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:

[miss8]

@KeriCherryDee With The #FlawlessVictory On That BBW 😂

[itsfi]

October 2025 Progress Report

Monthly Summary: One more product finished - it is one I would repurchase, too! 

October All Stars: Vegamour GRO Scalp Detox Clarifying Treatment for Dry, Flaky, Oily Scalp 3 fl oz/60 ml has really been a winner for me this year and has been all used up!! To my surprise, I've looked forward to using it more than my trusty Oaui detox shampoo, sometimes skipping over the Oaui's weekly use for the Vegamour serum. They both have a place in my hair care rotation but the Vegamour has been a surprise hit for 2025. 

November Focus: Going to try to use the haruharu wonder eye cream more consistently. I’ve been rotating it with other eye creams, but for next month, I’ll make it my only eye cream, day and night. Not sure I'll use up the tube by the end of November (there's a lot of product packed in there) but aiming to make more of a dent in it.

All done 👆👏 Debating whether to repurchase during the upcoming sale or to wait until the spring sale. 🤔 I'll have to see what else I have on my list for the sale ... which reminds me, I need to post that, stat!

I like this one a lot. It's at that point where the doe foot applicator just barely pokes into the top of the product so I now store it on the cap to make it easier to scoop out the product. We'll see if it is just as easy peasy to use the product now that there's not as much remaining; if it is, this'll be an easy repurchase for me when I use up this bottle. 

This is a good eye cream for me - it's lightweight, easy to use, absorbs quickly and smoothly and contains some great ingredients, including bakuchiol. I'm fairly certain I'll be able to use up this tube either by the end of the year or early next. The question then becomes whether I'll repurchase it and I feel like I will, but later on as I have a few other eye creams that I need to use up first.

[caitbird]

@itsfi  woohoo, awesome job! 🎉 I'm glad these products are ones you like, too - it's such a pain to try to chug through products you don't even like, just to use them up and not waste.

[Samtian]

@itsfi Woooo great job!

[Samtian]

Making progress-

Use It- 168/333 Target 266
Pan It- 19/337 Target 33

[caitbird]

@Samtian  great work! 💜

[Samtian]

@caitbird Thank you!

[itsfi]

Wow, you've made some great progress since last month @Samtian! That's awesome. Gotta just keep chipping away at it like you're doing. Keep it up! 🙌 Is there a product (or products) you're aiming to pan by the end of the year?

[Samtian]

@itsfi Thanks! Not any particular items. I'd like to see pan in at least one eyeshadow. 

[Samtian]

Summer is over so it's time to pick up the pace again!

Use It- 153/333 Target 266
Pan It- 15/337 Target 33

The Becca is the only one that saw use during the summer months. Recently started back up with the others so not much progress. I always forget about the Saie Glowy Super Gel Lightweight Dewy Multipurpose Illuminator Starglow so I set it out to try to remind myself at least once a week, no photo. Some of the oils saw better progress then others, but they all actually got used which is a big win. 

BeccaCTUD DiscreetUD FramedBody OilsUD Robbery

[missjeanie]

@Samtian This is the second reminder I've stolen from your posts in as many days.... I too tend to start off the year strong with panning then forget about it all summer long.  I need to pick back up as well!  You're such a good influence!!

[Samtian]

@missjeanie Awe thank you!

[itsfi]

That’s some good work on the Becca this summer @Samtian, it looks like you’re nearing pan in one spot on that one! 🤩

[Samtian]

@itsfi That one is panned, its just hard to see it haha. 

[lmaster]

I need to pick up the pace! @Samtian you're pushing through 🙌

[itsfi]

September Progress Report

MONTHLY SUMMARY: Nothing panned or finished but it looks like I should be done with the Vegamour GRO Scalp Detox Clarifying Treatment for Dry, Flaky, Oily Scalp 3 fl oz/60 ml with a couple more uses. 😀

SEPTEMBER ALL-STARS: Nothing really stood out in terms of panning items (which is fine, slow and steady has worked well for me in past pan it! challenges). 

NEXT MONTH'S FOCUS: Going to put some effort into making more progress on that haruharu wonder eye cream. It's a great eye cream; I like it a lot and could see myself repurchasing it. I'm rotating between it and another couple of eye products, but for next month, I'll make it my primary eye cream and see how much further along I get with this tube. Also going to focus on using the makeup products more - Cle de Peau foundation, YSL Stora Dolls eyeshadow palette and Hourglass Dim Light finishing powder. 

[lmaster]

You're getting there! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

@lmaster, thank you; just chipping away.

[Samtian]

@itsfi Slow and steady is great, you are making amazing progress! 

[itsfi]

Thanks so much @Samtian! The pan it! challenges have been really good for helping me keep to a regular (or semi regular) schedule when it comes to the hair care and eye cream products I include in the challenges. 

[caitbird]

@itsfi  great job! Nothing wrong with slow and steady, that's often the best way to make progress, I find (though it can be difficult to maintain for my ADD self 😅).

I kind of forgot about Project Pan for most of the summer 😥 I have to reassess and try to make some progress for the last few months of 2025.