Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

I completely disagree with you about clothes (I never buy hair or skincare there). I often shop in their luxe section and find brands that I love seriously discounted. I can look up those items and find that they are current on the brands website or at intermix, sometimes full price and sometimes on sale.

Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

Whether this is correct or not, I am not sure that I would trust your hairstylist who is presumably pushing his salon's brand.

Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

I'm this PP and I've never bought products from my stylist through the salon in the all the years I've seen her. She's not pushy about that kind of thing in any way (that's part of why I like her so much, my previous stylist was always trying to get me to buy stuff and it got annoying).

Anonymous wrote:For makeup, it's older, old packaging, and stuff that didn't sell very well. The markup on makeup is astonishing, so even if they can sell the lot to TJM for a small amount, they've probably made their costs back. In some cases, the makeup may be not great -- sometimes there's a problem with a product and they reformulate it and send it out again (eg, Anastasia Beverly Hills' Subculture palette). It's possible/probable that the older flawed ones also wind up at TJM.

Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.