Basically. I have naturally dark auburn hair which is just really ginger/red/brown hair and I hate having any red/ginger in my hair, so I have dyed it dark dark brown/almost black for about 2 years now because that seems to be the only way to get the red out of my hair.
I would like to go to a light ash brown/honey/caramel blonde colour http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/08/11/alg_tc_kim-kardashian.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2009/08/10/2009-08-10_kim_kardashian_goes_blonde_the_reality_star_deb uts_her_lighter_hairstyle.html&usg=__2NoLJi2Y-_MAP8LWxFwUqW3bS5E=&h=316&w=450&sz=64&hl=en&start=0&sig2=Xf51EijRg1tz9admwoiExw&zoom=1&tbnid=QBP61KfyiuCW1M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=195&ei=W4ddTfeHHouChQfF--jYDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkim%2Bkardashian%2Bgoes%2Bblonde%26um %3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D563%26tbs%3Dis ch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=84&oei=W4ddTfeHHouChQfF--jYDA&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0&tx=141&ty=105 but I don't know how to do it?

I have prelightened my hair before to orange, prelightened it again so that it was yellow, and then bleached over it with 30vol peroxide to make it blonde.. I could have left it on longer but it would have made me platinum blonde, so I washed it out early and I had strawberry blonde hair which I didn't like.. so I dyed over it and went back to brown..
I want to go ash brown.. so I was wondering do I prelighten it like I did before.. and then dye it ash brown (because Ive read that I need orange in my hair to achieve an ash colour) or do I prelighten it twice, bleach it and then dye it the colour I want?
If I bleach it and I go platinum blonde.. wouldn't it go pretty much any shade of darker blonde that I choose ?

Thanks, sorry its long!

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