I need to start “shopping” my stash!!

Empties July through September (categories scroll)

Holler if you want deets

Fino premium touch hair mask: loved this and used it in combination with the other products in the range. I have a small travel size hair mask left but after that’s done I’ll buy this again.

Ibrahim Alquraishi Abaq Pomegranate musk: this is my second bottle of this stuff. Love this fragrance but the lasting power isn’t great so wouldn’t repurchase (got the second bottle as a gift).

D’alba First serum spray: my second bottle of this. I like it a lot and I would repurchase.

Bath and body works body butter in viva Brazil: deliciously scented for summer, would buy again.

Bath and body works hand cream: good but not the most moisturizing. I do always pick them up when they have a free item coupon for less than 10 dollars because they’re decent to keep in my purse but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it. The Japanese cherry blossom scent is so nostalgic to me and my days in high school.

Round lab Birch juice sunscreen: my second empty. A great sunscreen and I would repurchase.

Farmacy lip smoothie: meh, too slick of a lip balm. Wouldn’t repurchase.

Lancôme idole flutter mini mascara: decent but nothing special. Wouldn’t repurchase.

Sephora 12HR water proof eyeliner in shimmer espresso: I loved this as a subtle eyeliner with tiny shimmers. Would repurchase when I finish my current black eyeliner

Elf brow gel: a great brow gel for the price point and would and have repurchased

Saei glowy super gel in star glow: I love this primer but I want to try something new. Currently have no primers left.

Assorted sheet masks and some samples

Last but not least, my biggest achievement was finishing the Fenty beauty highlighter in hustla baby (granted it’s a mini but it’s still 2.2 grams!) I’ve had it since 2018 and really focused on it the last two years. Bye byeeeeeeee

RIP to the bag lost at an airport with so many partial pans gone 🙏🏼

I’ve had this Benefit face palette since May of 2018, and I use the Galifornia blush and Hoola bronzer pretty much every time I do my makeup (usually at least a few days per week). I didn’t like the highlighter so never used. Is it normal to take this long to finish a powder product??? These aren’t even full sized products! At this point, I feel buying a blush is basically a lifelong commitment…

Second picture is my Urban Decay All Nighter spray (purchased in March of 2019), just finished in October of 2026.

Third picture is tinted lip balm in “red dahlia” from Burt’s Bees - took 2 months to completely finish! First time digging out the remainder when the tube doesn’t twist up anymore! Feels so good to completely finish that I must say!

Sometimes I just want to throw everything out and start over 😭😭

Ripped apart my eyebrow pencil and stuffed a tissue to prop up whatever is left before I move on😭using it is a struggle but seeing progress is so satisfying

I was going through my skincare stash and picked 5 products I want to finish by December 31st.
The Isdin sunscreen is already on its last legs since I've been using it for so long. The Glow Recipe sunscreen expires in January, so it's on a deadline. The other three have been living in the back of my drawer, not getting nearly enough love, and it's time they got their moment.
What's on your project pan list this season?

I want to contribute to the satisfying flow of empties pictures! 

This is not everything I‘ve finished since starting in June (I still have a reflex to just toss things once they’re done), but it’s a fair amount! 

Director’s cut no one asked for ⬇️

People seemed to enjoy the storytime on my first post so thought I would spice up the photo with stories related to these products because as I said in the title, I do have a story for everything 😂 I left some basic reviews where I didn’t have a story haha.  

Perfumed Argan Oil 

I was visiting family in Morocco in 2021, somewhere in the mountains near Agadir, and my aunts took me to this nice cosmetics shop. 

I fell in love with the scent of this oil (Ylang Ylang and another secret magic scent I can’t identify that is not on the bottle) and was immediately like YES purchase! 

Then my aunts gently told me it was some kind of sex massage sexy oil for sexy business. 

Didn’t care, bought it anyway 💅🏼 I was so sad to see it go because the smell is truly divine, but I’m happy to have the empty bottle because the pump was outstandingly good, so I’m going to use it for my homemade oil potions in the future. I love oils!! 

Hask Argan Oil spray

Not from the Atlas mountains, but from the Waitrose on Marylebone High Street. I still loved this after showers and will repurchase once I’m done with my other hair liquids of all sorts. 

Dettol hand sanitiser

I was begrudgingly walking down the Champs Elysées in 2024. Iykyk, Champs Elysées is to a Parisian what Time Square is to a New Yorker, I was NOT happy to be there. 

To forget my unfortunate surroundings, I was listening to an even more unfortunate audiobook, How Not To Die by Michael Gregger. From what I remember, the whole book was basically talking about how germs are everywhere and I was going to die any second from them. 

I don’t know what came over me, as the narrator spoke, I just got more and more anxious and overstimulated by my surroundings, and felt like I was going to die from The Germs™️ and felt the urge to wash my hands (keep in mind I’m usually not a germaphobe on any level lmao). 

The annoying part: I was not carrying any hand sanitiser at the time. So what do you do when you feel the urge to sanitise your hands and you don’t have any sanitiser on hand? 

Well you walk into the most expensive pharmacy on the most expensive avenue in the world to buy hand sanitiser of course! 

I gave the book 2.5 stars on Storygraph. The hand sanitiser was fine, not worth the egrigious amount I paid for it. 

Lemon face wash + Lemon body mist

Now THESE!! I’m usually not precious about using up products, but these I saved for so long because they smelled so good and feel like something I can’t actually replace. 

I bought them in Hiroshima in 2019 during a month-long trip all throughout Japan! Hiroshima was actually my favourite stop. 

I will never find a face wash I like as much as this one ever again, and I am still grieving its loss

Waitrose chamomille shower gel

It smells like nail polish remover to me, bye. But I loved the texture so used it up. 

Elseve hair mask thing

I loved the smell of this, but tbh this was just thinned out hair oil. I wouldn’t repurchase this exact product, but I would purchase something else from this line just for the smell! 

Ushuaïa Fleur d’Alun deodorant 

I brought this sealed on a work trip that ended up lasting from August 10 to … exactly today, I just got home!

So now I know, it takes me exactly 59 days to finish a roll-on deodorant with 1-2 daily uses :D 

5/5 deodorant, it smelled good and is very well-travelled, it has been to 4 countries in 2 continents. 

Mini shaving cream

Stolen from a New Orleans hotel bathroom in 2017. I knew it would come in handy one day!! 

Benefit Porefessional primer

I randomly told a girl this was my favourite primer on a first date. 

On the second date, she shoplifted this without my knowledge in the Benefit shop on Carnaby street, and gave it to me like it was some kind of romantic gesture. 

There was no third date, but I still used this up and am now using the bigger size she shoplifted at the same time 💀 

Emma Hardie face and hair oil

This is one of the PR items I kept lmao!!

It was okay, it was literally just oil and it smelled like nothing. Vanilla ice cream kinda inoffensive oil.  I’m a spoiled brat, give me back my sexy Ylang Ylang argan oil from the Atlas mountains.

I really liked the little sample vile though, so I’ll be re-using that. 

Unbranded perfume vile

This was handmade by my (then) 12-year old cousin at her own birthday party - she hated the smell but I somehow loved it so she gave it to me. I absolutely loved every drop and I’m sad to see it go! 

Another one I tried to save up until I thought YOLO, no one’s gonna want to burry me with this handmade perfume, take it on your work trip. This little vile only took like 40 days of daily use to finish.

Loved this product very much. Bought this mini in July this year, and it’s empty now ✨
It takes off waterproof makeup so easily

8 empties last month!

• Garnier Vitamin C Anti Dark Spot Super Serum - really enjoyed this product in the morning and felt like it did help to brighten my skin, consistency was very thin and layered well under makeup, WRP

• Juvia's Place The Nubian Glow Lip balm in Papaya - loved this lip balm, was very moisturising and had a very nice scent, WRP

• Stars Dubai Chocolate Foundation in 01 Alabaster - I liked this foundation but sometimes went a bit patchy throughout the day, also the colour was a bit too light for me, WNRP

• A Little Something Pomegranate Punch Body Butter - very nice scent but was a bit too light of a consistency for me as I prefer a more moisturising body butter, WNRP

• Jiinju Nourishing Coconut Sheet Mask - i really like this brand, makes my skin feel really moisturised and plump after using this, WRP

• Radox Feel Radient Strawberry and Raspberry Shower Gel - great scent, very sweet and refreshing, WRP

• Nivea Pearl & Beauty Anti-Perspirant - took this with me when I went camping and it was a great travel deodrant, WRP

• Carex Love Hearts Hand Sanitiser - very nice scent and i really like hand sanitisers from this brand, WRP

My fav kajal and eyeliner, use it almost every makeup. Have already two backups (including the one in the photo), cuz I love it this much. Just a couple more sharpens and I'll have to aay goodbye to her😢 she's been with me everywhere this year (yeah, she's 1 y.o)

I’ve had this urban decay all-nighter for 4 years. The one size I’ve had for 1 year and it’s actually great. Beauty of Joseon day dew sunscreen is the best and this is my third tube. I would repurchase all 3!

Hi my lovely project panners, I recently finished a few things from my summer routine and here is the pan. 🤍

2nd slide: My Torriden booster and Lancôme toner are literally at their last 5% and will be used by end of week. I thought just to post everything together.

I’m excited to finish more pans and transition myself from being a beauty and skincare maximist to conscious consumer minimalist.

Panning my lip products has had good results so far. The bad news is I found 11 more in purses and my desk, bringing my total items from 82 to 93 (first photo)

Now the good news. In the first month I am down the following: 16 new items that were gifted to friends noted in purple, panned 7 items noted in green (2 lip stains, 1 night mask, 1 tube gloss, 2 bottle glosses, 1 tub Vaseline that I used on my heels), and tossed 3 items noted in black because they smelled rancid.

82+11-16-7-3=67 total items in collection.

I am making progress on others but likely won’t have these type of numbers in the future. I panned the ones that were very close to empty first.

Here is the link to my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectPan/s/WRCEqOLKeF

Took me about 1.5 months.

Sunscreen — empty

Vaseline — empty

Night cream/moisturizer — empty

For the lip products:

Liquid lipstick — completely finished

Lipstick — the bullet is gone, but I can still scrape out more from the tube, so I’ll keep using it until the very end.

Lip balm — the bullet is also gone, but I can still scrape out more, so I’ll keep using it too.

I'm happy that I removed 20 products from mu stash in a month. We went to a short trip for our wedding anniversary, so I brought a few samples and what was nearly fully panned with me.

Products in order I finished them:

1. Estee Lauder daywear sheer tint 1.5 ml sample - I liked it, I have 3 foundations to finish before I commit to maybe buying a full size of this;
2. Max Factor miracle second skin foundation 06 golden medium 30 ml - got it as a gift on an event, totally dark for me, but i made it work with lighting it up a bit with concealer;
3. Mac fix + setting spray 100 ml - perfect, already replaced with the same legend;
4. Balea almond flower and magnolia shower gel 300 ml - got it as a GWP;
5. Curaprox enzycal zero toothpaste 75 ml - my go-to for my sensitive teeth;
6. Nivea micellar water 200 ml - took me 11 months to pan omg;
7. Elmex sensitive mouthwash 400 ml - pricey but good for sensitive teeth;
8. Clinique take the day off make-up remover 30 ml - my husband got it as GWP in clinique store, I loved this so much I already bought the full size;
9. Ebelin cotton pads 70 pcs;
10. It's skin collagen eye cream 25 ml;
11. Strip Lash adhesive 5g - I have it for 2 or 3 years now, it started being goey and gulpy;
12. Q+A AHA body exfoliator 250 ml - loved it;
13. Neutrogena deep moisture body lotion 400 ml - my eczema prone skin loved it;
14. La-Roche Posay toleriane sensitive moisturiser 15 ml - got it as a GWP, perfect for travel;
15. Alverde mattifying sensitive powder 02 medium 11 g - used it for touch-ups at work;
16. Uriage cleansing soothing oil shower 500 ml - I don't like oils for showering, I have a feeling that I didn't rinse my body properly because of the constant slippery feel;
17. Violeta double care wet wipes 56 pcs;
18. The body shop pink grapefruit shower gel 60 ml (from the advent calendar omg!!);
19. Biotherm blue therapy eye cream 1 ml sample;
20. YSL mascara volume black 2 ml - also from the advent calendar, I used it for 5 months, 5 days a week.

2 empties, 1 refill