For those of you who have been either living under a rock or don't have nearly as much of an obsession with beauty products like I do, you may not know that Sephora is now coming out with a monthly beauty subscription box (think Birchbox or Ipsy but from the mothership).

I've always been hesitant to sign up for subscription boxes - what if they gave me things I wouldn't use or wouldn't like? Was it really worth spending 10 dollars a month - 120 dollars a year? For some reason, when I found out Sephora was coming out with Play! By Sephora, I didn't even hesitate before ordering. I think I was just looking for an excuse to jump on that subscription box bandwagon, and the fact that it was Sephora - which I was hopeful would give me lots of very reputable fancy products - and that I could cancel my subscription any time just sweetened the deal.

It arrived two days after Sephora emailed me to let me know that it had shipped out, so A+ on fast shipping, Sephora! I've been so spoiled by Amazon Prime, so I'm glad Sephora managed to match the shipping speed.

First of all, the box and the packaging was super cute. I'm definitely planning on keeping this box and maybe using it to organize things - maybe my growing collection of sticky notes and washi tape?

Look at how adorable the packaging is!

In the box I got 6 products: the Marc Jacobs Highliner Gel Eye Crayon in Blacquer, Sephora Rouge Infusion in 19 Peony, Ole Henrikson Sheer Transformation face cream, GlamGlow SuperCleanse Daily Clearing Cleanser, Elizabeth and James Nirvana White fragrance, and Bumble and Bumble Bb Haidresser's Invisible Oil Primer.

So let's go through each product.

The Marc Jacobs Highliner sample I received was 0.01 oz. The full size is 0.1 oz and $25, so my sample was worth $2.5. This eyeliner is SO BLACK. I tried it on yesterday along my lower lashline and today again on my tightline, and so far it hasn't budged at all. I have always been a liquid liner kind of girl - stila stay all day liquid eyeliner is my holy grail eyeliner because it's easy to use and also doesn't smudge and I will never use anything else - but I have never found a pencil liner (I guess technically Marc Jacobs markets it as a gel? It's a pencil form, whatever) that didn't move on me. Even my NARS Larger than Life eyeliner that I got as a freebie smudges more than this one!

Full size of the Marc Jacobs liner - the sample has the same packaging, which I really appreciate!

The Sephora Rouge Infusion in 19 Peony is 0.068 fl. oz. The full size is 0.152 fl. oz. and 14 dollars, so my sample is worth approximately $7. I've worn it once and all I can say is it applies easily, it's not blotchy, and it's a pretty color. Since Peony is kind of a MLBB (my lips but better) color, I'm not sure if it hasn't moved all day but I think it hasn't?

Full size of the Sephora lippie. It's a pretty color and I think I'll get a lot of wear out of it! The color of the product is pretty true to color to what it shows here.

The Ole Henrikson Sheer Transformation face cream is 0.25 fl. oz. It comes in multiple sizes, but the 0.5 fl. oz. is 14 dollars, so mine is worth $7. To be honest, I was wary about trying out this product because I have a very strict cleansing/moisturizing regimen because my skin is sensitive, combination, and has a tendency to break out in painful cystic acne. I did try it last night and this morning though, and it doesn't leave an icky residue, moisturizes well, and my skin hasn't broken out yet! I will definitely keep using this product - I think it feels nicer as a day moisturizer because my regular one is a lot thicker.

This stuff makes my face feel fancy.

The GlamGlow SuperCleanse cleanser I got is 1 oz, which is a full size product and priced at $14! I haven't tried out this product yet, again because of my skin problems - I didn't want to introduce multiple new products all at once. I did use it to wash off swatches on my hand earlier - it foams up nicely and my hand feels nice and clean now, again with no residue left behind. It didn't manage to wash off my Marc Jacobs highliner swatch though - I'm not sure if that means the cleanser isn't good or if it means the eyeliner is too good?

The packaging I got doesn't look like this! Mine came in a squeezy bottle, which I actually prefer to the pump.

The last two products are slightly irrelevant to my life - I don't use hair products because I have super-easy no-fuss Asian hair, and I don't really wear perfume ever. The perfume does smell nice and clean though, so it would be something I would wear.

The Bb Hairdresser Invisible Oil primer sample I got is 1 fl. oz. and it comes in multiple sizes but the 2 fl. oz. is priced at $9 so my sample is worth $4.5. The perfume sample, Nirvana White, is in a sample spray bottle and contains 0.07 fl. oz. of product. The rollerball, which contains 0.34 fl. oz. of product, costs $25, so my sample is priced at about $5.

I would say that overall, this box did pretty well! It contains $40 worth of product and I paid $10.66 for it, and I got at least 3 products that I will definitely use up - we will see about the GlamGlow and the perfume, and the hair product will probably end up going to a friend. Even so, just the 3 products that I will use are worth $16.5, more than the amount I paid for the box, so I do think it was pretty worth it.

What's your opinion on beauty subscription boxes or subscription boxes in general? Have you used any of the products I mentioned?