Sephora Favorites Give Me More Lip & Soko to Tokyo

One of my favourite things to do when I visit America is go to the nearest Sephora store and shop my heart out.  Why oh why do we not have Sephora in the UK?  I know we can order online for delivery to the UK, but up till now I have avoided placing an order, due to the crappy exchange rate and also the added pain of customs and delivery charges.  I was finally tempted to place an order when they recently came out with some great value Sephora Favorites box sets.

I decided to order Sephora Favorites Give Me More Lip & Soko to Tokyo.  I chose these two sets as they were great value and there were lots of products that I wanted to try out in each set.  The total cost including customs charges and delivery was £111.41 (products - £54.31 & £31.94/customs charge - £19.16/delivery - £6).

The Sephora Favorites Give Me More Lip box set costs $68 (£54.31)  and is valued at $254 (approx. £202).  It contains 15 lip products of which 5 are full size.  The set contains:

- 0.16 oz/ 4.5 g Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Gloss in Vintage (full size - worth $16)
- 0.13 oz/ 3.8 g Bobbi Brown Luxe Lip Color in Brocade (full size - worth $37)
- 0.06 oz/ 2 ml Dior Lip Maximizer in Pink 001
- 0.17 oz/ 5 ml Huda Beauty Liquid Matte in Bombshell (full size - worth $20)
- 0.05 oz/ 1.5 g Hourglass Girl Lip Stylo in Influencer
- 0.09 oz/ 2.75 g Laura Mercier Cosmetics Velour Lovers Lip Colour Sensual in Muted Pink
- 0.035 oz/ 1 g Marc Jacobs Beauty Le Marc Lip Crème in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- 0.04 oz/ 1.3 ml SEPHORA COLLECTION Cream Lip Stain in #01 Always Red
- 0.03 oz/ 0.9 ml Smashbox Always On Liquid Lipstick in Driver’s Seat
- 0.1 oz/ 2.8 g tarte™ Rainforest of the Sea™ Quench Lip Rescue in Nude (full size - worth $19)
- 0.1 oz/ 3 ml Too Faced Melted Latex Liquified High Shine Lipstick in Shade Hot Mess
- 2 x 0.05 oz/ 1.5 ml Touch In Sol Metallist Liquid Foil Lipstick Duo in #5 Jasmine & Brownie
- 0.03 oz/ 1 g Urban Decay Cosmetics Vice Lipstick in Big Bang
- 0.14 oz/ 4.08 g Wander Beauty Wanderout Dual Lipstick in Nikki Beach (full size - worth $30)
- 0.03 oz/ 1.2 g Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Pur Couture in N 01, Le Rouge

The 5 full size products alone are worth $122 (approx. £97).

Sephora Favorites Soko to Tokyo box set costs $40 (£31.94) and is valued at $130 (approx £103).  It contains 10 products which are all deluxe samples except for the sheet mask.  This box contains:

- 1 oz/ 30 ml AmorePacific MOISTURE BOUND Skin Energy Hydration Delivery System (worth approx. $13)
- 0.33 oz/ 10 ml belif The True Cream Aqua Bomb (worth approx. $8)
- 1.7 oz/ 50 ml boscia Sake Cleansing Water (worth approx. $10)
- 0.17 oz/ 5 ml Dr. Jart+ Cicapair™ Tiger Grass Cream (worth approx. $4.80)
- 0.3 oz/ 10 ml Laneige Water Bank Moisture Cream (worth approx. $7)
- 0.5 oz/ 15 ml Laneige Water Sleeping Mask (worth approx. $5.35)
- 0.17 oz/ 5 ml Shiseido Benefiance WrinkleResist24 Intensive Eye Contour Cream (worth approx. $19)
- 1 oz/ 30 ml SK-II Facial Treatment Essence (worth approx. $39.60)
- 0.35 oz/ 10 g Tatcha Polished Classic Rice Enzyme Powder (worth approx. $15)
- 0.98 oz/ 28 g x 1 sheet Too Cool For School Egg Cream Mask Hydration (worth $6)

In the end it cost me £111 for approx. £300 worth of high end products which was well worth it.  Delivery only took 3 - 4 days which is great and I love the fact that the customs charges are already taken care of when you order, so there are no nasty surprises before you get your delivery.  The only disappointment with ordering online with Sephora is that you cannot use your points to get any of the rewards and you can't get the 3 samples that are normally offered with orders.  In addition, you cannot take advantage of the codes for free deluxe samples with your orders and I could not get my free birthday gift for being a Beauty Insider VIB.  I wish that Sephora would make all those things available to those of us in the UK when we place an order. 

That being said, I am really happy with the boxes that I ordered and I can't wait to try out all the products.  Roll on next year when I have a holiday to America planned, so I can visit a Sephora store once again.

Leigh

I bought these products with my own money