order it from amazon instead of going into the beauty supply store but after reading the comments there was so many mixed reviews about the product being fake or real. and then i found out that the bottle needed a certain engraving to be considered real.
I cannot LOVE this video hard enough! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your diligence and research!!! I've been telling people this for years and I'm just the "crazy ingredient lady" I'm going to share this video, everywhere that I can. 💖💖💖
The way I dropped EVERYTHING to click on this notification 😩 can’t wait 💕
so happy you're here for the drop! Yesss
IKR! Me too!
This really makes so much sense!!! Its been times that I’ve bought the exact same product and the product has seemed different and i just use to assume it was a bad batch but now i know to look closer!
Also…. ☺️ can we get a updated wash & go routine??? When you have time to put in your schedule 🫶🏾😍😊🫣
There is another thing: returns. From Ulta to Nordstrom just depending on the associate/manager who accepts the exchange or return they may reshelf it as the real thing & a person got away with exchanging a counterfeit for the real thing.
Yep!
You're supposed to destroy returned cosmetic products
Bri!!!! Thank you for this video! This legit has me really thinking back to unfavorable hair product experiences and considering where I had got them and how they reacted with my hair and scalp and how previously some worked fine but then didn't. It's crazy to think that the counterfeits are out there literally messing with people's hair/skin/body etc and no remorse nor consequences in sight about it all. This is both infuriating and deeply concerning. Granted I love to DIY and buy most of my products direct via the makers when I buy formulated products. But now I’m like only the Lord can guide when I hop to a store of any kind that I actually will walk away with a real product and it not be fake. Whew.
Also loveeeee the editing and research, the intro and all a dat!! Welcome back to regular videos! 💚
I'm with you Bri! Thank you so much for this information. I always think i'm "doing good" because i'm a label reader but I've definitely bought cosmetics from marshalls, third party sellers on Amazon and found "better prices" online. And i'm usually only looking at ingredients not product authenticity. Everyone should really watch this. I will definitely try to be more diligent
kudos to you for going the extra mile. also buying direct from the specific retailer may seem like an inconvenience but alot of the times they offer better deals than the cheaper option website
This is so interesting! Crazy what people will do to capitalize on women using beauty products. Glad you showed how to know the real products vs counterfeit. Seems to me that it will take a closer examination before purchasing products.
Right! The trust level even walking into a major retailer feels like just checking the labels, but now authorized retailers and closer looks is the go to!
Good for you Bri - I thoroughly enjoyed this content. I don't live in the USA and do shop online and I don't have the luxury of return items because of my location. This is helpful and informative!
Just started watching and I'm already in love with the editing.
Ok, back to watching!
*Edit: super thorough and makes so much sense. I remember reading that cosmetics in Marshall's/discount stores were counterfeit but I never thought about the big box stores and salon products (I think commercials marketing cheap "salon quality products" made us believe that salon products should also be in stores).
Great video!!!
Thank you ☺️!! And often times those are expired so they’re legit, but olddd. If it looks too good to be true it probably is!
Thank you so much for this very timely video!! I've been a BoxyCharm subscriber for almost a year (literally canceled in the middle of watching your video 😅). But I remember a flag when I was first considering signing up for BoxyCharm, wondering what's happening on the backend for them to be able to offer full-size products (that's what they hype up the most for the premium box) but for less than $40 a month (the math wasn't mathing). It just wasn't clicking why they can offer these full size products and several at a time for cheaper than what you can find in Sephora or Ulta or even directly from a brand. I still had the packaging left from some products I received in my boxes and compared them to the brand websites' product lists and there were new ingredients, some were missing or some had shifted to a higher spot in the list. Needless to say...I've received several counterfeit products in their boxes for brands like Farsáli, Frank Body, Glow Recipe and ABH. So again, thank you for this, it was SUPER informative. Only buying directly from brand websites now!!
Report that business
This makes sense why some brands like Adwoa, you most likely never find it in stores you really have to order on their website. Maybe they realized this issue.
Thanks for this. I keep telling myself to stop buying my hair products from TJ Maxx but sometimes I see deals I can't resist. I have been buying from Ulta more lately but I think I'll stick to them or the manufacturer exclusively now. I can't afford to loose more hair. Plus I could be judging products wrong because I'm using something old, counterfeit, or diluted.
Girl I truly truly appreciate this video. I rather pay extra from the companies and be safe than to buy from someone else. Thank you so so much!!!.
Glad you have informed us! No one should be duped!
This was such an eye opener. Thank you for this video. Knowledge is definitely power.
Wheeeww I’m so glad you made this because I definitely bought a few fakes in my day and just thought it was a bad batch!
Wow!!! Thank you for this, Bri 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I just recently started only using water and oil on my hair (I have locs) and that’s it! I was just tired of all the products. I’ve saved so much money!!! I also use shampoo but it’s always natural from a small business or soap (dr bronners)
Your hair looks AMAZING 😍😍😍🤌🏾
Truly have to be more mindful about products and anything else going in my body 😩
Thanks for bringing much needed attention to this Bri, it was a very well and thorough researched video. We need to all do our due diligence to ensure the products we're purchasing and using are authentic.
OMG!!! I HAD NO IDEA. GIRL!!! YOU GOT ME IN MY CLOSET CHECKING ALL MY HAIR PRODUCTS...LIKE MAYBE THAT IS WHY MY HAOR WON'T GROW PAST A CERTAIN LENGTH OR KEEPS BREAKING OFF!!! 😳😖
This video is AMAAAAZING GIRL THIS EDITING !!!!! YES MAAM!!!!!
Regarding expiration dates... Look at the bottom of the product some of them have a 3, 6, 9 or 12 on it, those are how many months you could use the product from the time it is opened. They really need to have an expiration date that's bold, large and clearly visible from a distance.
Thank you! I think you just saved my hair & scalp. I’ve been noticing a change in my hair with regarding to thinning and bald spots and I just couldn’t put my finger on why. Came across your video and looked through products that i suspected was fishy but didn’t think anything of it. Turns out, they may very well be counterfeit. Thank God I stopped purchasing from them for 3months now but before then I’ve used their counterfeit goods for 3 consecutive months 😭 Thank you so much!!!
She said 'DO YOU WANT TO RISK RAT DROPPINGS' next time I go to the beauty supply store going to watch out for some of these signs
This is so good! I learned so much from this video. The first time I really started paying attention to the ingredients in my products was after watching a video you talked about the Think Dirty app. I also watched the video you shared about your EcoStyler experience. This is an important issue and deserves more awareness!!! Thank you for sharing.
This is putting the "Cantu dried out my hair" "Auntie Jackie made my hair fall out" into perspective for me because I did not understand, at most I thought "products vary due to ingredients allowed per country" if that makes sense but I genuinely forgot hair stuff can also be counterfit😭
I just finished watching! This deep dive was so informative. Keep these videos coming! Thanks girl 😇
Honestly this was eye opening and scary. I buy a lot of hair products and skincare products from marshalls to save money. Definitely just gonna have to go and buy the real thing
Bri!!! First thank you for the video because WHEW!!While you were talking my daughter and I started looking in the house and let me tell you! We found counterfeit hair setting lotion,hand sanitizer,moisturizing product,skin products and body wash products! We bought these items at a Major retailer! We still had like a little bit of each of these products left so we had the original bottles and compared and let me tell you I was drove! My son had an allergic reaction whereas his whole face broke out ,lips too using the moisturizer enough where we had to visit a dermatologist due to the burn marks and I thought " Oh it was a bad batch" as well, the body soap broke my grandson out and scarred his stomach from the irritation .So freaking over these counterfeits,people are seriously being injured for money! I remember one lady in particular coming into a salon as a buying agent to get the stylist hair products.The stylist laid into her because I suffered burns in my hair and her mom from the so called professional products.She actually call the police and made a report of fraudulent products being sold and sent the police to the address of the lady,but she wasn't there, the address was phony.She did get caught trying to sell products to one of my stylist friends at her shop in another city under another name.
Okay. This makes so much sense. Why did I not question the products I bought when they made my eyes literally water, dripping down my face with tears. I need to be WAY more conscious of where I’m buying from.
at 4:24 😂😂😂 the homage to 2020 made me subscribe
Thank you for doing this video, now I have somewhere to send people when I try to explain to them that a lot of these products are fakes coming out of China and that you have to be careful. I also think people buying anything on social media are just silly. I got GOT 1 time and that was more than enough for me.
Can't stop commenting. Bought a pack of Pepperidge Farm cookies this week. It was sealed. Comes in sets of 4 paper holders with four cookies each. Had only two paper holders and in one, two cookies were bitten into. This was a SEALED bag of Montauk cookies!! Buyer beware.
That's messed up!🤣 Maybe a disgruntled factory worker.
Omg what's happening to this country thank God u saw that!🙏🏼♥️
this was so eye opening. you really have to be careful with beauty supply products not only bc of counterfeits but a lot of products that are on the shelves are expired🙄… i bought a cowash that i’ve ordered from camille rose naturals site directly but i didn’t feel like waiting so i went to the beauty supply for the item and chileeeeee when i got home to use it, it smelled like play dough and the consistency was weird😵💫
My eyes constantly eater when i use elf liquid liner and my stupid self keeps buying it 🤦🏽♀️ it just occurred to me
Wow! You learn something everyday! Ugh I swear money is the root of all evil! How can ppl consciously do something with rat droppings in a product. But with all this being said, is this a wake up call that we should maybe stick to one or a couple of products that we use. AND maybe we should only buy from small businesses where they make products from their kitchen. I don’t know my brain is going off right now lol none the less, THIS was an awesome video. I love when you do your informative videos! You’re so smart Bri 🤓 please please keep coming out with whatever content you think will help us. It’s obvious we need it. We are listening 👂🏽
As being a cosmetologist i have tried to warn my clients of this for years but they honestly dont listen!
The moment you said the wig glue made you break out I screamed so hard because me too!!
Bri, thank you girl!! Please keep us alert!
Watching this video makes me want to go in my cabinets and get rid of old expired hair products and skin products as well as dupes. Thanks Bri!
It’s a refreshing feeling! Anytime
but then with the whole bottom line controlling the outcome and putting our health on the line we literally can't really trust anyone. Especially when they will consistently only get a slap on the wrist. Thanks for this Bri. But save us all is so right. Even a legitimate item or product can be placed with harmful ingredients so like we can't win
Not they'll name their shop name after the product they have the most counterfeit of. 😩🤦🏽♀️😂❤️
I've seen it with my own eyes! It'll be like "Seller: beauty blender LLlc" ...and I'm like, someone is definitely taking 3 L's if they shop here 😭
Girl you got me over here questioning my products 😭. I definitely will be more careful from now on.
I'm only 39 seconds into the video and I just gotta say, babe the editing is TOP NOTCH
Amazon has sketchy hair product vendors as well! Some packages would be delivered already opened or safety seal removed, half empty.
I always check the storefront info as well as the reviews now.
I’ve even seen counterfeit health supplements on Amazon when trying to buy azo and vitamin c. It’s ridiculous
Yep! I go to their website to see if the brand has a direct link to their legit personal amazon or an approved vendor on Amazon
BRI!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to plan out and produce such an excellent and informative video! ❤️
Yeah I bought (what I thought) was a milani blush off Amazon. But I'm pretty sure it was a counterfit due to the weird packaging. BRB, throwing it away now🥲
This was such an awesome and well put together video!
I remember back when I first started college, my mom and I were in the BSS, and I was looking at some of the products (wasn't intending to buy any but I just wanted to look and see what they had), my mom randomly commented out loud "be careful, these people be mixing products and putting it on the shelf." It was something like that, I don't quite remember verbatim. Now when she said that I started looking around like "what!?!" Now mind you it didn't sound impossible, but it did sound crazy. Years and years later, I bought some gorilla snot from the BSS, and I'm telling you what I know the product to be because I used it for years and what I bought from the BSS?? 2 different things!!!!!!
Very well done video and unique approach to a serious problem. Kudos to you!
This was incredibly helpful I'm a vine reviewer for Amazon and this opened to eyes to dupes on their marketplace. I can now report accordingly. Great work 😊
This is a very interesting video, I loved it. I'm with you Bri. Thank you for sharing ❤
Yessssss come through info! Let me see what’s going on here 🙌🏽
Thank you! Had to share
IKR!
Thank you Mama! Smh.... Good l👀king out!!! 🖤🙊🙉🙈
I had that experience too with the Eco gel. It made my eyes water and made them sensitive especially when I used heat from a dryer. It seems to give off fumes when it heats up. But companies are problematic too and need to make products accessible to thwart counterfeiters. The exclusivity model doesn't work anymore.
Curly Chemistry made a video on that. It's one of the preservatives used. You can check it out.
Enthroned edges is her edge control.
i’m with you bri, i’m checking all mi products when i get home
I noticed this with local beauty supply stores selling Shea Moisture. The product felt like Cantu and smelled different.
Makes sense
Lol your editing is just EVERYTHING MAN!! Keeps me engaged and helps me not to miss the point. Love your videos bri! Thank you so much for this information
This is crazy bc I bought some TGIN conditioners from target about a yr ago and one of them stank like relaxer! I never used it before and assumed thats just how it smell but i didn't use it and I couldn't take it back bc of the pandemic. Now im wondering if it was fake or gone bad or sumn smh.. crazy!
I am soooo glad this video was recommended to me. You did justice to this topic! ❤️🌱✊🏽
Girl...this was right on!!!
Idk any of this. I am so grateful 🙏.
This is where our Black entrepreneurs can really shine!! Use this info to your advantage and get your site out there.
I, for one, am looking for all my BOB haircare homemade products, perhaps made to order.
Thanks so much!
Couldn’t agree more!
thank you for this video, I didn't expect real box stores to have counterfeits products too... smh
I love you!!! This was such a great breakdown counterfeiting. I am very skeptical when buying certain items online or on Amazon but after watching your video I’m side-eyeing major stores as well. This is crazy I had no idea the extent of how far this epidemic is going. Thank you so much for the research you have done, it has really opened my eyes and I will be more observing when buying products even more now.
I am very interested. I would love a follow up video.
Amazing video! So informative and I can’t believe all this happens right in front of our faces!😩 Definitely gonna implement those tips you’ve mentioned!!!💕
it's pretty shocking, but also not surprising in a Capitalist society smh! glad this is helpful 💕
Please do a hair tutorial, I want this same froooooo please bless me lol
Man this is sad. People tend to order online to save money and to avoid needing to use transportation if they dont have the gas money, a vehicle or dont want to use public transportation. This hards the most at risk populations, the poor, disenfranchised and possibly disabled.