Photo Color Analysis
Submit five unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System, with basic analysis delivered within 24 hours of purchase.
Discover the colors that make your natural features look brighter, more balanced, and unmistakably you. Sterling Personal Styling provides detailed virtual color analysis for Austin clients, using a modern evaluation of undertone, value, intensity, and contrast. Receive practical direction for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories so getting dressed for Central Texas sunshine, work, and special occasions feels easier and more intentional.

Virtual color guidance that turns your natural coloring into confident wardrobe, beauty, and accessory choices.
Submit five unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System, with basic analysis delivered within 24 hours of purchase.
Receive a detailed review of skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup compatibility, along with guidance built around your personal color harmony.
Meet live online with a stylist for individualized color guidance, questions, and recommendations tailored to your wardrobe, beauty routine, and goals.
A personal palette should do more than assign a label—it should help you make clearer choices every day. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates your undertone, temperature, value, intensity, and contrast through the Sterling Color Quality System. For Austin clients, virtual guidance can simplify dressing for vivid daylight, polished professional settings, and warm-weather wardrobes by identifying colors that support your features rather than compete with them.

See how personalized color direction helps clients shop, dress, and show up with greater clarity.
Expert-led color guidance grounded in decades of image consulting and stylist education.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of experience across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
The Sterling Color Quality System considers undertone, value, intensity, contrast, and color temperature.
Austin clients can receive focused professional color direction remotely without coordinating travel or an in-person appointment.
Apply your results to clothing, makeup, hair, jewelry, and warm-weather wardrobe choices with confidence.

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 pricing varies by depth and delivery method. Sterling Personal Styling offers a basic photo-based online analysis for $49.97, a more comprehensive skin, hair, and clothing analysis for $97.97, and a live online color analysis consultation for $347. A higher price generally reflects more personal interaction, detailed recommendations, and time spent reviewing your individual coloring and style needs.
Speak with a styling professional about the right virtual analysis option.

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.
Tell us what you want to improve, and we’ll help you choose the virtual color analysis option that fits your goals.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.