My macbook air's screen is grey! What do I do?!

My macbook's screen keeps on changing color to grey and it's hurting my eyes! What did I do to cause this?....

Great this makes it very easy.
1, back up all of your data using time maching to an external Hard drive, or time capsule.
2. restart your macbook air while holding down the option key
3. you should see 2 icons one is named whatevery your macs drive is called (macintosh HD by defualt) and the other is called "recoveryHD" click that
4. it should take about 30 seconds or so and boot up into Lion recovery mode there are a few options(use safari for support online, disk utility, restore from a time machine back up, reinstall lion via download) select the option to restore from time machine
5. if you have a time capsule it will prompt you to connect to the network or you can plug in an external hard drive if thats where you backed up
6. follow onscreen instructions to restore mac..times vary form 40 min to 1 and a half hours depending upon how large your backup is.
7. it should automaticaly restart and login once it completes.
and that should solve the problem if it is a software issue.
If the problem continues you need to bring it to the apple store and they can fix or replace it, some macbook airs had a similar problem and were free to replace and repair so you might not have to pay for it.

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