My own Project 10 Pan

I follower a few You Tuber's that vlog about beauty related things. I get a lot of inspiration from them, tips and reviews on products before I buy them. It’s become a habit of checking out the reviews before shelling out any dough. And it has really save me a lot of product disappointment and brought to my attention some new products that I may have never found before. One You Tube guru who goes by the screen name lollipop26 started a project she calls Project 10 Pan. Her guidelines were that you use up ten products until all that’s left of them is the metal pan you find at the bottom of eye shadows, compacts and the such. During the project you cannot buy anything new, once you have 10 items completely emptied then the boycott is over and you are free to buy at your discretion. These ten items do not have to have a pan; it could be lip gloss, lipstick, foundations, ect. The whole point of the project is to help you get a hold of your spending habits and consumption. I know I own 20 or so lip glosses. Do I need that many? No. Will I buy more without a hesitation? Of course. Its completely unnecessary, and frankly I am tired of trying to find space to store all of it. No one needs this much product. I am the only one to blame.

I have started my project shortly before leaving for my vacation and decided to share it with you. I have set up a few guidelines that are a little different, here it is. My buying boycott is on all products, not just makeup. So that also includes hair, face and skin products. Things like body lotion, I have many half full bottles sitting around and still continue to buy more. Maybe it was on sale or just smelled so good I had to have it. No longer will this be the case. I will use what I have and only repurchase once I am completely out, therefore the boycott will also not end with just ten products. This rule will go for shampoo, conditioner, body wash, facial masks, basically everything. There will be a few exceptions, for example eye shadow. I will always own more then one eye shadow. But going forward I will only repurchase ones I am out of that I use on a regular basis, such as Kid by MAC. I use it almost everyday; it’s a very neutral brown that I do not have a dupe for. However I have many purple eye shadows that only get used every once in a while. So next time I see a pretty new shade I will not buy it, instead I will wait until my current ones are used up and then decide if I need a new one. Is this making any sense?

Step two in my Project 10 Pan is to replace my used up products with a new more eco friendly version when I repurchase. While I would love to just dump all of my current supply and go out and buy all new organic, sustainable and natural ones I can’t. Besides the fact that it would be very wasteful it would also be very expensive and very opposite of the whole point of doing a Project 10 Pan.

So here I am very patiently waiting, using up my mass supply before buying anything new. I will keep you posted on the project and invite you all to take stock of what you own and maybe start your own version Project 10 Pan.