Sephora has unveiled its highly anticipated birthday gifts for 2023, offering Beauty Insider members in the U.S. and Canada a delightful selection of products from renowned brands like Dior, Glow Recipe, ILIA, and OUAI. Available in makeup, skincare, haircare, and fragrance categories, these birthday treats are redeemable throughout your birthday month, both in-store and online, regardless of your Beauty Insider tier – Insider, VIB, or Rouge. Sephora is also enhancing its online offerings with rotating gift selections for VIB and Rouge members, starting with Farmacy, and continues to provide the option to receive 250 Beauty Insider points as an alternative to a physical gift.
Emeline Berlind, Vice President, General Manager of Loyalty at Sephora, highlighted the excitement surrounding the birthday gifts, stating, “Our Beauty Insider birthday gifts have always been a long-awaited treat for Sephora’s customers, as they look forward to celebrating a small slice of their birthday months with us. We’re especially excited to unveil this year’s assortment of gift offerings, and provide even more options to choose from.” This year marks the introduction of a fragrance core gift available to all Beauty Insider members, emphasizing Sephora’s commitment to expanding and energizing their birthday gift program.
The 2023 birthday gifts extend to Sephora at Kohl’s and Kohls.com, ensuring even more shoppers can partake in the celebration. Kohl’s customers will have access to gift options from Glow Recipe, ILIA, OUAI, and an exclusive fragrance gift set from Maison Margiela designed specifically for Sephora at Kohl’s.
Unpacking the 2023 Core Birthday Gift Sets
This year’s core gift options are presented as mini sets, allowing you to explore curated selections from top beauty brands:
Dior Fragrance Birthday Gift Set
(Available at Sephora and Sephora.com only)
Fragrance enthusiasts will be thrilled with the Dior Fragrance Birthday Gift Set. This set offers a choice between two iconic Dior scents:
- Miss Dior EDP: Experience the “millefiori” scent, a thousand flowers in a fragrance. This floral bouquet emphasizes the velvety centifolia rose, balanced with fresh lily of the valley and spicy peony, and grounded by powdery iris.
Alt text: Miss Dior Eau de Parfum, a Sephora birthday gift 2023 option, showcasing its floral and elegant fragrance profile.
- Sauvage EDP: For a more mysterious and sensual option, Sauvage EDP blends Calabrian bergamot, nutmeg, and vanilla absolute. This scent is inspired by the magic of twilight in the desert, offering a captivating and masculine aroma.
Alt text: Dior Sauvage Eau de Parfum, a popular men’s fragrance available as a Sephora birthday gift 2023, highlighting its fresh and spicy notes.
Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Clean + Planet Positive Skincare Birthday Gift Set
Skincare lovers can indulge in the Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow set, focusing on clean and planet-positive beauty:
- Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops: This clinically effective serum brightens skin and reduces hyperpigmentation over time. It delivers an immediate dewy glow without relying on mica, glitter, or pearls, making it a perfect addition to any skincare routine.
Alt text: Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops, a Sephora birthday gift 2023 skincare item, emphasizing its dewy and brightening effect.
- Watermelon Glow Pore-Tight Toner: A bestselling toner infused with PHA and BHA, this gentle formula hydrates skin while minimizing the appearance of pores, creating a smoother complexion.
Alt text: Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Pore Tight Toner, a gentle exfoliating toner in the Sephora birthday gift 2023 set, focused on pore reduction and hydration.
ILIA Makeup Birthday Gift Set
Makeup aficionados can celebrate with the ILIA Makeup Birthday Gift Set, featuring everyday essentials:
- Limitless Lash Mascara in After Midnight (Black): This award-winning mascara lifts, lengthens, curls, and separates lashes without flaking or smudging, ensuring a flawless eye look.
Alt text: ILIA Limitless Lash Mascara in black, part of the Sephora birthday gift 2023 makeup selection, known for lengthening and lifting lashes.
- Multi-Stick in At Last (Mauve Rose): This award-winning multi-stick provides a buildable wash of color for both cheeks and lips. Its twist-up stick allows for effortless on-the-go application, perfect for adding a touch of color to your look.
Alt text: ILIA Multi-Stick in mauve rose shade “At Last”, a versatile cream blush and lip color included in Sephora’s birthday gift 2023 offerings.
OUAI “The OUAI of Life” Birthday Gift Set
For haircare and body indulgence, the OUAI “The OUAI of Life” Birthday Gift Set is an excellent choice:
- Detox Shampoo: This clarifying shampoo uses apple cider vinegar to deeply cleanse the scalp and hair, removing dirt, oil, and product buildup, while keratin helps strengthen hair.
Alt text: OUAI Detox Shampoo, a clarifying hair cleanser featured in Sephora birthday gift 2023, designed to remove buildup and purify the scalp.
- Leave In Travel Conditioner: A leave-in conditioner that detangles and protects hair from heat and damage, reducing frizz and flyaways for smoother, more manageable hair.
Alt text: OUAI Leave-In Conditioner, a travel-size detangling and heat-protecting product within Sephora’s 2023 birthday gift selection.
- St. Barts Body Cleanser: Exclusive to Sephora, this body cleanser is infused with OUAI’s St. Barts scent, a tropical blend of dragon fruit, orange blossom, tuberose, and Baltic amber, offering a luxurious shower experience.
Alt text: OUAI St. Barts Body Cleanser, an exclusive Sephora birthday gift 2023 item with a tropical St. Barts fragrance.
- Melrose Place EDP: This velvety rose fragrance with hints of bergamot, lychee, cedarwood, and white musk provides a sophisticated and feminine scent experience.
Alt text: OUAI Melrose Place Eau de Parfum, a rose-scented fragrance included in the Sephora birthday gift 2023, known for its rich and velvety aroma.
Sephora at Kohl’s Exclusive: Maison Margiela Fragrance Gift Set
Exclusively for Sephora at Kohl’s and Kohls.com shoppers, the Maison Margiela gift set offers a trio of their popular Replica fragrances:
- Beach Walk: Capture the essence of a beach day with this fresh scent combining bergamot and pink pepper with lemon, heliotrope, coconut milk, and musk.
Alt text: Maison Margiela ‘Beach Walk’ fragrance, a fresh and summery scent in the Sephora birthday gift 2023 set exclusive to Kohl’s.
- By the Fireplace: Evoke cozy winter evenings with this warm scent featuring orange flower, clove oil, and chestnut over a comforting vanilla base.
Alt text: Maison Margiela ‘By the Fireplace’ fragrance, a warm and cozy scent option within the Sephora birthday gift 2023 selection at Kohl’s.
- Jazz Club: Experience the ambiance of a jazz club with this smooth cocktail of warm and spicy scents, blending lemon and pink pepper with neroli oil, rum, vanilla, and smoky tobacco leaf.
Alt text: Maison Margiela ‘Jazz Club’ fragrance, a smoky and spicy scent available as a Sephora birthday gift 2023, exclusive to Sephora at Kohl’s.
Online Rotating Gift: Farmacy Clean Skincare Birthday Gift Set
For VIB and Rouge members shopping online at Sephora.com, the first rotating gift is from Farmacy, featuring their clean skincare favorites:
- Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm: This award-winning cleansing balm effectively melts away makeup, SPF, dirt, and oil, leaving skin hydrated without any residue.
Alt text: Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm, a Sephora birthday gift 2023 online exclusive, known for effectively removing makeup and impurities.
- Honey Halo Ultra-Hydrating Ceramide Moisturizer: This intense moisturizer replenishes dry, distressed skin with lasting hydration, improving the appearance of fine lines and promoting a plump complexion.
Alt text: Farmacy Honey Halo Ultra-Hydrating Ceramide Moisturizer, a deeply hydrating cream in the Sephora birthday gift 2023 online rotating selection.
- Honey Potion Plus Ceramide Hydration Mask: This warming honey mask intensely hydrates, nourishes, and strengthens the skin’s moisture barrier with ceramides, upcycled apple, and cica, providing a spa-like treatment at home.
Alt text: Farmacy Honey Potion Plus Ceramide Hydration Mask, a warming and hydrating mask included in the Sephora birthday gift 2023 online exclusive offerings.
Choose Your Birthday Treat
Sephora’s 2023 birthday gifts offer a diverse range of beauty treats, ensuring every Beauty Insider member finds something to celebrate their special month. Whether you prefer fragrance, skincare, or makeup, and whether you shop in-store, online, or at Sephora at Kohl’s, a special birthday gift awaits you. Don’t forget the alternative option to receive 250 Beauty Insider points, providing flexibility and choice. To become a Beauty Insider and take advantage of these birthday perks and more, sign up for free on the Sephora website or app and make the most of the Beauty Insider program throughout the year.
