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Does Going Grey Change My Colors?

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:03:31 GMT

Does going grey impact your color palette? I explain all things hair in the videos below and how hair really matters when finding your perfect palette. Become a paying subscriber to get access to this and many more teachings on all things color!

Coral Red

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:16:38 GMT

Let’s discuss how you make it and why it can easily go sideways if we don’t true color theory. Anyone can call something coral red but the one that works for me is very specific.

Not all Coral red is created equal. In order to make a red that I would classify as a true coral red for gals who lean cool you need to start at the right red on the color whee…

Color update and Personal Palettes

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:59:03 GMT

Everything I did to get my Body Back part 2

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:43:31 GMT

Not medical advice just things I have learned on my journey to get my body back postpartum in my 40’s

In part one I talked about Leptin, Light and Ketosis and how those things really needed to get dialed in for me to see some change.

I want to talk a bit more about Insulin. I have learned a lot about it over the last 5 months, partly because one of my besties found out she was a type 1 diabetic! (No one knows insulin more than a diabetic! ) and partly because I figured out I had insulin resistance.

A lot of people really don’t understand insulin drives fat loss or storage. I really have come to understand many people’s weight issues have to do with insulin if they know it or not. Many people think they don’t need to worry about insulin unless they are diabetic. This really isn’t true. Insulin resistance is a major cause of metabolic dysfunction. This can be a tricky. One because it doesn’t always show up on blood tests. Even your blood sugar levels can be deceiving and you could have a lot of insulin needs you aren’t seeing. The more insulin your body needs and makes the more fat is stored. Insulin is the fat storage hormone! One of the type one diabetics I learned from who has been managing insulin for 40 years and is really good at it explained it like this: “One of the sign of diabetes is rapid weight loss. Although the person is consuming calories, they have no insulin to get the sugar from the blood into the body’s cells so they just pee it out. Once a person begins an insulin treatment, they can begin gaining weight. (some desperately need to!) High insulin levels cause a lot more damage than just weight gain. I believe high insulin levels cause a lot of the damage that high blood-sugar is blamed for. Here’s one of the biggest concepts I need you to understand: your blood-sugar can be perfect, but you still may have high insulin levels. Your A1C blood-test does not show your insulin levels. CGMs do not show insulin levels.”

Everything I did to get my body back.

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:11:45 GMT

Having a baby at 41 was a feat. Not only was it a hard road to get pregnant and hold the pregnancy compared to my first time 10 years ago when I wasn’t even trying, but the body changes were astronomical.

I gained over 50 lbs as I gave birth and breastfed this bundle of joy. I had a hard time adjusting to the changes in my body despite everyone telling me to just relax and enjoy my new baby. Not only were the changes in what clothes I could wear or how things looked on me, there were physical changes like pain in my feet and inability to walk because of the inflammation and the amount of weight I was carrying. I remember 4 weeks postpartum looking in the mirror thinking oh wow, I didn’t give birth to a 50lb baby. I didn’t recognize myself. When I hit perimenopause at 38 the body changes started with out changing a thing and clothes were getting tighter and my size was getting bigger for no reason at all beyond hormonal changes. Getting pregnant sky rocketed those changes though.

I was determined to find what exactly was going on! Since I have been a health coach for many years in the past I ran all the tests I knew to run on myself (HTMA, DUTCH, GI MAP) with no clear answers. My hormones weren’t terribly out of wack, I have always had high estrogen but this didn’t explain what was going on. I tried everything:

Parasite cleanses

Doing a gut reset

Macro tracking.

Working with a trainer who others in my community had great success with.

Supplements.

Although I am sure all those things helped my health positively nothing was really shifting my weight. If I had one more person tell me just to be consistent, and things took time and to eat and exercise I was going to scream. I am a very disciplined person and have no problem doing those things, UNLESS I am seeing ZERO results then it is very hard to keep going.

Hair Color and Value Matter in Color Analysis

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:08:16 GMT

I just saw a reel saying Hair color doesn’t matter in color analysis and all it does is show me you don’t understand color science or personal coloring and how it translates. Had to take the opportunity to teach on this very important concept for my paid subscribers.

How to find your Hawaii Palette

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:23:45 GMT

If you have had a seasonal color analysis done and want to try the experiment I am suggesting for when you are tan this summer here are some guidelines of how to shift for each season into your “Hawaii Palette” as I so lovingly call it!

If you were given a Summer Season:

Controversial Color Chats: Toasted Shaded

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:15:10 GMT

If there is anyone who has been done a disservice in most color analysis systems it is women of color. A lot of them are mistyped and forced to fit in a box they should of never been put into! Tell me how it makes sense to give a person who has both warm (brown skin) and Cool (black hair) one seasonal palette of just Autumn or Winter? The majority of people with these components have been given one or the other and told they can only do one.

What if I told you they can do some of both?

Controversial Color Chat

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:13:36 GMT

Does having a tan change your colors?

Amanda | Personal Color Method — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:39:10 GMT

In this post I am going to share with you a concept about different pallets for different times of the year. Does a tan impact things? When you move locations does your palette change?

In typical seasonal analysis the answer is usually a blatant no. I have come to find that just doesn’t hold true. I think where people live absolutely impacts a persons palette, In fact if I had a client who spent half of the year in New York and half in Hawaii I would give her two different pallet options.

How close you are to the equator determines how much sunshine is available to you what percentage of the year. How much light you take in changes how much light you put out. We observe it every year! For those of you in the North the changes are drastic where people who live in Arizona or Mexico it stays pretty much the same most of the year. People who have darker skin naturally have more eumelanin and pheomelanin and that was all determined by how much sun they were going to be exposed to so in my opinion your culture of origin absolutely impacts what palette I am going to give you.

I have been known to give my clients what is called their “Hawaii Palette” which includes some harmonious options that are a little brighter in chroma they can wear when on a vacation in a tropical place or when they are very tan. The people who this impacts the most are often light skinned people who fall in to a summer category seasonally. Their skin becomes more saturated and warm because the increase in pheomelanin is drastic. So point blank they can pull off warmer and clearer colors when they are tan. I will show you some examples below