After much thinking and trying to see which one would be better Manic Panic or La Riche Direction, I choose both. As I was planning to dye 2 different hair colours I chose a colour of both brand. So for manic panic I choose Atomic Turquoise and for La Riche Direction I chose Carnation Pink.
After ordering it online on Attitudeholland.nl it arrived after 2 days. It came in a box from La Riche Direction. Since both are in a small container they put in together in the carton box wrapped in plastic bubbles.
The Manic Panic containes 118ml while the La Riche Direction contains 88 ml. If I put the next to each other they are both in the same height but you can see the the La Rich Directiopn is thinner than the Manic Panic.
I love both container as it has a twistable top, so you can close it when you have left over. als the amazing thing is that it conditions your hair. It is amazing for the people that have natural dark hair and have to bleach their hair first, this hair dye will condition it so your hair is less damaged then. Both colours look really dark in the container.
Since I have natural black hair and also since I dyed my hair purple last year when I was in Thailand, I still had to bleach my hair before I could dye my hair with the semi permanent dye.
pic 1: bleached the hair, as you can tell there is still the purple hair dye in my hair since I dyed my whole head purple then, pic 2: after putting the carnation pink and atomic turquoise and this when I just washed my hair and under the light of my table lamp, pic 3: how the colours looks in natural lightning.
As the pink was really light not really the pink I wanted and the blue more to the green than blue, I was still happy with the result especially since the blond wasn't platinum blond that I had. The pink stayed in nice for about 4 weeks and the blue stayed for about 6 weeks and there were still some blue in my hair left. For both colours I still have more than half of its content left and I have used quite a lot, I think I am able to use it about 2 more times before it is finished. I was my hair every other day tried to only shampoo the top of my head in the first week and a lot of conditioner at the bottom of my hair. after that I just wash my hair as usual.
I would recommend Manic Panic and La Riche Direction to anyone who was to dye some crazy colours in their hair. Next I am planning to try out Manic Panic Amplified and Stargazer.
