New To hair Coloring!!!

If your hair is as dark as it looks in the pics, red dye probably won't show up unless you bleach first. Since you just want to tip it red, I wouldn't think there would be too much risk in going to the Hot Topic or whatever for a bleach kit and some blood-red dye and trying it yourself, if that's what you have in mind. *shrugs* If it doesn't turn out well or doesn't look right, it's just a bit at the ends, so you could just trim it off and be done with it. If you're not sure the black will look all right, you could get that at the Hot Topic, too, so it's more likely to wash out completely. Since it looks very dark already, though, it might be close enough to black that it won't leave too bad a regrowth line for the black, whatever you use, if you wanted to go the everyday dye brands route. It's just up to you (and how dark your hair looks in normal light rather than photos) which way you feel safest doing it.