I agree, I don’t really care how ‘pretty’ my hearing aid is. I am young so I could very easily get away with crazy colours and other things when it comes to my aids but I have boring beige ones mostly because it isn’t always practical to have red, purple, blue etc aids.
I do decorate mine to go with my outfit that day or to be colour corrdinated with a sports team, or holiday or something. There are some pictures of this on my blog.
Today I have blue and green beads on the tubing, and blue and green rhinestones on the BTE. Same shades blue and green as my shirt. I have short hair so my ears are always exposed, can’t hide my aids at all. I figure I might as well make them fun and ‘pretty’! I find other peoples attitudes are different when I have the decorated too. They aren’t as worried about talking to me and seem to feel more at ease with conversing or being with a Deaf person, whether I am using an interpreter and siging or if I am speaking/speech reading. If you try to hide it, others will too. If you are proud and make them stand out others will be less shy and awkard. Just my experiences.