Play! is a monthly subscription service by Sephora.
It features high end quality products ranging from skin care, cosmetics
and fragrance. The subscription cost $10 and you get 6 samples, a playlist
booklet and a card or coupon to use on your next store visit.
This is my first Play! box and I am really excited! Sephora
is known to carry good products and of course, I am expecting to get the best
samples from them every month.
True to the Sephora style, the packaging of this
subscription is gorgeous. I love the black and white striped design of the box and I like
the pouch that holds the beautiful goodies.
This month’s theme is The Forces of Nature. It features high performing products with
hard working formulas that are good for you.
The Playlist Booklet
The coupon or Play! Pass for this month gives a FREE
one-on-one tutorial at any Sephora store.
You can also receive an extra 50 beauty Insider points when you scan the
Play! Pass in your local store.
Here are the items in this box:
All the items in the box are sample and deluxe sizes.
Orange
Sanguine, a zesty and energizing burst of crushed ripe fruit, plays off sweet
blood orange juice against bitter orange peel and sensual notes of geranium. Complete
with a handcrafted leather cap and a removable pump that allows for splash or
spray use, this cologne brings to mind relaxed mornings, sunrises, and soft sea
breezes.
tarte Tarteist™ Lip Crayon
Line on unique lip
looks with tarte’s twist-up, precise, tarteist™ Lip Crayon. This versatile lip
crayon helps you to easily get vibrant lips with its creamy, easy-glide formula
that imparts rich, hydrating pigment in just one swipe. Featuring an automatic
twist-up tool, its crisp, tapered tip to help contour and accentuate your
natural lip line, leaving you primed and coated with lip-loving™ ingredients
while preventing feathering. Finish off with an expertly-coordinating shade of
the tarteist lip paint (sold separately) to complete the look.
Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick in Kimchi
Swipe on bold, creamy
lip color with Bite Beauty’s Amuse Bouche. Created and crafted by hand, Bite’s
small batch, low-heat process preserves a balanced blend of lip-quenching
nutrients, vitamins, and omega oils that are essential for achieving
healthy-looking lips. Made with 12 edible oils and triple milled pigments, this
lipstick provides saturated lip color with weightless coverage and a citrus
flavor made from fresh pressed fruit.
KORRES Wild Rose + Vitamin C Advanced Brightening
Sleeping Facial
This overnight Wild
Rose facial-in-a-jar is a breakthrough in beauty sleep. More than a mask, more
than a night cream, it contains a generous dose of wild rose oil, boosted with
super C for powerful brightening and antiaging. At the same time, imperata
cylindrica extract time releases moisture throughout the night for continuous
hydration. This product's weightless, whipped texture melts instantly into skin
and works while you sleep to re-texturize and address visible signs of
premature aging. Day after day, week after week, uneven tone and dark spots
will continuously improve. In as little as 14 days you'll see skin that's
brighter, more even-toned, and exceptionally radiant.
Briogeo Don't Despair, Repair!™ Deep Conditioning Mask
This Deep
Conditioning Mask works in minutes to restore essential hydration and natural
vibrancy to dry, brittle, over-processed, and otherwise lackluster hair.
Formulated with Briogeo’s unique NOVA Complex, this mask delivers an optimal
blend of transformative nutrients from B-vitamins, rosehip and argan oils,
algae, and biotin to replenish damaged hair to a shiny, healthy-looking, and
lustrous state.
Origins Maskimizer™ Skin-Optimizing Mask Primer
Maskimizer™ Skin-Optimizing Mask Primer preps, primes, and
optimizes skin for mask to follow. It improves spreadability and rinseability
of masks while hydrating, soothing, and boosting skin's radiance immediately. Great
for use with every type of mask except peel-off, it softens skin and boosts
hydration levels.
Origins Drink Up™ Intensive Overnight Mask
Skin depends on water
for its youthful functioning. But all day long, skin loses vital moisture and
the busier you are, the more it loses. This intense moisture replacement mask
with avocado and apricot kernel oil deeply and instantly quenches compromised
moisture reserves and builds a reservoir for tomorrow. Best for dry skin types,
Japanese seaweed repairs skin's barrier to prevent future dehydration and signs
of premature aging.
Origins Clear Improvement™ Active Charcoal Mask To
Clear Pores
Nature's complexion
clean-up crew clears the way for skin to act its best. Bamboo Charcoal acts
like a magnet to draw out pore-cloggers, white China clay absorbs environmental
toxins, and lecithin dissolves impurities. It helps flush out environmental
toxins, dirt, and debris that can clog pores and cause skin to look
overcast—leaving the complexion clarified and refreshed.
The Verdict:
All in all, I am happy with my first Play! box. I like that all
the items are of good brands. I am just a wee bit disappointed with the size of
the Origins Masks – sachets are a definite no no for subscription boxes…same
thing with the Atelier perfume vial – that is just wrong. My mother got a free
sample of this vial from Sephora the last she made an in store purchase.
Subscription to Play! is still not open to the general
public - there is only a limited amount of subscription available. Right now, there are only a few
small markets receiving their boxes, however, you may sign up and be added to
the waitlist. Once a spot opens, you
will get an email to complete your subscription.
