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The theme for the October 2016 Play! By Sephora subscription box is The Cool Cut:
This month, PLAY! by SEPHORA is bringing you innovative formulas and indie finds with a selection of the coolest must-have products.
And the forum is discussing the possible full spoilers (NOT Confirmed) here. (I will update with a full-post when I can confirm those spoilers.)
Again, there will be box variation this month. Possible variation box numbers are: #1850106 #1850072, #1850122 & #1850114. (You may be able to see which box you are getting in your account.)
PLAY! by Sephora is a monthly beauty and makeup subscription box. Each month, Sephora sends you a mix of six samples (including cosmetics, haircare, skincare, fragrances, and other beauty products) personalized to match your preferences and a PLAY! BOOK of tips and tricks.
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Can anyone confirm these possibilities (products are not necessarily in the same box)?
Christophe Robin Regenerating Mask with Rare Prickly Pear Seed Oil
Erborian Bamboo Creme Frappee Skin Reviving Fresh Gel
Farmacy Skin Dew Mist
Estee Edit Flash Photo Gloss
Smashbox Always On Liquid Lip
YSL Mon Paris
If these few turn out correct, then the remaining list is probably true as well, but I suppose we’ll know soon enough!
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Aly
Please tell us the rest of the potential list!!!! I I am dying to know ?
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anonymous
@Jay, exactly. The ‘remaining list’ I have for October includes more indie-style brands, but I’m hesitant to post full product details because they have not been confirmed. However, the potential brands are mostly what others have already guessed, like Too Cool for School, Belif, Drunk Elephant, Skin Inc, Nudestix, Blinc, Verb, Madam CJ Walker, Derek Lam, and Tom Ford.
Boxes should start rolling in this week, so we’ll see what happens! 🙂
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Jay
This list of potential brands makes me insanely happy. I almost don’t want to get spoilers confirmed now – I think I prefer, to borrow a line from Emily Dickinson, to “dwell in possibility!”
Ha, but who I am kidding? I can’t wait for confirmed spoilers! ?
Liz Cadman
Please feel free to post full product details! 😉 We can always share the spoiler list with a caveat that these are suspected and not confirmed.
Thank you so much for always sharing your inside scoop with us!!! 🙂
Jay
The more I think about this list as potential spoilers, the more I think it’s way more probable than the spoilers from the random YouTube nobody’s video. The Mon Paris was in Sephora’s “New Season, New Scent” promo last month. The prickly pear mask is an “innovative formula” (more so than the Drybar dry shampoo), and Estée Edit’s brand identity not only fits the bill, but its name is practically synonymous with “Cool Cut.”
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Jay
Well, this would be an interesting twist – I haven’t seen any of these products mentioned as spoilers. My first thought was that the last 3 items aren’t “indie” enough, but the theme spoiler released by Sephora didn’t claim the box was all indie brands – rather it was “innovative formulas and indie finds with a selection of the coolest must-have products.” And if we focus less on “indie” and more on the other descriptors, these products may very well for the bill. Especially since they’re pushing that Estée Edit line hard as the hip, snapchat savvy, Austin-bound younger sister of the more refined, established Estée Lauder line.
The plot thickens!
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b
My 072 box shipped, and estimated delivery is for Tues, Oct 18.
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Jen
My box will be delivered Monday ! But of course I’m hoping for spoilers/confirmed spoilers before then. I love that most people on here like ruining surprises just as much as me ?
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Alisonka
Mine shipped 2 days ago, but I did not get an email notifying me. This is strange. I only noticed because I logged into my account to see if I could see my box items yet. Are they up to something? The possible spoilers look decent, but I’m really really sick of getting highlighters (and bronzers). As much as I want to and as much as I’ve tried, I just can’t use them 🙁 I can’t be in the minority here. I’m a little confused as to why the are such common items.
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Renee
And potentially a lilac highlighter, at that. I don’t use highlighters or bronzers, either, and it can’t meet the manufacturers’ needs to put things in the hands of someone who will never buy their product. It is lose/lose, since neither side gets what they want from the transaction, but I guess we all know what we’re getting into. For $10, I get to try enough stuff I like to make up for the items that are of no use to me.
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Alisonka
I do agree. I’ve been overall pleased with play. There is always 2-3 items I like. It’s just total overkill. Especially when I sub to 3 boxes and get bronzers in 2 and highlighter in 1 and it’s october. I’ve let it go all summer and now have a bag full of bronzer/highlighter that I have to find someone to take off my hands (for me, they’re hard to get rid of). I don’t like to throw things away.
Raychel
Side note: Has anyone seen any spoilers about when the Fall/Winter VIB Rouge sale is going to be this year? I thought I saw something about maybe the end of October but perhaps that was just in a dream ??? lol
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Tiffany
Come ON sephora! I need to know! So frustrating!
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Kiley
My October box just shipped and I have always been able to peek at what I’m getting. This month, my products aren’t showing ??
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Cassie
My box shipped a couple days ago, but I am still unable to see what I’m getting! Can anyone else see their products? This is so frustrating lol
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Terri
I got mine in the mail today: Box 106 and I’m happy!
As reported I got:
Estee edit Gloss
Smashbox gloss
Pharmacy Skin Dew
But I got more appropriate items for me:
TLC Framboos Glycolic Night Serum
Madam Walker Beauty Culture Coconut oil (for hair)
Derek Lam 10 Crosby Silent Street Eau de Parfume
The night serum is a generous size
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Renee
What box # did you get that shipped?
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KC
Mine was #072 and ETD is 10/18.
Cassie
I am getting Item #1850106. What about you?
KC
Nope – same boat. Mine shipped but no contents breakdown showing.
Guess we will be super surprised this month. 🙂
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Cassie
Right! Surprises are fun, but I want to know now lol
Jen
It looks like shipping started I’m surprised full spoilers weren’t confirmed or revealed if they are different.
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Chelsea
My box FINALLY Shipped! I can’t wait to see what I’m getting! This will be my first Play!
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Emily
My Sephora account says my box shipped today but I haven’t gotten an email yet and I still can’t see what items I’m getting! Can’t believe we STILL don’t know.
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Amber
No word yet on shipping for me…I’m a little perturbed about the *spoilers* for this month. The supposed items don’t really fit the theme sephora gave us. This is only my second box, and I’m already considering canceling. 🙁
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Dianne
Just resubscribed no wait list. Looks like I get next month’s.
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Sara
I’m going to throw a wrench into this guessing game, and I’m going to say that the box you get doesn’t have much to do with profiles but rather which distribution center it is coming out of? Perhaps they haven’t been able to expand the Play box to new subscribers while maintaining that quantity of ‘sample’ sizes. Usually the companies give them to Sephora for free and write them off as advertising and write off the full amount at 100% of the MSRP. So my guess was they’re having issues getting enough samples of particular items and so they’re have multiple companies and a mix of items in the boxes to allow for more subscribers. To be consistent they would then distribute those particular samples to only certain distribution centers. I noticed that the last time the opened it up the list after a long period is when we first received two variations, and then again they just opened up the subscription to many people and now we have possibly four options. So maybe we see if we’re split by region? I’m getting box 072 and live in NM.
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Caligirl
I’m 072 and i’m in California
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Tonia Zornes
#22 live in KY
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Cathy
I am getting 72 and I am in NC…
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Katie
I’m getting 072 and I’m in CT.
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Amilita
I’m 072 Columbus Ohio so that don’t seem right
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b
Not sure if it’s related to region – I’m getting box 072, and live in Indiana.
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Ragan
I’m getting 072 and I live in Georgia…
Helen Whaley
That makes more sense than matching the boxes to our beauty profiles. I’m getting 72 and am in AZ.
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cdj
I am getting 114 and I am in AZ
Caitlin
This could be a pretty disappointing box if the concealer and brow shades don’t match. Between those and the dry shampoo, there would only be two items left that I’m mildly interested in. I wish I got last month’s!
However if the concealer matches, I will be happy!
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Sarah
All that matters with the different box numbers is hair color and skin tone. Hair color for the brow pencil. Skin tone for the concealer. People are looking way too into this! Lol
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Luna
Also, Josie Maran has many different types of those masks (there’s currently a kit out with five different Josie Maran masks), so I’m sure skin concerns is another deciding factor.
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wackyjgal
Hey Gals & Guys,
I have a question, I finally got off the waitlist a few weeks ago, and so I should hopefully be getting this month’s October Bag. When do subscribers get their bags, is there a certain week in the month that I should except to keep a close look out for the bag? The anticipation is killing me!!
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Caitlin
“-All PLAY! by SEPHORA boxes will arrive within a three to five day period around the 20th of every month. You will receive an email when your box ships, so you can track it to your doorstep. ” Taken directly from the page where you sign up.
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cindycb
SO bummed I will probably miss out on this months box. Someone used my credit card and the bank made me get a new number, I am discovering everyday somewhere that I have automatic payments set up. Sephora Play was one of them. They sent me an email telling me that I had to update my form of payment by the 7th, but I was on vacation and didn’t see it
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deborah nolan
that’s funny I missed September box because that happened to me. I was really looking forward to it. I couldn’t figure out why my box was taking so long. It looked like a good box
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KC
OMG, Sephora…come on with the confirmation of the spoilers already!!
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VOH
I got an email yesterday asking me if I wanted to see the spoilers, and the link just took me to…the music playlist. There were no spoilers.
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KC
LOL, I get that silly email each month, too. I didn’t fall for it this time, though.
Kaitlynn Marie
I’m getting 122. Wonder what it will be ?
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Shana Wehr
Me to, and its my first box from Sephora, I dont live close to a sephora store so I figured this was the next best thing.
Hope this info will help one of our box detectives find a common thread…lol.
I have to say I am a little bummed Sephora doesn’t have the usual sneak-peak type video already to accompany the theme reveal as per usual. I need some kind of inkling to run with!
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Katie
Blonde hair, blue eyes and light skin. I’m getting 072
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Amilita
I have porcelain skin and hazel eyes blonde hair and I’m getting 072
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Kiley
Same… light skin, blonde hair, hazel eyes… box 72
Emily
The reason (or one of them) for the variations has got to be hair color. They wouldn’t send everyone the same color brow pencil.
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Christine
I’m getting 72 like the poster above, but she is a brunette and I am a blonde. The only thing we have in common is dark circles….. the mystery continues!
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Ragan
Well I am getting 072 and I DON’T have dark circles.
Sam
I saw someone on IG posting some October spoilers! Not sure how accurate it is, but it looks great!
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Jay
What were the items in the IG spoiler? Don’t tease us like that, baby, can’t you see what a desperate bunch we are?! ?
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Sam
She has posted:
*drybar detox dry shampoo
*benefit goof proof brow pencil
*josie maran whipped mud mask
*looks like a milk highlighter
*becca concealer
Her IG is beautybyalesha
Kazie
Im getting #106 and have anti-aging checked so not sure about all of that…
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Alyce
I’m #106 and have anti-aging. 🙂
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Amy
Then I’m completely stumped lol. Obviously not the anti-aging. Maybe the brow color? Lol. I don’t ever remember there be a section for that though. Soon we will know and we’ll all be like “duh! Why didn’t we realize that sooner!” Ha!
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Kimber
I’m getting box 72. I’ve dry skin.
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