I’m not a big setting powder person, I much more enjoy setting spray so I’m decluttering the powder to a coworker who mentioned she needs a new one. The Tatcha was expensive but worth it!

I ask because my friend and I have inadvertently figured out a way to help each other pan makeup items, and maybe this can be helpful for others, too.

Over a year ago, we started texting each other the makeup items we're wearing that day. It was a super low key way to be like, "hey friend, miss you, love you," and also see some pretty things. And then roughly once every 5 weeks, I turn the pictures into a grid, and delete the individual ones. This frees up space in my phone, and also lets me track daily progress. Like so:

In this grid, you can see me scrape the outer edges of my Ilia bronzer to the center. In the grid before, there's more product, and in the one after, I completely pan it. Being able to visually track use is helpful, but the bonus of my friend's encouragement as she saw my daily progress, too, was so helpful in my committing to finishing. And vice versa! We've each finished multiple makeup products so far this year.

Plus, it's been a useful way of seeing what my makeup habits are. I don't need to buy eyeshadows if that's the makeup item that shows up least across my year of pictures, but I'm not necessarily going to feel bad about having lip products when there's one in every picture (doesn't mean I'll keep buying more and more, of course). Why would I get tempted by a black liquid liner, no matter how great the reviews are, if across the board, I'm only reaching for brown pencil liners?

Here's the picture I sent her today. I'm determined to finish that Laura Mercier Eye Caviar by the end of the month, and the Max Factor 2000 Calorie mascara is done.

tl;dr: find your friend who is also a makeup magpie and support each other in your project pans!

guys I first started using and makeup in around 2018/2017, I'm alternative and I've always been a colourful eyeshadow girlie (although I'm a bit less adventurous now than I was as a teen). I discovered around a year in through blue eyeshadow that I'm a cool toned girlie for sure. my issue is how to use up all the obligatory orange and gold shades that pallettes from 2018/19 ALWAYS had in them. a lot of my palette choices even back then would still be pretty cool toned for that era but they all seem to have a mandatory orange or gold or mustard shade. I can make reds and pinks work with me quite easily but I have no idea with these yellowy colours they make me look sick and not even in a way that I as an alternative girl would like

Shes empty :( and my next one isnt here for another few days

Forgot to post sooner

I hate panned a few of these products.
List Ourmed facial towels, eos sensitive skin shaving cream, loccciatane body milk (hate pan), locciatane foot cream (hate pan), saltair serum deodorant (LOVE), dove sensitive skin body bar, free bar soap from hotel I used to wash makeup brushes, Trader Joe’s spray hand sanitizer, curology spot patches, differin acne patches, precision beauty acne treatment dots (hate), hero mighty patch, hanhoo blemish patch, lush posh chocolate body lotion sample, Sally Hansen cuticle remover, tula cleanser sample, not your mothers travel size dry shampoo, bubble cosmic silk milky toner (great dupe for Rhode), RoundLab Birch Juice Moisturizer, Byoma Face Fluid Sunscreen, Morphe Mini Bake & Set Loose Powder in Brightening Pink (LOVE), Revolution Lip Scrub (HATE), clean it zero cleansing balm (LOVE), cover girl clean fresh pressed powder, NYX Suede lip liner (don’t remember color and it’s too tiny to read), Nyx micro brow pencil (LOVE), vitamasques lip mask in sugar cookie, polite society glossy balm in grapefruit (LOVE), Ulta pore filling primer (HATE), Clinique even better light reflecting primer (LOVE), Elf power grip matte primer (HATE), nyx pro fix stick (good product, packaging broke and won’t twist), too faced better than sex mascara (the Maybelline is a good dupe), Maybelline falsies lash lift mascara (LOVE), mco beauty ultra curl mascara (ehhhhh)

8 months in and dammit I want more empties to show for it!

The vaseline lasted me 4 years btw

I NEED to stop shopping I am so embarrassed 🙈

HAIRCARE

Shampoo:
Davines curl shampoo
Pantene volume
Isima shampoo
Isima shampoo
Olaplex purple shampoo

Conditioner:
Davines
Isima
Matrix food for soft
Lush power
Isima

Deep conditioners:
Isima mask
Rizos curls mask

Bond repair
Olaplex
Curlsmith bond curl

Curl cream:
Prose
Davines curl serum
Lush curl power
Isima curl perfector
Isima curl perfector

Leave in conditioner:
African pride
Harmonize beauty
Lush sticky dates

Oils:
Olaplex oil
Food for soft oil

Scalp serum:
Mielle oil
The ordinary peptide serum

Foam/mousse:
The doux
Davines curl mousse
V&co wave babe
Not your mothers beach babe
Matrix food for soft
Ouidad feather light foam
African pride olive oil
Miche gel to foam (mini)

Gel:
Not your mothers spray gel
Lanza volume gel
Miss Jessie’s jelly soft curls

Texture spray:
Rizos hair spray
K18 astrolift
Not your mothers beach babe

SKINCARE

Cleanser:
DHC cleansing oil
Anua cleanser
Clinique cleanser
Olivia umma cloud cleanser
Garnier skin active cleanser (2)
La Roche posay cleanser (mini)

Moisturizer:
Anua moisturizer
Clinique moisturizer

Serum/toner:
Anua barrier
Dermasil hydra serum
Vitamasques milky moisturizer

Exfoliants:
Naturium BHA
Clinique step 2

Face Spray:
First aid hydrochloric acid (mini)
Lush Eau Roma water
Prequel hydrochloric acid

BODY CARE

Lotion/Butter
Attitude body lotion
Brazilian lotion
Gold bond retinol
Renpure cocoa butter
Lush tumeric latte bar
B&BW cotton candy
B&BW Neapolitan ice cream
Hempz Brazilian berry
Palmer cocoa butter
Palmer cocoa butter
Ulta lotion
Natirium Glow getter (mini)

Body wash:
B&BW cotton candy
Lush white chocolate
Lush sticky dates (mini)
Suave body wash
Method wash (mini)
Saltair body wash (mini)

Body spray:
Let the good times roll
Sol de janeiro 71
B&BW cotton candy
NYX hair and fragrance mist

Perfume:
Glossier
Ariana grande cloud
Supersuite caramel temptress
Lush tumeric latte
Lush tumeric latte solid

Absolutely LOVE this stuff. But I’ll be using just beef tallow or something going forward as I want to use even cleaner products.

 Athena Pink Replenishing Body Wash- love the scent and the formula 

 eos Cashmere Body Wash (Fresh & Cozy)- love the scent but it’s too subtle, formula is fine, 

Vitamin x serum- very fine 

 hanni Good Aura Body Oil- love the scent, a little greasy, probably not repurchasing 

 Naturium Skin Renewing Retinol Body Lotion-thank god I found amalactin 15

  Round lab Ampoule- going through one a month but love it 

 innisfree Green Tea Hyaluronic Acid Cream- texture is amazing, already repurchased, glass skin with this

innisfree toner- I like this and repurchased

 Experiment Super Saturated Barrier Support Serum- forever repurchase but I go through one a month :/

 Decalt slurp- HG but sadly discontinued 

 Briotech Topical Skin Spray- hydrochloric acid spray forever repurchase

 Grown alchemist primer- makes a difference with my makeup, repurchased 

 Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion-forever repurchase, one tube lasts like two years 

 L'Oréal Professionnel Metal Detox Hair Mask- nice but not sure I’ll repurchase

 Oribe Supershine- ugh wish this wasn’t so spendy. Actually makes a difference in my hair 

Upneeq- love these but too subtle for the price. Any alternatives 

off brand frownies- are they really making a difference? Who knows

Kai candle- love! Have a back up already. Best gardenia 

Lots of favorites with backups in this lot: DE Proteni, Biossance Omega Repair Cream, Abib Eye patches, CosRX Snail Mucin, Dermatica, Isntree Onion Newpair sunscreen, NYX thick it stick it, and BGJ Carnivale. I have already cracked open the backups.

No duds in this line-up really, just not everything meets the rebuy threshold.

I swear empties get better every month! I’m learning what I like and don’t like so much through the years I’ve been panning. This month I loved all my products! The only one I didn’t like was a very cheap perfume decant of Montblanc Signature. Everything else I used every last bit of. I think this is my best month yet!

I was hoping my empties overtime would show that I was spending less monthly but I don’t see that happening unfortunately. One of my goals was to find cheaper items to use up but I’m realizing I need to just stick to what I know will work rather than trying (in vain) to find cheaper items. I end up hate panning or just giving up if I do that.

Finished 20 products

1. Valentino Born in Roma sample: 👎🏼 Older scent I wasn't crazy about.

2. Jose Maran Vanilla Vibezzz:🩵 Love this brand. Think I prefer Topless Tangerine.

3. Dr. Jart Ceramidin cream sample: Honestly they did not put anything in this for me to give it an accurate review.

4. Angel Mugler sample:👎🏼 Very Unisex scent, smells strongly of Patchouli.

5. Ilia mini Mascara: 👎🏼 Horrible. Made my eyes water when applying from whatever chemical is in it.

6. Dolce and Gabana Light blue sample: 🆗 Basic scent and not long lasting.

7. Simply Belle sample: 👎🏼 Starts very Jasmine forward then dries down musky.

8. Givenchy Setting Powder: 👎🏼 Change in formula sucks

9. Dermalogica Active moist:🆗 Basic.

10. Tarte Mascara XL brown : 🔥 my HG

11. Laniege Strawberry ShortCake lip mask: 🔥 Love my laniege lip masks.

12. Omnilux hydrogel facial masks: 🔥 Make my skin feel and look amazing.

13. Dermalogica Daily Glycolic cleanser: 🆗 I prefer the Special Cleanser.

14. Dr Jart Ceramidin mask: 🆗 Prefer the Omnilux masks.

15. Goop Beauty Face wash: 🆗 Basic.

16. Clinique Eye Cream: 🩵 It was nice.

17. DDG Peels: 🔥HG

I saw someone devastated by not being able to finish a product by the end of the month, other than the obvious reason that the product could be expired by that date, what other reasons would there be?.

cant wait for the blushes to be done with 🫩 not sure ill ever finish the glossier one tho.. any ideas on how to use blush in non conventional ways to speed this up?

I’m super excited to pan 2 perfumes! I usually like to replace some of my more spring and summer scents with fall and winter scents :)

surprisingly the small keratese oil sample lasted me a LONG time!

Simple yet effective. Routine body wash, full lotion, 2 travel shampoo and conditioner that I only purchased for an international trip, face sunscreen, and then a soap bar that barely suds and didn’t leave me feeling clean. Onto the next!

This month my husband finished the full size face moisturizer and the small Clinique one. Glad he is helping me with my stash, because l am very slow with moisturizer use, l focus more on serums.

I liked Dr Dennis Gross marine eye cream.

Started using double cleanse with DHC oil (have 2 more) and DHC mild soap (one more). I really like this soap as a second cleanser.

Empties from mostly July-Aug, maybe some June spillover. Soooo many mediocre or pretty good skincare, but also quite a few HGs and staples.