xoVain says nail polish dupes are plagiarism

I mean, I already knew that it was the worst of the beauty websites, but come on. The comments are so much more informed and insightful than the article itself.

One point that I haven't seen in the comments is the fact that a lot of cheap dupes actually existed before Chanel or whatever other bajillion-dollar beauty company decided that they were going to release and promote that shade. That's the case with the Chanel dupe I posted about, as well as the Cult Nails one. It's not ripping off Cult Nails (an indie designer), because I bought the F21 version in July, months before Cult Nails started selling theirs. It's not that the bigger/more expensive company copied the smaller one either, in most cases, as the author tries to argue in the comments. Wet N Wild was not being ripped off by Chanel. It's just fucking teal duochrome nail polish. Someone has already made it. There are limited possibilities. (I know that sometimes indie designers and sellers do get ripped off. That's really not what this is about.)

It's snobbery masquerading as ethics.