Pan It! - 2023 Challenge

[ElleElleG]

Hey all you cool cats and kittens, welcome to YEAR 6 of the Pan It Challenge!

**Join us in the 2024 thread available here: Pan It! - 2024 Challenge

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 😃 *this is the number one recommendation for everyone, regardless of how long you’ve been panning! Those photos add up and can help you realize progress you might otherwise overlook.
• 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:

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

[Cissy63]

@itsfi , @CynthieLu   Yes, I am game for this.  Thank you!

[CookieGirl1]

@itsfi thanks for the tag!  I'll have to start thinking about this...

[itsfi]

@CookieGirl1, project pan would be so much easier to do with ice cream. 🍨 

I will pan marble fudge, and salted caramel, and … 😝 

[CookieGirl1]

@itsfi sign me up, I'm all in.

[ElleElleG]

Thanks @itsfi ! I’m trying to multitask and other things are monopolizing my attention 😅😅

[itsfi]

No problem @ElleElleG, happy to help. It’s always when you want to focus on something that a million other things pop up  and they all need your time even if there’s just one of you! 😆 Never fails. 

[ather]

@itsfi  Thanks for tagging me. I actually was going through all my products this afternoon. I will go through my product and pick out which ones I want and hopefully post tomorrow!! Although most of the bulk of my items are foils! 

[itsfi]

@ather, would love to have you join in but no pressure. Oh, foils. You could put the ones you want to use up on in a container or bag and have going through all of them be a pan item. 

[ather]

@itsfi  thats a great idea! I have been putting them in a small basket on my dresser or strategically placing them by the sink or in the shower to use more. Which has been working too but I need to get them under control more!

[itsfi]

Lol, it’s so easy for them to get out of control, isn’t it @ather? I took part in a challenge a few years back and put foils (or all that fit in there) in a jar and as you aptly put it “strategically” placed that on my bathroom counter. I think I pulled out 100 foils to work on - https://community.sephora.com/t5/Beauty-Confidential/Use-Your-Foil-Samples-Challenge-2019/m-p/493243... 

 

[ather]

@itsfi  Such a great idea and it looks beautiful on your counter! 

[heavyhedon]

@itsfi -- I dig your jar set-up here. Maybe I can find a way to mimic this with my lippy samples. 

[itsfi]

That’s a great idea for lippie samples @heavyhedon! Those are fun to have on hand but can easily get hidden away in a drawer. 💄 

[heavyhedon]

And mine aren't even that close to hand, @itsfi  unless I bring some into my daily makeup section of my storage, they're stuffed in an old pink Ipsy mailer on a closet shelf. Easy to forget about.

[itsfi]

Yep, same @heavyhedon! For skincare foils, the majority of my foils are of products I already use or that I really want to try and with the latter I try to keep it on the smaller side so I can just try one product at a time. Better for my skin that way. I’ve also been decanting my current products into travel size containers or keeping mini jars of products to refill for travel or my gym bag. Most of my foils these days are hair or makeup related. 

[missjeanie]

@ather Mini challenge.... 40 Foils in February?

[ather]

@missjeanie  Oooo I love this idea!!! I wonder if anyone else would be on board??

[itsfi]

@ather, I don’t think I have 40 foils (I shouldn’t - I tried to use most of them over the last couple of years but you never know 😂) but I’d be up for working through what I have with a Foil February or February Foils. 

[haleyvvvv]

Love this, @missjeanie!! I'm definitely in, @ather!!

Could we count sheet masks as foils? They're a weird category to me, since they're single use but full sized? @itsfi would that get you up to 40? 

[ather]

@haleyvvvv  I would count sheet masks as a foil! @missjeanie  thoughts? I have a stack of sheet masks expiring this year! @itsfi @Maybe you have a stack like me? 

[missjeanie]

You guys crack me up!  @ather @haleyvvvv @itsfi I have an entire suitcase still full of sheet masks... which I'm now going to refer to as foils.  It sounds so much better than saying over 300 foils in lieu of sheet masks.  Single use to me works as a foil!