Dark Star

Okay. Like everyone else and their mom, over the past 4 months I've picked up a few hobbies, or Quaran-talents as I call them. This was the summer of hair experiments, haha. Believe it or not, before Dark Star, I had used Atomic Turquoise and Voodoo Blue (I have reviews and pics for those too). I then went to this after naturally stripping (vitamin C powder mixed with anti-dandruff shampoo) and some more bleach. Manic Panic is truly THE best! I leave it on my dry hair with a shower cap for 2 hrs. For people saying it does not work, I'm not sure why. I naturally have dark brown hair. My before pics were super grown out highlights that were done last November. I had to bleeeach my hair a total of 3 times to get it to level 9ish blonde. Hair broke off and I had to trim it twice. I used a toner and the gray/ silver color I got is amazing. 2 days later I mixed a few drops of Voodoo Blue with a ton of conditioner for a Blue/Silver look. I only left it on for 10 minutes... their blue colors are powerful!! Manic Panic is a really fun and inexpensive way to mix it up. I've already received SO many compliments from coworkers over virtual meetings! I hope this review and pictures are helpful in making a decision regarding purchasing this product. If it was, please let me know below :)

Let me preface this review with two things: first, I'm a licensed hairstylist. Secondly, I've been using Manic Panic since 1995. All of these bad reviews are because folks out here do not know how to use this product. Your hair absolutely must be a level 10. Borderline white... no yellow. Pre tonning is important as well. Learn about exposed hair pigment, porosity and the color wheel and this will give you a perfect cool tonned siker/grey color.

(See Photo comparison) I bleached my hair with the Manic Panic kit available on Amazon before using Dark Star. I've been growing out my gray hair for a year and have about 4" of gray around my temples and right bangs, so I was hopeful that by lightening my hair and using this dark gray, the natural and colored gray would blend and look nice. (Note: I did not expect the natural grays to take color and they did not.) Per another review, I left my color on for 90 minutes. This is the result after 90 minutes. I highly recommend leaving it on as long as possible; my hair doesn't feel damaged at all and there was no burning scalp while the color set. You can see the brass has definitely toned (and I'm glad that the natural grays didn't turn purple like another review said) but I didn't get the even color like the other reviewer. Maybe if my hair was lighter, it might be more noticeable, but I think a second coat would be good. My hair is thin and fine and I used about 3/4 jar to cover my hair with a pretty thin coat. If you have thicker hair, I'd recommend getting 2 jars. 4/5 stars because my hair still feels healthy and the color clearly changed, but it didn't get me to the color I expected based on other photos in the reviews and listing. (I also think they need to change their instructions to leave on much longer.)

I love manic panic and in my opinion is the best brand if you want vibrant colors that last. easy to use, can use straight out of the jar with no other products needed. colors last and like I said are very vibrant. colors are always more vibrant if you pre bleach your hair first. the lighter the hair the more vibrant the color. and the best part is you can leave this stuff on your hair for as long as you want to and it will never damage it. I usually leave it on over night and then wash it out in the morning and the color lasts for weeks.

Only deposited some pigment on the front of my hair. I pre-lighted with manic panic lightener from a 4 to a 7-8. I then waited a week and tried this. Very little color deposited on my hair. It might work as an toner but not for overall color.

This stuff worked great for me! I'm half white and half Asian so my hair falls somewhere in the middle as far as texture goes and I often find most toning/purple products don't do anything for the yellow brassiness I get with my bleached hair. So I was curious to see how this worked and I was very pleasantly surprised! It gave my level 9 bleached hair a light/medium cool tone silver shade. Definitely not a white silver, but somewhere in the light-medium spectrum if that makes sense. It knocked down a lot of the yellow and gradually faded to a very bright silver. I bet if you cut it with a 1:2 ratio of conditioner and dye, it would dilute it and make the silver tone less deep. Either way, I really enjoy this product and I'm super glad I found it.

I have short hair that's bleached white blond. When freshly applied, this dye is a lavender tinted steel grey, which I thought sounded pretty in theory but in actuality just made me look old, like my hair had gone 100% grey and I'd added a lavender color to it. I thought it might be better faded (I was envisioning a kind of platinum lavender color) but it was even worse: my hair had an unpleasant tarnished, yellowed cast to it underneath the faded pale grey and lavender color (and my hair does not normally have yellow tones like this when it's just bleached and not colored!). It also faded quite quickly, though admittedly I wasn't trying to preserve the color since I didn't like it; it might be longer lasting with care, but I was surprised at the rate of fading even so. I've used a lot of different Manic Panic colors before and usually like them, but this one was definitely an exception.

I have natural “gray” hair (white hairs mixed with my faded natural medium ash brown). I have not bleached or altered my natural color. Wanted to give a review for all the silver-haired folks out there. This toner worked really nicely to give my hair a darker tone and remove the yellowish tones. I did an ombré effect by just toning the last four inches of my hair. Looks good and blends well. I’ll update once I’ve washed my hair to explain how it fades. If it fades out completely, I’ll try my whole head of hair. But don’t want to try that unless I’m confident it’ll wash out like their other toners do (blue steel and virgin white).

I love the color but I hate how fast it faded. Honestly if they somehow made a permanent dye of this color it would be my go to forever.

I have bleached hair and this helps to darker it when I need to look presentable and yet edgy.

No fault of the dye but would not take to my grey hair ;(

Loved it! The color turned out what I expected! But u should bleach your hair first so you will get good result! Amazeballs! Will try other colors too!

Bought it several times. Love it!