Delightful Illusions

          Happy New Year! How are you, guys? I have been busy with work and I needed much rest so haven't been posting for the past two months. I have been doing a lot of makeup looks which I have been posting on my Instagram makeup account (link on the side bar) and I think I will be featuring them on this blog soon. I have also hauled a lot of makeup items and I might feature them on my future posts. I really don't know where to start because I feel so overwhelmed right now. Haha! Anyway, I have ended my Pan That Palette 2018 and I have already chosen my palette for 2019. Please keep reading if you wanna know where it is (when it's actually very obvious). :)

          I stopped using this I Heart Makeup Selfie Palette two months ago since the quality wasn't the same as I first got it. I bought this palette during my 24th birthday and I was amazed by the quality. I loved the pigmentation but texture has gone bad and the just felt gross. Now that I have accumulated a lot of eyeshadow palattes last year, I tossed this just recently and I just want to focus on other eyeshadows in my stash. I have used up a shadow and have hit pan on 7 shadows. I thought that I have already reached my goals for this palette and I already got my money's worth. What do you think?

 

Sleek Oh So Special Palette

          As you can see, I have already hit pan 3 shades and I have 9 more to go. Woohoo! I can do this! My main goal for this palette and to hit pan on all of the remaining shades and maybe use up half of this. Since I don't wear pink eye looks on a daily basis, I think that this project might have slow progress. We'll never know, I guess. Who knows I might actually love pink looks and wear them everyday. For the firs month, I would just play around this palette and figure out my signature look for this palette. I will also be watching videos for eyeshadow combination and makeup look inspirations. :)

        I will be keeping this post short since I have already talked enough regarding this palette. If you are doing Pan That Palette for this year, please tell us on the comments section about the palette you decided to pan this year. I hope we all make it this year and inspire everybody to consume what they have on their stash. I hope you stay tuned for updates and more posts. As always, thank you so much for stopping by. Have a nice day! XOXO

          Hello, people of the internet! How y'all have been doing? Mine's pretty much the same; doing the same routine I had for years -- work, travel and home. It's been a while since I posted an update on my Pan That Palette and so I decided to do one today. I also included my Project Pan Porn on this update because they are the same thing; panning eyeshadows and see what I can finish this year. For those of you who hasn't heard of what Pan That Palette is about (which I highly doubt), it is a year-long project pan where you pick an eyeshadow palette or any makeup palette and try to finish all of them when the year ends. I have chosen the I Heart Makeup #SELFIE Palette for this year. I have started this project November last year and this palette looks full and pretty new. 

          Before I talk about my recent progress, let's just take a on what my palette looked like on the past months. I have actually hit pan on the chocolate brown shadow before I started this project. So I used to have 9 shadows to hit pan on and now there are only 4 shadows left to hit pan on. My ultimate goal for this palette is to use this up at the end of 2018. I'm not really sure if I can reach that goal but if ever that I won't, I will just be happy hitting pan on all of the shadows and declutter this. This of my oldest palettes, I bought this as a birthday gift for myself last 2016. Anyways, let's get right into the recent update. 

          I am proud to say that I have finished #CHOCFIX (matte chocolate brown) shadow. Yay! This was my favorite shadow on this palette and I'm kinda sad that it's gone. I fully aware that there are still bits of eyeshadow left but I'm going to repress them because there's not enough left and I just to use other shadows. I need to find a dupe for this because I loved the shade so much and is the perfect transition shade for most of the eye look that I create or wear. I have also widen the pan on the shadows that I have previously hit pan on. 

          I don't have any specific goals for the next update as I have already hit pan on the majority of the shadows. As of this update, I am close to hitting pan on the blue gray shadow. I'm feeling it. Haha! I'm actually having trouble using this shadow since it looks more blue on the lids and I'm not comfortable wearing blue shadows for work. It feels too bold for office. If you have any suggestions on how to wear this blue gray shade in a subtler way, please let me know. :) If you also have this palette and created looks with it, please share how you those looks because I'm willing to try anything. 

          As for my Project Pan Porn update, I have hit pan on shadow Boxed from the Sleek Oh So Special Palette. I have used this as my eye brow powder because it matched my brown hair. I have burgundy hair now, by the way. It's a matte medium brown shade that is also nice a crease shade for everyday looks. I am also close to hitting pan on the shade Bow (matte cream) because I use it daily to set my eyeshadow primer. I love this shadow because it doesn't crease all through out, like it doesn't fade and move around my oily eyelids. I am planning to do a look using only this palette and I might do a tutorial on it. What do you guys think?

          I have also hit pan on the matte pinky mauve shadow from the Ever Bilena Brown Palette. The quality of this eyeshadow is okay but that matte mauve shadow is the perfect transition shadow for my cool toned eyeshadow looks. I'm obsessed with this! It  blends smoothly and shows up on the eyelids even when blended with darker crease shadows. I also love this palette because I can create looks with it without reaching for other palettes. If you are living in the Philippines and just started getting into the makeup world, grab this one. Especially if you love cool toned or smokey eye looks. :)