Manic Panic is a store chain based in New York City. The company is run by Tish

Tish Bellomo

Tish Bellomo, along with sister Snooky Bellomo, was a member of rock group Blondie. The sisters sang back-up at early Blondie gigs at Max's Kansas City and CBGB, and went on to form another band called the Drop-Outs. In 1977, their friend Russell Wolinsky invited them to join a band he was forming...

 and Snooky Bellomo.

History

Manic Panic opened its doors for the first time in 1977, with a store in New York. Since then, the store has opened establishments in many other places, including Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Apart from store operations, the Manic Panic company has also gone into the hair dye manufacturing industry, becoming one of the leaders in that area.

In 2004, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 mentioned Manic Panic in a television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, crediting them for beginning what would become a trend of men and women wearing different hair colors in the 1990s into the 2000s.

Victoriandustrial artist Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn

Emilie Autumn Liddell , better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and violinist. Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the...

 uses Manic Panic hair-dye. Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson may refer to:* Marilyn Manson , an American rock musician* Marilyn Manson , the American rock band led by the singer of the same name...

 also uses many Manic Panic products. Singer Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

 also used Manic Panic products (Electric Sunshine).

Professional wrestler Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy

Jeffrey Nero "Jeff" Hardy is an American professional wrestler, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he is a former two–time TNA World Heavyweight Champion...

 uses Manic Panic hair dye.

The NYC store's front and signage are featured prominently in a shot in the opening montage of Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

's 1980-81 season.

In 2010, seven colors of the hair dye (Black N' Blue, Deadly Nightshade, Divine Wine, Electric Sunshine, Flaming, Plum Passion and Tiger Lily) were discontinued, reducing the number of available colors from 33 to 26. According to insiders at the company, Electric Sunshine was undergoing a reformulation, but then the colors were removed from the line-up altogether.

Products

Apart from hair dye, Manic Panic sells many other products geared towards punk

Punk fashion

Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture. Punk fashion varies widely, ranging from Vivienne Westwood designs to styles modeled on bands like The Exploited. The distinct social dress of other subcultures and art movements, including...

 and gothic

Gothic fashion

Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture; a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothic fashion includes dyed black hair, black lips and black clothes. Both male and female goths wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernails. Styles are...

 consumers. These include nail polish, vegan boas

Feather boa

A feather boa is a fashion accessory that is usually worn wrapped around the neck like a scarf.-Construction:A boa can be made of fur, but it is usually made instead from various types of feathers. Ostrich, marabou, chandelle, and turkey are the most common feathers used, although non-feather boas...

, eyelashes, foundation, eyeshadow, t-shirts, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 caps, and others. Some but not all of their products are vegan, containing synthetics instead of animal ingredients.

External links

• manicpanic.com, official Manic Panic website
• manic-panic.co.uk, official UK & European Distributor & Wholesaler for Manic Panic
• www.dream-gate.co.uk An official UK retailer of Manic Panic
• TOPGOTH Clothing, An official UK retailer of Manic Panic
• astralmoon.co.uk, An official UK retailer of Manic Panic
• manicpanic.com.ua, An official Ukraine retailer of Manic Panic