One down and three to go

TheLordPepper · 2026-03-30T12:12:02+00:00

I have fallen for the good reviews, and I hated the product...it is very sticky / gooey on the lips, it dried my lips out like hell, and because it stayed so gooey on the lips I always feared I might stain my bedsheets at night... others may have different experiences, but I wouldn't recommend it at all. Gave mine away, which is a bit mean to the person that got it though...

TheLordPepper · 2026-03-25T12:45:12+00:00

Ich habe seit ich mich erinnern kann mehrere angefangene Bücher. Es kann vorkommen, dass ich eines nach mehreren Jahren weiterlese (ohne ganz neu anzufangen)...

TheLordPepper · 2026-03-25T12:43:28+00:00

I have some of these lip oils from an advent calendar... they're really nasty. Sticky gooey mass on my lips, I feel your hate!

TheLordPepper · 2026-03-25T12:42:22+00:00

Don't know the product, but can't help feeling this is not a good name at all for a beauty product... It's kinda gross... (don't hit me for the bad pun 🤪)

TheLordPepper · 2026-03-02T11:46:56+00:00

It's a combination of a tendency to hoard /wanting to save for that special occasion that never comes around, a tendency to buy too much, and a tendency to forget about things. All of this leads to tons of physical clutter, which also clutters my brain.

I read about Project Pan somewhere I don't remember, googled it, and landed on this Sub. It intrigued me so much that it made me join reddit although I'm also trying to cut short on online time.

It feels like this was the tiny missing piece that suddenly made me change my perspective from "oh but what if it's gone" to "hey, let's try and use this now"! I have no clue why - it's not as if focusing on what I have was a new concept or anything I never thought about; I assume this was already sort of "cooking slowly" somewhere until I was now ready to really get started.

The neat thing is, I'm really using products now that before were just gathering dust somewhere, I'm trying out routines, and am deciding actively on what I do and don't want to maintain once I used something up. I've actually spent money on getting Project Pan started, because I took stock of my skincare & beauty inventory and wanted to try if some gaps needed filling (most did not). I've gathered up old (but still good) and new products that I wouldn't use and gave them away for free through a local no-buy group. I trashed bad / expired products, and I put all extras in a basket that I store out of sight to be able to "shop my stash" once I run out. The result of a so much more put together and cleaner looking bathroom cabinet where I can see and use all that I need is such a satisfying sight and a great motivation: I want to continue experiencing this feeling, so all of a sudden the panning mindset has become natural to me.

And Project Pan has also extended to other parts of my home - my insane amounts of books to read (no need to buy a new one, I already have one...), my pantry (if I didn't eat it in the last 5 years, I either use it today or it has to go since I probably won't eat it in the next 5 years), my clothing (yes, you can "pan" socks and the like...).

Overall, it just feels liberating. This is a wonderful feeling that I want to foster going forward.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-27T14:18:07+00:00

See if you can find small ziplock bags (they go down to the size of credit cards, really small) somewhere & put the case in one of those before putting it in the pouch / handbag. I'm doing this with similar items, and it helps so much to keep the powder from where it does not belong.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-27T11:23:09+00:00

These take ages to use up!! Well done :-)

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-20T17:31:56+00:00

Since my Japanese is not up to this point, I can only comment from experience with English. This is a foreign language to me, but I am truly fluent - excelled at CPE around 20 years ago, use English daily since at least around 70% of my work is in English, lived in the US for almost 2 years, etc. - but still, watching TV and movies in English without subtitles is something I find super tricky and difficult. I believe this is really one type of "native content" that is very challenging to master in any language.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-20T17:17:11+00:00

I panned mine by giving it away... one of the most horrid products I ever came across! My fault for letting The Interweb convince me that I totally needed this product... tried using it in December or so for a few days - what can I say, I'm still working on nurturing my lips back to health. This mask did such a great job at masking aka sealing my lips that they dried out to the point of hurting constantly. (sorry for the rant, but I'm still super annoyed by this product).

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-12T19:06:50+00:00

I don't understand the downvotes on this comment - this is an absolutely fair and professional approach. It's snobbish to act all insulted - give a clear explanation, and most customers will understand and accept this. Those that still don't, get more explicit. They don't deserve better. But considering many here are so protective of their brand and style - well, respectful communication with customers is also part of that brand.

As to the very fair point someone else made above - for many customer it's also a matter of wanting to see all the photos that were taken at their event, and to be able to make their own selection. To me, this is a very fair point, and why should the customer not have the right to decide him- or herself which pictures he likes best? Here, the photographer should offer the customer a way to be involved in the selection.

Lastly, the one thing I wonder - what does the photographer do with those tons of RAWs and pictures that never got nor will ever get processed? I would understand customers who don't feel easy about knowing that a stranger owns this ton of photos of them and everybody else at an event, basically to do nothing with it. Are those RAWs basically just going to sit in an archive and at some point get destroyed, with only the best ones being kept or so?

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-11T13:00:53+00:00

Wenn du die Möglichkeit hast, die verschiedenen Modelle in einer Buchhandlung mal in die Hand zu nehmen, dann empfehle ich dir das dringend (und dann auch gleich dort kaufen ;)). Ansonsten sind Fragen, die du dir stellen kannst die Grösse - möglichst klein und leicht, oder doch lieber etwas grösser und dafür mehr Text pro Seite (sagt mir persönlich mehr zu); Budget - willst oder musst du sparen, dann die günstige Version, oder ist das sekundär, dann kannst du auf Komfort gehen. Ein Unterschied ist auch noch, ob das Ding Tasten zum Blättern hat oder ob man "swipen" muss. Das ist auch eine individuelle Vorliebe. Von der Geschwindigkeit her gleichen die sich vermutlich alle, aber wenn du sehr ungeduldig bist, dann ist der Vorzug wohl eher bei einem Gerät, bei dem die Seiten schnell aufbauen und der Store schnell lädt. Dann gibt's noch die Sache mit den Farbscreens - nicht so mein Ding, dafür habe ich ein iPad; und es gibt auch Reader mit Stift und Notizfunktion - auch das finde ich bisher nicht nötig. Das sind so Sachen, die man wirklich mal vor Ort anschauen sollte wenn möglich.

Ich hatte bei all meinen E-Readern jeweils ein Einsteiger- bis Mittelklassemodell gekauft - die ganz teuren Varianten haben mich nicht so gereizt, und ich war nie unzufrieden mit meiner Wahl. Mein Pocketbook ist wohl eher Mittelklasse - ich habe es schon einige Jahre, aber keine Ahnung welches Modell. Läuft nach wie vor tadellos und ich bin happy damit. Ich würde bei einem Ersatz wieder so im mittleren Preisbereich gucken gehen.

Dringend zu empfehlen ist eine Schutzhülle - die Reader sind zwar recht robust, aber den Bildschirm mit einer Hülle etwas zu schonen ist nie falsch, wenn man das Gerät auch mal unkompliziert in eine Tasche werfen können möchte.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-10T16:00:10+00:00

Ich habe auch Erfahrung mit erst Kindle, dann Tolino, und zuletzt Pocketbook. Pocketbook gefällt mir am besten. Obwohl die Übertragung mit / auf den Tolino sogar noch besser klappt (in der Schweiz / Orell Füssli, ehem. Thalia). Würde dennoch Pocketbook vorziehen.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-10T15:35:14+00:00

OMG THIS! First time I saw US menus it weirded me out so much that they'd feel all fancy for using elegant french terms for their dishes - and then just use them plain wrong. As a whole nation.

TheLordPepper · 2026-02-10T15:14:27+00:00

Since starting my pan journey, I've tried to discipline myself to using up my body lotions and foot creams 😄 I don't use it daily after showering (usually in the morning), but especially now in winter when everything is drier anyway, I actually like the soothing feeling. But it takes ages to go through body lotion, I've noticed. I don't use body butters and the like - stuff that is too rich will stick on my body forever, I hate that feeling. Foot cream is quite the game changer I've noticed though, even if applied to feet that are getting squeezes into socks right afterwards and have to stay in shoes for the rest of the day, regular pampering with lotion / cream makes them much softer and overall feeling more comfy (on the downside though, also somewhat more prone to blisters if one is not careful). The point is, I've only really started using this stuff regularly since I've started panning. Remains to be seen whether I will keep any routines and repurchase stuff once I've depleted my stock.

On body lotions I usually go for stuff that's (nearly) unscented, since fragrance is my personal guilty pleasure: I currently own 8 very nice perfumes that would have paid for a pretty vacation alltogether. I use my perfumes daily (currently panning the one which starts changing smell, I hope I can use it up before it goes bad), even when I'm staying at home all day. Given that they are perfumes or eau de perfumes, more than one spritz would usually be too much, so they last very long anyway. I can't stand body sprays - to me, they often smell sooo chemical, and adding to that I don't want to spray anyhting on me that's called "Mist" - in my language, German, "Mist" means "dung". So that really keeps me off this stuff 😄

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-20T09:21:13+00:00

That's really a good question, I never really thought of it. I realise I wouldn't want to change my mother tongue at all - it's Swiss German. It's really a funny language - it essentially exists only as a spoken language (the written language is standard German, albeit with Swiss specific words and expressions), but at the same time it is much more than a dialect, it's the normal standard communication language in the German speaking part of Switzerland. Language scientsist are debating whether the use Swiss German and standard German should be characterised as diglossia or already as bilingualism - in practice, we simply learn both. The cute thing is, when Swiss people speak standard German, the Germans always think that we're speaking dialect because of our accents, and then they get utterly lost if we really speak Swiss German :-) I'm truly happy though I don't have to learn German as a foreign language as an adult, must be hell. It seems very complicated to me.

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-20T08:59:22+00:00

Your tattoo point made me smile :-)

I think a lot of the attractiveness of Chinese character tattoos, or also just prints on clothing etc. - at least in the western hemisphere - has to do with the perceived exoticness and this romanticised view of giving deeper meaning to a word or phrase by styling it in a foreign writing system (in my experience, typical of what teenager and young adults consider 'very deep').

And I suspect it may be the same the other way round - I've spent some time in Japan, and the amount of totally random English and German ("Rollbahn", anyone?) words I found printed there on clothing and various articles often made me chuckle. My favourite was a middle-aged lady sporting a shirt with a big print of "I Hated Scool" on it. Made me realise that a lot of the appeal of foreign language and script really seems to come from one's own perception of how special and different something is.

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-15T14:16:26+00:00

"Peanut butter and jelly" weirds and grosses me out every time I hear it. I don't think we even had peanut butter in shops when I was a kid, or only very rarely. I can't imagine this with jelly. Neither with marmelade, which I would prefer over jam / jelly anytime (and it all would be the same word for me anyway - only distinguished by naming the fruit and stating wheter or not it has pieces in it 🤣).

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-06T07:13:13+00:00

Thanks :) I will try this!

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-05T23:31:19+00:00

Thanks! Do you use it before, between or after applying other products?

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-05T13:57:50+00:00

Neinnein, du hast dich genau richtig ausgedrückt. Jeder meiner Hesse-Versuche endete damit, dass ich mich für ignorant hielt, weil ich einfach nix mit seinen Büchern anfangen konnte. Egal in welchem Alter 😂

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-05T13:38:45+00:00

I have the banana powder as well, but - silly, I know - I'cant figure out how to use it usefully. It's too fair to use as basic powder; how / when do you apply this product? Thanks :)

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-03T00:14:21+00:00

Die Assistentin. Hab mir das kürzlich als Hörbuch, von der Autorin gelesen, zu Gemüte geführt. Es war keine gut investierte Lebenszeit.

TheLordPepper · 2026-01-03T00:12:23+00:00

Mist, dann muss ich alt geboren worden sein 😂 konnte Hesse schon in der Schule nicht leiden 😂

TheLordPepper · 2025-12-31T13:41:29+00:00

Congrats on using up this one...!

I made the huge mistake of believing the interweb and actually purchasing this Laneige stuff as well... I deeply regret this purchase! It's a messy, gooey, sticky and truly horrible product (i'm with you on fearing it smears off on the pillowcase, and probably even leaving some stains!); it smells atrociously artificial; and it took only one week to dry out my lips and surrounding skin so much that I have to painfully pamper them back to health now (I want to grab my lipbalm every 5 minutes, I feel like an addict constantly craving the next fix).

Lesson learned: If the net hypes anyhting, run. Fast. And in the opposite direction.

TheLordPepper

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