Pan It! - 2024 Challenge

[ElleElleG]

Welcome to Year 7 of our 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:

Spoiler

• 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:

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! 

[jaaayp]

I've been trying to vet the same effect this month but omg June gloom must really be a thing because the sun just does not want to join us...

Where am I, SEATTLE???

I would like to incorporate more makeup items on here but I haven't gone through my collection yet, so maybe this weekend, I'll provide some additional items 🙃

Some updates for this month vs previous month:

Beginning of May

End of May

 

Product finished:

• Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Magic Serum with Vitamin C has anyone tried this? This worked OK but it smelled like... swimming pool water? (I forgot to take a picture before I recycled it at sephora...)
• TULA Skincare Brightening Treatment Drops Triple Vitamin C Serum 1 oz / 30 ml 
• amika Perk Up Talc-Free Dry Shampoo 

 

 

[ather]

@jaaayp  Great job!! Wow you did some serious damage to the Ouai oil!!! What are your thoughts on the Tula vitamin c?? 

[missjeanie]

Excellent progress @jaaayp !! I’ll be curious to see which make up items you choose to pan! I always find makeup so much harder than other products!

[blackkitty2014]

Great job @jaaayp 👏. I like that Quai. I need to use it more often.

[jaaayp]

Thank you! And yes! It smells so good @blackkitty2014 ! Have you seen any results from it though?

[blackkitty2014]

@jaaayp @I tempted to say no, I don’t see any result but then I only use it once in a blue moon so probably that is not an accurate statement. I will put it in Pan it project and we’ll see 😘

[jaaayp]

OOOH yes, please @blackkitty2014 I absolutely love the smell and it makes my scalp feel clean/moisturized but I'm not seeing any volume or anything.... but my hair is kinda stubborn and doesn't react positively (nor negatively actually) to anything!

[KeriCherryDee]

(Insert high-pitched joy shrieking)

I made such good progress on my sample perfumes! The last ones I have left for samples are a teeny Nest New York Balinese Coconut perfume oil rollerball and a deluxe-size Juliette Has A Gun Not A Perfume. As these are around a year or less old and I’m supremely happy with my empties, I’m switching gears to give more love and attention to my full-size fragrances from Juliette Has A Gun (Magnolia Bliss) and Valentino (Donna Born In Roma Intense and DBIR Green Stravaganza). I’ll sprinkle in Balinese Coconut as I feel like it—and will probably work on Not A Perfume more towards winter. For now I want to enjoy sprays again; the splash vial and rollerball samples were a bit of a pain. I’d love to see a big dent in Magnolia Bliss by the end of the year, as it is my oldest fragrance—I got it basically right when it launched.

 

[KeriCherryDee]

@ather thank you!!

[ather]

@KeriCherryDee  Wow!! That’s an amazing achievement!! Great job! 

[KeriCherryDee]

@blackkitty2014 @missjeanie @itsfi thank you all, as always 💖 never again will I let myself accumulate samples for more than like 6 months—I need to 👏 USE 👏 THE DARN 👏 PRODUCTS 🤣

[blackkitty2014]

Oh great job @KeriCherryDee 👏. I need to work on my perfumes too. 

[missjeanie]

@KeriCherryDee Totally understand preferring sprays over rollerballs.  But heck yes!! Look at all those babys gone!!  Well done, enjoy some much loved spritz's now!

[itsfi]

Wowza @KeriCherryDee ‌‌❣️ I am returning your high pitched shrieks of joy! Over and over again! What an amazing accomplishment with these perfume samples and minis! Seriously impressive! 😍 You're amazing!! Excited to see you work through those full size sprays now! Show us how it's done! 👊

[lmaster]

I'm so happy!! I used both of these huda lip glosses 🙌

 

I will be now using ciate London lip oil

 

[ather]

@lmaster  Great job!! 

[lmaster]

Thank you darlin @ather 

[blackkitty2014]

Wow look at you @lmaster . Yoo-hoo 😗 

[lmaster]

Thank you lovely! @blackkitty2014 

[missjeanie]

@lmaster Two glosses in one month!!  Love it!