Hair change??

so I’m naturally blonde. I’ve been dying my hair dark since I was 13.

I went through that emo phase and I never left it until about a year or two ago. My style is different and so is my taste in music and I feel more like an adult. But not really with my hair??? With that being said, I wanted something that would go along with my style and make me feel better as a person. I want to kind of “blend in” and feel “normal” where with my black hair I stick out and I don’t want to anymore?

(My senior picture. My hair is actually bleached in this picture but this is as “blonde” as I could find)

I’ve done so much to my hair in the past that it no longer holds color. I dyed my hair black in June/July and it’s completely out now.

A hair dresser friend said I need to strip my hair to be able to deposit color, so I started thinking about getting a color correction and going to a cool blonde shade over time.

What my hair looks like now. It’s more on the dark brown side but my roots are super blonde already.

I’m thinking I want something like this:

What do you guys think??