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:

[Samtian]

@KeriCherryDee Whooo great job!!

[lmaster]

 

🎶 good bye to youuuuuu!! Good bye to you!

[itsfi]

@lmaster , nicely done. ✅ Would you pick up a full size? 

[lmaster]

@itsfi thank you and no lol it's not bad at all,  but it's a touch too thick for my liking

[Samtian]

@lmaster Wow fantastic job!!

[lmaster]

Thank you dearly @Samtian 

[itsfi]

February Check-In:

• Monthly Summary: "Slow and steady wins the race" or that's what I'm hoping for, with the Vegamour detox serum, OSEA body oil and haruharu wonder eye cream. At the moment, the OSEA has the best chance of being used up before the end of the year, possibly around the summer months. Next month will be a better month to estimate progress for the eye cream as it will be the only eye cream I have in my rotation.

• February All Stars: I didn't really have any "all stars" this month in terms of significant movement or progress on any of my pan products.

• Next Month's Focus: I need to find a way to get the Hourglass finishing powder and the Cle de Peau foundation in a better routine in terms of use. It's not so much that I dislike either but I am just not accustomed to using a finishing powder and I'm rotating through several different foundation / base products at the moment, including the CdP, all of which I really like. 

Next month's check-in will include more details on all products in my pan it! challenge.

[lmaster]

Fabulous job!! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

@lmaster, thank you.

[KeriCherryDee]

Things being evicted from the Shelves of Shame in February 2025:

BBW body cream in Vanilla & Patchouli - notes are vanilla and patchouli (groundbreaking). I used to actively not like the patchouli note in here when I first got it way back on Christmas 2022, but the scent has mellowed in its old age. I finally kind of got the “comforting” aspect of it. But would not repurchase; it’s not a favorite.

Clarins Cryo-Flash Instant Lift Effect & Glow Boosting Cream Face Mask (1 oz deluxe sample) - it’s fancy Pond’s Cold Cream with a minty tingly feeling. This should not cost $80 for the full-size jar in any universe. I refused to wipe or rinse this off after 10 minutes per the directions because I don’t like watching metaphorical money go down the drain. I used it as a moisturizer instead and it made my face feel just as cold and icy as the wind chill temperature outside my house. Absolutely will not purchase; doubt I’ll recommend unless I want to troll you out of your money.

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm in Orchid (“mauve”; teeny baby sample size) - my favorite clicky sticky lippie. Not that I have much experience with many others that have come out recently because I’m actively avoiding the Crow Brain collect-and-hoard mentality. But, I like this balm so much I purchased a full-size in Rose (used an Ulta coupon at the time, of course) and I’m looking forward to starting on it. Functionally Orchid is done, but I’m curious how much product is still left below the plastic lip/rim of the tube, so I’m going to keep it around and use a lip brush when I feel like it to continue getting usage. Happily repurchasing and will recommend.

CANDLES

Better Homes & Gardens Blue Fern & Citrus - notes are citrus, green, floral, amber, moss, and woods. This one burned far better than the last BH&G three wick candle that I had, although it was more sooty than any of my BBW candles. The scent was fresh and semi-floral—so alright, but not my favorite.

BBW Pink Pineapple Sunrise - notes are sweet pink pineapple, palm sugar, and sun-drenched nectar. Nice fruity sweet scent better suited for summer, albeit scent throw was poor. My gripe with the candle waxes from this summery collection that released last year with these heavy, saturated, bright pigments is the pigments seem to contribute to poor burning, tunneling and lack of scent. Perhaps would repurchase if the wax was changed.

BBW Iced Dragonfruit Tea - notes are tropical dragonfruit, vibrant green tea lemonade, and sweet coconut milk. Same collection as above. I got none of those notes while it was burning and I was really looking forward to the tea and lemonade aspects of it. Would not repurchase.

BBW Island Margarita - notes are sweet mandarin, island mango, and sea salt. Same collection as above. Again, zero of the listed notes came through during burning. Would not repurchase.

Huntington Home (Aldi I think?) in Citrus Peach Sangria - notes not listed. This was one of two Huntington Home candles our realtor gifted us last year when we closed on our house. I reeeally wanted to like it, but after burning it twice the peachy sangria scent disappeared and it started smelling like crayon wax instead. Also, the wicks seemed incapable of staying lit. I hope this one was just from a bad batch because I like the scent of the other we still have. Would not repurchase this one though.

BBW Calypso Clementine - notes are juicy clementine, neroli nectar, and coastal woods. This one is fantastic; my partner started walking around the house smelling things and asking what smelled so good. I told him to go see if it was the candle and he beamed like a little kid on his birthday. Hopefully BBW brings it back at some point, because otherwise partner will have to be content with getting his Calypso Clementine fix with the bar of soap that I have in my inventory.

 

 

 

 

 

[KeriCherryDee]

@lmaster @Samtian @itsfi thanks all 💖 here’s hoping spring gives everyone a bit more motivation for panning! Going out of the house for walks is as good a reason as any to throw some makeup on

[lmaster]

You did amazing @KeriCherryDee 

[Samtian]

@KeriCherryDee Great job! That clementine sounds dreamy!

[itsfi]

Bummer about the misses @KeriCherryDee, but you did great work with the Tarte lip balm. The Clarins cryo mask is one I enjoy but get that it doesn't and won't be for everyone. What a sweet housewarming gift from your realtor!

[lmaster]

Another done ✔️ 

 

[Samtian]

@lmaster Whooo yes!!!

[lmaster]

Yes!!! 🎉 @Samtian 

[itsfi]

@lmaster, you're on a roll. 🙂

[lmaster]

I'm pushing!! @itsfi 🙌

[Samtian]

Made some great progress on my use it project.

Use It- 53/333 Target 266
Pan It- 3/337 Target 33

Next month will be my photo updates. 

[lmaster]

Whoo hoo !! @Samtian dedication 👏