It actually did have a lot of fancy colors. They just do not come out well in the photo. But the colors were extremely good, actually. In fact, the colors on the 2 strands I matched this morning were actually much more intense than they appear in the picture as well - I am not the office photographer
But those strands did not come from the first picture - we did not buy any of those pearls because I was not willing to be ripped off even for a sample.
Here is a pic I just cut out for another picture of Mia and myself separating at TOA. This is the "keep" pile that was directly in front of me to the left of my hand (my left) in the first picture. They may be a bit hard to make out as I cut the pic from a large picture. You can see that there were indeed a lot of fancy. More peach than not, but I really only selected the cream of the crop when it came to those.