I want brown hair.

i never dyed my hair in my life.

I'm asian with black CURLY (like..wavy) hair about 5 inches long.
Its a surfer cut and i want to change it to dirty brown kinda like this but not so heavy on the highlighting.

http://catchmybreath.org/tutorials/vectoring/hair_000.jpg

i think thats brown with platinum highlights amd i dont want that much blonde.

Oh yeah...i dont know the first step of dyeing hair! (lighting/shading...mixing the ingrediants haha)