What is it about “hitting pan” that makes us makeup freaks get all giggly and excited? I mean, are we THAT excited to finish the product up? Does seeing that silver pan really make us feel accomplished? (You know it does, don’t even kid yourself.) These are some of my favourite kinds of videos  or blog posts, so I thought I’d share what products I’ve been diving deep into. Forewarning, a lot of it is MAC.

Omega is the only MAC eyeshadow I have still in a pot. I use it for my eyebrows every day, so having it in a pot makes it more convenient as opposed to pulling out a 15 pan eyeshadow palette every time I want to do my brows! I think the shadow is roughly a year old and as you can see it’s about halfway gone. I find this shade is perfect for my incredibly blonde eyebrows that are almost non-existent without some product on them.

Top left –  If you’ve been reading any of my eyeshadow looks lately, you’ll know that I useBrule an awful lot. I’ve been trying to finish this one up so I can get on to the myriad of other off-white satin type shades I own. It’s a good shadow, but it’s so easily dupeable that I don’t find it particularly unique.

Top right – Shroom is a beautiful colour when I want to have a bit of sheen to highlight my brow. It’s also not particularly hard to duplicate.

Bottom left – I know a few of you are going to be cringing when I tell you just how old MACHaux is. It’s the very first MAC eyeshadow that I bought when I was 12 years old (which makes this shadow 18 years old!) I know what you’re thinking… hasn’t it expired yet? And I can guarantee you that it hasn’t. I did re-press the shadow recently with alcohol when it was starting to be difficult to access the shadow as it had run off to the edges of the pan and the alcohol not only disinfects it, but actually slightly softened up the powder. It’s a lovely, easy colour to wear, but since it’s going to take me more than 18 years to use up, I definitely won’t be repurchasing this one!

Bottom right – MAC‘s Cork is one of my lesser used shadows over the years, but I’ve clearly used it enough to hit the pan along the way! I tend to use it a lot with Ricepaper.

Top left – Parfait Amour is one my most annoying shadows. It looks lovely in the pan with its purply-blue duochrome. It looks decent when swatched on my finger. And it looks TERRIBLE when I try to apply it to my eyelids with a brush. I don’t know if I just happened to get a dud, because everyone else seems to love the colour, but I have major problems making this one work (and clearly I’ve tried since I’ve hit pan!) To me it’s nothing but a chalky, unpigmented mess.

Top right – Swish is a colour that I look back on and wonder what the heck possessed me to buy a frosted, shimmery pink eyeshadow. I’m not even much of a pink person! The only way I’ve found to make this eyeshadow look suitable on me is to use it all over the lid withSketch on the outer corner and into the crease.

Bottom left – All That Glitters is a beautiful rose-gold shade that’s very, very easy to wear. My favourite shadows to match it with are Star Violet and Sketch. Definitely picking this one up again when I run out.

Bottom right – I bought Star Violet at the encouragement of an artist at MAC and I’ve loved it since. As I’ve mentioned just above, I love wearing Star Violet with All That Glitters and Sketch.

This one is a bit less obvious, but you can see the very edge of the terracotta pan on the right side of the product.  Soft and Gentle is a beautiful highlight that be layered on quite strong to create one hell of a sheen. Since I own about five other highlighters, I’ll be surprised if I ever actually get a chance to finish one of them!

I fee like hitting pan on your Naked palette is a rite of passage in the beauty community.Virgin and Hustle are clearly my most used shades from the palette (although I do feel likeNaked and Buck are neverending shadows because I swear I use them as much as these two!). I quite prefer the sheen of Virgin when I compare it to MAC Shroom, although I know a lot of people feel they are dupes for on another, I personally don’t agree. To me, Virginhas a much softer, creamy side to it. Shroom is lovely, don’t get me wrong, but overall I prefer Virgin.

Getting really down there on these ones! Crystal Avalanche is a very shimmery, frosted white shadow that I tend to use a lot in conjunction with Print. (I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve been trying to replicate LL’s look from Freak Friday for the past ten years or so with this combination!) Print is a charcoal grey that can be a lot easier to wear, and blend, than a straight black.

Fade is a pale baby blue that I picked up many moons ago. I’ve since dropped it and re-pressed the shattered remains (hence the odd crosshatching on the shadow). It’s a smooth colour, slightly sheer… but wearing baby blue these days is not really an easy thing to do!

Moonlight Night is a pigment I pressed from a MAC Christmas collection several years ago. The colour itself is a very dark, almost black, teal pigment with bright teal microshimmer. Beautiful colour, but the shimmer does have a tendency to fall out quite a bit. Of course, since this is a pigment, I have a lot more sitting in a jar.

So those are all the products I’ve currently hit pan on! Have you hit pan on anything recently?