Does color matter? What do folks say about different color HA?

I have known I needed hearing aids for years, so, I looked at a lot of people with hearing aids of all types. To me, the supposed flesh coloring seems to bring attention to them, in kind of a negative way. I won’t go any further than that. When I finaly went for my hearing test, the audi whipped out a chart and asked me to chose a color. I had to sort of decide, on the spot, so to speak and I chose black. I have had many favorable comments from associates. I sorta wish I had chosen purple.

Whatever makes you happy, you are wearing them. Most of my patients match skin or hair tone. Young children pick their favorite color. I had one gentleman who wanted bright blue. I asked why, and he told me if he got beige, everybody would know he was wearing a hearing aid. But with blue, he felt people would think he got the latest hight tech device, for his cell phone or i-pod.

I just ordered my new ha’s yesterday, and they are going to be silver with a small black stripe! I am so excited to get the, been a long time since I’ve had a great pair of ha’s. Also the first time I will not have had the standard beige.

are those ‘flesh’ colored aids suppose to actually blend in? I can spot the flesh colored aids from across the room. particularly the CICs. I gave some thought to ordering the bright white so folks would figure I was playing with my iPod or iPad.

Yesterday I ordered a pair of Oticon Agile Pro BTE for my son. He wasn’t real happy about the lack of color choices and settled for a light brown to match his hair. He will also trial Naida S IX SP after this and will be able to choose a colored one then.

I’m wearing my first pair of HAs. I picked a color that would be noticeable thinking that people would see them and speak more clearly. I’ll let you know in a year or so if my thinking was correct!
No need to hide them as far as I’m concerned.

@JordanK said:

My Audeo Smart IXs are fire engine red…cause red is the fastest color!!

JordanK.

I like that idea!

I showed them today to a friend who has medium tan HA. He loved the silver, said they look like little stereo bluetooth ear bugs! lol

I’ve just had my Phonak Sky Qs recased in chestnut color and I feel my confident has improved since getting them. I did have clear colored HAs which I always regretted getting.

I had a pair of Bernafon’s from Costco with changeable side panels. The staff at Costco ordered all the available options. Think red, apple green, blue and all the boring colors but my favorites were red with Chinese dragons. I have short brown hair and 95% of the folks I interacted with didn’t notice the RED dragons, even when I mentioned them. Love red. Now I have boring black Phonaks, bummer.

I have to say I was always given the standard beige flesh tone colour on the NHS however my last set 8 years ago did away with that awful colour, the newer set was more of a sandy gold colour almost invisable with my natural blonde hair. The replacement to one ear was silver due to not having the same colour and it still wasn’t noticable. it was a treat no one even knew I was wearing them I loved it. For me I prefer them not to be noticed if possible as stops people trying to talk to me like in stupid if they aren’t used to deafness. But the downside is because they can’t be seen some do forget to speak clearly face to face or behind me.

It’s a catch 22 if your bold and willing to say hey look at my flashy hearing aids go for it as your the one wearing them not others!!! Also even bright colours might not be noticable due to the hearing aid size mine are so small they are bidding behind the ear so no one realizes till I point out the mould and tubes. Also are you going for domes or molds? as you can get some bright custom molds made if going mold route.

I tried for Chrome because I’m a motorcycle rider, but the closest I could get was bright silver. My first pair was flesh colored because they were my first pair and I wanted to hide them, but I soon realized that they looked “medical”, and not “technical”, so I regretted that choice. They have changeable shells on them though, so after only a few months, I bought a set of bright silver shells.

Honestly, I think when people SEE that you wear HAs, they at least try to speak more clearly or more directly at you, which helps tremendously. Sometimes I wish I could get fluorescent orange or lime green just so my wife would know when to speak clearly and definitively or in her normal voice!