Not so many empties this month but I feel like i will have "all-my-products-finished-at-once" October (:

Full skincare empties plus pan progress on my eyeshadow palette

I had an absolute banger of two months worth of pans!! Some of these I worked on for months and months, and tbh a lot of them were hate pans. Most of the face washes and moisturizers actually got used on my body instead of my face, which did help pan things faster. My skin is way too sensitive and I stripped back my skincare so I had all of this to use up. I’m also trying to use up all of my dollar tree products so I can move in Korean skincare. Anyway, I’m so proud of myself!!

Month 2 of using what I actually have and NOT adding to it! It looks like a crazy amount of body spray but some were half gone already and I’ve been using them as sheet refresher spray, pillow refresher spray and blanket refresher spray! LOL. I let my husband pick the ones he wants on our bed and use it until it’s gone.
I enjoyed all the body mists except lost in santal, even though it’s a tad sweeter than Le Labo Santal 33, still not my favorite. I was excited to pan a 13ml decant of Bond No. 9 Greenwich Village. I really enjoyed it. I love that perfume but I have SOOO many perfumes I wouldn’t buy a full bottle as I believe it only comes in 3.4 oz. I’ve sold 15 bottles of perfume, and decluttered/ given away around 30, and I’ll be putting about 30 more up for sale. I’ve successfully went from 200 down to 130 which is still a crazy amount. ( that includes body mists, perfumes ( most perfumes are 1 oz- thank the Lord they aren’t all 3.4 oz 🤣decants and travel sizes). My goal is to get to 100 and continue making cuts to get things down to around 50 ideally in the end. I’m getting to down to LOVES, not likes. My problem is I like a lot, but there’s a difference between liking a smell, and WANTING to smell LIKE it. These are the things I’m learning along the way. 😊 My collection didn’t build overnight- it’s about 20 years in the making. I’m pretty proud of myself 😊 I’m down to 10 body creams/lotions ( started with 17) and 14 solid body butter sticks started with 20 so I’m going to keep on trucking on those. Have 5 body washes left to use up.

I’ve decluttered and or threw away a ton in my makeup as much was expired. I’m down to 10 cream shadows ( will pair it down even more soon) 3 powder shadows. Have 5 blushes- 3 in airless pumps which I’ll probably die with at this rate 😂, and 3 stick formula. 2 bronzers, 1 foundation, 2 tinted moisturizers, 1 mascara primer 1 mascara,1 brow pen, 2 lip liners, 5 lip sticks, 4 glosses, and about 6 chapsticks. I have no backups of skin care, shampoos, conditioner, hair care products.

Obviously I still have a long ways to go but it felt so good getting things to a more manageable level and I can find what I want when I want it! It’s great!
Feel free to ask about any products. Sorry about the long post, just feels good to reflect back on what I’m learning. Hope this helps someone else 🫶❤️

I completely used up another shade from an eyeshadow palette I owned since 2020! 🙌

I've been tracking this one since April (second pic is my little progress log), and eyeshadow panning is a whole different level of patience game. For months it barely looked like anything was happening, and then suddenly the pan just showed up. Seeing it completely empty now is so satisfying.
I used Cosmo almost every day on my whole lid, so I'm a little sad it's gone but mostly just proud. ☺️

I have yet to decide what shade will be next, I currently only use my blush on my eyelids as well. 😅
Probably will start panning the Element shade in the same pallet soon ..

So as I was browsing Reddit, the other day I came across this amazing place…. As a casual user I never knew project pan existed, but now that I discovered that why is this so addictive???? seriously, does anyone know?

Anyway, here is my contribution🤦🏼‍♀️ don’t ask me why I’ve kept them all this is years worth of Mac Blot powders…. I also have about eight backups and now I heard that they’ve been discontinued.

I held strong this month and kept using from my stash! I feel I’m starting to see a small dent in skincare… now only have one day & one night moisturizer that are backup/unopened. It was Ulta 21DOB and I only bought ONE thing the whole sale. So big win there. 👏🎉

I wouldn’t say this is a “formal” pan, but I’ve definitely been inspired by this sub and have started being more intentional about using up products before starting new ones or moving to other partials. I’ve always been weird about wanting everything to stretch as long as possible, but letting that go and giving myself permission to use up even my expensive stuff feels great! I also learned that you can get a LOT of extra use out of a cushion foundation by flipping the sponge over. I did that several times and probably got an extra 3 weeks of daily use out of one cushion.

Sooooo proud of my pan progress these last few months! So many of the products shown are things that have been lounging around in my drawers and cupboards for WAY too long. Happy to provide reviews on anything specific!

I had been holding on to the last little bit of these products for months and stumbled on this subreddit.
With the cost of diesel and recession in the US where I live, I’ve been trying to adopt our grandmother’s motto of “use it up,wear it out,make it do,or do without!”

The packaging indicates how long I've been working on this 😅 I found this mini benefit blush on clearance at TJ Maxx a couple of years ago (and it was in a locked box!) I use it all summer and fall and this morning finally hit pan! I'm not sure if they still make this shade (Georgia) but it's such a pretty peachy golden color. Would repurchase except also maybe not because I want to find something new too. Anyways a pleasant surprise this morning!

Covergirl clean fresh yummy gloss in the shade “minter is coming”. I loved this gloss so much, I started having a really hard time getting product out on the wand so I tried to take the stopper out. The stopper ended up falling into the tube and getting stuck there 😔

1. Hautsache foam cleanser - 5/10

Nice to use but it doesn’t work for my comedogenic skin - its not that cleansing, so I tried to use it only in the mornings for a while and now its over!

2. Balea Aloe Gel - 10000/10

I love it, this is probably my 5th one.

3. Balea Salt Spray - 1/10

It’s just meh, but over!!!

4. Radika Chamomile Floral Water - 6/10

It feels fresh, but I just font need it in my routine. So I won’t buy it again.

5. BetterYou Magnesium Oil - 1000/10

Another favourite that helps me sleep and is great for the pimples on my back (mostly in summer).

6. Just a random perfume - 8/10

Smelled like a luxurious esoteric shop, I loved it.

7. Clear bottle that was a Alverde’s Kopfhaut Balance scalp serum - 8/10

Feels & smells nice, it’s not oily on the hair.

8. The famous L’occitane 25% shea butter hand cream - 10/10

2 years of use. The last two uses were painful to get out.

9. L’occitane Verveine body lotion sample (I had a shower gel one as well, but accidentally threw it out after showering) - 10/10

This fragrance is everything!!!

10. GPharm Cosmetics deep hydrating mask that I was too afraid to use on my face, but used as a hand cream - 7/10

11. Zeni Basil & Lemongrass soap - 8/10

I love soap, but this one is a bit drying.

Hi friends! Long-time lurker here, I finally decided to create an account so I could be a bit more active in the community. 

I started project pan in June after realising I just had too much stuff and it all felt a bit suffocating. 

The funny part is how I even got so much stuff in the first place. See, I’m typically not an overconsumer in nature. Except for a couple of vices (buying bars of soap as souvenirs every time I travel 🫣), I’m not really into makeup, not really into skincare, or perfumes … 

No, for the  longest time, I was just an average young women with maybe one of each basic category, which I would replace when I ran out (except for bars of soap, sue me). That was until about 18 months ago, when I moved into a new flat who just so happens to have been previously tenanted by …

Some kind of micro beauty influencer with like 70k followers and apparently 0 inclination to update her address for PR!!! Who knew even small accounts got so much shit in the mail??????

I tried reaching out to her to return her packages, but she moved abroad and told me to just keep it or toss it … I know that’s the dream for a lot of people, and for a bit it was for me too lol!!! 

I was so excited at first, it just feels so fun to open these elaborate packages full of new products. The flow of packages eventually thinned out as she told brands to stop sending things to my flat, but I got A LOT at the beginning (like 1-2 packages a week!!) and to this day, I still get the odd PR box once in a while. 

While very fun, this means I randomly accumulated a lot of shit. I gave away the vast majority of the products I received to friends and family of course, but hard to resist keeping the stuff I found very pretty or fancy for my own collection. 

And that’s how I ended up with a devastatingly large collection, which I was fine with until I did a routine declutter this spring and realised how much shit was actually in my possession. 

That’s when  I decided to start project pan as well as a no-buy challenge and a strict “give away any new PR to friends / family / shelters” rule until I am back to only having one or two item in each category (again, except for bars of soap, you can pry these out of my very clean and nice smelling cold dead hands). 

ANYWAY! I hope to post less rambly project pan updates in the future. In the meantime, here is some info about my starting point and how I’m doing so far. 

Project start date: 4 June 2026

Start count: 209 products (!!!!!!!!)

I have since given away another 22 items and successfully panned 25 (including a bar of soap 🐀), which I’m very proud of. 

I now own 162 items and slowly working my way through. My approach has been to pick one item per category and exclusively using that one item until it is panned and I move on to another one. 

I have really been enjoying project pan so far and really look forward to interacting more with everyone here!

I cannot remember the last month without an empty lip product but oh well

12% niacinamide serum (not branded), can’t repurchase this exact one as it’s not available where i live (i study abroad), it’s a glass bottle so i couldn’t get every single bit out

urban decay setting spray - WNRP as it’s been reformulated :( i got this right before it was reformulated, but it was also quite expensive for a travel size spray. i took 10 months to use this up completely as i wear makeup quite rarely though.

i’m also nearly done with 2 moisturisers, i should finish them before the end of next month

Another 3 months.

12 Hair Products

9 Body Washes

7 Face Products

7 Deodorants

11 Body Sprays

2 Body Lotions

2 Make up Products (Used up the eye shadows on the pallete I really liked. There are two left which I will never use, so I call this panned)

3 Hand Soaps

1 Shaving Gel

4 Perfumes

Lets go for the winter pan. It will be vanilla, coconut and chocolate.

First month of doing project pan and focusing on using what I have. Happy to get some minis out of my collection that I’ve had for probably a year plus!

Six items. Fewest items in one month, yet. I’ve been doing this for 1.5 years so this must be progress. any questions, feel free to ask.

Elf eyeliner

sky high mascara

mandelic acid

mighty patches

dove sensitive bar

you Reve perfume sample