Fifty Shades of Grey?

It never occurred to me that the colour grey had so many shades. To be quite honest, I didn't like grey very much. My sister was 4 years old and wanted a budgy. So we went to the pet shop and saw a large cage with budgies in all the colours of the rainbow, yet the pet shop assistant caught her the ugliest one of them all in my opinion anyway, a grey one. The budgy was christened "Tweet-Tweet" and off we went. My sister didn't seem to mind at all!

Then I had the honour to wear a grey uniform at one of my former places of work. Needless to say I wasn't happy at all, I much more preferred the black suits we wore beforehand and didn't think that the Woolworths-like uniform suited me at all.
One of the customers actually told me that I looked like a sausage in it, that is a grey sausage.
It wasn't too small as the consultancy measured us before they were delivered, but the fabric was of such poor quality( trilobal) and I don't know what else, that the fit was really bad.

I felt that I constantly looked tired and dull in the dove like apparel and longed for the black that made me feel so safe.
Funnily enough, I started to admire a grey set of freshwater pearls as it suited the uniform, and while I loathed the uniform, I covet the pearls until this day for its uniqueness.
Then I got a grey bunny from my boyfriend and the colour started to grow on me!

It really didn't occur to me that there are so many shades of grey, I just wanted to se the world in black and white I guess, as it made me feel safe.

So here we are, years later and I love grey! From clothing( in natural fabrics) to home ware and decor. Even baby rooms look great in grey and I just love the way it goes with nude pink! Before I would have commented and said that would be far too depressing for child and mother, but just look at how grey can make a room cool and tranquil!

It's amazing to notice how ones taste changes over the span of your life and how one comes to like things that have may been undesirable previously.

The other misconception that I had about grey was that it only seemed to suit blondes.
Look at how Kera Knightly and Kate Middelton got it right, and they are brunettes, like me.

So you see, never say that you might not like something, or that it doesn't suit you, it may just be that you had a bad experience with a shocking fabric or a shade that didn't strike your fancy, but there are a world of choices out there if you are willing to find it!