I'm no expert, but I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Dollar Stores get their inventory from almost expired products that didn't sell via traditional retail cha

I'm no expert, but I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Dollar Stores get their inventory from almost expired products that didn't sell via traditional retail channels, same with overorders or discontinued products. It's coming from real companies and is not knockoffs, but it's more the same style stuff that doesn't sell in Target etc. Whereas in Amazon I've gotten faked products- instead of Jeffree Star lipstick is "Deffree Star" etc. Or just completely accurate looking banana powder but it smells off and doesn't work correctly - after investigating on reddit some other people had gotten the same knockoff- turns out it was just baby powder died yellow. Since getting so many fakes on Amazon, we stopped buying anything from there that goes on your body or in your body. It sucks, tbh. I'd rather pay a way higher markup and be guaranteed the product is legitimate than be rolling the dice with who knows what from China.