These shoelaces have just the right amount of opalescence to enhance the aesthetics of my old running shoes. Yeah, I'm kidding. They are gray shoelaces. Just what I expected. I like the round laces better than flat ones. My gray shoes came with flat white laces. I saw a pair of those elastic pull laces with the little clamp and thought they looked cool. I bought them and after a short while decided they were good for making it easy to get your shoes on and off, but didn't tighten securely enough to hold my foot in place or the shoe tongue for that matter. So I ordered these round gray ones. They are good quality. Look good on my shoes. They allow me to tighten them just right and the shoe tongue doesn't slide to the side anymore. Didn't think I could come up with this much to say about shoe laces.