Photo Color Analysis
Submit five unfiltered photos for a basic online analysis delivered within 24 hours. Receive focused guidance based on your individual coloring and the Sterling Color Quality System.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized online analysis from Sterling Personal Styling. Using unfiltered photos or a live virtual session, we assess undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to guide clothing, makeup, hair, and jewelry choices. Whether you are refreshing a wardrobe for Chicago’s changing seasons or refining your everyday image, receive practical direction tailored to you.
Choose a virtual color-analysis option that provides clear, personalized guidance for dressing, shopping, and presenting yourself with confidence.
Submit five unfiltered photos for a basic online analysis delivered within 24 hours. Receive focused guidance based on your individual coloring and the Sterling Color Quality System.
Get a more comprehensive assessment of colors for skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup. This option translates your personal coloring into useful choices for daily dressing.
Meet live online with a Sterling Personal Styling professional for personalized color direction, questions, and practical recommendations you can apply while shopping or editing your wardrobe.
Color should support your features, not compete with them. Our online consultations use the Sterling Color Quality System to evaluate hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast rather than relying only on a traditional seasonal label. You will gain usable direction for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories—especially helpful when building a versatile wardrobe for Chicago’s distinct weather shifts, workdays, and social occasions.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make clearer, more confident wardrobe decisions.
A considered color analysis combines proven expertise with recommendations you can genuinely use.
Benefit from 20+ years of image, fashion, retail, and style-consulting experience.
Our system considers undertone, value, intensity, hue, and personal contrast together.
Chicago clients can receive professional color guidance online without coordinating an in-person appointment.
Apply recommendations to clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and future shopping decisions.
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 Personal Styling offers online color analysis services that Chicago clients can access from home. A basic online analysis using five unfiltered photos is $49.97 and is delivered within 24 hours. A more detailed analysis of skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup is $97.97. A live online color analysis consultation is available for $347, with a color analysis and virtual closet cleanse package at $597.
Speak with a styling professional about the right 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.
Tell us what you would like to improve, and we will help you select the right virtual color analysis option.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.