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Just Grey?
Personally, I find the background color so important that I never leave it to chance. It sometimes takes up more space than the figure. The background influences all the surrounding aspects, reflected light on the skin, clothing, temperature of the skin tone etc. It is like painting a landscape at sunset and deciding to change the sky to a bright sunny blue.
You can change the background at will if you treat everthing as a seperate entity, hair, face, clothing etc., then you don't have to relate them at all if that is your wish.
Another approach is to underpaint everything with a grisaille and then fill in with a flat glaze, ie. a simple local color approach. Then you you don't have to deal in color subtleties at all.
The last two I refer to as the coloring book approach.
Sincerely,
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