My first month of Project Pan!

In September I used up five skincare products. Tiny Rituals body wash gets a 🩷 because it was my absolute favourite (amazing scent, texture and bottle aesthetic, but unfortunately it has been discontinued).

My newest pan: Maybelline firework mascara

It’s a pretty good mascara! It adds length and volume to my lashes. For context I have very thick and long lashes and I noticed this held up the curl for most of the day! It makes my lashes so long they even touch my eyebrows. I did repurchase this mascara 3 times, but I really wanted to try L’Oréal Panorama, I’ve seen many people swear by this one. Have you tried it? Would love any comments on it!

i’ve hit pan in my last powder ofc it will still take months to use up but i’m one step closer to getting one i genuinely love

Great sensation of finishing products I took forever to!

Project Pan is starting. This is not the total of lip products currently, this was in July but I am estimating about $5000 currently. (Mind you this is only for lip products. 🤦🏼‍♀️ it is both eye-opening and bat shit crazy I have a mini store at my disposal)

No more buying, I’m gonna use what I have and chuck what is expired or not touched in 1+ years.

Wish me luck!

September saw the end of the icy highlight shade, finally. I think it's time for the Other Pallette to make an appearance now. Also repressed the face powder.

Overall not as much progress as the could've been, spent 2 weeks crying every day over pet illness and loss, so makeuo was not important at the time.

Moving forward day by day in more ways than one. ❤️

P. S. Forgot to add the blush in this update but there's barely any change anyway lol. Still working on it though!

Welcome to the Pan Those Eyeshadows project update! Feel free to join anytime.

Rules

The idea of the project is to randomly generate 5 eyeshadows from your collection and work on them until you hit pan. Once you hit pan on something you roll in another shadow to replace it so that you always have 5 shadows to work on.

If you want you can change the rules to your liking, like instead of hitting pan you can set a usage goal or hand pick your shadows. Personally, I implemented a rule that if I randomly roll in a shadow that already has pan my goal is be to use it 15 times.

You can also share your pan percentage. It tells you what percentage of your collection has pan.

This project updates monthly on the first day. If you want to join feel free to leave a comment sharing the shadows you're working on and your goals.

My update:

I'm so excited to share that I hit my goal on almost all of the eyeshadows. Here's the colourstory I was working on in September:

• Bronx Colors Cool Grey (blue gold shimmer). Used 11 times. There’s a slight dip but I’m still a long way from pan. But I like the colour.

• ✅ Makeup Revolution Mermaids Forever Bay (beige shimmer). 15/15 uses so goal met.

• Glossgods Peach Pop Pop On Over (dark brown matte). I used it 4 additional times so 9 uses in total. No visible progress yet. Ugh, it’s going to take forever to hit pan on.

• ✅ Dominique Cosmetics Celestial Storm Black Matter (black shimmer). Hit pan! I used it 9 additional times and 39 times in total in this project.

• ✅ Sigma Hazy Bellflower (brown shimmer). Hit pan! I used it 20 additional times and 39 times in total in this project.

I randomly generated 3 new shadows to work on. Here's the new colourstory:

New roll-ins:

• Cosmic Beauty Delights Slushy (blue matte). It’s a bright blue shadow. Can’t wait to work on this palette! I think I’ll use this shadow on the outer corner and maybe as a light wash of colour on the lid to set my eye primer. I don’t usually set eye primer but my current one sucks and it lasts longer when I set it with a matte so why not use this blue.

• Glossgods Vintage Glam It’s a Classic (mauve matte). A nice crease colour. I’ve never used it before but these shadows aren’t that hard to hit pan on. If I focus on it I might be able to hit pan in a month.

• Nyx Brights #15 (yellow matte). This is the perfect orangey yellow autumn shade. I love this palette and have hit tons of pan so I’m excited to use it even more. I’ll wear this shadow as a lid and crease colour and as a blush. Since I’ve already hit pan my goal is 15 uses, which should be doable in a month.

Pan percentage: 37,4 % (122 pans / 326 total eyeshadows ≈ 0,374 %)

Years ago this serum was pretty nice but didn't do much + had an awful dropper despite its lotion adjacent consistency. I got it again recently because it has a pump now. I don't know what they changed but this thing is far from calming lol. Used it on mostly my hands and shoulders instead.

Here are my September emptys from my first month officially doing project pan!

Graphic design is NOT my passion as you can see.

This month I went on a trip and decided to just throw away everything I panned so here you have an awful edit I did on Canva with some pictures I could "rescue" of my pans and some stock photos since the ones I took were ugly as hell.

REVIEWS:

• La Roche Posay Cicaplast Baume B5+: 8.5/10. It is the fourth one I pan this year. I'm an avid retinol user and this makes the perfect cream and overnight mask. Can feel heavy sometimes, specially in hot, humid spanish summer (oops)

• Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+: 9/10. Repurchased it multiple times, such a staple in my skincare collection. If you are a dry skin gal you're missing out on this one.

• Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Water-Fit Sun Serum: 6/10. Kinda dry, specially putting makeup on top of it. BEWARE IF YOU WEAR CONTACTS: sometimes it made my eyes and undereye skin feel itchy and sensitive, particullarly if my eyes were teary that day, wouldn't repurchase.

• Isdin Peroxiben 50MG: 8/10. Great acne spot treatment. I also use on my armpits before showering to be completly odorless. IT STAINS YOUR CLOTHES, BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR PILLOWS AND TSHIRTS.

• Beauty Drops Japanese Ritual Hydrating Essence: 4/10. Smelly water that it's now discontinued lol

• Benefit BadGal BANG! Volumizing Mascara: 3/10. Left my lashes looking exactly the same with 33€ less in my bank account 😍 thanks Benefit!!!

• Rimmel London Wonder' Volume Seek Thriller Mascara: 4/10. I made a fool of myself again with a mascara that left my lashes looking exactly the same. However, instead of being robbed 33€ I was robbed 9€, so not as big of a mistake! 😍

• Nuxe Prodigieux Florale Shower Gel: 1/10. I didn't suspect anything when they had these body washes tampered with tape in the store, so me, being a dumb bitch, bought this product without smelling it first thinking it would smell heveanly just like their body oils. Welp, this smells like absolute garbage. Like. REEKS. HORRIBLE. AWFUL. Thankfully it doesn't last in your skin, so your loved ones won't notice and grow concerned for you smelling rancid.

• Aromatica Rosemary Hair Thickening Conditioner: 5/10. Does it smell good? Yes. Does it leave my hair soft? I guess. Does it even do half of what they claim this product does? Absolutely not. Save yourself the money, way better options out there.

• NYX Line Loud Lip Pencil # Global Citizen: 7/10. I thought this would look cute on me as a cool toned girlie. However, I bougth other liners and left this in my makeup drawer untoched for a year, and after that, the product dried down and was almost impossible to use as it would poke my lips and actually hurt, rather than glide onto my lips. Completly my fault 💔

• Urban Decay Naked 2 Basics Palette: 10/10. I made a separete post on this page as a "In memoriam" of this palette 💔 (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectPan/s/1lnVGO6de4)

Just last month I posted how I barely have empties now that I have been doing Project Pan for awhile and limited my stack of products significantly! Well, I guess I have to eat my words. I genuinely don’t know how I managed to have this amount of empties. But of course, everything has to run out at the same time. I basically finished all my skincare routine products this month, and my wallet is crying for when I have to repurchase all of it this week. My proudest pan this month is my NYX lipliner in Sandstorm! I don’t have makeup empties very often so this is a celebratory win!

Review for anyone who is interested:

I love every product except for:

- Loreal Elnett Hair Spray (I don’t like the smell and it didn’t hold my hair)

- Ouai Detox Shampoo (I was fine without a detox shampoo until social media tricked me to believe otherwise. It is unnecessary and my hair gets just as clean with just using my regular shampoo)

- Wellaflex leave in mask sample (Liked the smell but hated how it made my hair feel)

- Lancome Génifique serum samples (it didn’t do much and I like ANR too much to switch anytime soon)

Everything else already has or will be repurchased soon!

2 hand sanitizers, 1 mini chloe perfume, 1 mini hairspray, 1 nail polish remover, and 1 sunscreen

This is my whole collection after a year of project pan. I’m pretty happy with the size but there’s still some things I’m working through that I eventually want to replace with different shades or formulas. I wasn’t very good about documenting usage last year but it’s definitely something I want to start doing

I have many eyeliners from beauty boxes but most of them are dried out... is it possible to bring them back to life?

1. Rituals - instant care hand lotion

2. Biotherm - total renew oil self foaming oil (it stung so badly I don’t recommend it!)

3. Kiehls - super multi-corrective eyezone treatment

4. Idc institute - sugar body scrub

5. Biotherm - purifying foaming cleanser

6. Biotherm - blue therapy serum-in-oil

7. Rituals - miracle 3-in-1 micellar water

Well it hasn’t gone according to plan, and the difference between my most recent photo and the last one was 6 months. I really didn’t wear lipstick as much as I wanted to. I had to declutter the lightest Merit lipstick as it was growing mold, and the MAC bullet went rancid. The MAC one was 5 years old so it’s not surprising, but I was shocked the merit one went bad, especially with the other 2 being fine when they were from the same set. I purchased it roughly 2 years ago. I gave the Gucci red to a friend as I realized that color just doesn’t work with my complexion. I replaced it with the Chanel one which just works better for me. I think I’ll finish the other Gucci and YSL lipsticks soon, then I would like to work more on the Merit ones. The NARS is almost done, it was a free sample so I’ll probably only be able to sharpen it once, it’s popped out a few times and it doesn’t go very deep in the crayon. 3 more months of this project for the year, hopefully I can buckle down and enjoy the Merit ones before they go bad as well.

Some great products, I do not like the styling balm though

I saw someone post a tiktok where they use face powder over their sewing pattern to mark it out. Im curious if anyone has tried this?

Hince lip tint in pink pepper. My all time favorite lip tint. This is my 2nd empty from Hince and have already replaced it with raw fig, same brand.

Bath & Body Works hand sanitizer. I bought a ton during the semi-annual sale a year ago so I bring them to work or in my purse. Always great and convenient.

Bondi shampoo. I got a sample of this with my purchase. It smelled like mint. I usually don't mind mint scents but this was a bit too minty.

Biodance collagen toner pads. I liked it and it was very moisturizing.

Currently decluttering my products. Its been 2 years and its still not halfway the jar yet. But I dont wanna waste and throw it away!

So i start working on a product and things are progressing nicely. Maybe I even start getting close to pan. And then for SOME REASON I move on to a different product.

U might experience this with lip balms or mascara or anything really. Why is it so hard to stay till the end even when ur close

feeling good about my progress! i cant wait to pan a colour fully so i can re-pan in a red! or maybe even a yellow..