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Essence in So Ungreytful (discontinued)

The first picture is the last one I got before decluttering the product. I got a month more of use on this one before my lips started to scrape the plastic and I decided to call it quits. I’ve had it since forever so I definitely got my money’s worth. The first picture was taken 5 days after the second… i have no idea how I go through lippies so fast!

The dupe I bought for it is way more expensive and the formula is not my favourite, but it’s so hard to find cool toned lipsticks nowadays. What are your favourite cool toned lipsticks?

Hi hi! 👋

I recently finished my winter lip project pan and have now changed out my rotation to my warmer month shades. I wanted to share with you my goals for this project and some strategies I learned from my last one 😊 All the products are swatched from left to right on my arms top to bottom in their respective colour category, but ask in the comments if you’d like a shade name 🥰

As you can see, I have a very big collection to get through! I know it’s impossible to pan everything, but getting to reknow every product and stop buying anything new are my main goals. I’ve separated everything into categories:

Balms, masks and scrubs:
4 clear lip balms
2 masks/butters
1 scrubs

My goals in the category:
Finish 2 lip balms by the end of the year
Finish the laneige lip mask
Finish the scrub
Not buy any more because I always find more I’ve bought back at my parents house

Clear glosses:
3 normal
2 plumpers

My goals in the category:
Finish the Fenty ASAP
Finish the YSL after the Fenty
Use the Too faced plumper before bullet lipsticks and finish it up that way because I love how smooth it makes my lips

Samples and lip sealer:
2 samples
1 lipstick sealer

My goals in the category
take the samples if traveling, but if not used up in 2 months, just use them up without saving them for travel and get it over with
Use the sealer when going out and declutter it if I don’t like it

Pinks and nudes:
2 liquid lipsticks
3 lip balms
3 plumpers
7 bullets
3 glosses
18 in total which is how many lippies I had in total in my last project pan 🥲

My goals in this category:
finish the Dior plumper ASAP
Finish one bullet lipstick 🫣

Fuschias:
1 gloss
4 bullets
1 stain

My goals in this category:
finish the CLARINS lip stain
Finish the Fenty
Get more use out of this colour category in general

Reds:
4 glosses
4 bullets

My goals in this category:
start wearing red in the day time, stop saving it for when going out!
Maybe pan the Huda bullet by the end of the year?

Browns:
2 balms (I have a Rhode one as well)
1 bullet

My goals in this category:
Pan the Rhode

Purples:
1 gloss
1 plumper

The rest is lip liners and a black lippie I have for raves

I have general goals for every category I’d like to achieve 🤔
- Pan/declutter at least one product from every colour category
- Write a little review for all products after wearing them for a full day
- Complete no buy in everything lip related
- Get more experimental with lip combos and layering

Here’s the strategy I will follow and recommend from my previous experience if you’re also doing a lippie project pan:

1. Swatch every single item (very important in my opinion 🫶🏻)
2. Keep a balm/clear gloss in all your most used areas (bag,car, pensil case, etc)
3. Pick out the products with the least amount of uses left and knock them out to get rid of the clutter
4. After I’ve panned a few, I start playing around more with layering my glosses over bullets and give myself freedom on which ones I wear until I see that a new product is close to finishing which then becomes my next focus product

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments!

A small pan in the glow shade! I love this palette and haven’t seen anything similar being released, which is a shame since it’s been discontinued. All the shades are the same colour but different sparkle level ✨✨✨

Hi hi! I completed my project pan for winter and will be switching out to my spring/summer project pan pretty soon 😊 Here’s the progress I’ve made in each colour category:

❤️ Reds
- 1 declutter (Maybaline)
- Two halfway finished (Fenty Cream in Fruit Snackz and Huda in Promotion Day)
- 1 soon to be finished (CLARINS intense oil in Intense Fuchsia)

💜 Purples
- 1 declutter (Sisley)
- Wasn’t able to make much of a dent in this category as I wasn’t very confident in wearing my more unique shades 😢

💖 Pinks and Nude tones
- 1 Pan!
- 1 declutter (peri pera ink velvet = went bad and made my lips crusty)
- 1 half way done

🤍 Clears + plus the Charlotte Tilbury lol
- 1 full pan!
- 2 almost finished (Fenty and Too Faced) !

What goals I accomplished:
- pan/declutter at least 1 lippie per colour category ✅

- create new favourite lip combos (favourite purple combo, cherry cola lips, everyday red lip, etc) ✅

What goals I didn’t achieve:
- use every product at least once per month -> a part of me believes that this is almost impossible when you have a large collection + are trying to pan products. I really have to focus on a product to be able to finish it, so I’m not sure if I can also try to use everything at least once. But it was a good goal in the start to get to re-know every product before focusing on a few!

- try to wear more bold lip colours during the day time -> with changing friend groups, lifestyles and even jobs, I wasn’t able to experiment much in this department 🥲 I’ll try again in the summer with more fun bright colours!

- not buy more lip products -> probably my biggest fail lol. 3 of the new products I actually found around the house after starting my project pan so I wasn’t sure how to include them in this post, but all the rest were bought new. 3 of them because of wanting them for a long time + sale, 1 impulse purchases and 1 to dupe a panned lipstick + is a limited edition.

What I learned:

- I’m not a layered lip combo type of person 🤦‍♀️ maybe I’ll do a more intricate lip look in the morning, but I definitely won’t reapply it the same way throughout the day. I rarely even reapplied my lip liner, so the max I’m doing is lipstick + gloss

- I forgot how much I love clear gloss! But when I start purchasing it again after panning what I have, I’ll stick to Korean clear glosses that have the silicone applicator that I can easily wipe off and not have to worry about staining it with what I have underneath.

- Definitely not a matte liquid lip person. Not buying any again.

- It’s not about how many days you wear a lipstick, but rather about how often you reapply it. If you wear every day the same lip, but reapply only once due to being lazy and not wanting to bother, you will get through product very slowly. But if you wear different lippies but reapply them often you’ll get good use of them. To me this means that it’s ok to have a somewhat diverse collection of lipsticks as long as I remember to reapply them often. 🙂‍↔️

All in all, I’m happy with my progress and think this was a good start to a rolling project pan! I definitely could’ve done better in the shopping department, but I’m also happy that I didn’t buy more than this as I usually would’ve. I’ve definitely become more mindful of my shopping and hope that it only gets better with time!

Feel free to ask about any shade names or questions 😊
I’ll be posting my spring/summer project pan later this month!

My first pan in the Naked Cherry Palette!

I’ve had it since it came out but only recently started using it. I like using this shade as matte highlight and to blend out the other shades 🫶🏻 I love the colour story of this palette but rarely use it 😢

Essence satin lipstick in the shade So Ungreytful.

Genuinely the prettiest nude colored lipstick on me. I always felt gorgeous wearing it and I’ll save a little after it’s finished so that I can find the perfect dupe. All suggestions welcome! 😊🫶🏻

It’s my first time panning a bullet lipstick and I’m happy to be making progress on my lippie project pan!

Did pretty well this month! Probably the most full pans I’ve ever had in one month. Feel free to ask about any of the products!

WRP - Elizabeth Arden 8 hour treatment, Nuxe body oil, M&S midnight blossom (perfect dupe for Black opium by YSL)

Everything else was meh or bad 🙂‍↔️