Play! By Sephora July 2016 Subscription Box Theme Spoiler!

Wait, how did you see/hear about it? I’m looking everywhere on the internet.

Sounds cute! I hope they keep sending the draw-string pouches. I have endless uses for them.

Am I looking in the wrong place? I go to Online Orders and it shows my pending play box (June 3). I click on it and all it says is “Play! By Sephora”. No box A/B, oily or dry. I hope there’s not a 3rd junk box…

Yes, I posted about this a few days ago further down in the comments. I’m not happy about it because I have dry skin but I do not want that Benefit liquid bronzer nor the Smashbox… Who hasn’t sampled that horrid Smashbox primer several times already?! My skin is sensitive and it breaks me out every single time I try it. I actually like the TF bronzer but know that’s not what they’re going to send me based on my skin type. As soon as I realized what they were doing with variations this month I cancelled on July 1 but am still stuck with this box since you have to cancel before the first. This box has gone downhill but I’m hoping the blotterazi and Ouai will make this months worth it (even though Ouai just went out to many of us in RZ box of style). I’m tired of paying for samples that I don’t really want when I could go into my local store and ask for samples of the exact products I want to test.

Ohhh, yes – mine says normal/dry. I like that they’re taking that into consideration!

Yes, mine says box b normal/dry!!

“PLAY! by SEPHORA / July 2016 Play! Box B – Normal/Dry” for me. Eeeentersting!

And to the person below, yes, when I redeemed my May coupon for points, I was asked several questions. If I liked it, what I liked best… I wonder if they are just supposed to make conversation or if our answers get shared?

I never had a notation. I also haven’t been charged for this month yet but had received an April/May box.
Anyone else not notice a charge?

I redeemed mine a couple weeks ago and she just scanned it and handed it back to me (??). (I know with some Sephora coupons you can reuse them but this doesn’t seem like one where you should be able to.) She didn’t ask me any of that stuff though.

Don’t use bronzers but if they must include it, I hope I get the Too Faced bronzer although I think Sephora will give me the Benefit since I have “normal/dry” . The Benefit one has pretty bad reviews:/

Oooo. I really hope this is correct and I’m not getting my hopes up. Everything but the bronzer sounds great. I’ve had play for 2 months now and have not been impressed. This would make up for it, I think.

I’m very pleased with this news, no clue where you found it because I’ve been searching err’where! Much appreciated and here’s hoping you’re right and that I get the box/bag for combo skin…for some reason my order is still “pending” and sans the notation but they definitely took payment and it went through. Mayhaps it will update on Tuesday. Thanks for the news!

Where did you see this?
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I’m really hoping I don’t get the Too Faced Soleil Bronzer. I love Benefit and I already got the same exact Too Faced sample from Sephora as a 100 point reward TWO years ago!!!

Hi there, @d!

It’s called: Davines SŪ Hair Milk

I looked up the product page through Birchbox so I was sure to have the name right.

Hi Stephanie, boy do I wish that I would’ve seen this a week ago. I just got an email from Sephora Play about a sneak peek for July and me like about 15 (posted) women on Sephora’s discussion page on their website saw first No Sneak Peek but the fact that my card (and theirs) was charged for their July’s box and now all of those and mine shows it’s now OUT OF STOCK! !! I mean what in the hay is going on with these sub boxes lately?? First Birchbox changes the way the “reward ” their faithful subscribers. Now this with Sephora. Do these companies really want to make us women upset, from mossing or broken items to not available or waitlists. I mean I know some ppl say that it’s only $10 but I can’t keep coming up with $10 here and there just to find a box that’s actually worth it, or a company you can trust. I feel like a bunch of others have said on social media and on those companies websites, “either get your act together or stop doing sub boxes ” it’s totally frustrating to me and I’m already stressed with economic difficulties and things going up in price and dealing with my kids and makeup prices being crazy expensive ya kno. It would be nice to have some kind of consistency in the monthly routine of thesr sub boxes that’s ALL. ok they give me a small sample this month next month something is broken or just plain out of stock, it’s a big time pain in my “rump” if you know what I mean. #TotallyConfused

I cancelled mine today too. I cancelled Birchbox a couple months ago once I got off Sephora’s wait list, and now I am so done with these companies. I’m not subscribing to any more boxes unless they seriously step up their game. It irritates me that Sephora sent out these wonderful samples for the first months, and then changed everything once more spots opened up. It’s not worth wasting my money to support a company that’s going to do that- they’re not even trying to hide that the quality has significantly gone down! I’ll be saving my $10/month for something I actually want (like Chipotle) 🙂

Agree totally. I grab my boxes once a week from my p.o. box, and noticed that Play’s samples now seem tiny – even side by side with my Walmart boxes. I may give it a couple more months, but yeah, they’re on the chopping block. Really disappointed.

Agree with your Allure comment too. (Totally keeping that sub! It never disappoints me in quantity or quality.)

Argh. I just looked at my Account and it shows my order as ‘PLAY! by SEPHORA / July 2016 Play! Box B – Normal/Dry’… so I’m guessing this month they are going to be doing variations of their boxes which I don’t love the idea of. I guess it’s good that they are going to cater more to our exact skin types but if they are doing variations I want a say because helloooo box envy. Also, just because my skin is normal/dry doesn’t mean I’m not sweating/glistening all summer long! I’m guessing I will get stuck with the liquid bronzer that I don’t want based on this, and may not get the blotterazzi which was one of the only reasons I didn’t cancel this months box. I hope I’m wrong and I just end up with a different cleanser or something…

I would love all of these! I haven’t tried a wave spray yet because I’ve been hoping for a sample to try first. I have fine wavy hair. There are so many products that don’t work for me:(

Oh I so agree! It’s so insulting to pay for a box, look inside, and receive tiny samples that are so clearly marked “Sample-not for re-sale”. And to think I paid Sephora $10 for these?
I took the trip to my free-standing Sephora today to cash in my points and also buy something so I could get the extra 50 points from my playcard. At the register, the SA tells me they’re all out of the 500 point Beauty Insiders gifts and they only have a few of the 100 ones. There’s a Sephora in a JCPenney in the mall next door, so I asked if she could call over there to see if they had any of the points gifts. They only had a few of the 100 point ones also. It seems that what they carry in the store is nowhere near comparable to online as Beauty Insider gifts. If I want to earn the extra 50 points with my Playcard I have to buy something in the store. Then if I want to redeem the points and get something worthwhile, I have to again purchase something else online for free shipping, unless I spend another $10 for the Sephora Flash shipping for a year. Double purchase just to get what I want or I waste those extra 50 points. More money sucked out of me for Sephora’s gain if I allow it. And I’m not falling for it.
Honestly, I walked around their store today, looking for something to buy, and I lost interest. That’s what subscription boxes and stores like TJMaxx will do to you. You have all these bargains that you get and you just can’t justify their prices anymore for full products. Not unless it’s a promo bag of goodies and that’s rare to find in their stores anymore.
I used to love Sephora, but they seem to be changing their model. As others have said, since July’s box is so secretive, it had better be the HG of boxes. Or I can see a lot of cancellations on the horizon.

Ouai makes alot of sense since they just did this promo thing on snapchat about a number of their hair products. The wave spray looked really nice, I hope its in next months box! I’d really like to try it

@Heather – I’ve been wanting to try something by Ouai, so I’m excited to hear it might be one of the items in July’s box! Thanks for posting!

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@Amy – Sephora doesn’t reveal the contents until after the boxes have been mailed out. I’m not sure how the “sneak peeks” are known, but maybe certain media outlets are granted access.

so true! it’s my first month as well and im dying to see what’ inside D:

The first 8 boxes I received (Sept – April) were great! May’s box was a disappointment, and subpar compared to the previous boxes. June’s box was better than May’s, but I do see the boxes going “down hill.” From what I hear by those who subscribe to a lot of beauty boxes, it seems to be common for beauty boxes to be great for awhile, but then they inevitably become something just average or even disappointing. Guess they need to build up a subscriber base by initially offering great goodies, but once they reach a certain number of subscribers, they don’t need to try as hard? I don’t know. I’ll continue subscribing to Play! by Sephora because I still think it’s fun for just $10 a month, but the boxes definitely have become weaker.

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I received my second box and I honestly don’t know why people think this box is super great. The samples are very small IMO. I have very long, thick hair and by them giving me a tiny tube of hair stuff doesn’t give me a chance to know if it works good or not. I am going to cancel this one and birchbox because neither one is worth $10. I wanted to make a comment about the waitlist, I was initially put on the waitlist and just kept checking back every couple days by just going back on their site and I “got lucky” and it let me join. I never got an email telling me that I had a spot, that’s how I got in.

My hair product was almost 3/4 empty, already, too. I have really oily skin, so I can’t use the primer. I have medium skin, so don’t need the bronzer. I do love the mascara, and am unsure about the sunscreen, but it won’t last long, and I’m not paying for that! My everyday lotion has SPF in it. So disappointed in these boxes! Glad someone else feels the same. My husband was looking at the products I had sitting on the table and was shocked, “You paid $10 for that?”. He’s been to Sephora enough with me, and seen me get other boxes to know it’s not a good deal. I get more products with their gift with purchase the do occasionally. I got twice that many with the holiday GWP, for heavens sake. I’m still using half of them, TBH.