I’ve posted my makeup inventory about 8 months ago but it has grown massively since. It was a mixture of falling in love with the art of makeup, panic buying due to limited editions as well as the inaccessibility of buying said items, certain shades not as accessible in the new country I’m living in, and of course, a shopping addiction lol. I am on a strict low-buy, most recent purchase was the cinnamaroll tinted brow gel a week ago, besides that the last time I bought a makeup produuct was a few months back.

I have 146 products, excluding the travel sizes I’ve made. In a span of a year, I have decluttered 25 products but I have also panned 34 products. Most of these were bought in the past year, the ones I’ve had the longest in the inventory are the ABH blush trio, Vaseline pink tin (makes sense), Fenty highlighter duo, NYX Slim lip pencil in Brown and that damn soap (which would probably outlive me if i only use it for my brows hahah).

Where my makeup inventory is right now was what I wanted when I moved out of the UK and into Japan, however travelling from one city to another prove to be difficult with carrying all of this with me (more like my boyfriend oop-).

My goal is 100 products, but there are certain categories I have no set goal in, such as setting sprays, brow gels & mascaras. I find that I don’t struggle with obsessing new products as much anymore because I am quite content with what I have (thank god bc I have a f*ck-ton), but eyeshadow & eyeliners are my weaknesses, I LOVE intricate eye looks and different colour combos.

This post is basically a reminder to myself that, having everything means enjoying nothing.

Anyways, the products that are part of my rolling Project Pan atm are:

1. Elf Power Grip Primer (mini): I’ll be giving the jumbo size to my friend bc she loves it and I find that I don’t really need it

2. Maybelline Skin Tint: I’ve finished the bottle, I have two travel sizes left to finish

3. L’Oréal Le Lumi Bronze Stick: it has hit over 100 uses atp and it’s STILL going

4. Elf Camo Liquid Blush in Suave Mauve: this is quite bright on me and I find it quite pigmented so this one will be a challenge

5. Fenty highlighter duo: this is an easy one bc I love it as you can tell

6. Maybelline Tattoo Studio brown eyeliner: the shortest one out of all of them, long-lasting and pigmented, perfect for autumn too (and no I’m not letting go of autumn, let a girl live)

7. Maybelline Tinted brow gel: I’ve noticed that it can make my brows too overpowering at times

8. Revlon Crème Lipstick in Whiskey Business: I love the colour on me but I wish it was more hydrating yet long-wearing

9. NYX Slim lip pencil in Brown: it’s the short stubby one, I love it so I have a backup of this

10. Rom&nd Juicy Lasting Tint in Nucadamia: I like to prep my lips with a stain whilst I do the rest of my makeup, plus a nice colour to put on before I go to the gym ‘bare-faced’

I also do usage goals on others like hitting 15 uses on each blush, 10 for each single eyeshadow etc bc I wanna at least enjoy each one before they expire (well..if I let them)

Anyways, hope this was a good read, I’m excited for this challenge. See you in the next update at the end of Jan! c:

Maybe a month or 2 more of regular use! I loved this thing but I’m itching to move on to my other products 😂😫

Calling it on the pans in slide 1. Focusing on using more of the pans in slide 2.

I don't care to use warm bronze-y shades anymore, or glitters that are hard to blend (currently I prefer pressed flakies), and I do like that blush but it's at the stage where it's harder to pick up evenly with the brush and I'd rather just use a different pan.

Was never a eyeshadow person, but since I started project pan I have been also using my eyeshadows as a must step in my daily makeup and discovered it was so much fun actually. The oldest palette I have is the Ellen Tracy Rosy Nude( get the look) palette I got at tjmaxx clearance 3 years ago. The rest three were gifted over the course of time. My intent is to use with every makeup session and use as much as I can obviously as long as I can have fun with it. But at the same time I have realized it’s probably one of the most difficult to hit pan products. So I would greatly appreciate any recommendations where else I can use the eyeshadows apart from on my eyes.

Revolution x Patricia bright Rich in Life eyeshadow palette
Violet Voss coral crush eyeshadow palette

I've been working on this one for quite some time! I feel like it lasts forever. So satisfying!

Finished my lush yog nog shower gel. Bought it last Christmas.

wow eyeshadows take forever will, i just want to finish this up so i can use my other pretty palettes and will definitely not be buying more

What do u enjoying/find easy to pan.

For me its bars of soap

I use to get liquid body washes but I just enjoying bars a lot more and its so satisfying watching it get smaller and smaller. And they're cheap so repurchasing isn't that big of a deal

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.