What was the last highlighter you hit pan on?
WHAT IS PAN?? I don’t think I’ve hit pan on a highlighter EVER.
— Christine
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I’ve never hit pan on a highlighter. I have a dip in a mini Becca moonstone I bought in 2017. Highlight Is the thing I wear the least!
What is this panning you speak of? lol
Too funny! Lol
Glad to see I’m not alone in never hitting pan on a highlighter. I love ’em; I buy ’em; I rarely use ’em. But I sure do like looking at them!
Becca Moonstone, and more than once.
I live in a place where most people don’t have air conditioning, so I lean into the “shiny” look many of us have in the summer here.
I love going ham with highlighter in the summer.
Me too! The more highlighter the better lol. Plus if it’s a quick face of makeup, I’ll use it on my lids and browbone.
Me too! Becca Moonstone. Love this one. RIP Becca.
Also panned a couple of cream ones by a brazilian organic brand, called Care Beauty. I find that cream highlighters are easier to hit pan
That I so rarely use them up is exactly the reason why I refrain from having too many in my collection. I have used up a tube of the CT highlighter wand, I panned and finished the highlighter section of the CT Filmstar Bronze and Glow, and I believe I might have panned a MAC MSF back in the day when those were all the rage.
I’ve never even gotten past the design embossed in the powder!
HaHa, none…not one ever so far!!! I am working on a Nabla one called Amnesia, it is in my project pan.
I just hit a tiny bit of pan on Buxom’s White Russian highlighter. It’s a small package with not a lot of product.. otherwise, I have not come close on any other highlighters.
My Becca Champagne Pop has a pretty big pan in it, about the size of a dime. I really hope to fully pan it sooner than later, but it’s so hard with highlighter!
If we are talking about highlighter as a product, none, since I never liked highlighters on me.
I use illuminating powders as highlighters, and I haven’t hit pan on one since the last time I owned MAC Emphasize (off course, discontinued).
ColourPop SS in Hippo (DC). This was quite a while ago.
Long Live Hippo!
Nicole, if only! 😄
Big time! I didn’t pan it but I just binned it, a half dead, with all my other CP SSSs. Major fave. And compared to the champagne and gold HLs, quite the rare beast. (Pun intended.)
I bought the last one I own right as it was being discontinued. I was trying to use it up, and hit pan. I need to see whether it’s still good.
Yes, it was unique when it came out. I think that last one was my third.
It’s been many years, but I did hit pan on an old school OG highlighter by Wet ‘n Wild that had stripes of different colors! Pretty sure that I used most of that one up until it began crumbling around the edges. This has to have been around 12-13 years ago? Maybe more?
Same, never hit pan on one. My oldest highlighter, Becca’s Pearl, is from 2018 and even though it’s probably my most used, there’s not even a dip in the powder.
Once upon a time Essence had a cream to powder highlighter called Soo Glow! I not only hit pan, but finished a whole compact AND got about halfway through another. But that was back in the day when highlighters were just becoming “a thing” and most were made with silicones. Soo Glow was the first cream highlighter in a color that worked on my skin (so, sooo pale) and didn’t have silicones. Now, of course, I’ve got about twenty other highlighters and all but one still has the pan design.
Only from dropping and breaking my Becca Opal 😆
I hit pan on a By Terry highlighter in a face palette…it sounds impressive until you hear that it’s 0.08 oz lol
Laura Mercier Highlighter #1.
I have been working on my Too Faced Natural Face Palette, and have hit pan on the two highlight shades. Prior to that I hit pan in and finished my ELF Illuminating Palette Quad.
That is something that’s never happened, I honestly don’t think I’ll ever hit pan on any of my highlighters. My oldest, Mary-Lou Manizer almost looks unused.
As I don’t use highlighters, I have never hit pan on them. But it’s interesting to read other reader’s responses here!
Bare Minerals Endless Glow Highlighter in Joy, it’s the loveliest peach! Also, the trio face palette Sweet Peach Glow by Too Faced are the two that immediately come to mind.
Mac Showgold – panned two times used it completely up scraping corners! Panned PMG highlighter trio used all 3 colors bronzed panned first scraping all sides! Panned Dior universal highlighter but still working it- i have panned whisper of gilt- i guess highlighter is my thing 🙂
I think I used up a whole Physician’s Formula highlighter over a decade ago! I haven’t even made a dent in any since then.
I hit pan on the top part of a Tom Ford illuminating duo, but it’s the only time that’s ever happened!
I have hit heavily pan on both Colourpop Lunch Money and Wisp, otherwise I rarely do!
It happened once in my life time. I actually finished The Balm Betty Lou highlighter. I was so shocked I bought another one that I used 5 times max during 3 years. Sad. 🤣
Ha! Concur! If I hit pan on anything, it’s because it broke.