As you can tell from my avvy and profile, I have dyed dark red (almost reddish-brown) hair.  I love it, but as I'm trying to grow my hair much longer, I was wondering if there was a gentler way to dye my hair red?  I've heard about using beetroots, but I'm not really sure about how that works.  If anyone has any recipies they could share, I'd much appreciate it.  My natural hair colour is brown.

Thanks, Sakina! I've been thinking about henna, and I think I know somewhere that might sell it in town.  I'm going in tomorrow, so I'll have a look.

I've used henna, but not beetroots. Here you can see how my grays show up red in my dark brown hair with henna:

Before (grays and natural dark brown hair):
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.phpalbumid=423&pictureid=9737

And after pure henna (grays show up red, but my dark brown is just slightly red):
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.phpalbumid=423&pictureid=9739

Henna is PERMANENT. If you want something less permanent, hibiscus rinses do the trick for me:

Before:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.phpalbumid=423&pictureid=9743

After hibiscus rinse:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.phpalbumid=423&pictureid=9751
Tea rinses wash right out after the next shampoo.

Mellie