Manic Panic Classic After Midnight Blue Semi-Permanent Hair Dye (118ml)

If your hair is light brown and you don't want to bleach it - it's the right colour for you. Rather than being the colour presented by the seller, which you're only gonna achieve with bleached hair, it gives you this nice (imho tasteful) denim blue, depending on the undertones in your hair. It might be that the warmer the undertones, the more green hue you're gonna get as it washes out - my hair has rather cold undertones. I left the dye on for just over 2 hours, as the strand test showed half an hour is just not enough. It didn't damage my hair at all. HOWEVER please don't skip the part where it tells you to protect your hairline and neck with petroleum jelly (or sudocrem in my case) and wear gloves, because it stains A LOT, and within SECONDS, and you don't want to look like Papa Smurf, do you? I also wore a plastic bag over my shoulders for the initial rinse, to protect my arms from being blue, as I'm quite pale. When it comes to staining the bathroom, I found using a regular shower cleaner removed it very easily.

Despite this being a temporary dye, it has real staying power! It does have the downside of dying skin, pillows, towels etc a nice shade of blue, but that's to be expected with a temp dye. What's impressive is the brightness and depth of colour - beats some so-called permanent dyes hands down. Love it!

This is the first time I've used Manic Panic hair dye, my usual being.Roche Directions. However, I fancied a change and liked the selection of colours. So I plumped for After Midnight Blue as I've never been blue before and Purple Haze, I had always been told that blue fades really badly and quickly. However, after using this colour and washing my hair 3 times, I haven't noticed that much of a fade in hair colour. This maybe because I firstly stripped out any old colour with Manic Panic bleaching kit and then let my new colour set, I ended up leaving it on for a couple of hour which didn't damage my hair but did leave a really intense colour which I'm really pleased with. It is really easy to apply, in fact at the same time I also coloured part of my hair purple with Manic Panics Purple Haze, the colours didn't mix into one, even though after putting the colours on I wrapped my hair in clingfilm. If you've never tried Manic Panic, I would recommend it, it certainly has impressed me, if you like Roche Directions you will like Manic Panic. Update: - Since using the two colours I have found that the colour is 'slipping' off my hair in parts, so I keep getting patches of bleach, I've never had this happen before, fading yes, but colour refusing to remain on my hair is new. It's easy enough to add more colour, but it's a bit of a hassle, it might just be me, but ......

bleeds twice as much and twice as long as other colours form manic panic. beautiful colour, dont get me wrong, but be prepared to have everything your hair touches be the exact same colour whether its wet or dry, the transfer is unholy, waking up with a blue face 3 weeks post-dye is actually impressive. you definitely cant say its not pigmented. luckily it does come off your skin with regular soap and warm water, it also comes out of fabric pretty easily and rarely stains, just transfers onto the surface of the item. therefore, i still buy this shade every now and then because i love the colour and most of my furniture and clothes are black so it doesnt really show up.

Colour is bright but bleeds SO MUCH. unless you want everything you touch to be stained do not buy

Love love love this brand, very pigmented

UPDATE: The third picture is after 3 shampoo and conditioner washes. Its faded a lot in a short amount of time but it is semi-permanent so I'm not surprised. I still like how it looks and would buy again! I had virgin medium brown hair and decided to go a dark denim blue because of boredom in quarantine. I have looked long and hard for a dye thats VEGAN (doesn't test on animals) and will dye brown hair WITHOUT BLEACH. This has literally turned my hair in to the exact shade I wanted (It looks a bit more blue in person than in the pics) and I haven't ruined my hair in the process. PLUS I only used half the tub for my length of hair so I have enough for another head when this wears off! Will update my review as it fades. Notes for dying: USE PETROLEUM EVERYWHERE. I used tons and I still look like a smurf. Also make sure you brush it through with a brush you dont care about. It gets super dry and knotty and it really helps make it even. As I have brown hair and didn't want to pre-lighten it I left the dye on for 3 hours instead of 30 minutes. Good luck!

Would give zero stars if I could ! Its a permanent dye, not deep blue but more royal blue on day 1, wuth a week turn green. Which even bleach cannot remove. You coild only cover with dark brown or black to hide or cut hair off. Totally disgusted . Customer service of manic panic product is beyond unhelpful- when complained- with comments like “ blue dyes are notoriously difficult to remove. Not even acknowledging that this rubbish turns your hair green. In short you will pay the price of using this dye with severe damage to your hair.

stained everything, i look like a corpse. n dosent even really work to well either….

C’est vraiment une coloration puissante cependant, si vous avez les cheveux très foncés voir noirs comme moi vous aurez tout votre corps bleu sauf vos cheveux. Genre vraiment j’ai pas une once de bleu dans mes cheveux même pas des reflets mais je peux vous dire que même ma baignoire s’est transformé comme si des Schtroumpfs s’étaient lavés dedans j’ai dû frotter + d’une heure avec du javel parce que ça ne part même pas avec un simple produit. En conclusion, essayez d’abord une décoloration puis appliquez ceci si vous voulez du vrai bleu nuit mais sinon ça ne marche pas et je ne voulais pas décolorer donc bon je me retrouve avec des cheveux encore plus noirs que mon avenir et des fesses bleus. Bonne journée.

Manic panic, a mio parere, è il miglior brand tra le colorazioni dirette per capelli. Questa nuance è un blu molto scuro e intenso, su ciocche non decolorate fino al biondo-bianco può dare sfumature petrolio. Se lasciato in posa almeno mezz'ora, colora anche i capelli bianchi. È piuttosto persistente, dopo circa 6-8 lavaggi tende a sbiadire, ma non svanisce del tutto.

Deeply pigmented semi permanent colour. I didn't bleach my hair too well and it was brassy and orangish in some places, yet the colour covered it all up without turning green. I kept it in for 3 hours. It lasts a long time in your hair vibrantly if you maintain it well. I highly recommend it. Got this box for about 1100 rupees.

I've been using Manic Panic After Midnight Blue on and off for the past 15 years (literally half my life at this point) and despite formula changes I keep coming back to it. - I naturaly have medium ashy brown hair with ever-increasing silver streaks. This color shows up: dark brown with blues-green shimmer/highlights on untreated brown hair, medium blue to sky blue on untreated grey hair, a more subdued teal color on bleached (single process to dark yellow) brown hair, and the most brilliant and gorgeous cobalt blue on grey hair that's received any kind of bleach whatsoever (it opens the hair shaft I think). - Works best if you leave it on for at least 2 hours; longer is better, but with diminishing returns (tho I used to sleep in it with a showercap on towel on the pillow.) It's a conditioning treatment + gloss, so this is safe. - The amplified formula has decent staying power. It rubs off on pillows and clothing necklines for the first few days, dress accordingly and get blue pillowcases. Staying power is better if you rinse hair without shampoo or use dry shampoo if necessary. Oil treatments, castile soap, and vinegar rinses will strip the color out of your hair SO fast, which is good if you want to change colors.