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:

[lmaster]

So happy!!! 

 

I really liked this one,  not enough to buy it though

[KeriCherryDee]

I forgot I had planned to do quarterly updates on my perfumes. Whoopsie daisy. The comparison photos don’t seem much different, but I’ve been very consistent about reaching for Juliette Has A Gun Magnolia Bliss most days a week when I’m home—the dent is slowly growing! My traveling perfume is Valentino Donna Born In Roma Green Stravaganza and if I squint I think the dent is a smidge bigger. Valentino Donna Born In Roma Intense is still my favorite of the three and I’m not actively working on it, but I’ve pulled it out on some occasions. 

 

 

 

[lmaster]

Fabulous progress @KeriCherryDee 

[Cissy63]

@KeriCherryDee  Good progress 😀.  It’s not easy working on 3 scents is not easy!

[Samtian]

@KeriCherryDee Great job! I struggle working on 3 at the same time. 

[itsfi]

I'm a smidge late with posting my March pan it! update. Oopsy. 

Monthly Summary:

Oh goodness, I feel like this year's pan it! challenge has been a bit harder for me to get on top of. In part, I'm incorporating other products into my everyday use, which means less time spent on any one pan it! product. It's got its pros those as I feel like I'm getting more usage of my overall collection. The downside is that progress becomes less than it otherwise would if my pan products were the sole products within their respective category that I was using every day. That said, there's been slow-and-steady progress on a few items, and one that surprised even me.

March All Stars:

• Vegamour GRO Scalp Detox Clarifying Treatment for Dry, Flaky, Oily Scalp 2 oz/ 60 mL is really making a name for itself among my hair care products - I've been alternating weekly between it and my tried-and-true Oaui Detox shampoo, and I'm finding I like this rotation a lot. 👍 It may just be a combo I keep for the long term. I didn't pick up a back up of the Vegamour during the spring savings event but I plan to replenish it during a fall / holiday sale event

• The haruharu wonder Black Rice Bakuchiol Eye Cream is now the main eye cream in my evening skincare routine so we may see more progress being made towards using up this tube.

• Cle de Peau The Foundation - check out the spoiler ⤵️ for where we ended up at the end of March, compared to how we started off the year. 😊 

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Before

After
There's actually a dip in the amount of product in the jar. A little goes a long way with this product so it's going to be slow and steady with this one.

Next Month's Focus:

I've reached for the Hourglass Mini Ambient® Lighting Powder Dim Light  all of, maybe 3(?), times this year. That's gotta change. Going forward, for the next 3 months, my aim is to try to include it in at least one capsule a month for Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025 to see if that helps me reach for it more regularly. 🤞

[Cissy63]

@itsfi  I know how difficult it is to be sure I use my Project Pan items in a rotation.  You are doing great 😊 

[Samtian]

@itsfi Great progress!! Slow and steady wins the race. 

[itsfi]

💯 @Samtian! My pan it! Items this year are mostly new ones to the challenge and are not the only one of its kind that I’m using, so I have to remind myself that it may take longer to see progress but it’ll happen. 

[Cissy63]

I am so behind in posting my Project Pan 2025

So this year I have been working on: Dior Forever Skin Glow Foundation, Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Setting Spray, Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer, Rare Beauty Illuminating Primer, Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter (mini), Tresor by Lancôme 

Renergie Yeux by Lancôme, Makeup by Mario Softsculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer, Kerastase Curl Manifesto which weighs 3.4 ounces now, Tatcha Violet+C Radiance Mask

 Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Bronze & Glow powder Sigma Spectrum Color-Correcting Duo

 

 These are the inside of the covered cases.  
I neglected to photograph what was left in the JVN Styling Milk but this is where I left off in 2024

 

SO NOW THE UPDATE!

 The foundation, setting spray, Flawless Filter went down.  But I didn’t use the Hydro grip and the illuminating primer much at all.   I need to move these to a different area and try to get use.  And I FINISHED the Tresor perfume!

 I’m almost through with the eye cream and Softsculpt bronzer!   The hair cream weight is now 2.7 ounces, and I can see the inside glass on the mask!

 I FINISHED the JVN!  And I can see the pan on the powder bronzer!   The is a larger dent in the highlight too. And a small dent into the light side of the duo!

My next post will be smaller, I promise!

[Samtian]

@Cissy63 Wow!!! Fantastic work!

[Cissy63]

@Samtian  Oh thank you so much 😊 

[curlychiquita]

Great pictures, @Cissy63! It’s so fun to see so many products being used. I hope you’re doing well!

[Cissy63]

@curlychiquita  Thank you very much 😀. We are doing better thanks 🙏 

[itsfi]

Wowza @Cissy63, look at all that marvelous pan! 😍 Excellent work! I love what you chose for your pan products this year - those are some fab beauties to be putting to use. 

P.S. Long or short post, always so good to see you here! Hope you’ve been well! 👋🏼 

[Cissy63]

@itsfi  Thank you for saying this 😀. I am trying to focus on some items that I have not paid attention to.  We are doing better. Hubby and son had Covid at same time. Hubby’s lasted for a month.  Then son went ice skating and slipped and anterior dislocated his rt shoulder. Thank heavens for the ER doc who snapped it back in place.  But he tore his labrum in that shoulder so he is having surgery in 2 weeks.  But things are calm for now😃

[Mel231]

February and March progress on my hair product "collection":

Two sample foils of Kérastase Discipline Heat Protecting Leave-In Treatment For Frizzy Hair 5.1 oz/ 150 mL 

One sample foil of Kérastase Mini Nutritive Heat Protecting Styling Cream for Dry Hair 1.7 oz / 50 ml 

Four sample foils of Kérastase Elixir Ultime Refillable Hydrating Hair Oil 

One full size Kérastase Elixir Ultime Refillable Hydrating Hair Oil 

The Elixir Ultime hair oil will remain on my short list of favorite hair oils, and I will definitely repurchase. The other products were great and performed as advertised, but they didn't "wow" me. I probably will not purchase.

I am still finishing up some Kerastase products, but I will probably move on to my Moroccanoil products as my focus for April.

Progress feels slow 😐. 

[EW08]

I will have to try that hair oil out once I finish my hair oil from Ouai!

[itsfi]

lol, I feel ya on progress feeling slow @Mel231 but you’ll get there. 😃 Every little bit in a step closer to finishing, but it def can feel like it’s slow goings with hair products. That Kerastase hair oil is a beauty!! You got this!

[Samtian]

Use It- 72/333 Target 266
Pan It- 4/337 Target 33

I'm doing good on the use it category lol. Blush is almost done! Mascara I haven't even started. I was looking at pictures of previous finished palettes and noticed I had Framed rated better than Discreet, so I've added that into my work look. I don't think I'll hit pan on that this year. Becca oh I can FEEL that pan taunting me, I know it's there. I'm not sure how much longer the CT will last, it's harder to find non-dried parts to use. Both liquids have been used, but not much. The Pumpkin is the only weight change I've had since the start of this year, and I was able to make a line on it. 

Trying to show dips