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.

Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine Cologne Absolue Pure Perfume

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.

Click here to sign up to Play! by Sephora