recently tried to help my bro out by pointing some paving and not having done it before thought it was a simple case of mixing up some 4 sand to 1 cement mortar and stuffing it in.
basically the 1st attempt was far to red in colour so I bought some lighter sand and did it again but it's still nothing like the original colour ( see pics )
how do i get it light grey ...is it a matter of using white/silver sand . I know more cement would grey it out but have heard too much makes it rock hard and inflexible.
Your advice please .thanks in advance
Bill
this is how i want it (original)
this it how it turned out 
