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Play! By Sephora May 2018 Box #743 FULL SPOILERS!

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ByMSAMay 11, 2018 | 37 comments

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We have spoilers for the May Play! By Sephora #743 box! (Thanks Alexis!) First, exclusive info just for MSA readers from Sephora:

PLAY! by SEPHORA is celebrating it’s 2-year anniversary and you’re invited to the party! Subscribe by May 8th to receive the May box—it comes with a special edition PLAY! PASS that’s worth 50 Beauty Insider points and can be redeemed online or in store for the FIRST. TIME. EVER. Subscribe now before spots are gone!

To recap: You will be able to redeem your 50 point Play! Pass online for the first time ever.

Box #743 will include:

 

Sephora has also posted a video of all the samples featured in the May Play! By Sephora box!

The theme is "Beauty Goals" and here’s a look at all the products that may be in your May box:

Plus, exclusive info just for MSA readers from Sephora:

PLAY! by SEPHORA is celebrating it’s 2-year anniversary and you’re invited to the party! Subscribe by May 8th to receive the May box—it comes with a special edition PLAY! PASS that’s worth 50 Beauty Insider points and can be redeemed online or in store for the FIRST. TIME. EVER. Subscribe now before spots are gone!

To recap: You will be able to redeem your 50 point Play! Pass online for the first time ever.

And in case you missed it, here is the first spoiler. Your box will have one of the following products:

Box #735 will include:

Box #719 will include:

Box #768 will include:

Box #693 will include:

Box #727 will include:

Box #776 will include:

Box #701 will include:

To find out which box you’re receiving at the beginning of each month, follow these instructions:

If you log in through a browser, not the app, and go to my account > account details > online orders and open the play! Order Details (it was dated 11/1 for me), you can see the “item number” next to the image.

What do you think of the spoilers? Reminder, if you want to get the May Play by Sephora box, make sure to sign up by the 8th!

Check out our Play! by Sephora reviews, and all of our reviews of Cheap Subscription Boxes to find more similarly priced subscription boxes!

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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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37 comments

Kirsten

Box #727 I’ve got all these products, but I know I’ll use the wave spray (I have two others I’ll get to as well) and Caudalie moisturizer, which is at least light enough for my oily hormonal skin.

I wish there was something I hadn’t tried yet (looking at you, Becca highlighter!) but the biggest let down was yet another black eyeliner. Please, please send a different color next time!

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Nathaly

I received Box #693. These are a lot of repeats for me. The Becca champagne pop is not broken, but it comes completely off the pan. Does anyone know if they replace damaged products or provide a refund?

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mallory

I got box 693 also- my champagne pop was actually broken into so many tiny pieces theres no way I could even try to fix it. I opened it and it flew everywhere. I called customer service and they don’t give refunds or replacements, but they will just add 100 points for every item that it broken. 🙁 I haven’t been impressed with this box at all but I don’t want to cancel because surely they have to realize that their subscription sucks and will start sending better things?!

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Yarngirl

I was surprised to get my box already, because I don’t usually see it for almost 2 weeks after I get the shipping notice.
I got #693 and I’m not impressed at all. Tiny sample of pore-fessional, which I actually use. Another black eyeliner and another Flowerbomb. Nice size for the highlighter and thickening hair spray, too bad I am super-pale with thick hair, so neither will work for me. And a tiny Sephora brand sample. I think I have received tiny Sephora for at least 3 months in a row, one month included two!
I have been with play for over a year and was happy with it until this year. I really think they are saving most of their “good” samples, deluxe sizes, for GWP and favorites curations at this point, so I’ve canceled. Just not a fun surprise anymore with so many tiny, randomly selected samples, mostly of products that have been around for a long time.

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Anieke

Would you swap/sell Becca?

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Resa

Yup, same box 693 here that just arrived, and same thoughts. Coincidentally, I’ve also been subscribed for just over a year and these are all repeats for me except the Sephora mask. While I will use all of it – the products themselves are good – there was nothing new to market and exciting to try. Of all my 10 subscription boxes…this is the second on my list I find ready to break from. Birchbox was deleted from my mailbox 6 months ago with no remorse.

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Kirsten

Resa, I recently trimmed my subs from 7 down to 6. I’m curious, which subs do you find to be your favorites, or most worth the money?

AnnieS.

Did we every solve the mystery of why box 768 has none of the ‘spoiler’ items while box 693 has all of them?

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Ashley

I am done. I loathe you Sephora. I get better selection and larger sizes from boxes that cost twice as much. The final straw this month was the terrible instructions they included for the Black Opium perfume sample. I honestly like the scent, but I have none left to use. My comforter and shirt used it all. Both will probably be ruined. The instructions state, “Crack open the vial–you won’t break it! The unique lid is made to flip upside down to close it back up.” They lied.

I hate this subscription and have cancelled many times before. I keep getting sucked back in by a spoiler update showing a product I really want to try. I even go and change my beauty preferences so that specific product would meet my customized needs, yet I still don’t get it. Not once have I received the samples I requested when making a regular purchase either. It has become obvious that Sephora engages in false advertising and simply doesn’t care about their customers.

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Danielle

So I just got my box, and apparently if you want to redeem your points online, there’s a minimum purchase of $20 😒. Haven’t checked to see if that takes up the only code spot, but if I had to guess…

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justmissjamey

Any info on box #744?! Not sure if it’s good or bad, but my box never really shows up here….

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Kay

#743 is pretty awful, we don’t get any of the good powders, and the worst makeup items.

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Susan Nelson

I got 743 and it’s pretty terrible. I’ve tried the smashbox primers a million times, I dont need more mascara samples and my Caudalie sorbet tube was completely empty.

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Bree

hehehe … I am KINDA satisfied with #743

I agree. For me they would have left out that mascara (I just bought this last week!) … I would have loved to have that Laura Mercier powder, box 768 would have been perfect! And, I have the sorbet already – and I think it came from Play! I’ll welcome testing out the Deva Curl, but scheesh — that will only do 1/10 of my head!

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Court

Anyone know what’s in box 750?? My box is never on these list of spoilers! =(

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Julie

750 has Stila stay all day liquid lipstick in Patina, Smashbox pore minimizing primer, Devacurl Supercream Coconut curl styler, Caudalie Vinosource Moisturizer, Origins Clear Improvement Charcoal Mask, Gucci Bloom perfume. Many repeats for me and doesn’t match my profile. I have dry skin with aging concerns so the primer and mask will go to my daughter. She can have the matte lipstick too. Not good for my age. (It pains me to admit that.)

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Court

All repeats =( I think I’ll be canceling this subscription. I’ve only had it for a year and have had SO. MANY. REPEATS. Or maybe I’ll change my profile so I can get different things.

Mary

Glad I cancelled this for boxycharm, same repeat items. With all the new items in store why not let everyone sample that instead?

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Elizabeth H

Agreed ! I am so close to canceling mine

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Sherry P.

I say we all cancel, then maybe they will get the hint ?? I’m getting 743….. None of the spoilers…….

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Hanna

My boxes area always the last to show in spoilers. Anyone else has 607? It seems like whatever is left they put in it. I always get neon red or pink listicks to my lightest complexion. No nudes or dusty rose, or little brick like colors I would like to try. I superscribe because products are very neat and my frst box was perfect with every product in it! They claim its carefully selected for everyone. I get products in Sephora Box they i already send me in that subscription before! Now i see Flowerbomb, which i have fulll size, Kat Von D liner, which i have full size, Opium Black which i have full size, Marc Jacobs mascara and Smashbox primer, Laura Macier powder, which they already send me in subscription and I have full size. I love these products, but if I get one of them I will cancel. I wish i try Benefit primer, Atelier Cologne scent, or Hour Glass product or Bare Minerals or Becca and nothing for hair cause my hair are long all the way to my hips, no miniature product is never enough 🙂 I had to vent, last months were awful, that purifying peeling mask they send me before and some red lipstick they duplicate in my subscription, SO please Sephora if you read this and you still trying to figure out 607 please don’t fail me again 🙁 And maybe include order history in selection algorithm, and if someone got something in subscription few times before……. and bright skin and bright strong saturated colors… seriously??

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Pink5

None of these boxes are that great this month.

I saw the Sephora rewards page recently, and most of the items on it have already popped in Play! boxes.

They really need to work on stepping it up.

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Lindsey

So true! I’ve been doing Play for almost a year now and nearly ALL of these products are recycled from previous boxes. I have 693, thickening spray? AGAIN!? I have extremely thick hair as it is! And I can’t stand KVD products. I was hoping for to OUAI spray. And I can’t tell you how many Benefit POREfessional minis I already have. *eyeroll*

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AnnieS.

This is my box as well- I hate Flowerbomb with a passion yet I always get samples of it.

Teresa

Are you on the swap site? I am collecting items to put in goodie bags for the teachers at our daughter’s school, and the Pore mini is one of the items I include in there!

justmissjamey

It’s saying my box is #744. Got an email saying it shipped….i hooe it’s not really box #743 because that one looks bad. Between my luck here and with ipsy I’m sure mine will be even worse….i wish some more full size decent makeup sub boxes come out. Like with pallettes not from china, and ones with decent items to try out that people are interested in and will buy the full sized product if it works for them. But at a reasonable price. A girl can hope…lol

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Sammee

I’m getting 743 and I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I just bought a KVD tattoo eyeliner and new Anastasia highlighter from Sephora. Plus, a new primer and mask for pores is actually on my “need” list, so the unfairness of this box works out pretty well for me. But that’s on a strictly personal level. But on a matter of principle, I’m not happy that Sephora is only living up to their promise for some subscribers and not for others. We all pay the same $10, right? This is my first Sephora Play shipment, and I don’t see myself staying subscribed for long (one more month maybe?) if they keep up this type of business practice.

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Kirsten

I’m fair skinned and have gotten at least 3 foundation samples for medium skin tones. Obviously my profile or color IQ has nothing to do with the shades received. And of course enough black eyeliners to sink a battleship. There’s a whole rainbow of other colors out there!
#768 or #693 would be boxes that have something new to try & at least 1 favorite so they’d be cool. I have a feeling I’ll be trying to swap some items for things I want to try but never seem to get, lol. Yay for swaps!

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justmissjamey

I wish I would get medium foundation samples!! (And red lipsticks haga) but I don’t live near a sephora…like 120 miles away and there are no makeup stores in my area, so I use these boxes to test things out on what works and what don’t. Heck, I don’t even know what shade I am…i wish they would send me foundations. Heck, I just placed a 300.00 order and got no samples, no promo nothing…over a year now they keep not sending samples or promos and half the time items I use points for don’t show up.

I wish they would figure things out

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Pink5

To get samples you have to send an email to Customer Service with your order number and samples requested. Or at least that’s what I did and it works (mostly).

The last order I placed I only requested two samples, but whoever picked my order tossed in a third.

Julia

So 743 and 768 both do not contain any of the promised spoilers, and box 693 has all 3? Sephora what are you doing? Are you deliberately trying to lose subscribers? This just seems so wrong to put all 3 in one box, and none in another. This appears deceptive to me, and blatantly unfair to their subscribers. I really hope someone from Sephora reads these comments, because this is just wrong. Maybe the variants need to be decreased, so everyone gets the same spoilers, and no one is left out.

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Punkykiki

This happened to me last month. The spoilers were an Urban Decay lip product or a MUF foundation. My box did not get “spoiled” like the other box numbers. It did not have either the lippie or the foundation and zero new products that were featured. What it DID contain was TWO Sephora house brands. Several of the other box numbers contained BOTH spoilers AND one of the new items. I emailed Sephora (with screenshots of the promised spoilers) and they replied with an email that didn’t address the issue. They just listed my box contents and stated that this was my box. I emailed them again and asked if they were doing a bait and switch. They answered and said that it was never the intent of Sephora to disappoint customers WHILE NEVER ADDRESSING THE ISSUE!!! They did, however, add 100 points to my account so I could (and I quote) “buy the Urban Decay 500 point reward.” Really? I have to use 500 of my over 1,000 points to get something they promised in the first place???

And now we have the exact same issue with these boxes. I wanted to share copies of the emails but Sephora prevents this by having a pretty strict privacy clause at the bottom of their email.

I have also had several orders that did not contain the samples. If I’m buying samples from you with the Play box, why would you think that I wouldn’t want my free ones? I’m out next month for sure. I would have canceled May but I didn’t do it in time. Sephora has been the overall most disappointing sub (as was the Macy’s box).

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Michelle Bross

I really like Macy’s box

Beccah

Yeah, they don’t go by your profile at all! I just got the bumble thickening spray 2 months ago from play!. They seem to have gone down hill since when I first subscribed. I will give it another month then will cancel!

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ReneeH

I agree completely. I have no idea how they determine which variation people get, but definitely not based on my profile. I’m getting 693 and I’m not at all happy. None of these products are new or interesting, they just keep recycling the same stuff over and over again (I’ve gotten the Porefessional at least 4 times now). Time to cancel for me.

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Bushra

Agreed!

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