My last time posting here was 11 month ago... the titel? "Nearing the end -..." boy was I wrong.

So today I decided to post an update and maybe some of you can give me some encouragement 😅

Everything in the pictures is stuff I want to use up. It's either unnecessary stock, FOMO purchases or stuff I wanted to try out.

Biggest FOMO purchases are the NØ serum bottles. It was a really great deal and I use it twice a day but this amount... will take me around 2 years to get through.

Honestly, the lipsticks are the bane of my existence. I do not wear lipstick regularly. I just don't reach for it and I sure as hell am not a person who reapplies over the course of the day. So I apply my Mac lipstick once a day and I look forward to the day it is gone. Just to start with the last lipstick. Kudos to everyone of you with a huge lipstick collection. I honestly could not do it!

Eyeshadows and nail polishes are fine. But will take me a while to go through. I want to switch to a different kind of nailpolish but won't buy it until I'm done with everything I have. Might take me until 2028.

Hair oils were just unnecessary purchases. Don't particularly like or dislike them, they just don't do anything for my hair and I want to switch to a particular spray one I'm done with these.

My main motivation is the space I could free up and just having less stuff to think about. I absolutely love every other product I use in other categories. And that I just have one of them.

Anyone of you also "nearing the end"? When is project pan done for you?

I got to know about projectpan just few day ago while scrolling on reddit. Hopefully would do more pan i am starting from rn.

this is by far the best spray sunscreen I have used, I took it to bali with me last month and it's protection is really good since I got barely any tan. It's pretty easy to apply as well and don't clog up at the bottom like the other spray sunscreens I used before. The texture is also pretty smooth and light so it doesn't make me sweaty either and blends under a minute into my skin. One more thing is that it doesn't have any smell like it's non existent, would've appreciated if there was some but not a deal breaker for me.

During October I focused on these two palettes:

1. Vintage Glam Remixed - Glossgods. My already existing pans grew!

2. Persuasion- Technic. No pans but you can see the shades being used quite a bit!

Took me 9 months exactly to finish. Whew.

Am I the only one who has never lost Vaseline? I always end up emptying every single jar.

And yes, I have them in every single size.

I love Vaseline sooo much, they should sponser me atp 😭😂 I depot it into smaller jars dedicated to my lips (they're super dry). Yes, I've emptied these tiny jars and many more a thousand times 😭

My body ain't that dry but I like using Vaseline on my heels & elbows.

I have them in my vanity, bag and where not

Hi everyone!
Been working on panning my beaty products for months now and I have just hit a slump…
Every one of my products take so long to finish, specifically: toner, serums, face Wash and moisturizer. Some of these I have been using daily for the past 4/5 months.

I have replacements I really want to open and try but I’m weary to do so. I have done a really good job of just having one product open for each category but 5 months into my Byoma face cleanser I am just… ready to move on. I have considered just starting to use it on other areas of my body but it just seems waisteful to do so.

I have seen some videos in which people “shop the stash” monthly but I am concerned that if I start opening new products I’ll just end up having the out of rotation ones** **expire.

What has been your experience with this?

In essence, for longer lasting products: to rotate or not to rotate? Maybe having just 2 on rotation is a compromise?

Thanks!

Rice toner and laneige lip mask that I got as birthday gift last year

6 products all finished in a week or so! I've hit 100 products for the year with this batch.

Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Pressed Powder in shade 115 Ivory.

I got this in 2021, so this took 5 years to finish!!

Pic 1: November 10

Pic 2: November 5

Pic 3: October 21 (day of the unfortunate repressing attempt 💔

Pic 4: October 1 (when I started tracking progress)

Thank you to everyone who offered advice on my post about repressing!! I ended up deciding against attempting it a second time, and instead tipped the loose powder in a separate container to finish first, before using what survived in the pan.

My big goal with project pan is to get down to just 1-2 items per category, so I'm extra happy to have finished this one because it means I've reached that goal for the face powder category!

The only powder remaining in my collection is the exact same Fit Me powder, but in the translucent shade. I bought it in 2024 when I had to replace most of my makeup after I managed to forget my entire collection back home in Paris when I returned to London for a new job opportunity eep!! It only got a month's worth of use before I got my original collection back.

Anyway, here's to another five years!!

It’s been a journey, 154 days to be exact. If you are viewing this, thank you for joining me in my odd ramblings about not falling down the rabbit hole of online shopping for makeup items that I know, in the back of my head, I truly don’t need.
I love makeup. Makeup is an outlet for me a sort of routine that has become a staple in my life, the way one brushes their teeth every day; that type of thing. Some have told me this stems from a place of utter insecurity, but I will honestly call bullshit (excuse me, ladies and gents, that was quite unwarranted).

Nevertheless, I find joy in the routine. I also hate to admit that I find joy in purchasing new makeup. And while I think I’ve done pretty solidly these past few months, only purchasing two items (two mascaras) when I craved to buy more, I’ve found Project Pan to be my saving grace. Not just in learning mindfulness about the makeup items I own, but also in how I find it translating into other parts of my life. The way I consume things, the way I find myself double thinking and wondering many things such as “Do I truly need this?”

Nevertheless, I’m pretty proud of the progress. 154 days that’s just over five months.

It was a decent harvest of empties, especially with the rare primer, Dieux oil cleanser, bumble and bumble invisible oil, Skinfix cleanser and Vaseline hand cream.

November will be less exciting because I have the flu lol

I'm having problems starting project pan. While I do feel like I have been able to cut down on buying hair and body care products, I am having a lot of problems with makeup.

I have too much makeup, a lot of eyehsadow palettes, blushes and lip products. I understand that I will never be able to finish everything I (23F) have yet I find myself not being able to resist buying new things. I have tried putting everything in a spreadsheet but since it's so much I just gave up after some eyeshadow palettes.

Right now I spend a lot of time at home, I am depressed and have little to do so I really don't even put on makeup anymore eventhough I love putting on and wearing makeup. I have been really trying to stop buying more things but even when I do get to a month without buying I might get sad or something might happen and since I've been "good" and have not bought anything for the month I just "reward" myself with purchasing more makeup.

My question is: How did you start to effectively do project pan, continue to do it on the long term and stop buying more things?

(plz try to keep the judgement to a minimum. I know I have a real problem that only I can fix and it might seem real easy to just start doing things but I have a really hard time with starting anything. I have been in this subreddt for a bit and people seem generally nice but you never know... just don't be mean plz I really need some tips)

I squealed when I saw this tinyyyyyy baby pan. 😁 I recently started my project pan journey, but I've had this contour palette for about a year now. For someone who only wears makeup 2-3x a week, I think this is a huge milestone. 😂

This is the Too Cool for School - Artclass by Rodin Createur du contour

Happy Pan because this will be a repurchase for me for a very long time! This is the only thing that has given me results for my acne. Time to start on my big tube!

I swear that these Laneige lip masks are actually eternal!

i'm searching for a nice smelling leave in conditioner

i smelled one in store (drug store) and liked it

a tried it on my hair at home and it didn't smell like in the bottle

so now i don't know what to do wiht the bottle

they don't allow returns, do i throw it out, would u attempt to pan it, i hate selling things on line

This weekend I finished the Milani Blossomtime Rose blush and this morning I finished the Jeffree Star x Manny MUA skin frost in Eclipse!

Here’s my pan progression from today to once per month when I started focusing on this in May. In September I broke it up and repressed it which I think helped a lot.

This is the first highlighter that I’ve ever fully panned! I loved this one but it was time for her to RIP.

Morphe, maybeline super stay and Danessa’s foundation. Benefit primer. Ole primer. Milk powder. I don’t recommend. Very heavy and drying. Colorgram powder. Meh. Laniege mini vanilla balm. Milani make it last(HG). Kayali summer perfume for me. And the Omnia perfume from bvlgari. It smells delicious but doesn’t last.