Looking for advice on dying my hair black with red highlights!

This is one occasion I'd say you'd be better off going to a hairdresser to do. I suspect it would have to be done using foils and weaving out the highlights to dye at the same time as the black. If you were going for more of a chunky look I'd say do it at homework done be fine.

All black dye can be hard to get out. Permanent dyes can stain, but so can black semi's. There's no guarantee a black semi will come out, sadly. Added to that, you don't want the black to fade. It would be impossible to top up the black and red when it's such small sections. You'd be better off having permanent black and red, but then as the red fades (which it will) just top it up with semi reds. It'll also help make the black more intense, which is handy as black often fades too.

Black and red both are bad for staining, so it is likely if you use semi's or permanents that you'll have a hard time removing it. Even though red is notorious for fading, it also stains. It's a little frustrating 🙂

Do you have any suggestions for colors that would be easier to change or go back to my original color if i wanted? I think I want to try less permanent colors before i settle for a color that will be difficult to change.

Well, permanent colours can actually be easier to remove. The colour removers on the market are pretty much all aimed at removing permanent dyes. When you dye your hair, there's always a risk of staining. A colour one person used and found easy to remove, might be next to impossible for the next because of a whole host of reasons. You have to be ready for any colour you use to be impossible to remove.

That being said, what do you want? Something bright? More "natural"?

Also, if you just want something close to your original colour, you shouldn't have a problem removing enough black and red to get you to a medium dark brown. It's normally if you suddenly decide to go pale ginger, blonde, pastel colours etc.

Okay thanks so much for the advice! I think I'm going to go ahead and get my hair done black and red I don't ever plan on doing light colours as I think they look kinda silly on me so I don't think I'm gonna have a problem. Then again you never know when your going to change your mind and want to do something completely different.

What should I do when my hair starts growing out how would I colour the new hair to match the rest?

When hairdressers redo highlights, they don't usually pick out all of the hair that was in the foils previously and recolour just the root parts to match. They usually just pick out most of the hair from last time and just colour over it all, which is why hair gets lighter the more it's highlighted, more hair gets picked up each time. To do this with the black and red would be near impossible.

I think that the easiest way would be to do the roots completely black, and brush it down the hair a bit for an ombre style. Otherwise you'd have to let it fade, force-face the rest and redo the entire black/red process.

So If I did red ombré that almost went all the way to the roots I could just colour new hair black and slowly as my hair grows out the ombré will inch away from the roots and create an ombré that goes half way up the hair and depending on how fast my hair grows it will last a long time. When the black/red eventually fades is it possible to remove the colour from there without bleach and go back to brown or is it a must to use bleach with the black.

Never use bleach to remove colour. Use colour removers.

Yes so:
Get the black/red from the hairdresser like in the picture.
If you want to keep the colours when the roots grow out, colour the roots only with permanent or semi-permanent black as you prefer and drag the colour a bit down the hair to mask the obvious line where the highlights start.
If you want to go back to your normal hair instead or later, use colour removers, force fading (e.g. anti-dandruff shampoo, vitamin C, bleach powder+oils) to remove the colours, and maybe go over it with an Adore brown to even it out.

You could ask for balayage from the hairdresser instead of the highlights if you like that look, then you wouldn't have to blend the roots yourself when it grows out it would already be done.