Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos or a live virtual session. Learn which clothing, makeup, hair, and jewelry colors best complement your natural coloring.
Discover the colors that make your natural features stand out with a personalized virtual analysis from Sterling Style Academy. Using the Sterling Color Quality System, we assess undertone, value, intensity, contrast, and harmony to guide clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair-color choices. Charlotte clients can receive expert direction online without limiting their options to a traditional in-person seasonal consultation.

Explore virtual consultations and practical resources for understanding, applying, and confidently using your most flattering colors.
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos or a live virtual session. Learn which clothing, makeup, hair, and jewelry colors best complement your natural coloring.
Build foundational color knowledge at your own pace with a digital guide covering undertone, depth, chroma, and practical wardrobe color choices without traditional drapes.
Use a customizable digital resource featuring 120 Pantone colors across nine seasonal palettes for outfit planning, mood boards, and clearer color coordination.
A clear color direction makes shopping, dressing, and getting ready easier. Sterling Style Academy’s online consultations use the Sterling Color Quality System to evaluate hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast rather than relying only on broad seasonal labels. For Charlotte clients balancing professional wardrobes, social events, and everyday style, the result is practical guidance for colors that create a more harmonious, polished appearance.

See how personalized color direction helps clients dress with greater clarity, confidence, and consistency.
Learn from an established image consulting authority with a refined, practical approach to personal color.
Benefit from over 20 years of image consulting and styling expertise.
Our system evaluates hue, value, intensity, and contrast for nuanced guidance.
Charlotte clients can receive expert color direction through convenient online consultations.
Our alumni network spans more than 60 countries across every continent.

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.
Sterling Style Academy offers several online color analysis options. A basic photo-based analysis is $49.97 and is delivered within 24 hours. A more detailed online analysis covering skin, hair, and clothing is $97.97. Live online color analysis consultations are $347, while a live session paired with a virtual closet cleanse is $597. The best option depends on how much personalized guidance and interaction you want.
Speak with a styling professional about the right 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.
Share your color goals and preferred consultation format. Our team will help you choose the most suitable online service.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.