Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment based on unfiltered photos, with guidance on the clothing colors that complement your skin, hair, and natural contrast.
Discover the colors that bring clarity, harmony, and confidence to your wardrobe with personalized online color analysis from Sterling Style Academy. Using a detailed photo-based or live virtual assessment, we identify tones that complement your natural features and translate them into practical guidance for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories. It is an accessible way for Des Moines clients to make more intentional style decisions year-round.
Flexible virtual color guidance and practical tools for discovering and using your most harmonious shades.
Receive a personalized assessment based on unfiltered photos, with guidance on the clothing colors that complement your skin, hair, and natural contrast.
Meet one-on-one with a stylist by video for real-time color direction, questions, and tailored recommendations for makeup, jewelry, hair, and clothing.
Use digital color resources to explore seasonal palettes, Pantone shades, and wardrobe-friendly combinations at your own pace after your consultation.
Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System to look beyond a simple seasonal label. Your analysis considers undertone, temperature, value, intensity, hue, and personal contrast to create direction that feels natural and usable. For Des Moines clients, the virtual format makes it easy to gain professional guidance from home, then shop, dress, and build outfits with greater certainty through every season.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make clearer, more confident wardrobe choices.
Work with an established education and styling organization focused on practical, individualized color guidance.
The Sterling Color Quality System assesses multiple color characteristics for more nuanced personal recommendations.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion, retail, and image consulting experience.
Des Moines clients can receive professional color direction online without needing to travel for an appointment.
Training and client guidance draw on 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 assessment of the colors that most naturally harmonize with your features. It considers factors such as skin undertone, temperature, depth or value, intensity, and contrast among your skin, hair, and eyes. The result is practical guidance that can help you choose more flattering clothing, makeup, jewelry, hair shades, and accessory colors.
Speak with a stylist about the right virtual 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 style goals and our team will help you select the color analysis option 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.