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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:
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:
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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:
For those of you who are interested in trying the challenge but fear you may not finish or move as quickly as others, remember:
April Pan Progress
Monthly Summary: Just plugging away with my pan products. This month saw more use across the board, which made me happy.
April All Stars: I used the Cle de Peau foundation more frequently and was reminded how much I like it. A little goes a long way so it'll take me some time to work my way through the jar. That said, I do want to use it more.
Next Month's Focus: My goal was to finish the Osea Body Oil by the end of June, but I think if I reach for it a little more frequently, I may be able to use it up by the end of May. Going to try for that. 🤞
Items being evicted from the Shelves of Shame in April 2025 (posting a few days early since I don’t foresee anything else getting used up at the moment):
BBW body cream in Among The Clouds: notes are wild berry skies and whipped vanilla clouds. The younger, slightly wilder sister of Pastel Skies. Absolutely a favorite and so enjoyable as we got into spring.
Versed Day Dissolve Cleansing Balm: the strong spicy clove smell aside, this is a great drugstore cleansing balm. It’s a small-ish jar and a soft formula, so I ended up going through it a bit quickly. I would repurchase again on sale or with a coupon, as the price per ounce is unfortunately not as economical as the jumbo Banila Co Clean It Zero.
La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Face Moisturizer with Niacinamide travel-size: this was the one I kept in my to-go bag. I have two more full-sizes of this exact moisturizer, and I literally never go on a plane—so I don’t really expressly need travel-size products. I doubt I’ll buy moisturizer again until the holidays. It’s a decent moisturizer, but not my favorite because it pills with some of my other skincare products.
BBW shower gel in Luminous travel-size: notes are ruby currant, gilded iris and praline amber. To me, this is what I imagine Blanche Devereaux smells like and I ADORE it. I feel like such a rich fabulous lady in my 1950s new money house when I smell this. Thankfully I still have the body cream so I don’t have to say goodbye to the scent yet.
Aveeno Calm + Restore Sensitive Skin Makeup Removing Cleansing Wipes 25-count: I can’t even remember how old these are. They might have been able to enter kindergarten this year. I kept them in my to-go bag, but honestly I mostly only dragged them out for times I was either feeling too sick or feeling too inebriated to properly stand at a sink and wash my face. I threw out the last few wipes because they dried out, and have since replaced them with the 10-count Sephora wipes.
Elf Lash ‘N Roll Curling & Lifting Mascara in deep brown: this is the second one of these I’ve had, and the wand is not my favorite. It’s a bit pokey for my small-ish eyes. I grabbed it because my favorite mascara (Elf Big Mood in brown) was out of stock at the time. I should have known better. I will have to remind myself to not repurchase, even though it’s cheap.
Chapstick in Rosewater: Chapstick brand lip balms are not my favorite, but they do their job. This one I kind of especially didn’t enjoy because I don’t like rose-scented things. But it’s done and gone and I still have three other lip balm tubes to get through before I even need to buy a new tube of plain lip balm.
Oars + Alps Shine-Free Lip Balm: this was delightful, despite the fact that I’ve had it open for like… two years. It’s clear but a bit minty-fresh (no tingle). For daytime purposes, I have found that I enjoy the look and feel of a matte lip balms. I was a bit sad when it ran out, as this has lived in my purse since the day I got it. As long as it’s still available, I plan to repurchase once I get through my three remaining tubes of plain lip balm.
CANDLES
Huntington Home Strawberry Lemonade: no notes listed. Thankfully this one burned better than its Peach Sangria brethren. Sadly the scent kind of got lost the more times I burned it, and it started smelling more like a crayon than a glass of strawberry lemonade. Would not repurchase.
BBW Daffodil Daydreams: notes are whipped marshmallow, pastel clouds, and sweet daffodil. Absolutely delightful, and even better that I was able to burn it for the week leading up to and on Easter (how seasonally appropriate). This jar is so cute and adorable that I cleaned it out and have kept it as decor for next year—it makes a cute candy dish. Absolutely would repurchase the scent if it ever comes back.
BBW/White Barn in Cypress: notes are bergamot grove, fir needles, and green moss. Again, absolutely delightful and so seasonally appropriate. Smelled fresh and woodsy without being heavy/winterish. The light gray wax against the black minimalistic label was beautiful—it’s a shame they’ve not done this kind of collection again since I bought it in 2023. I have three other scents from this “black label” collection and I’m squirreling them away for a while longer.
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.
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:BeforeAfterThere'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.
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 to see if that helps me reach for it more regularly. 🤞
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!
