Hair Colour Opinions, Please? =) Options

[*stephinika*]

Okay sooo, here's another one of those in-need-of-more-opinions-on-my-hair topics...

Here's some pics of my latest hair:


Basically, medium brown base with lighter brown/blonde slices/highlights.

So today I saw a friend of mine with hair that I absolutely adored but unfortunately did not take a picture of. It was basically brown with blonde highlights (mostly blonde) and with 2 panels of purple in the midlayers so you could see it peek out when her hair was down, but if she pulled her hair half up you could see them.
Terrible description, I know.
Here's a picture that semi-shows what I mean.

No, that is not her or the colours, but basically see where she has the blonde and blue panel? Like that but farther apart pretty much...like more to the sides of the hair. ANYHOW.

I'm getting my hair redone soon and I'm going to go with what I basically had before but with more blonde highlights and I wanna get those 2 panels underneath thrown in but not purple or anything...I was thinking either red or black. Do you think it'd work?

Sorry for the ridiculously long post but yeah. Opinions please? Or any other ideas I could do? Cause I wanna change it up, but not too, too much.
Thanks!