Basic Color Analysis
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment. Receive personalized color direction within 24 hours to start making more flattering clothing and accessory choices.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized online color analysis from Sterling Personal Styling. Using the Sterling Color Quality System, your consultation considers undertone, value, intensity, and contrast—not just a seasonal label. Get practical direction for clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup, so you can build a confident wardrobe for Milwaukee’s changing seasons and everyday occasions.
Choose photo-based, detailed, or live virtual guidance tailored to your personal coloring and wardrobe goals.
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment. Receive personalized color direction within 24 hours to start making more flattering clothing and accessory choices.
Explore the relationship between your skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup colors. This expanded online assessment provides practical recommendations built around your natural coloring.
Meet one-on-one by video for real-time color guidance, questions, and personalized recommendations. Add a virtual closet cleanse for support applying your color direction to existing pieces.
Color analysis replaces guesswork with a clear framework for choosing shades that support your natural features. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System to assess hue, value, intensity, and contrast, then translates the results into useful clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup guidance. Whether you are refreshing a work wardrobe or planning for Milwaukee’s distinct seasonal shifts, you receive direction you can apply immediately.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make confident, cohesive style choices.
Learn from an established image-consulting authority with a detailed, client-focused approach to personal color.
The Sterling Color Quality System evaluates undertone, value, intensity, and contrast for individualized guidance.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
Milwaukee clients can access personalized color guidance online without arranging travel or in-person appointments.
Recommendations address clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup choices for everyday wardrobe 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 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 harmonize with your natural features. Sterling’s approach evaluates factors including skin undertone, color temperature, value, intensity, and personal contrast. Rather than relying only on a traditional season, the result provides practical guidance for choosing clothing, makeup, hair shades, jewelry, and accessories that create a more balanced, intentional appearance.
Speak with a style professional about the consultation that fits your goals.
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 improve, and we’ll help you choose 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.