Pan It! - 2022 Challenge

[ElleElleG]

Welcome to the Pan It Challenge, 2022 Edition!!

I'm claiming a 2022 that's greater than our wildest imaginations, also for my longtimers this will be our FIFTH YEAR doing this challenge. Thanks to all who've stuck around and everyone who's tested themselves and jumped into the madness. You all are amazing 😘

The "Rules"

To accommodate a variety of interests, you all are encouraged to pick items to pan that are most suitable to your collections.  For some, this might mean focusing on a particular type of product (like lipstick) and for others this may include a larger variety spanning your entire makeup or skincare routine.

Getting Started (please share the following)

• Which item(s) you would like to work on
• How long you will work on said item
• Goal: explore a new item, revisit an old item, decide whether to keep pass or trash, and/or completely finish item, etc.
• Starting photo of item

Please Use This Thread To...

• share what item(s) you are working on,
• provide comparative progress photos of your item(s) monthly (at the beginning of the month when possible),
• ask questions,
• encourage others,
• motivate others with the looks you create with your item(s)

Tips and Tricks to Panning/Getting Some Use Out of Your Stash:

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• Take photos!!  When you think you aren’t making a dent in anything look back at those photos, I’m certain you’ll see some changes 😃
• If you goal is to hit pan or use something up entirely, try concentrating your brush/applicator in the same area each time you use it
• Multitask your products: eyeshadows as highlighter, lipstick as blush, eyeshadow as brow powder, etc. 
• Layer eyeshadow to create different colors (this is especially helpful to get use out of shades you’re not fond of).
• Have shadows with a ton of fall out?  Use water
• Watching the progress of others’ can be fun but try not compare your progress to theirs.  We all use our makeup differently and have different goals.
• Don’t restrict yourself to only using the item(s) you are working on.  It’s more than OK to incorporate other items or take a break!
• Makeup should be fun….if you begin to dread doing your makeup because you made a commitment to use a product that you now hate, TOSS IT!  Do not force yourself to use up something you don’t like.  Move on to something else!  (This includes excluding particular shades from your goals if focusing on palettes, etc.)

Ideas to Help You Pan Those Items:

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• Roll the dice: number your items and use a random number generator to pick what you will use each (day/week/month/etc.) 
• Layer/Mask: items you are less fond of under things you like
• Pan a Look: at the beginning of the week pick a look that you can wear everyday
• Recreate: a look worn by a fellow BICer, celebrity, etc.
• Spice up an "everyday" look by adding subtle pops of color (in the crease or on the lower lash line, mix lip products to make shades wearable, etc.)

Past Panning Challenges:

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Pan It! - 2021 Challenge 🏆
Pan It! - 2020 Challenge
Pan It! - 2019 Challenge!
Pan It! - 2018 Challenge!
Pan It! - 2017 Challenge! 

[heartsmyface]

@ElleElleG  I didn’t notice it doing anything either.  The only eye cream I’ve tried recently that I felt did anything was  the fab niacinamide brightening one and it could possibly be because it’s tinted. https://www.sephora.com/ca/en/product/first-aid-beauty-eye-duty-niacinamide-brightening-eye-cream-P4...

[ElleElleG]

Working on a Kiehls one right now @heartsmyface but I'll add this one to my favorites so I can test it next.

[itsfi]

Thank you @ElleElleG! You know, I don’t know if it’s a popular opinion, but I have for a long time wondered about the benefits of most but not necessarily all eye creams - wouldn’t / couldn’t our moisturizer do the same thing? I imagine a lot would have to do with ingredients. With the belif, I do like how it feels and think it does provide another layer of hydration to the undereye area - last month I was particularly dry there as a result of allergies and the weather with the transition to spring. But I’m not sure it did too much more other than extra hydration. 

[ElleElleG]

I've wondered the same thing @itsfi ! There are some super moisturizing creams (I'm thinking of the Aqua Bomb funny enough) that provide so much moisture that I feel like it's enough sometimes. Maybe applying it as you would an actual eye cream would generate similar results? I've never purchased a full size of the belif eye cream but the minis that come in their sets tend to last me MONTHS

[itsfi]

@ElleElleG, the extra dryness from allergies has made the usefulness of the eye cream more apparent for me, but I think the eye creams I see the mosf benefit from, for myself at least, have been the brightening ones (like The Inkey List caffeine eye cream, Origins Ginzing or the Ole Henriksen one from the vitamin C line).

[Samtian]

@itsfi It's so fun watching the Biba progress. I misread the perfume and thought you said you spritz it on your face haha. That gave me a good chuckle. 

[itsfi]

Hahaha! That is something I could see myself accidentally doing @Samtian. 🤪 A few weeks ago I inadvertently applied the JVN air dry cream to my face thinking it was my moisturizer. I only realized it afterwards when I wondered why I kept smelling a scent that reminded me of my hair products. 😲  Ack!!! 😬 I really cannot recommend doing that. 🤣

[Samtian]

@itsfi Hahaha I'd sadly do that too. 

[Samtian]

Small Update. I started with each category, and having a personal goal to hit from each one. I am happy to report I have met goals in 3 of them. For mini perfumes I had a goal of 1 out of 39. Travel sized perfumes a goal of 1 out of 41. And cleansers a goal of 5 out of 23. Cleansers are currently at 7. 

[ElleElleG]

Nice work @Samtian !!

[Samtian]

@ElleElleG Thank you!!

[itsfi]

@Samtian, what a fab update!! 😍 Three goals met? Woohoo! 🙌🏼 And you exceeded your goal with the cleansers! Yes!!!! 👍🏼 You’re doing great! 

[Samtian]

@itsfi Thank you!!

[lmaster]

Two items used and two replacement items! I'm still doing good, practically using the hoola stick bronzer and Tarte highlighter every time I do makeup, the abh palette, is getting love too! 

BBW chocolate covered cherry spray is done!! Raspberry jam donut will take it's spot

 fresh advanced lip therapy is done and will be replaced with fresh sugar honey

[ElleElleG]

Love that you picked items to immediately replace the ones you completed, that's awesome! Never heard of those BBW scents and now I want to smell them 👃

[Samtian]

@lmaster Ooh good job!!

[lmaster]

Thank you!! @Samtian this challenge gives me that extra push to use things up

[itsfi]

You’re doing great @lmaster!! 😍 Oh goodness! The scents on those sprays sound like they are amazing! I would be craving sweets all day! 

[lmaster]

@itsfi thank you!!! They do smell delicious 😁

[heartsmyface]

@lmaster  Oh I like this system of ins and outs!  

[lmaster]

@heartsmyface well, I figure if I use it up, I'll add new products, to try to get thru them faster,, it'll motivate me