Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast. Receive clear direction for colors that complement your skin, hair, and natural features.
Discover the colors that bring your natural features into focus with Sterling Style Academy’s personalized online color analysis. Using the Sterling Color Quality System, we assess undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to create practical guidance for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories. Florida clients can receive polished direction remotely, without relying on traditional seasonal labels or in-person draping.

Personalized virtual color guidance, live consultation, and practical palette tools for more confident wardrobe, beauty, and shopping decisions.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast. Receive clear direction for colors that complement your skin, hair, and natural features.
Meet live with a stylist by video for deeper, personalized guidance on clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and colors that support your individual image goals.
Use a digital palette resource with curated Pantone colors to translate your analysis into wardrobe planning, shopping choices, mood boards, and everyday outfit coordination.
Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System to look beyond a single seasonal category. Your analysis considers undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast, then translates those findings into usable recommendations. Whether you are refining a professional wardrobe, choosing makeup, or dressing for Florida’s bright daylight and year-round social calendar, you receive guidance that makes getting dressed more intentional.

See how personalized color direction supports stronger wardrobes, more confident choices, and authentic personal style.
Learn from an established image consulting organization with a rigorous, client-focused approach to personal color.
Benefit from more than 20 years of experience across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
Our system assesses multiple color characteristics, not only traditional seasonal color categories.
Our alumni network spans 60+ countries, bringing broad expertise to virtual Florida client guidance.
Florida clients receive refined recommendations informed by luxury fashion affiliations and corporate image expertise.

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.
A personal color analysis identifies the color qualities that work most harmoniously with your natural features. Sterling Style Academy evaluates factors such as undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast. The result is practical guidance for selecting clothing, makeup, hair shades, jewelry, and accessories that support a more cohesive, energized appearance rather than competing with your coloring.
Speak with a style expert about the right 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.
Tell us what you want to refine, and we’ll help you select the color analysis service that fits your goals.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.