Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System, which considers undertone, hue, value, intensity, and contrast to identify colors that support your natural coloring.
Discover the colors that make your natural features look brighter, more balanced, and unmistakably you. Sterling Personal Styling provides personalized online color analysis for Carmel, Indiana clients, evaluating undertone, value, intensity, and contrast—not just a basic seasonal label. Receive practical direction for clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair color so shopping and getting dressed feel easier every day.

Explore virtual color guidance and tools that make flattering wardrobe, beauty, and shopping decisions more intuitive.
Receive a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System, which considers undertone, hue, value, intensity, and contrast to identify colors that support your natural coloring.
Meet with a stylist by video for in-depth, real-time guidance on flattering clothing colors, makeup tones, jewelry metals, hair shades, and how to use your results confidently.
Use digital color resources to understand undertone, depth, and chroma, then apply your best shades to wardrobe planning, outfit coordination, and future shopping choices.
A personal color analysis replaces wardrobe guesswork with clear, usable direction. Through an online consultation, Sterling Personal Styling evaluates the color qualities that work together in your skin, hair, and overall contrast. Carmel clients can receive tailored recommendations for apparel, makeup, hair, and accessories from home—helping create outfits that look cohesive in professional settings, social occasions, and everyday life.

See how personalized color direction helps clients make clearer, more confident style choices.
An experienced, education-led approach to color direction and personal image.
Our founder brings more than 20 years of image consulting, fashion, and professional training experience.
The Sterling Color Quality System considers undertone, value, intensity, and contrast for nuanced recommendations.
Carmel clients can receive personalized color guidance online without coordinating travel or an in-person appointment.
Recommendations translate into clearer choices for clothing, makeup, accessories, hair color, and future purchases.

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.
Wear a simple top in a neutral shade and arrive with minimal makeup, if possible, so your natural skin tone is easier to assess. Avoid heavily tinted skincare, self-tanner, colored contact lenses, or bold accessories that may influence the visual result. For an online session, use natural daylight or clear front-facing lighting and follow any photo or video instructions provided before the consultation.
Speak with a stylist about the right consultation for you.

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 identify the online 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.