I love the idea of supporting each other and also getting REAL with myself. Recently I took all my makeup out of bins and boxes and organized it where I can see just about all of it. Just looking at all the palettes & lipsticks makes me excited to use things I forgot I had and they remind me of how much I loved certain items until the next great thing came along to replace them lol. I got twitterpated when I saw the UD Pulp Fiction palette, I was thinking I HAD to get it, then I slowed down and really looked at the shades in and realized that I already have these colors. There is no new makeup in that for me!
One product I'm super proud that I'm multitasking is the color tattoo on barely branded, I use it as a cream highlighter and showdown base. I use it with a stippling brush and I love it!
I'm going to try it as a cream highlight! Brilliant and thank you for the tip! I'm going to try tough as taupe to fill in my brows because its too muddy on my eyes.
I think it should be a requirement to film a video of this sort after you complete a project pan. Haha I wish more people made these kinds of things :)
Awesome tips Amber! I think the greatest thing for a project panner or someone trying to use their stash is to go through EVERYTHING in their collection. It's amazing when we start to realize how many of the EXACT same shade we have. I just went through all my lipsticks and took pictures and swatches on my lips and I have so many dupes!
These are amazing tips. I'm doing my best to hold of on the Lorac Pro 2, but I just got a job today! And I've already decided that my first check is the 'be stupid with money' check. I need to check my makeup collection to make sure that I can't dupe MOST of those shadow colors. That exact thing has kept the Too Faced Chocolate Bar out of my sticky fingers. When I have that check and free reign, though, I have NO idea what I'm getting.
So that means next time, you have more tools to make you successful;) It took me a long time to get into this groove with lots of shopping in between. I finally hit my enough is enough point.
Those fancy palettes can get really expensive, especially if you are dealing with a large collection. I used CD cases (the old fashioned thick kind, found mine at Office Depot). Very inexpensive, so easy to store, and you can put a LOT of shadows in there, even keeping them in their original format in the case of trios/quads etc. or leaving nice spacing between them. I used double sided tape to adhere and it works great, they don't budge but can be removed if you really want to. You can label everything with a sharpie on the front of the case, and label the side as well so you can store them that way and see at a glance what you are looking for.. and they are transparent so you can see exactly what is inside without having to open them. They even came with nice heavy cardboard holders for storage if you want to use them. It would have cost me hundreds of dollars to buy enough Z palettes to do all my collection, and I much prefer the transparency and ease of use of the cases.
Amazing video, you have such great tips. Ok, I think I'm ready! Challenge accepted! I am going to film this early next week! Look out Chocolate Bar Palette! Can't wait to see your collection video! Xoxo
Thank you, Amber. I'll keep all this in mind. Totally agree about getting in touch with other project panners. You have all been so kind and supportive and lovely and I only have one video up right now. You're all just gorgeous!
So true about buying palettes. I really wanted the Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette, it was the One palette I was going to purchase as soon as I finished some things up. But mainly it is neutrals I already have. Then suddenly I see the UD Vice 3 palette and I want that one instead. So glad I didn't purchase the Choc. Bar now. I'm going to see if I have dupes for the Vice 3 and save my $. My hubby gave my an Ulta case with 48 shadows in it I have barely touched and it has an enormous range of colors.
Amazing tip! The only thing I have ever panned is a blush and a face powder. i am not too rushed to finish my eyeshadows as I love them all and get good use out of them, but I agree, I have like a gazillion dupes. Perhaps I should start trying to pan those. For me eyeshadows would take much longer than 3-4 months, though. The few items I am trying to use up are all cream products -- as I don't want them going bad.
A great place to start is pan one item in the color you own the most of and work the rest of your look around it. You're guaranteed to finish that color on a pretty, still trendy, but something you enjoy while reducing your stash in multiple ways:)
Great tips! I should be filming my update really soon...actually I'm practically done with my 100 pan already! I just haven't gotten to filming it and all *guilty look*
You have really good tips! I really agreed with you. Watching videos on project pan keeps me really motivated. I also really want to do an empties video that is strictly makeup (other than my project pan videos) so that is another thing that is really motivating me to go through some products (:
I want a strictly empties with makeup too. Its hard to get excited over hair, skin and body care bc those aren't as much of a commitment. I'm going to cover my makeup empties in project pan updates for now
Thanks! I love the challenges that up the ante in pp like your "no buy July." Catchy phrases like that grab me and give me an achievable goal. That's how I came up with "pan that palette" since I knew it'd be a piece at a time! I loved your grwm with the naked 2!!!!!
You're right,great tips!I think depotting products also helps us seeing them for what they really are,blushes and eyeshadows to use!I mean, we are often seducted by colorful packagings, beautiful but large palettes we never touch not to scratch them, but they're not decoration, and they expire! :) (Oh, by the way, i love your necklace!!)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way about depotting! I use things so much more that way. I also have certain zpalettes that I change up a lot to make sure I'm rotating products. :)
I know what you mean by UD and gold. I have two Naked palettes and gold is in them both. I don't wear gold a lot on its own, but I like putting a color like blue on top of it and wearing that. I understand what you say about doing the color of the year and a neutral palette, but those don't work everyone and it sure wouldn't work me for, but for the ones it does work for I have to say that I think those are great tips for them to have. I think I will one day pan every shade in one of my palettes, but it may be like a two-three year process because I get so bored so I would want to pace myself for that reason and also I would want enjoy my other palettes and eyeshadow too.
Great tips :). I so wish I took pictures of my stash like you suggested. It would be a testament to how I got to become such a minimalist. Though I don't know if my makeup breakup at the end counts. I just knew I was done with a lot of those products.
Awesome tips, I think #5 is the best advice! I finally decided to pan my UD Rollergirl palette, I don't hate it but I didn't think I loved it either but after using it the last 2 weeks I actually do really like it. I won't repurchase but I'm definately going to get my moneys worth out of it :)
Rollergirl is one that I just HAD to have and now I hardly ever touch it :( But I was just thinking that the pink shadow could be used as a blush also.
Thanks for the tips. I need to project pan my make-up, skin care, and bath and body collections. I am really trying to get serious. I wanted the Too Faced Country pallet, but I am going to try to dupe it instead. I have tons of Bare Ecentuals loose shadows. I am sure I can find something in there!
I think you'll find things you like even better in your BE shadows. Emily Eddington said the Too Faced Rocker and Country palettes left a lot to be desired. I looked at the shades and knew I could easily find replacements! I also have a lot of BE shadows that I haven't touched in years but I'm not worried since their shelf life is so much longer than the pressed eyeshadows! Let me know what you come up with!!!!
These tips are so helpful! I started panning this year an I totally failed :/ but I'm giving it a go again with the cross 6 of my Christmas list. So fingers crossed I succeed 😁
You can do it, Thalia! Go for the "gimme products." They are great at boosting your confidence so you will feel more ready to tackle something with more product and then the more you pan, the less intimidating that makeup becomes!
For sure! Its such a treat this year to see so many project panners and I know that more and more will continue join us as success stories keep spreading around the internet. People are generally sick and tired of all the shopping despite the high we all get buying new makeup.
GregKaren Cooper that's a fantastic motivation!!!! Even better is the discount that comes with them. That's been a goal for me as well but I will still continue to project pan so I may change my mind in the next few months!
I enjoy your PP videos very much. While I don't vlog or blog, I do have a spreadsheet for my makeup. It started as a way to track expiration dates and costs but it has become so much more. I track the days/# of times I've used something, I can search my collection by whether something is matte or not, I keep track of dupes so when I see some lipstick that I like I can search my stash, find the dupe and note it. If I want to find a warm peach with gold sparkles shadow that is appropriate for winter, I can find it without going crazy. I track products I finished, donated and sampled. I track Holy Grails and things I hated so that I never make the same mistake twice. For example I found out I'm allergic to lavender oil because of my tracking.). It has saved me so much money in the last 18 months. Naturally, I track my project pan and make adjustments as needed. It sounds like a lot of work, but it actually only takes a few minutes a day to track the info. Anyway, keep up the good work on the paning and the videos!
I love this idea, Nadine! The spreadsheet is perfect to track weekly and monthly makeup baskets since products are rotated out regularly. Right now I'm in "Move it out" mode. I've kept notes on shadows I've finished, but I like the overall so I can get a realistic picture of what I finish in a year!
I'm in "move it out" mode too. I'm overloaded on shadows, blushes, liners, glosses & lipsticks. I'm in the middle of a 3 year "Stash Reduction" project involving panning & shopping bans in an effort to reduce my stash by 50%. I started at close to 1000 colors. I've used, donated and tossed about 30% (about 300 colors) already.I don't think I'll purchase another shadow palette in this decade (although I caved and bought Naked 3 because of my obsession with pink). At the end, I'll still have a larger than average stash but considering where I started, it's a HUGE improvement.
I have been following project pan videos for months and I'm finally getting through some of my own products. Just finish a MSF natural! But I don't film videos :( I wish there was a forum or FB group to chat on and post photos and stuff bc honestly no one else really cares that I'm using up makeup products! Lol
So since there isn't much past CZcams in terms of forum, we will create it! None of my friends are as makeup-obsessed as I am and you're right, it takes a beauty junkie to understand the obsession we have in hitting pan!!!!!
I agree with most of what you said, some things not completely but you're giving good guidelines. I wish you had linked to the girls etsy in the description box I'll try to find her.i am doing my project pan on my forever glam palette so I don't need to depot but I am considering it for the future. I wish I could diy a z palette but I am not good like that.
It will help make a huge difference bc over time you'll have enthusiasm not just for yourself, you'll feel that excitement to watch others reach their personal goals!
Its hard but its doable. Nothing like consistently panning to just make it that always there reality check. I've really had to come to terms because I thought that eye shadow was my biggest weakness- it is in a lot of ways because I have more than I need but its the lip products that I have to watch out for. Drugstore, Sephora, MAC, Ulta- its a constant temptation whereas I can shut out the palettes since they are becoming more and more expensive that I need to plan. But lip products, my reality check came in having to trash tube after tube that smelled funky because I just couldn't finish them in a reasonable amount of time!
I have a question in regards to panning a palette. Would you suggest using the same colors in the palette until they are gone? Or do you jump around within the palette for variation?
I personally use colors until they are gone. I like the consistency of knowing what I'm wearing with my makeup but I change the pops of color. I don't spot clean my brushes so its easier for me to not change colors all the time as well. Jumping around or using the same colors still achieves getting through the shadows because you're consistent with the same palette. I will probably jump around more with the Lorac Pro in 2015, but right now using it to the last swipe works for me!
I've been watching so many project pan videos lately, and everyone is talking about you, so I decided to visit your channel and see what your videos are all about. I really love these tips you shared! I started a project pan of my own yesterday, and I'd love it if you'd check out my video. By the way...I'm a new subbie of yours. :)
I love the idea of supporting each other and also getting REAL with myself. Recently I took all my makeup out of bins and boxes and organized it where I can see just about all of it. Just looking at all the palettes & lipsticks makes me excited to use things I forgot I had and they remind me of how much I loved certain items until the next great thing came along to replace them lol. I got twitterpated when I saw the UD Pulp Fiction palette, I was thinking I HAD to get it, then I slowed down and really looked at the shades in and realized that I already have these colors. There is no new makeup in that for me!
See? Money saved already!!!!
Your eyeshadow game is SO strong! Please do a full face tutorial!
If you like my look, here is the link to the GRWM with my project pan items:) GRWM: Smokey Purple Hazy for GLASSES
One product I'm super proud that I'm multitasking is the color tattoo on barely branded, I use it as a cream highlighter and showdown base. I use it with a stippling brush and I love it!
I'm going to try it as a cream highlight! Brilliant and thank you for the tip! I'm going to try tough as taupe to fill in my brows because its too muddy on my eyes.
I think it should be a requirement to film a video of this sort after you complete a project pan. Haha I wish more people made these kinds of things :)
I was thinking that same thing. I know that we'll see more of these as CZcamsrs keep jumping onto the project pan train!
Awesome tips Amber! I think the greatest thing for a project panner or someone trying to use their stash is to go through EVERYTHING in their collection. It's amazing when we start to realize how many of the EXACT same shade we have. I just went through all my lipsticks and took pictures and swatches on my lips and I have so many dupes!
For sure! I got irritated when I realized just how many duplicates I own across brands. That was beyond motivation for me to pan!!!
These are amazing tips. I'm doing my best to hold of on the Lorac Pro 2, but I just got a job today! And I've already decided that my first check is the 'be stupid with money' check. I need to check my makeup collection to make sure that I can't dupe MOST of those shadow colors. That exact thing has kept the Too Faced Chocolate Bar out of my sticky fingers. When I have that check and free reign, though, I have NO idea what I'm getting.
So, it sounds like we've got several in on panning Lorac pro in 2015. Care to join the party? ;)
Amber F
I'd love to!
Sweet!
Thank you these tips. I had a huge problem finishing my project pan.!!!
So that means next time, you have more tools to make you successful;) It took me a long time to get into this groove with lots of shopping in between. I finally hit my enough is enough point.
Those fancy palettes can get really expensive, especially if you are dealing with a large collection. I used CD cases (the old fashioned thick kind, found mine at Office Depot). Very inexpensive, so easy to store, and you can put a LOT of shadows in there, even keeping them in their original format in the case of trios/quads etc. or leaving nice spacing between them. I used double sided tape to adhere and it works great, they don't budge but can be removed if you really want to. You can label everything with a sharpie on the front of the case, and label the side as well so you can store them that way and see at a glance what you are looking for.. and they are transparent so you can see exactly what is inside without having to open them. They even came with nice heavy cardboard holders for storage if you want to use them. It would have cost me hundreds of dollars to buy enough Z palettes to do all my collection, and I much prefer the transparency and ease of use of the cases.
awesome tip
Amazing video, you have such great tips. Ok, I think I'm ready! Challenge accepted! I am going to film this early next week! Look out Chocolate Bar Palette! Can't wait to see your collection video! Xoxo
YES!!!!!!! Can't wait to see!!!!!
Thank you, Amber. I'll keep all this in mind. Totally agree about getting in touch with other project panners. You have all been so kind and supportive and lovely and I only have one video up right now. You're all just gorgeous!
So true about buying palettes. I really wanted the Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette, it was the One palette I was going to purchase as soon as I finished some things up. But mainly it is neutrals I already have. Then suddenly I see the UD Vice 3 palette and I want that one instead. So glad I didn't purchase the Choc. Bar now. I'm going to see if I have dupes for the Vice 3 and save my $. My hubby gave my an Ulta case with 48 shadows in it I have barely touched and it has an enormous range of colors.
Amazing tip! The only thing I have ever panned is a blush and a face powder. i am not too rushed to finish my eyeshadows as I love them all and get good use out of them, but I agree, I have like a gazillion dupes. Perhaps I should start trying to pan those. For me eyeshadows would take much longer than 3-4 months, though. The few items I am trying to use up are all cream products -- as I don't want them going bad.
A great place to start is pan one item in the color you own the most of and work the rest of your look around it. You're guaranteed to finish that color on a pretty, still trendy, but something you enjoy while reducing your stash in multiple ways:)
This was so great of you to put together for everyone! They're great tips!!
Great tips! I should be filming my update really soon...actually I'm practically done with my 100 pan already! I just haven't gotten to filming it and all *guilty look*
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great tips Amber :)
I know this is a super old video but the tips are still very relevant and helpful!
OMG how could i forget to multitask items thanks for the tips :) i update once a week to watch my progress
Awesome, Shellee!!!! Keep up the good work!
You have really good tips! I really agreed with you. Watching videos on project pan keeps me really motivated. I also really want to do an empties video that is strictly makeup (other than my project pan videos) so that is another thing that is really motivating me to go through some products (:
I want a strictly empties with makeup too. Its hard to get excited over hair, skin and body care bc those aren't as much of a commitment. I'm going to cover my makeup empties in project pan updates for now
I'm a new subscriber and am loving all your tips and tricks. !
Welcome!
These are great tips! Watching other people is great inspiration & motivation to keep going with your own project pan. :)
Thanks! I love the challenges that up the ante in pp like your "no buy July." Catchy phrases like that grab me and give me an achievable goal. That's how I came up with "pan that palette" since I knew it'd be a piece at a time! I loved your grwm with the naked 2!!!!!
You're right,great tips!I think depotting products also helps us seeing them for what they really are,blushes and eyeshadows to use!I mean, we are often seducted by colorful packagings, beautiful but large palettes we never touch not to scratch them, but they're not decoration, and they expire! :) (Oh, by the way, i love your necklace!!)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way about depotting! I use things so much more that way. I also have certain zpalettes that I change up a lot to make sure I'm rotating products. :)
I know what you mean by UD and gold. I have two Naked palettes and gold is in them both. I don't wear gold a lot on its own, but I like putting a color like blue on top of it and wearing that. I understand what you say about doing the color of the year and a neutral palette, but those don't work everyone and it sure wouldn't work me for, but for the ones it does work for I have to say that I think those are great tips for them to have. I think I will one day pan every shade in one of my palettes, but it may be like a two-three year process because I get so bored so I would want to pace myself for that reason and also I would want enjoy my other palettes and eyeshadow too.
i love your ideas new subbie! i am starting project pan
Great tips :). I so wish I took pictures of my stash like you suggested. It would be a testament to how I got to become such a minimalist. Though I don't know if my makeup breakup at the end counts. I just knew I was done with a lot of those products.
Start those photos now! You're collection constantly changes; it's never too late to start!
I'm so grateful for you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I loved the tips I'm doing most of them except the color of the year. I started my project pan on instagram :)
Cool!!!!!
awesome tips!! IA that watching & commenting on others' PP updates videos are very motivational! :)
Awesome tips, I think #5 is the best advice! I finally decided to pan my UD Rollergirl palette, I don't hate it but I didn't think I loved it either but after using it the last 2 weeks I actually do really like it. I won't repurchase but I'm definately going to get my moneys worth out of it :)
Fabulous!!!!!! The neutrals in there will work with other colors if you're not into the fuchsia everyday or it would work well as a blush!!!
Rollergirl is one that I just HAD to have and now I hardly ever touch it :( But I was just thinking that the pink shadow could be used as a blush also.
Yes I use it everyday for blush!
Thanks for the tips. I need to project pan my make-up, skin care, and bath and body collections. I am really trying to get serious. I wanted the Too Faced Country pallet, but I am going to try to dupe it instead. I have tons of Bare Ecentuals loose shadows. I am sure I can find something in there!
I think you'll find things you like even better in your BE shadows. Emily Eddington said the Too Faced Rocker and Country palettes left a lot to be desired. I looked at the shades and knew I could easily find replacements! I also have a lot of BE shadows that I haven't touched in years but I'm not worried since their shelf life is so much longer than the pressed eyeshadows! Let me know what you come up with!!!!
These tips are so helpful! I started panning this year an I totally failed :/ but I'm giving it a go again with the cross 6 of my Christmas list. So fingers crossed I succeed 😁
You can do it, Thalia! Go for the "gimme products." They are great at boosting your confidence so you will feel more ready to tackle something with more product and then the more you pan, the less intimidating that makeup becomes!
amazing tips
I love this!
#1 is sooo true!
For sure! Its such a treat this year to see so many project panners and I know that more and more will continue join us as success stories keep spreading around the internet. People are generally sick and tired of all the shopping despite the high we all get buying new makeup.
One of my reasons for starting a project pan was so I could reward myself when the holiday items come out. Karen
GregKaren Cooper that's a fantastic motivation!!!! Even better is the discount that comes with them. That's been a goal for me as well but I will still continue to project pan so I may change my mind in the next few months!
I enjoy your PP videos very much. While I don't vlog or blog, I do have a spreadsheet for my makeup. It started as a way to track expiration dates and costs but it has become so much more. I track the days/# of times I've used something, I can search my collection by whether something is matte or not, I keep track of dupes so when I see some lipstick that I like I can search my stash, find the dupe and note it. If I want to find a warm peach with gold sparkles shadow that is appropriate for winter, I can find it without going crazy. I track products I finished, donated and sampled. I track Holy Grails and things I hated so that I never make the same mistake twice. For example I found out I'm allergic to lavender oil because of my tracking.). It has saved me so much money in the last 18 months. Naturally, I track my project pan and make adjustments as needed. It sounds like a lot of work, but it actually only takes a few minutes a day to track the info. Anyway, keep up the good work on the paning and the videos!
I love this idea, Nadine! The spreadsheet is perfect to track weekly and monthly makeup baskets since products are rotated out regularly. Right now I'm in "Move it out" mode. I've kept notes on shadows I've finished, but I like the overall so I can get a realistic picture of what I finish in a year!
I'm in "move it out" mode too. I'm overloaded on shadows, blushes, liners, glosses & lipsticks. I'm in the middle of a 3 year "Stash Reduction" project involving panning & shopping bans in an effort to reduce my stash by 50%. I started at close to 1000 colors. I've used, donated and tossed about 30% (about 300 colors) already.I don't think I'll purchase another shadow palette in this decade (although I caved and bought Naked 3 because of my obsession with pink). At the end, I'll still have a larger than average stash but considering where I started, it's a HUGE improvement.
Nadine Guarrera Its all improvement! I'm proud of you!!!
Hey
Thanks for the tips, I just uploaded videos on pan that palette and use it up 2014. I have really enjoyed your videos.
You're welcome!!!!! Can't wait to enjoy your videos!!!!!!!!
I have been following project pan videos for months and I'm finally getting through some of my own products. Just finish a MSF natural! But I don't film videos :( I wish there was a forum or FB group to chat on and post photos and stuff bc honestly no one else really cares that I'm using up makeup products! Lol
Congrats on the MAC MSF, Jessica!!!!!!! Come on and follow me on Twitter. We can chat and post photos there!!!! Amber F@beudmama
instagram has a great community for that if you have a smartphone
redandblackroom Cool!
So since there isn't much past CZcams in terms of forum, we will create it! None of my friends are as makeup-obsessed as I am and you're right, it takes a beauty junkie to understand the obsession we have in hitting pan!!!!!
I agree with most of what you said, some things not completely but you're giving good guidelines. I wish you had linked to the girls etsy in the description box I'll try to find her.i am doing my project pan on my forever glam palette so I don't need to depot but I am considering it for the future. I wish I could diy a z palette but I am not good like that.
She's linked in my recent seasonal vanity tour. Etsy shop is anothersoul.
Love your necklace 😊
Thank you❤️
You should pan your LORAC Pro Palette next!
Lol; its a strong contender!
We've got a group panning Lorac pro for 2015. Come join us!!!!
Awesome tips! I watch plenty of updates but forget to comment. I need to make that more of a priority after I watch the videos :)
It will help make a huge difference bc over time you'll have enthusiasm not just for yourself, you'll feel that excitement to watch others reach their personal goals!
number 10 I need to apply it. get real with my self. resist temptation and sales prices for super great items...that I don't need!!!
Its hard but its doable. Nothing like consistently panning to just make it that always there reality check. I've really had to come to terms because I thought that eye shadow was my biggest weakness- it is in a lot of ways because I have more than I need but its the lip products that I have to watch out for. Drugstore, Sephora, MAC, Ulta- its a constant temptation whereas I can shut out the palettes since they are becoming more and more expensive that I need to plan. But lip products, my reality check came in having to trash tube after tube that smelled funky because I just couldn't finish them in a reasonable amount of time!
I have a question in regards to panning a palette.
Would you suggest using the same colors in the palette until they are gone? Or do you jump around within the palette for variation?
I personally use colors until they are gone. I like the consistency of knowing what I'm wearing with my makeup but I change the pops of color. I don't spot clean my brushes so its easier for me to not change colors all the time as well. Jumping around or using the same colors still achieves getting through the shadows because you're consistent with the same palette. I will probably jump around more with the Lorac Pro in 2015, but right now using it to the last swipe works for me!
If you are still looking for project pan videos to Watch here is the link to mine ;) czcams.com/play/PLs-4UQJkD9h6cZPeEKVx29RAuTmgNALKr.html
I'm trying a project pan with 12 items
I just wear black all the time, so everything matches.
Great tips, btw.
I've been watching so many project pan videos lately, and everyone is talking about you, so I decided to visit your channel and see what your videos are all about. I really love these tips you shared! I started a project pan of my own yesterday, and I'd love it if you'd check out my video. By the way...I'm a new subbie of yours. :)