little white truths

Hello and welcome to September's Pan that Palette update!

It's been a reasonable month for me and I've made some good progress on all three of the items that I'm panning.

Do note now that I'll probably be winding up my challenge by the end of November because I'd like to give myself some free time before kicking off Pan that Palette 2019 - and if I can wind it up even earlier than that, I will. 

I plan to close this year's challenge down when I pan both the Hourglass and Burberry palettes - and I'm getting close now!

Let's have a look.

First up, the one that's been killing me: my Burberry quad. As you may know, I'm not panning the dusty rose shade because I like that one and I plan to re-press it into another pan so I can put it in one of my custom palettes - but first I need to finish the rest of it.

Here's how it looked last month:

And here's how it's looking now:

I was hoping to finish this palette in September and although I didn't quite get there, I think it's safe to say that I'll get there next month.

I'm panning the two remaining shades combined to make my brow colour (because the green is a muddy grey in practice that cools down the brown), and I'll do everything in my power to kick these out in October. 

After that, this palette is done. Can't wait!

Next, my Hourglass palette. There's how it looked last month:

And here's how it's looking now:

Well, I've definitely made some good progress on this! Yes the pans are only 1.4g in size but I've been getting through them because I've been using both remaining shades on the eyes a lot - and you do need to build these on the eyes if you want them to show up.

You'll also note that I've panned the blush in the top middle, which I was able to do because it was pale enough that I could use it as a setting powder if I applied it very lightly. I did also use it as a blush a lot too.

There's a reasonable chance that I can pan the bright blush this month: I'm using it on the eyes, I'm using some mixed in with my setting powder (if I use a tiny bit, it brightens the face but doesn't turn me pink) and I'm also using it mixed with the Laura Mercier highlighter I'm panning to warm that up. So I'm coming at it from three angles and what's left is very flat so I can see it going within a month.

The gold highlighter might last a little longer, but you never know. Fingers crossed.

Last up, my custom palette. 

I've been using this a bit more lately because some of the mattes are good to mix with the smaller eyeshadow palettes I've been using as part of Project Dent, and also because over the last fortnight I've been focusing on some of the shadows so I can review them.

Here's how it looked last month:

And now:

As always, let's work in sections.

Left side of the palette, last month:

And now: