I have much appreciation for those who pan their eyeshadow palettes. That is a testament to regular, sustained use! I can’t imagine using a palette often enough to really get there myself, even if I wasn’t blogger… I am just too much of an eyeshadow fiend and wants lot of options.
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With the number of palettes I own, I can’t honestly see this happening. Ever.
Ergo, not important.
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?? I’m with you!
I’ll never finish a palette. Even with discipline best I could manage is panning the shades I like. At the rate I’m going, I don’t know that I can even do that. So I am giving myself permission not to make this a thing.
Using all the shades in a palette is very important to me, but I wouldn’t want to actually finish it! I’m not a fan of palettes like the ABH ones where it’s so powdery you hit pan easily.
Agreed…I’m a fellow eyeshadow fiend, so many eyeshadows/palettes so little time!! I’ve hit pan on certain colors but never an entire palette.
I hit pan usually with the lightest shades as a priming base, but I never finished any of the dark shades. I am always on the lookout for that one holy grail eye palette which I would hit pan on every shade but so far I haven’t found one yet lol.
It’s really not that important to me. I get bored too easily to commit to any palette long enough to be able to pan it. I do get excited when I hit pan on a shadow or finish one because that means I really loved it. I generally just try to rotate my palettes so they all get used.
I did try to pan mac embark….my only venture into panning. I used that shadow everyday for a year and didn’t make a dent. I was so annoyed that I just ended up throwing it away!
Eyeshadow palettes are my weakness. I do try my best to declutter my collection when I feel like I am not rotating through the ones I want to rotate through often enough.
I’m a creature of habit, so I find it easier to get some pan in my favorites. I’ve never panned an entire palette before, although I came close with the TF Natural Mattes a few years ago. I think I ended up tossing it with all shades gone save for the light pink one because I rarely used it.
That being said, I know after a couple of wears of whether or not I love the palette as a whole, and if I don’t, I try to declutter it ASAP so somebody else can get some good use out of it.
Wow…that’s something I haven’t done in at least ten years, and that was a quad I was using daily to fill my brows and using the lightest shade as my browbone shadow! I *wish* that I wasn’t such a palette hussy! LOL! As it stands atm, I cannot imagine that I will get to use one of mine up, except possibly Chanel Empriente du Desert, because it is only a small quad. Plus, I still enjoy using it! ???
Palette hussy, OMG dying here! 😀
(pssst, me too…)
I have a purely hypothetical question: if you ever change your career to something non-makeup related, would you change your makeup buying habits? If yes, how? Thank you!
The thought of hitting pan in my eyeshadow palettes give me anxiety. I have a back up of ABH’s Modern Renaissance and Subculture bc the thought of using them up scares me too much lol
I tend to use my favs to the last drop – nearly finished a pan on a pink in my Boheme Dream Viseart palette and the purple in the My Little Pony Colourpop palette. WIsh they sold those colors as singles!! ?
Finishing shadows is important to me, I want to get mt moneys worth. Atm I don’t own any premade palettes, I have all my shadows (69 pans) depotted. It made it very clear once they were depotted that I own many similar colors, which I’m trying to pan. Once those are done (or some of my favourite shades are close to being done) I do think I’ll get a palette to replace them. I don’t have a large beauty budget, I think that also makes a great difference. Plus that whenever I swatch something in store, I noticed I’m always drawn to to same shades.
I don’t like to waste things, so yes, I’d hit the pan, and pretty far into the corners before I’d throw things out. Obviously some shades are going to get more use than others. Neutrals and warms would get more use than cools, for me. The downside of this is that I don’t buy as much stuff as I’d like. I just can’t deal with having hundreds of colors, with a bazillion dupes among them. But I’m okay with that, because how many different shades of gold or taupe do you need? How would you even remember which particular shade you want to use, once you pass 3 iterations of the same general color? If I was a blogger, it would be different. I would not get to finish it all, so I would donate a lot of it quickly so that someone else might get more meaningful use out of it.
I would use a shade I loved to the last possible swipe – but that’s a rare event. So yeah, not beating myself up over it. Am focusing, alongside my esteemed makeup colleagues, w/ trying to rotate unsystematically through the masses of shadow waiting in my drawers.
Depotting (which I learned about here, thank you) has been both fun and sobering.
6 shades of ecru (to name just one) staring back at me counters temptation, for sure.
Not at all. For one thing, I am never going to even put a serious dent in any black eyeshadow, so that right there means most palettes wouldn’t have a chance of getting used up. Also, I own so many, that I doubt I’d ever use one up entirely. I’d get bored using the same palette day in and day out just for the sake of hitting pan. To me, that’s not getting my money worth’s out of it, because using it becomes a chore instead giving me joy.
Like Christine, I have an admiration for people who used a palette almost exclusively and finish up the shadows. But, like her, eyeshadow is my weakness also and I have so many palettes that it’s doubtful I ever finish one of them. I wonder if I’ll ever finish my most used e/s duo, which is Kalahari (the “old” version).
I don’t think I have ever finished an entire palette, but certainly I have panned some favourite shades. Most recently the absolute favourite shade I have panned is Lorac’s Amber in the Pro Metals palette. It is a shade that I never thought I would pan first.
I guess finishing a whole palette or even a quad is almost impossible.
Not important to me. I have a short attention span.
None at all. Not even done testing three of the colors and jump to the next if I see some different shades or element shiny, glitter, satiny, mattes, cream. They look so tempting in a row. ??♀️
I’ve hit pan on the light shades in most palettes. Then, I’ll just buy a single in a light shade if I have to. In another lifetime, when I was only buying Chanel quads, & only owned a couple, I actually finished them. But, now, I have accumulated some 16 pan palettes. Don’t ever seeing myself finishing any of them. Especially the dark shades.
I’m the same, down to the Chanel quads 🙂 I do at times hit pan on the lighter shades in a palette with a lot of shades, but not often.
Ditto Christine!!!! But I’m going to work on that in 2019 (I won’t call it a resolution, but I’m going to try). 😉
Not.
In fact, for any future versions of these “How important is finishing…” questions, I’m just going to admit up front that the only things I make an effort to finish are skincare/grooming and foundations.
Although I did decide recently that I want to go back to using my ColourPop shadows regularly; not necessarily to finish them entirely, but definitely to get more use out of them before they dry up — they’re the only products I own (other than eyeliner) that are likely to stop being functional over time.