Pan It! - 2025 Challenge

[ElleElleG]

It's 2025 and we're on YEAR EIGHT (8) of the 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:

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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:

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Pan It! - 2024 Challenge
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! 

For those of you who are interested in trying the challenge but fear you may not finish or move as quickly as others, remember:

[itsfi]

@KeriCherryDee, you've got some great goals for the year. Now, I'm curious - is there a B&BW scent that you've tried so far that you consider a favorite?

[KeriCherryDee]

@Samtian lolol my Shelves Of Shame are all in good fun, but they do really need to slim down significantly 😂

[Samtian]

@KeriCherryDee 🤣 S.o.S. Shelves of shame I love it. 

[ElleElleG]

My 2025 Pan that Palette is 🥁🥁🥁

 

the Moschino x Sephora palette. I figured it’s time to take a pause from panning all my Natasha Denona items. I’ll likely continue to work on the few remaining shades from last years. 

[heavyhedon]

Hot palette!

[peculiarzmakeup]

Great job with your progress so far! This pallete is stunning looking forward to your updates 🙂 @ElleElleG 

[Samtian]

@ElleElleG Pretty! Great starts already!

[itsfi]

Ahhh @ElleElleG, that palette is bringing back memories of the collection. You’re on your way to full pan on those two shades to the right of the palette - that’s so awesome! 

[CynthieLu]

It will be so great to see your work on this palette progress this year. Good luck in all your pannings for 2025! 💚

[ElleElleG]

You get a tag, and you get a tag, and YOU get a tag ...

@itsfi @Samtian @KeriCherryDee @Cissy63 @blackkitty2014 @beautyinsiderhe @lmaster @caitbird @missjeanie @CookieGirl1 @cianni 

Please tag others who may be interested, and my apologies if I omitted anyone who participated in prior years.

[Samtian]

@peculiarzmakeup care to join us?

[peculiarzmakeup]

Ooo yes this looks amazing! 
Thanks for the tag 🙂 @Samtian