Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System™. Receive guidance on clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and colors that complement your natural coloring.
Discover the clothing, makeup, and hair colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized color analysis in NYC. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to assess undertone, value, intensity, and contrast—giving you practical direction for shopping, dressing, and building a polished wardrobe that feels authentically yours in New York’s style-conscious setting.
Choose a focused color consultation, live virtual guidance, or an in-person wardrobe experience tailored to your goals.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System™. Receive guidance on clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and colors that complement your natural coloring.
Meet with a stylist by video for real-time color direction and personalized answers. Live sessions explore your palette, wardrobe concerns, and practical ways to apply your results.
Build color harmony into a broader NYC styling experience, with personal style development, closet evaluation, targeted shopping, and outfit guidance designed around your lifestyle.
A personal color analysis translates color theory into useful everyday decisions. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates your undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast to identify colors that work in harmony with your features. Rather than relying only on traditional seasonal labels, you receive tailored direction for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories—especially valuable when navigating NYC’s endless retail options and professional settings.
See how strategic color and style guidance brings greater clarity, confidence, and ease to getting dressed.
Work with a seasoned image-consulting team that pairs sophisticated color expertise with practical, personalized guidance.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings 20+ years across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
The Sterling Color Quality System™ considers undertone, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast.
In-person New York services connect color direction with real wardrobe, shopping, and professional-image needs.
Sterling’s alumni network spans 60+ countries, informed by international fashion and consulting experience.
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.
Sterling Personal Styling offers several color-analysis options. A basic online analysis is $49.97 and is delivered within 24 hours using five unfiltered photos. A more comprehensive online analysis covering skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup is $97.97. A live online color analysis consultation is $347, while an in-person Color Express Shopping consultation in New York is $297 for 1.5 hours.
Speak with a stylist about the consultation option that fits your goals.
Access in-person New York styling or flexible virtual color guidance from wherever you are.
In-Person Available
New York Service
Worldwide Access
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9 AM–7 PM ET
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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 whether you prefer online guidance, a live virtual session, or an in-person New York consultation. We’ll help you identify the service that best supports your wardrobe and image 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.