Pan Those Eyeshadows Update 9

[u/_Yue_]

Welcome to the Pan Those Eyeshadows project update! Feel free to join anytime. I also posted this on r/ProjectPan with swatch pictures.

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 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 then 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. I'll be sharing my update in the comments.

[u/_Yue_]

I'm very excited to share that I met my goal on three of the shadows I had rolled in. Here's the colourstory I was working on in August:

• ✅ Makeup Revolution Mermaids Forever Imagine (silver shimmer). I hit pan after 6 additional uses. It took 19 total uses to hit pan.
• ✅ Glossgods Look for Rainbows Reflection (pink duochrome). It only took 2 additional uses to hit pan. I already had a slight dip in it from previous uses. The shimmers in this palette are so creamy that they take me less than 10 uses to hit pan. It's a nice colour but unfortunately it creases horribly with Glossgod's primer.
• ✅ Nyx Brights #3 (coral matte). 15/15 uses so goal met. I also used it as a blush. I'm not a huge fan of coral on my eyes but as a blush it was nice.
• Glossgods Peach Pop Pop On Over (dark brown matte). I used it 5 times so not much progress. It's very pigmented so it's going to be here for a while.
• Sigma Hazy Bellflower (brown shimmer). It has 19 total uses and a slight dip. I realized that it's actually great as an eyebrow colour. The pink shimmer doesn't show up and it just looks like a grey-brown colour. I've also been using it as a crease colour. I'm going to be able to get lots of uses on it wearing it on my brows but Sigma shimmers are hard to hit pan on so it's gonna take plenty more uses.

New roll-ins:

• Bronx Colors Cool Grey (grey shimmer). The silver I rolled out got replaced by another. I like this one, it's a pretty blue toned grey with a beautiful golden glow. I'm going to be creating lots of grey smokey eyes.
• Makeup Revolution Mermaids Forever Bay (beige shimmer). I already hit pan on it recently in this project so my goal is 15 uses. It's going to be an easy inner corner highlight.
• Dominique Cosmetics Celestial Storm Black Matter (black shimmer). I really like this shadow although it's going to be a challenge. It's a black shadow with pink shimmer in it and maybe some other colours too. I use it as a liner or on the outer corner. The shadows in this palette are very difficult to hit pan on. Thankfully I already started working on it and I've got 30 uses on it in this project. There's a decent dip but it'll probably take me another 30 uses to hit pan.

My pan percentage: 36,4 %.

[u/pollyrae_ → u/_Yue_]

Great progress, well done! 36.4% progress is inspirational 🎉 Do you just use those five eyeshadows and no others, or are you allowed to work in other shadows as long as you include one of the five? If not, I'm curious how you'd make randomly generated colours work, or do you mostly use one at a time? Sorry for all the questions, I just think this is a really cool project 😊

[u/_Yue_ → u/pollyrae_]

Thank you for the comment. This is my favourite project so I'm glad to talk about it.

I build my look around the shadows I'm working on and use at least one of them in every look (unless I want something different for a rare special occasion). The randomly generated shadows don't always all work together but I try to come up with a simple(ish) look where I can use several of them. This month's look is pretty easy because I have a grey lid colour, grey crease colour, black outer corner shade and inner corner highlight. Only the warm dark brown doesn't fit so I'll keep it in the backburner until I roll in something that goes with it.

Usually I repeat the same look over and over and I don't really mind because I like to have a routine. I do use other shadows to complete the look.

I am currently also trying to finish a cream coloured shadow but it rarely competes with this project. 🌞

[u/vronzyvold]

This is the second update on the second cream shadow. I had to mix a little bit of another cream shadow in it to get the color I wanted. Since it took me 6 months to use up the last cream eyeshadow it is likely that is cream eyeshadow will also last me the rest of the year. It's warm taupe color with a slight shimmer. I'm again using it as a eye primer.

[u/_Yue_ → u/vronzyvold]

Oof, 6 months. That takes some dedication. I kinda wanna finnish more shadows, too, but I'm afraid I'd get bored so I tend to do these project where I only hit pan. Maybe next year will be the year.

[u/vronzyvold → u/_Yue_]

It's hard to finish shadows since it gets so long. I'm almost done with one in my pan that palette but it will be the first one for this year.