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Only MAC Espresso, which is my go-to shade for my brows.
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I’ve actually never hit pan on anything. However, I’m very very close to hitting pan on the matte black shade from the Wet n Wild Greed palette, which is very exciting — and I already have a backup 🙂
none! I never use a product long enough to where I’d have to buy it again, but either way I hate the idea of repurchasing products, I always love trying new things, and nothing has impressed me enough to where I wouldn’t want something else.
Smith’s Rosebud Salve, if it counts. ^^;
Otherwise, I can’t think of any. I have a tendency to ration and hoard anything I’ve hit pan on. >:
Studio Fix Powder, my go to foundation.
Avon Personal Match Pressed Powder. I’ve got through probably 12 of them in the last 8 or so years.
Nars Laguna Bronzer!
Highlighter shades.
I haven’t hit pan on things repeatedly yet. XD
But I’ve hit pan on:
Bobbi Brown “Bone” eyeshadow
Bobbi Brown “Peach” Corrector
MAC “Dazzlelight” Eyeshadow
Chanel Pressed Powder
I’ve also finished NARS Sheer Glow. 😛
Mine is my brow powder too! MAC tempting is the perfect bronzy colour for my brows! and warm soul….. and msf light medium…..
NARS Sex Appeal, my HG blush
OMG i love that blush it is my all time favorite and nobody ever talks about it!!
I don’t think it shows up well on too many people. That might be why it’s not talked about a lot. I’m pretty light, and it doesn’t show up on me.
Me too! It is the ONLY makeup product that I keep repurchasing!
Matte beige/ivory/bone eyeshadows and translucent face powder.
Mac’s sable. I use it virtually every day. I believe I am on my 4th.
Pretty NYC in Water Poppy, EOS lipblams (various flavours), NYC brow powder, Maybelline brown eyebrow pencil, Chantecaille Mica eyeshadow and Dr. Robert Rey Sensual Solutions Lip Correct Hydrating Lip Smoother.
MAC Brul̩ e/s РI use it everyday as a base color to smooth the eyelid area after my primer and before I put my other e/s on. Love it!
Me too!
Mac Brule!
In all honesty, with makeup, NOTHING! I do use up skin care products but I’ve only ever hit pan on ONE Mac blush (I hit pan about 4 years ago but there is still plenty left…that stuff just won’t DIE!). I have completely used up lipsticks over the years but with one exeption, they’d all been discontinued by the time so I couldn’t repurchase them again. Oh, wait – eye pencils – I have used up some of those!
MAC shroom eyeshadow
me too!
Me too! That’s the only thing!
Wow, me too!!
MAC Brulé!
Not so much hit pan as it is dry tube–Maybelline Full n Soft Waterproof mascara. I haven’t even finished a lip balm to date yet. I have finished an 8oz bottle of Remove+ though!
MAC Studio Finish powder foundation and MSF Natural, MAC Studio Finish concealer, black kajal and mascara although the latter two don’t come in pan form 🙂
Just the good ole face powder for me!
Maybelline’s Dream Matte powder! Just hit pan AGAIN!
i’ve hit pan on make up store’s blush in the color sand two times. But that’s mostly because it keeps breaking
Bobbi brown products. I gouge the eyeshadows when I depot them more than any other brand and I use up the creamy concealer and color correctors faster than any other products in pans that I use.
stila illuminating powder foundation – I’ve used this for years and gone through so many refills of it.
My cream foundations. I never waste a bit.
All of my bronzers! I use a looot of them!
MAC Powerpoint pencil in Engraved..
Estee Lauder bronzer! It takes a while but it’s my HG bronzer 🙂
MAC Brule and the Naked palette (i’m on my third, but mostly Sin, Naked, Sidecar, and Gunmetal).
nail polish drying product
mascara diorshow
mac powder careblend
bronzer
mac eyeshadow retrospect
face cream avene
Mac Satin Taupe eye shadow, MAC Brun eye shadow (for brows) & Chanel Glossimer in #87 (Seashell). Three HG products I always finish & will always repurchase 🙂
Ulta’s Pearl eyeshadow (I use it mostly as a cheek highlighter)
Urban Decay polyester bride, which is my go-to browbone highlighter, and mac studiofix powder
Me too on the MAC Espresso I go nowhere without filling in my brows!
Also MSF natural, Ricepaper & soft brown e/s, NYC bronzer & concealers (Benefit/ Maybelline/MAC)
MAC Carbon, MAC Espresso, The WnW Vanity Palette (the matte beige shade)
Mac Fling Eyebrow Pencil is the only thing that comes to mind. I’m on my 3rd.
My Mark Powder Buff foundation, NYC Translucent pressed powder and Rimmels Stay Matte pressed powder.
MAC lipstick – High tea
Nars Laguna Bronzer!
I’m terrible, I’ve only ever hit pan on one thing and that was Urban Decay’s Grifter eyeshadow. It’s one of my favorite purples!
MAC naked lunch and studio fix.
Mac Naked Lunch and Mac Retrospeck!
Mac Naked Lunch and Mac Retrospeck
Skin79 BB cream, mac Rice Paper, Urban Decay Sin, UDPP, mac fix+, NARS stick concealer in Vanilla.
MAC Studio Fix (on my second), MAC Pink Swoon (on my third or fourth), Urban Decay Primer Potion (on my third).
MAC’s Studio Fix Plus, MAC’s PaINTPOT IN Blackground & Maybelline Colorstay foundation.
MAC Naked Lunch, Shroom, and Prep & Prime Translucent Finishing Powder.
I’ve hit pan on my favorite blush by Canmake in PW05 but it’s still not used up yet and I’ve had this blush for years<3! I've also hit pan on Givenchy Matmate powder foundation which I love and it's discontinued…
MAC “Hush” eyeshadow
MAC MSF
MAC prep+prime powder
MAC “Refined Golden” bronzer
Too Faced “Heaven” eyeshadow
aaand probably UD Naked palette :)))
UD Naked? I like you a lot ;). I received both as gifts and pretty sure I’ll burn through them soon enough.
I don’t think I’ve hit pan on anything except my foundations, mascara, primers, makeup setting sprays and skin care products which none are in pan form – haha. I think the biggest dent I’ve made in any in-a-pan product is most probably my Stereo Rose which I used continuously for a good year or so.
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural. It used to be MAC StudioFix , but I use the Mineralize more these days.
Mac Jest and Satin Taupe. I also burn through Beaute Cosmetics Lipglosses.
Duwop peacock palette highlighter, buxom mascara, buxom eva lipgloss (x2), and revlon black colorstay liquid liner. I have 3 more buxom evas for back ups. So sad it’s discontinued.
The only product I’ve hit pan on is my mac blot powder!I love that stuff!
MAC Vanilla! its the perfect highlight color for my skin tone.
MAC Vanilla, Omega & Scene
UDPP if that counts! And Anastasia brow wiz in medium ash
MAC Blot Powder.
Dame blusher by Mac
I tend to add things too quickly to hit pan on anything much. Any nude or neutral product is low, because I use them so frequently for a lot of things. For the longest time, I used Stila’s One Step Correct and I’ve replaced a few of those, but I use MAC’s Prep+Prime now with a mixing medium. Thanks to you, Christine, I have too much high-quality makeup to run out.
Benefit’s Ooh La Lift and Benetint. Also Cover Girl Clean makeup.
ELF HD powder, Laura Geller Balance n Brighten, MAC Mylar e/s and MAC Blanc Type e/s, NYX highlight (love it!) and Gosh eyeliner pencil in Alligator
MAC MSF Natural
MAC All That Glitters Eyeshadow
Rimmel Stay Matte Powder
Urban Decay Midnight Cowboy Eyeshadow
I’ve also gone through a few tubes of MAC Hue lipstick and Smashbox Pout Lipgloss
My setting powder, which is Rimmel’s Stay Matte Translucent Powder.
MAC All That Glitters e/s
MAC Dazzlelight e/s
MAC Blot Powder
MAC Syrup lipstick
MAC Tinted moisturizer
MAC Rich Ground Fluidline which is the perfect natural eyeliner for my coloring (redhead). Also MAC Femme Fi and Shroom eye shadows which are my go to highlighters.
Only my Jane Iredale foundation (pressed). Most of my other makeup products don’t even have a dent in them.
Mac Cut to fit, Brule, Dreammaker and Naked lunch. Smashbox brow in Auburn.
And of course Mac’s Studio Fix both liquid and powder……have a bunch to go back to their recycle program. And Urban Decay’s retired Gash.
The only one I’ve really hit pan on (I have so many products that I sort of have them on a rotor so I rarely hit pan on any certain one) is MAC Dazzlelight eyeshadow. It’s my go-to inner corner highlight, it’s just so perfect, I love how I can use it every single day, it’s the perfect shade and it isn’t too frosty so it helps to brighten up my insomnia ridden eyes without making me look tired.
it’s a product I’ll purchase again and again. Other than that I have LE blush from Lancome which I have hit pan on and am having to ration because it was LE, it’s a gorgeous peach pink.
As for foundations, the only one I have ever repurchased was revlon colorstay, but I usually go out and try new ones, and if I run out of one I’ve always got a different one to use as back up.
As for eyeshadows, my most used apart from Dazzlelight are UD’s Sin, Buck and Darkhorse, as well as MAC’s Satin Taupe and Brulé, and Benefit’s Bikini Line, and my most used lipsticks are MAC’s Angel and Rimmel’s Moisture Renew in Nude Delight, because all of those tend to be my every day go-tos 🙂
Pretty long, but yeah those are all products I will repurchase when I run out.
Oh, just remembered I’ve also hit pan on a Prescriptives blush in the shade Humor (though I rarely use it now because I use Ladyblush from MAC instead)
MAC MSF Natural !!!
I’ve only ever hit pan twice, one of which was MAC Tinted Lip Conditioner, and I think this is the only product I would likely hit pan on again anytime soon.
Jemma Kidd Vanity Fair eyeshadow, Boots No. 7 Soft Damson blush, MAC Blot.
To be honest, I’ve never finished any MU except my MUFE HD Foundation since I’m always tempted to buy and try new MU products.
MAC Bronzer in Golden. This is my absolute FAVORITE bronzer, it looks so sweet in the sun no matter what time of the year. Just gives me an even complexion.
Also I’m hitting the pan now on MAC Pink Venus. I know it’s a lustre, but once the sparkles are tapped out a bit, this is such a pretty color. Also getting close to hitting the pan on MAC Mulch.
Mac foundations (studio tech)
I have gone through a few MAC Bronzers, MAC Moistureblend foundation, Studio Fix Powders and a couple of Lustreglasses (for some reason I use these up quicker than regular Lipglass).
M·A·C Blot/Pressed, period.
Only one is Nyx Taupe blush. Perfect for contouring fairer skins! Use it every time I wear mu:)
-make up for ever : duo mat powder foundation & mat velvet+ liquid foundation
– mac : ricepaper eyeshadow & dazzlelight eyeshadow
– urban decay : 24/7 eyeliner in zero & (now) perversion 🙂
Nars Laguana probably 4 in the past 5 years. Nars Fiji powder twice now.
Mac ‘All that Glitters Eyeshadow’
Mac ‘Espresso (which I use for my brows too!)
Nars ‘Laguna Bronzer’
Mac ‘Naked Lunch Eyeshadow’
Nars ‘Deep Throat Blush’
Yeah, thats about it I’ve hit pan on over and over:)
Mac Studio Fix powder foundation! I go through it way too fast.
My Blot powder from MAC, MAC Naked Lunch eyeshadow, AMC Viva Glam V and Hug Me lipsticks.
I don’t know if it counts because it’s not in a pan, but the Maybelline Falsies Waterproof is one that I’ve constantly repurchased not because it has gone bad but because it I’ve finished it.
MAC Wedge Eyeshadow, and too faced Smokey eye pallette. I’ve also finished Clinique Even Better Foundation.
Light beige-ish eyeshadows and Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder in Translucent 🙂
I’ve hit pan on a few things but seem to repurchase these ones over and over…
m.a.c. rice paper eye shadow
m.a.c. studio fix powder
m.a.c. spiked eye brow pencil
estee lauder double wear foundation
The L’oreal Tru Match concealer. I can’t even count how many tubes of that stuff I’ve gone through!
Any pressed and loose powder. Want buy another one until one is used up.
C.O..Bigelow’s Rose Salve
Mac: Blanc Type, wedge, rice paper, phloof and mulch,… i think thats about it !
i use up a few MAC MSF natural, mascaras, black%grey pecil liner, foundation, MAC print e/s