Hair catastrophe!

My hair is hopeless!!! I died it black a while ago, and I liked it. But now i dont like it anymore, im much too pale for my hair to be black. So, I I tried dying it red when my roots began growing out, red is my natural color, so I thought red would be the prefect color to blend in with my roots... But no, it did not work, it only died my roots a darker red and the bottem of my hair went red, but the rest stayed black. So 2 days later, I tried to dye my hair blonde, just to get it a light color so the red would take to it.. but that did not work either, it didnt even dye my roots blonde, the roots went back to its original color of red, and my hair lightened about half a shade and thats it! Its crazy, now i know never to dye my hair that dark of a color again, but i think im just going to stick with my regular color from now on, its fine. :)