Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your undertone, value, intensity, contrast, and most harmonious clothing colors.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized online color analysis from Sterling Style Academy. Chattanooga clients can receive expert guidance on flattering clothing, hair, makeup, and jewelry shades without traveling. Using a modern tonal approach, our consultations help you shop with more confidence, coordinate outfits more easily, and build a wardrobe that feels authentically yours.

Explore virtual color guidance and professional learning options tailored to personal style goals and color-consulting careers.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your undertone, value, intensity, contrast, and most harmonious clothing colors.
Meet with a stylist online for real-time color direction, personalized recommendations, and guidance on clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and wardrobe choices.
Learn the Sterling Color Quality System™ through self-paced professional training, instructor feedback, assignments, live tutoring, and certification upon successful completion.
Color analysis is more than being assigned a season. Sterling Style Academy evaluates the interplay of undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast to create guidance that reflects your individual coloring. From Chattanooga, you can access a virtual consultation that clarifies which shades enhance your features, which tones compete with them, and how to apply your results to everyday clothing, hair color, makeup, and accessories.

See how informed color choices help clients create more confident, coordinated personal style.
Learn from an established style education leader with a modern, practical approach to color.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of experience across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
Our tonal system assesses multiple color qualities beyond a single traditional seasonal label.
Chattanooga clients can receive personalized guidance remotely without sacrificing focused, professional color direction.
Training and consultation experience informed by an alumni community spanning more than 60 countries.

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 evaluation of the colors that harmonize with your natural skin, hair, and eye coloring. Sterling Style Academy’s approach considers undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast. The result is practical guidance on shades that can make your complexion appear clearer and more balanced, plus colors that may be less harmonious near your face.
Speak with our team about the right virtual consultation 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 goals, and we’ll help you choose the online color analysis experience that fits your needs.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.