I usually have full support of manic panic. I love their makeup products and wanna collect it but I've heard so much about the dyes/bleaches. (both good and bad) when I did it for the first time, the black came out just the way I wanted....then after a week it faded out and made my hair into a dark grey. I usually like to keep my hair black but I decided to use a different hair dye by the end of that week and it didn't even fade out at the roots untill 5 weeks later, maybe 6 weeks. Manic Panic didnt even take a full 6 days later to start fading. I don't really care for the dyes at all but the makeup I DO recomend