little white truths

I wound up Project Pan for the year one week ago, but I wanted to have a short break from panning posts before bringing you my PP wrap-up posts for the year.

My first post is this one, which will tell you how many items I finished this year - and afterwards I'll look at doing a lessons learned post or even another goals post for PP 2019, using my 2018 project as a way to guide those goals. We'll see.

Let's get straight into it.

October

October was a reasonable month and I finished seven items in total. This included three face masks, which sounds unbelievable except that two of those stripped my skin so badly that I ended up using them on the body because it wasn't worth upsetting my face.

Here's what I finished in October:

• two lipsticks
• one primer
• three face masks
• one hair treatment

Not a bad month, although November was even better.

November

November was one of my best panning months ever and I finished eleven products in total. This included a foundation and a couple of primers, all of which I'd been panning for a while.

Here's November's tally:

• two primers
• one foundation
• one setting powder
• one serum
• one facial acid
• one self-tanner
• one lip gloss
• one dry shampoo
• one face mask
• one cushion highlighter

A great month, and one that took my numbers up a decent amount before the end of the year.

The final tally

Here's what my PP 2018 tally looks like at the end of the project:

• nine lipsticks
• two lip balms
• four lip glosses
• one lip crayon
• eight primers
• two eye primers
• two liquid illuminators (one being a cushion)
• three tinted moisturisers
• two foundations
• one foundation mixer
• two concealers
• two setting powders
• two powder bronzers
• one brow pencil and wax
• one eyeliner (travel-sized)
• two cleansers
• ten face masks
• one serum
• one facial acid
• one self-tanner
• two fragrances
• four hair treatments
• one dry shampoo

So my Project Pan tally for 2018 is 62 products in total.

Originally I was aiming to finish 50 products, and when that was looking likely at the end of September, I raised that goal to as close to 70 as possible. While I didn't quite get there, I'm happy with my final number and I'm pleased that I was able to finish 62 items in ten months (I didn't do my 2018 project for the whole year).

In sum

That's all from me. This was a reasonable panning year, and while I doubt I'll ever beat the 91 products I managed to finish last year, I'm happy with my total number.

I think what's happening now is that I don't have as many items as before because I've done an ok job of streamlining my collection, so I won't be surprised if my panning totals stay at around the 50 mark from now on.

Do let me know in the comments how you're going with your own panning projects: I'd love to hear.

Hope all's well with you, and speak soon x