2018 Pan That Palette Finale/Will I Do It Again?
February 26, 2019Read my 2018 Pan that Palette Finale to discover whether I was successful at attempting to finish my Anastasia Beverly Hills Master Palette by Mario. Also, read my honest thoughts on whether I’d attempt the Pan that Palette challenge again.
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After a year of dedicated panning, my 2018 Pan That Palette Challenge has come to an end. As the challenge wore on, I lost the motivation to work on my Anastasia Master Palette by Mario. After 12 months of using the same palette all the time I became bored.
Makeup is a creative outlet so I want to create different looks and feel inspired by my eyeshadow. Nevertheless, this challenge was eye opening for me. Please keep reading for to see how my 2018 Pan That Palette progressed throughout the year.
Master Palette by Mario Intro
ABH Master by Mario
I started the Pan that Palette Challenge in February 2018 – with the goal of finishing this entire palette before February 2019. Having heard that Anastasia Beverly Hill’s eyeshadows are “easy to pan” due to the brand’s soft, powdery formula, I figured finishing this palette in a year would be a doable goal. At the starting point, I already hit pan on the shades, Marina and 5th Ave.
Master Palette by Mario Update #1
ABH Master by Mario
By the 1st update, I learned that even the most powdery shadows can be difficult to use up. Thus, I adjusted my Pan that Palette goal. Instead of aiming to use every shade completely, I wanted to hit pan in every shade. At this point, I only hit a new pan on one new shade, Kim.
Master Palette by Mario – Update #2
ABH Master by Mario
By my 2nd update, I realized that I likely wouldn’t even hit pan in every shade despite seeing continued progress. While the shimmers were relatively easy to work through, I couldn’t make a dent in the mattes.
Also, certain shades were harder to blend and produced a good deal of fallout. So I knew I wouldn’t hit pan on the shades, Bronx or Claudia. Nevertheless, I saw some improvement as I hit pan in Hollywood and Paris.
Master Palette by Mario – Update #3
ABH Master by Mario
In my last update, the dents in the matte shades Lula and Isabel became more pronounced. Also, I hit “baby” pan in the shade, Muse. At this point, I still felt compelled to hit as much pan as possible and I set my sights on the shade NYC.
2018 Pan That Palette Finale
If i’m being totally honest, I pretty much gave up on this challenge when I wrote this post late December 2018. However, I held onto hope that I might feel inspired to work on the shade NYC. However, I’ve only reached for this palette twice in the last two months. In fact, I was so sick of this palette and this shade that I started to prefer going out of the house without makeup.
Despite all my complaints, I made great use out of the Anastasia Master Palette by Mario. I hit a sizable amount of pan in 6 of the shimmer shades and have large dents in the shades, Lula and Isabel.
Could I have dug my brushes into each shade just to hit pan in every shade? Sure – but then this challenge would have been pointless because I would have wasted my money anyway.
Although the Master Palette by Mario is still one of my all-time favorite eyeshadow palettes and this served me well over the last two years, it is time to retire this palette from my daily routine.
Will I ever try to Pan that Palette again?
Honestly, I have no immediate plans to do this challenge again. Although eye-opening in showing me how arduous it is to finish an entire palette, I neglected so many other products just to attempt to use this palette.
Makeup is fun. However, by the end I wasn’t having any fun. I felt obligated to use my Master Palette. Every look I created felt uninspired. Also, I learned that I can use a palette all the time, but still see no visible dents in a shadow and that is okay. In the future, I may include certain shades in my rolling year-long project pan, but I am unlikely to add a full-sized palette.
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What are your thoughts on Pan That Palette 2018? Have you done this challenge before or are you taking part in it this year? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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You made great progress, LP! I can see how that would get boring fast though. Ah, the palette conundrum! So easy to buy, so hard to use up!
Thank you, Jennifer! <3 I was proud of my progress too … just got a little boring at the end. BUT I will say, that when I was traveling this weekend, this was the palette that I reached for lol!
You got a lot farther than I would have! That’s some serious commitment. I love ABH palettes, but I definitely have to swap them out every few uses. I find myself recreating the same look, otherwise.
Same here, for sure! I’m DYING over the new release though!! May or may not be counting down the days until that drops. 😀
SAME!! I’m so excited!
I love this challenge, and well done for continuing as long as you did! So many palettes get used a few times and then go by the wayside so this is a great way of getting the most for your money. love it! x
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This challenge is AWESOME!! I can understand you getting sick of it. Maybe you will go back to the palette and finish it one day. I love eyeshadow palettes but I have never used them all up!
Thank you so much for your comment! <3 Funnily enough, when I had to pack for an overnight trip this past weekend – this was the still the favorite choice lol! I've never fully finished an eyeshadow palette either, but I've finished some quads before. 🙂
The last update was a great one! Bravo! It is not easy using up the colors. But I build on the base colors in one palette (for example my Essence one) and use other palettes to make other looks/colors when combined with the base palette. Otherwise, it would get boring.
That’s what I should have done for sure! I made the mistake of panning “looks” if that makes sense? That’s why it got so boring for me!
Yes! I totally get it. Using the same type of colors together all the time. That can get so boring!!! But maybe you have an idea for the possible next Panning Project. If you feel up to it. Lol
Maybe I’ll include just some single shades in my rolling project. Who knows! lol
Wow you did great even if you weren’t able to hit pan on every single shade. I don’t think I’d be able to do this challenge because like you said, I would feel creatively trapped! I don’t blame you for not wanting to do it again. & I always wondered if some bloggers just dig their brush into the shades to make it look like they used it all LOL.
Thank you for your comment, Hunida! 💜 Even though I didn’t accomplish all that I wanted to, I’m still happy with the progress I made!!
It’s really great that you’re conscious about getting use of a product you love instead of just buying new new new all of the time. Have you heard of Project Throwback? It was created my Samantha Ravendhal on YouTube and what you do is use a few products you’ve not used for a while for a whole month and then swap it out for something else for the next month. That might be a bit better for you than a whole year? Well done for how much you got through though!
Alex x
Yess I love her! 💜 This year I’ve been doing monthly or weekly makeup baskets and that’s been much better for me!!
I had the exact same feelings with Pan that Palette… I am glad I did it last year with the ABH Modern Renaissance. I just felt obligated to keep reaching for it instead of wanting to reach for it or feeling inspired to do so. I have been enjoying using all of my palettes this year!!
Your IG feed and the project pan you’re doing with your palettes seriously gives me so much inspo!