Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive guidance on colors that complement your skin, hair, natural contrast, clothing choices, and beauty selections.
Discover the colors that make your natural features look clearer, brighter, and more harmonious with a personalized online color analysis. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates your undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to create practical direction for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories. Whether you are refining a professional wardrobe or choosing colors that work through Fargo’s long winter layers, receive guidance built around you—not a one-size-fits-all label.
Explore virtual assessments, live guidance, and practical tools for using your most complementary colors every day.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive guidance on colors that complement your skin, hair, natural contrast, clothing choices, and beauty selections.
Meet with a stylist by video for real-time color direction and tailored answers. A live consultation helps connect your palette to wardrobe goals, makeup tones, jewelry, and personal style.
Use an accessible digital color resource to better understand undertone, depth, and chroma. It supports confident outfit coordination and makes your personalized color direction easier to reference while shopping.
Your best colors are about more than a seasonal label. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System to consider hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast, then translates the findings into useful decisions for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories. Fargo clients can access this guidance virtually, making it easy to build a wardrobe that looks cohesive from polished workwear to cold-weather layers.
See how personalized color direction supports more confident, intentional style decisions.
Expert-led color guidance connects technical analysis with wearable, lasting style.
Built on more than 20 years of experience in image consulting, fashion, and personal style.
The Sterling Color Quality System considers undertone, value, intensity, and contrast—not color alone.
Fargo clients can receive detailed color direction remotely without sacrificing personalized professional guidance.
Recommendations translate into clearer choices for clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and seasonal wardrobe layers.
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.
A personal color analysis identifies the color qualities that best harmonize with your natural coloring. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates elements such as undertone, temperature, value or depth, intensity or chroma, and personal contrast. The result is practical direction for selecting clothing, makeup, hair shades, jewelry, and accessories that help your features appear more balanced, clear, and vibrant.
Speak with a stylist 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 style goals and choose the virtual 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.