Manic Panic Colorist Needed.

[Vivacious Elizabeth]

Ok so I used "After Midnight Blue" On lightened hair I had to apply twice; 1st time was a light blue/green shade, 2nd time I got a very inky blue/black affect.

Long story short its been three weeks... I have TURQUOISE green highlights with dark blue roots...LMAO!

Now I have to go red to go back to blue. UGGGGGHHHHHH!

Anyone else have this much of an issue with Manic Panic?!?!?

Double Kisses

V.E.

[Roxy Tart {PL Team / Comm. Mgr}]

Manic panic is one of the worst brands out there. If you've looked at my pix you know I dye my hair all the time, and have done almost every color. My first piece of advice, throw away the manic panic! If you are gonna use it, expect for it to last only about a week before it starts to fade. The best brand I've found so far is Special Effects. It's full of conditioners, makes your hair feel great, and if you use my favorite trick, will last months before fading. Also, RAW is good depending on the color you use.

As for your problem, if it was me, I would start over. If your hair can't handle more bleach, just buy some nice blond dye from the store, and throw it on over. Once you have a blank canvas to work with, you can do any color you want.

Or is you're just doing highlights, go fake! The clip ons work pretty well, and then you can change every day.

Oh yeah, my favorite color trick, I leave my color dye on for 6-8 hours. And before you girls go nuts and start yelling at me, telling me it's bad, I have SUPER healthy hair! In fact, after leaving in the special effects, my hair is silky smooth. And the best part is that I can go a month or more with doing it again, shoot, my roots grow out faster then my dye fades!

Hope something in there helps you!

xoxoxoxo

[Vivacious Elizabeth]

Yeah I am not doing Manic Panic again....I picked up some SOColor Matrix Blue today from C.B. Sullivans I am going to use with a level 5 developer. UGGGHHHHH! It will still be turquoise BUT darker...ick!

My number one concern is going warm/violet. I love my Cool shades especially my blue/black adding red would just suck.....!!!!

I have heard about special effects...I am going to order some next week.

Bleaching.. I might lighten up in the next few weeks to do more blue (might have to do some (40vol/shampoo rinses to lift the blue/black)..I feel like Picasso...I am going through a blue period...LOL

Roxy Tart {M} said:

Manic panic is one of the worst brands out there. If you've looked at my pix you know I dye my hair all the time, and have done almost every color. My first piece of advice, throw away the manic panic! If you are gonna use it, expect for it to last only about a week before it starts to fade. The best brand I've found so far is Special Effects. It's full of conditioners, makes your hair feel great, and if you use my favorite trick, will last months before fading. Also, RAW is good depending on the color you use.

As for your problem, if it was me, I would start over. If your hair can't handle more bleach, just buy some nice blond dye from the store, and throw it on over. Once you have a blank canvas to work with, you can do any color you want.

Or is you're just doing highlights, go fake! The clip ons work pretty well, and then you can change every day.

Oh yeah, my favorite color trick, I leave my color dye on for 6-8 hours. And before you girls go nuts and start yelling at me, telling me it's bad, I have SUPER healthy hair! In fact, after leaving in the special effects, my hair is silky smooth. And the best part is that I can go a month or more with doing it again, shoot, my roots grow out faster then my dye fades!

Hope something in there helps you!

xoxoxoxo

[Sara Sundae]

Blue always washes out/bleaches to a mermaid green. When you prelighten with bleach- blue is the FIRST color to lift out of hair, followed by red. Yellow is practicaly imposible to get out. Your pre lightned hair (I am assuming you didnt use a toner) has added the extra yellow, which gave you the greenish tint. Your new growth stayed bluer because the hair was healthier and held onto the color longer.

If you were to put a red on green hair- you'd get brown. And store bought blonde dye might not lift the green tint out. The manic panic violet, the really dark one, looks almost blue, you might mix a little of that into the other blue. That would be an experiment however- as any Manic Panic dye job is ;)

Manic Panic is a staining dye, it does not penetrte the cuticle layer of your hair like a pernamet dye it merely stains the cuicle and then fades away, it should remove easily with a color remover that removes artificial pigment from hair which you can get at Sallys, no lisence needed, or a bleach wash (bleach + shampoo= less drying and a weaker, gentler bleach) or even bleach with a 10vol developer. You probably don't need the strong stuff for removing what didn't shampoo out.

I like Manic-type dyes like this when I want a tint without hurting my scalp with harsher dye products. Having been platinum blonde and touching up every 3 weeks, I really need a break from permanet dye. I recently put Tressa Xtreme Effects Fushia on my already red but faded hair, I got brilliant fushia results- but my new growth didn't even stain! Haha! Its back to the drawing board for me!

And good luck with the blue! Maybe try a salon that does by-the-foil highlights (which is way cheaper) and get a pro to use a permanet blue on you.

[Vivacious Elizabeth]

Hey Sara! =))
I actually go to Cosmo School we actually did the initial blue highlights there. You know to be fair ..I chemically treat my hair to be straight..which make my new growth less resistant and the shaft way too porous. I knew the color would fall out...but lifting my hair too often is so not an option.

Red/Violet cancels Green --Violet (Purple) Cancels yellow/orange Sorry I should have been more specific about the red. Adding the red/violet will make the blue true and deeper.

I am going to try the Matrix Blue and see if it holds..ughhhh!

Thank You for the advice, Semi Permanents seem to be the death of my hair =((

Sara Sundae said:

Blue always washes out/bleaches to a mermaid green. When you prelighten with bleach- blue is the FIRST color to lift out of hair, followed by red. Yellow is practicaly imposible to get out. Your pre lightned hair (I am assuming you didnt use a toner) has added the extra yellow, which gave you the greenish tint. Your new growth stayed bluer because the hair was healthier and held onto the color longer.

If you were to put a red on green hair- you'd get brown. And store bought blonde dye might not lift the green tint out. The manic panic violet, the really dark one, looks almost blue, you might mix a little of that into the other blue. But that would be an experiment however- as any Manic Panic dye job is ;)

Manic Panic is a staining dye, it does not penetrte the cuticle layer of your hair like a pernamet dye it merely stains the cuicle and then fades away, it should remove easily with a color remover that removes artificial pigment from hair which you can get at Sallys, no lisence needed, or a bleach wash (bleach + shampoo= less drying and a weaker, gentler bleach) or even bleach with a 10vol developer. You probably don't need the strong stuff for removing what didn't shampoo out.

I like Manic-type dyes like this when I want a tint without hurting my scalp with harsher dye products. Having been platinum blonde and touching up every 3 weeks, I really need a break from permanet dye. I recently put Tressa Xtreme Effects Fushia on my already red but faded hair, I got brilliant fushia results- but my new growth didn't even stain! Haha! Its back to the drawing board for me!

And good luck with the blue! Maybe try a salon that does by-the-foil highlights (which is way cheaper) and get a pro to use a permanet blue on you.

[Sara Sundae]

cosmo school is a special place. I have all kinds of fun stories about mine.
too true about the chemically straightened hair, gotta be careful with the lightneing.
Have you ever used Elumen? That blue is really resistant to fading.

And Roxy- leaving those straight out of the bottle colors (no devloper types) on for 6 hours shouldn't hurt your hair at all, IDK why anyone would say that. I turned a girl at school on to it because she had delicate hair and needed a permanet dye break but wanted to keep her candy red color- our instructor even vouched for how gentle they are on hair.

I mix some of my leftover color with shampoo to make a color shampoo to keep my tint vibrant!


Vivacious Elizabeth said:

Hey Sara! =))
I actually go to Cosmo School we actually did the initial blue highlights there. You know to be fair ..I chemically treat my hair to be straight..which make my new growth less resistant and the shaft way too porous. I knew the color would fall out...but lifting my hair too often is so not an option.

Red/Violet cancels Green --Violet (Purple) Cancels yellow/orange Sorry I should have been more specific about the red. Adding the red/violet will make the blue true and deeper.

I am going to try the Matrix Blue and see if it holds..ughhhh!

Thank You for the advice, Semi Permanents seem to be the death of my hair =((

Sara Sundae said:

Blue always washes out/bleaches to a mermaid green. When you prelighten with bleach- blue is the FIRST color to lift out of hair, followed by red. Yellow is practicaly imposible to get out. Your pre lightned hair (I am assuming you didnt use a toner) has added the extra yellow, which gave you the greenish tint. Your new growth stayed bluer because the hair was healthier and held onto the color longer.

If you were to put a red on green hair- you'd get brown. And store bought blonde dye might not lift the green tint out. The manic panic violet, the really dark one, looks almost blue, you might mix a little of that into the other blue. But that would be an experiment however- as any Manic Panic dye job is ;)

Manic Panic is a staining dye, it does not penetrte the cuticle layer of your hair like a pernamet dye it merely stains the cuicle and then fades away, it should remove easily with a color remover that removes artificial pigment from hair which you can get at Sallys, no lisence needed, or a bleach wash (bleach + shampoo= less drying and a weaker, gentler bleach) or even bleach with a 10vol developer. You probably don't need the strong stuff for removing what didn't shampoo out.

I like Manic-type dyes like this when I want a tint without hurting my scalp with harsher dye products. Having been platinum blonde and touching up every 3 weeks, I really need a break from permanet dye. I recently put Tressa Xtreme Effects Fushia on my already red but faded hair, I got brilliant fushia results- but my new growth didn't even stain! Haha! Its back to the drawing board for me!

And good luck with the blue! Maybe try a salon that does by-the-foil highlights (which is way cheaper) and get a pro to use a permanet blue on you.

[Victoria Dagger]

I used to do this with Punky Colour. I'd put it in before going to bed and leave it in (under a showercap or something) until I got too impatient sometime early in the morning. I found that Punky Colour also has pretty good conditioning effects, and I'm pretty picky with my hair because it's so long (like, cover-my-ass length). It definitely helps the color stick, which is good because I never lighten my hair or use permanent dye.

Roxy Tart {M} said:

Oh yeah, my favorite color trick, I leave my color dye on for 6-8 hours. And before you girls go nuts and start yelling at me, telling me it's bad, I have SUPER healthy hair! In fact, after leaving in the special effects, my hair is silky smooth. And the best part is that I can go a month or more with doing it again, shoot, my roots grow out faster then my dye fades!

Hope something in there helps you!

xoxoxoxo

[Vega {★}]

When I had my half and half hair, I used Manic Panic for my red portion, followed by Special Effects. I didn't notice a huge difference in the lasting power, but reds always come out fast. I did notice that Special Effects bled a lot more dyed my skin worse when I washed my hair, even using cold water, gloves, and leaning the water stream from my head away from my body... It *is* true that you can leave dyes like these on forever. I left mine on overnight each time I used them. It helps the color stay longer, but I still needed to retouch about every 2-3 weeks even though I was applying it to bleached hair.

Sara Sundae: Your friend who had candy red hair... did she do it herself? What shades/methods did she use to get the color? I want bright primary red hair, but it always comes out at least a little fushia/pinkish or at least a little fiery/orangeish...