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 worldwide. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers self-paced online courses and intensive in-person training designed to develop practical, client-ready skills.
Students who want to train online can begin with the Online Color Analysis Training, a self-paced $697 program for learning professional color-analysis methods, or the Online Stylist Training Course, a comprehensive $797 program covering color analysis, body shape analysis, style personalities, capsule wardrobes, client services, and the business of online personal styling.
Additional professional online courses are available for students who want to expand their image-consulting and styling expertise.
For students seeking intensive in-person education, Sterling Style Academy offers the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist and Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, and comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant and Personal Stylist Training.
Sterling Style Academy also works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, providing online color-analysis consultations, virtual personal styling, and virtual image consulting.
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.