Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast. Receive practical color direction for clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair choices.
Discover colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized online color analysis from Sterling Personal Styling. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, your consultation evaluates undertone, depth, intensity, and contrast for practical wardrobe, makeup, jewelry, and hair-color guidance. It is an easy, expert-led option for Albuquerque clients seeking polished choices that stand up beautifully in the region’s bright high-desert light.

Virtual color guidance tailored to your natural coloring, wardrobe goals, and everyday styling needs.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast. Receive practical color direction for clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair choices.
Meet with a professional stylist by video for an interactive color analysis. Discuss your goals and receive tailored guidance for creating a more harmonious, confident visual presence.
Extend your color results into a wearable wardrobe plan with virtual styling, curated shopping recommendations, outfit direction, and a digital lookbook built around your lifestyle.
A great color palette makes getting dressed more intuitive. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to look beyond a basic seasonal label, considering your undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast. Your recommendations translate into useful choices for clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair. For Albuquerque clients, this clarity can be especially helpful when vivid sun and neutral desert tones influence how colors appear.

See how personalized image guidance helps clients make confident, intentional style decisions.
Expert-led color guidance grounded in a proven, modern approach to personal image.
The Sterling Color Quality System™ assesses multiple color dimensions for more individualized recommendations.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image-consulting experience.
Albuquerque clients can receive expert color direction online without coordinating travel or an in-person appointment.
Guidance connects your natural coloring to wearable clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair-color decisions.

Founder and Training Director
Sterling Style Academy provides professional education in image consulting, personal styling, color analysis, personal shopping and fashion styling for students around the world. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers both flexible online courses and intensive in-person certification programs designed to build practical, client-ready skills.
Students can choose from the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist & Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, or the comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant & Personal Stylist Training.
In addition to training students, Sterling Style Academy works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, offering image consulting, personal styling, and color analysis services.
Color analysis is a personalized assessment of the colors that best support your natural features. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates factors such as undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast. The resulting guidance helps you choose clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair colors that create harmony rather than compete with your complexion, eyes, and hair.
Speak with a stylist about the consultation that fits your goals.

Multiple Award-Winning, Professionally Certified Image Consultant and Industry Leader

Recognized for professional excellence and leadership in the image-consulting and styling industry.

Recognized for influence and leadership in online personal styling.
Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, Business Insider, E! News and HuffPost.
Share your style goals, and we’ll help you choose the right online color analysis option.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.