Hair dye review (personal experience)

Jul 7, 2015

Lala H.

Hi so I read some talks about hair, especially hair dye so I had an idea to recommend some semi permanent hair dye products that I've been using or tried.

First product is manic panic.
Manic panic is a hair dye from calafornia and it came on 3 types of formula :

1. Hard dye : disappear after one wash. Its kinda like hair gel so you don't need any other hair styler product and make sure your hair isnt wet.

2. Classic : last for 1 to 3 months but if you constantly added more and more colors before it disappears it can last longer even if you wash it with regular shampoo.

3. Amplified : last for 3 to 6 months. Same thing goes with classic.

The thing about manic panic is that it contains conditioner, youll get a smooth feel for every application (hard dye formula is an exception)
Just like any other hair dye if you don't have natural blonde hair and you don't bleach or lightning your hair the color will turns into highlight (appears under sun light or any other flashy lights)!
The weaker the color (pink, green neon (electric lizard or so it calls), banana, etc) the lighter hair it requires.

Also manic panic came with special electric edition which allows your hair to glow under BLACK LIGHT

Notes: black light not glow in the dark. Some people mistaken in this.
Manic panic is a bit prices but worth to try.
If youre in england there's a hair dye called direction, and it claims to be in the same level as manic panic but I personally never try one.

Second product is hair chalk. And no I do not recommend this product!
It is good thou if you want a bit of color on your hair without any efforts like bleaching your hair.
But chalk will still leaves chalky feeling and it tends to falls off your shirt. Luckily it is easy to remove but still.
If you don't seal it with straightner or curler after apply it, it also wash off as soon your hair start sweating (happens to me and it was so awkward)

Spray dye. I do not know what to call it but have you seen this type of product where you just spray it on your hair for easy quick dye? Yes I'm talking about that one.
There's not much difference between spray dye and hair dye. It harden your hair at some point.


So that was 3 products I've personally use. If you had any hair dye suggestion I'm open :)

Jul 7, 2015

Roz X.

Very informative thread, Lala. Thank you!

Jul 7, 2015

Lala H.

@rozberry j youre welcome :)

Jul 7, 2015

Lala H.

I'm not sure if manic panic is from calafornia but I purchased from there hehe :)
Correction anyone?

Jul 7, 2015

Tessandra R.

Good to know! I've been curious about hair chalk, you cleared that up for me! :)

Jul 7, 2015

Lala H.

No problem :) @tessandra

Jul 8, 2015

Emily W.

Manic Panic is based in New York, I believe.