Hello mandaleigh0221 and WELCOME to the forum!!!!
Please accept my apologies. I did not realize it had been 3 days already since you posted and by now wonder if you've given up and gone on to get your hair done.
Plus, I also hope that someone else will chime in here with their own experiences, advice or pics. Certainly people get tired of hearing from just me!
For what it's worth, I just want to tell you how awesome you are with your drive to strive for something different. Same old, same old does get boring doesn't it? Yet going back to your old color is a refreshing change too after all the other experiences.
I LOVE the cool colors of blue and purple accented with a little white. It was like having feathers in your hair yet so artfully done with professionalism and design through the cut as well!!! That is an option!
And you look good in the raspberry too! I really like the dark on you and think that black right now is hot. Taking this on and accenting it with the blue and hot pink is awesome, yet perhaps you want a different cut this time and I think that other combinations like lilac and bright green would be fun too.
Should you go for the red, stay on the darker side of the electric shades as anything dark (especially black) looks phenomenal against creamy complexions like yours! Besides, when we get older and our skin loses its elasticity and wrinkles, dark hair looks horrible as it accentuates those less than desirable features so enjoy the black and dark shades now while you can!
As for a different cut, I just stumbled across this razor cut
Kirsten Storms
that's great for summer and can picture it on you (
NOT BLONDE LIKE THIS YET like above with the black and the brilliant accent colors). And where the accent shades hit, they could be on the same side as the part, (the lighter side) feathering around your ear. Or you could go longer on the heavier side and do the same thing.
Razored hair down the sides is very slimming too and we all like that!
LET ME KNOW! Clients like you keep stylists interested in hair design!