Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment using submitted unfiltered photos. Your analysis identifies color qualities that help guide flattering clothing, makeup, hair, and jewelry selections.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized virtual color analysis from Sterling Style Academy. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, your consultation evaluates undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to create practical guidance for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories. Raleigh clients can receive expert direction from home and shop, dress, and present themselves with greater confidence.
Choose personalized virtual analysis, live expert guidance, or practical color resources for lasting wardrobe clarity.
Receive a personalized assessment using submitted unfiltered photos. Your analysis identifies color qualities that help guide flattering clothing, makeup, hair, and jewelry selections.
Meet one-on-one with a stylist by video for in-depth color direction, questions, and recommendations tailored to your features, wardrobe needs, and style goals.
Build confidence between consultations with seasonal palette resources and color education designed to make everyday outfit coordination and shopping decisions easier.
A professional color analysis replaces trial-and-error shopping with clear, personal direction. Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to assess your undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast—not simply assign a traditional season. Raleigh clients can use their customized guidance to choose polished workwear, event looks, makeup, and hair colors that complement their natural coloring and make getting dressed more intuitive.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make clearer, more confident style choices.
Expert-led color education and personalized guidance built on decades of image consulting experience.
Our Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates multiple color qualities for more personalized recommendations.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image consulting experience.
Raleigh clients can receive expert color guidance remotely without travel or scheduling around a local appointment.
Our internationally trained network brings inclusive color insight for diverse features, lifestyles, and professional goals.
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 professional color analysis identifies the color qualities that work harmoniously with your natural features. Sterling Style Academy assesses factors such as undertone, temperature, value, intensity, chroma, and personal contrast. The result is practical direction for selecting clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair shades that support a more balanced, cohesive appearance rather than relying only on broad seasonal labels.
Speak with a style expert 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.
Share your style goals, and our team will help you select 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.