Pan It! - 2024 Challenge

[ElleElleG]

Welcome to Year 7 of our Pan It! 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:

Spoiler

• 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:

Spoiler

• 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! - 2023 Challenge

Pan It! - 2022 Challenge

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

[itsfi]

It’s so easy to get distracted @blackkitty2014, especially this time of the year. 😲

[caitbird]

@itsfi  woohoo, amazing work! Congrats on hitting pan on Prairie, and you have gotten so much done with that Westman Atelier lip palette! And you are sooo close with the eye cream and cuticle oil - looking forward to seeing those in a "finished" update post before long!

PS "an Osea October" I love it! I really like the Osea Undaria Algae Oil as well; I haven't used mine in a while because I've been trying to use up facial oils (by repurposing them as body oils) for my Project Pan 😅 but it is a favorite of mine.

[itsfi]

Ooouh, that’s a great way to repurpose face oils @caitbird! Anything that doesn’t work on my face generally gets used somewhere on my body. It’s nice to be able to use things up that way. I’m hoping to make some good progress on the Osea this month. They’ll be my main body care products. 

[lmaster]

You have done amazing with the lip palette!! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

Thank you @lmaster. This is one of those palettes that takes some time to hit pan but once you do, more pan comes easily. I've discovered a new love for this one as a result of this thread. 👍

[Samtian]

@itsfi My pebble pea brain rattled around in shock at the Westman lol. Oh that pan, that beautiful beautiful pan ❤️ what a long long long awaited sight!! CONGRATS!!!!!!

[itsfi]

Thank you so much @Samtian. You've been with me from the very beginning with the ND palette. I have just those few bits of shadow in the rustic palette. We're under a heat advisory today (truthfully, not hot by the rest of the world's standards but we're not used to this) and I wasn't planning on wearing any makeup, possibly a tinted sunscreen if I was feeling fancy, but now I'm thinking perhaps I should wear some eyeshadow. This rustic shade isn't going to see full pan on its own; I have to help it along. 😂 Fine, tinted sunblock and eyeshadow, it is. 

[Samtian]

@itsfi Ooh a heat advisory, I'm sorry. But that is a great plan for the day! It has been quite the journey for sure!! I'm glad I've been able to witness it. 

[itsfi]

@Samtian, it’s okay; I should actually be used to it by now. This is the time of year when we have our summer weather. It typically comes in 3-day waves and then there’s a cool down. Sometimes the pattern goes on more for a couple of weeks. It always cools down (sometimes way down) just before Halloween.

lol, that’s a good way to describe it - a journey. A looooong one. 😆 I’m glad I’ve gone through with it (and that there are others, like you, who have helped me along the way, to help motivate and encourage me), but I’m thinking it’ll be a while before I reach for a larger palette to pan. 🤪 

[Samtian]

@itsfi 🤣 understandable!

[Samtian]

Getting so close to this year being done 😱 my projects are not. But I did see a good jump in the use it category. 

P- 15/327  Target-80
U- 161/516 Target-386

I also brought out the food scale to weigh some things. I've decided if these 4 don't see some progress at the end of December, they are getting tossed. They saw like no progress. 

During the chaos months I set aside cream highlighters to test. I really really loved the Becca Pearl so I am adding that in. As my work highlighter I will be using. I would have taken angles from down low but Apollo was wanting attention. 

Slight progress on the rest of them. We do have a 2 week shutdown coming up, and honestly since I changed jobs it's hard getting up so early and getting ready so these haven't had as much attention. 

[caitbird]

@Samtian  awesome job! It's great that you have been able to make progress with your items despite the "chaos months" (which made me laugh 😂)! And I love your idea to weigh your items, that's so resourceful!

[Samtian]

@caitbird Thank you! They were chaos, but I wouldn't have had it any other way!

[lmaster]

Oh oh oh nice!!! I see pan 🙌 @Samtian 

[Samtian]

@lmaster It's slowly but surely growing. 

[itsfi]

Ahhhh, weighing your products - that's a fab idea @Samtian! As is your plan to move out the things you don't see progress on at the end of the year - 3 months is a good amount of time to put them to the test!

lol, I first read "I would have taken angles from down low but Apollo was wanting attention." as you having to pass on taking photos at an angle because if you did, Apollo would have made his own efforts to help you pan the highlighter!! He does like to help after all. 😁

[Samtian]

@itsfi Oh yes Apollo definitely would have! I don't remember who it was, but someone else started weighing theirs and I was like...I need to do that, and I finally did. I have dozens more items that will take their place if they don't get much use. 

[missjeanie]

Okay ... Beginning of September! I really feel like I had a lot of progress in August!  I'm thinking I'll be seeing some empties in the next while. 

-Too Faced Dew You foundation.  I didn't even mark it this month since it feels like it's empty.  That said, I've been using it daily since Sept 1 and it's still going. 

-Kheil's Lip Oil.  Haven't really used this much.  Maybe once I'm done done with the Lip Scrub?  Before year end... it'll be done.

-Too Cool for School Lip Scrub.  I really like this one.  I could probably call this done as is, It doesn't twist up anymore, that said, I'm going to finish the rest of the product down the tube with a lip brush. 

-10-0-6 Peach Mask.  Been using this as a neck and décolleté mask a few times a week.  Quite like the experience, but don't see a ton of pay off with regards to the state of my skin. 

-The Bumble and Bumble primer spray is nice.  I quite like it.  I did have to refill my travel size and was using it with my two nieces hair for two weeks, so there likely won't be quite such a large jump next month. 

- I tried to use the split end mender after every shower.  No clue if it's working.  But I'll keep going. 

-I do see a bit of a bigger pan in the bottom left shade, but only a bit.  I've been trying to work on the bottom right more.  You can't see it, but there is a dent. 

-Slow and steady on the Brow Wiz.  I won't be buying pencils after I'm done my current stash.  I've solidified my love for tinted gel. 

- The Clean Cashmere is done.  I didn't mind it, but I won't be seeking another.  It was good, not amazing.

-Elizabeth and James Black is getting some use and I hope to finish it off this month now that I've finished the Clean.  It's a bit more fall scented then the weather is giving me right now, but I still like it.

-The dang Vaseline is DONE!!!  I swear it was the never ending bottle.  I even had this guy upside down and was shaking it out every morning.  I know I have another of these open from lord knows when but it's not for me. 

-I'm replacing the Vaseline with the Jergens natural glow.  I've used this before on my legs and figure now is the time to use it up while I'm still wearing skirts before winter kicks in. 

[caitbird]

@missjeanie  awesome progress! I admire your dedication to finishing every last bit of the lip scrub - good thing it's one that you like! And yay for finishing the Vaseline - that is a huge bottle, great job! 🙌

[missjeanie]

@caitbird @I actually miss the lip scrub now that it’s done!! It became a part of my routine. The dang lotion is one I won’t miss though!! Lol

[itsfi]

"The dang Vaseline is DONE!!!" 

Waaaahoooo!!! 😍 It's D - O - N - E, done!!! Wow!! You must be so happy to have polished it off! I'm so happy for you, @missjeanie! That was a monstrous effort to work through that bottle.