FYI – Play! By Sephora Subscription is Ending

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Slightly off topic, but the Mystery Lip (Sephora Favorites) Kit has been discounted to $9 from $16. As of this post, it’s still available. 🙂

The kit includes:
– 0.07 oz/ 2.1 g Bite Beauty Multistick in Almond
– 0.1 oz/ 3 mL Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Ludwig
– Sephoji pin

Plus one of the below items:
– 0.05 oz/ 1.5 mL Ciaté London Glitter Flip in Infamous
– 0.07 oz/ 2 g Grande Cosmetics GrandeLIPS: Hydrating Lip Plumper in Clear Gloss
– 0.06 oz/ 2 mL NARS Powermatte Lip Pigment in Starwoman

I canceled long ago. It wasn’t the size of the samples that were a problem for me. It was only $10.00. It was the repetition and the entire boxes that weren’t suited to your profile.
I hope they come up with something better because I love Sephora.

I saw your comments! Thanks for the spoilers

i just found the new Sephora luxe box and some contents ….its 25.00 a month and bigger products…just go to yahoo and type in Sephora..lists will come up and it shows a new box and products…looks good.

That was a surprising email to receive (IMO), but I’m okay with it. I was getting frustrated with the curation, too. I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and eventually I was sad to be getting so many repeats (glowstarter primer, Kat Von D eyeliner, etc.). The point of subscription boxes, to me, is to have variety and the chance to try new things. Yet it was pretty apparent Sephora wasn’t putting a lot of thought into providing a chance to try new items, and instead throwing in whatever overstock of samples/100 pt. rewards they’ve had on hand. But for 10 bucks and change I was okay with continuing.

I am curious about the blurb above in the FAQs stating long-standing members are receiving an extra sample. Is this in reference to the final April box? Does anyone know?

I’m glad they’re going to try something bigger and hopefully better. I’ve been a long time subscriber subscriber play (as well as a few other subs) and like everyone else I’ve gotten a lot of products i’d never use or want to try. Yet that’s part of the point of these boxes. Isn’t it? To try new products you normally wouldn’t? But when they’re were products that i didn’t like or would work with my hair, skin, etc. I’d save them in a tote for about 6 months and then pull out my ipsy makeup bags i didn’t like and make a bunch of beauty care bags and bring them to the local shelters. There’s always someone who can use what you don’t like in your boxes and the products I’ve discovered thanks to these boxes (especially the high priced items) has really been a godsend to some of my skin and hair needs.

I left them and Ipsy a LONG time ago…..the bags were repetitive. The samples were super tiny! Now I’m a hardcore Boxycharm girl. I’ve done Allure as well. They were good but the samples got a little repetitive also. Prefer to spend a little more on items that are bigger.

well all I got after 6 months was repeats…maybe if they went to 15.00 a month..and gave 5 bigger products this may have worked..oh well, see ya later..

I quit this when it was fairly new. I kept getting samples of things I would never use, I seem to recall a lot of bronzer and self-tanner, and the same types of things (though not repeats) month after month, so I sent them a message with some feedback (not rude) and their response was basically “get lost if you don’t like it” so I left.

In the meantime I have had some other negative experiences with Sephora online ordering (like they discontinued my foundation, let me order it anyway, then substituted a random shade for the one I needed, and I couldn’t cancel the order even minutes later, so I had to go to a store to return it once the package arrived) and another time they just canceled the main thing I had ordered without explanation and sent the smaller thing I didn’t care about so much but had just ordered to get free shipping. Basically just bad inventory management and poor communication on more than one occasion.

So now I don’t shop there anymore. (A couple of years ago I hit Rouge by April so this is a change.)

Spoilers are out for Sephora’s next Play! Luxe box coming out April 28th:

Armani Beauty Lip Maestro Liquid Matte Lipstick in 400
Guerlain L’Or 24K Gold Radiance Primer
Kérastase Resistance Length Strengthening Blow-Dry Primer
La Mer The Moisturizing Soft Cream
Sulwhasoo First Care Activating Serum
Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb (small bottle)

I think we will be seeing alot of sub boxes ending over the next few months unfortunately.

Not surprising based on all of the leftovers that go sale. I’m actually excited because hopefully this mean they are coming out with more luxe or a better version of play. I would pay more if it was more like beautyfix. I cancelled a long time ago, it wasn’t even worth $10!

I am actually glad they are focusing on the larger box – I canceled Play a long time ago – the samples were so tiny

I’m not surprised, the boxes were getting repetitive. I canceled about 18 months ago, but kept reading the reviews and spoilers. I’ve seen samples I received years ago in new boxes this year. I switched to BeautyFIX because I wanted more skincare and less makeup.

Oh no!!!! After cancelling ipsy and allure ages ago, play was the last subscription box I really enjoyed! I’m not surprised that they are replacing it with sample kits that cost more than double the price of play. Isn’t that just typical!
It was fun while it lasted. *sigh*

Devastated! Just got their email.

I signed up for Allure instead. See how that goes.

I never understood why they had such lackluster boxes and so much repetition when they have access to literally every major and obscure beauty brand on the planet. Would love to see them do something truly worth of their brand reputation.

They should have sent bigger sizes and more variety instead of canceling play! Completely. I think it’s a mistake. Sephora should have the best subscription out there.

Yay!!! 🙌 I hope they make a better box!!! 📦

I am extremely sad that Play is ending. I have been with them since the very beginning when they were first testing it out in select cities. While I did occasionally get repeats I also discovered many of my “holy grail” products through this sub. It was fun while lasted, now I’m off to Ipsy! I love that you can pick an item every month and choose add-ons as well.

Hopefully they stock more of the Luxe boxes, since they usually sell out in a flash.

I subscribed for about a year and then canceled two years ago. At the end, I just did not like barbie size samples. I know it was only $10, but still Ipsy and Birchbox are sending bigger samples.

Bummer I loved Sephora play subscription! Looking forward to spoilers for the April 28th luxe box . Macy’s quit doing their subscription boxes too! I already have Allure Boxycharm and premium and Boxyluxe as well as Ipsy glam bag and plus.

I resubscribed to Allure