Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos or a live virtual session. We evaluate your coloring and provide direction on clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup shades that complement your features.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with a personalized virtual color analysis from Sterling Personal Styling. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, we assess undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to create practical guidance for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories. Richmond clients can receive expert direction without leaving home, making wardrobe decisions clearer and more confident.
Virtual color guidance and tools designed to clarify your most flattering shades and wardrobe choices.
Receive a personalized assessment using unfiltered photos or a live virtual session. We evaluate your coloring and provide direction on clothing, hair, jewelry, and makeup shades that complement your features.
Meet one-on-one by video for detailed, real-time color guidance. A live consultation explores your natural contrast, preferred colors, wardrobe concerns, and practical ways to apply your results.
Use digital color resources to understand seasonal color characteristics, compare shades, and build more intentional outfits. These tools offer a convenient reference for shopping, styling, and wardrobe planning.
Color is more than a seasonal label. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to consider your undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast. Your consultation translates those findings into useful recommendations for everyday clothing, professional outfits, makeup, hair, and accessories. For Richmond clients, virtual delivery makes it easy to gain polished, personalized direction on a schedule that fits your life.
See how personalized color direction helps clients make confident, intentional style choices.
A refined, education-led approach to understanding and using your personal colors.
Our Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates multiple color dimensions beyond a single seasonal category.
Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion, retail, and image-consulting experience.
Richmond clients receive tailored professional color guidance remotely, without arranging travel or an in-person appointment.
Recommendations support Richmond workdays, events, shopping decisions, and everyday wardrobe coordination with greater clarity.
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 color analysis identifies the qualities of color that best harmonize with your natural features. Sterling Personal Styling considers undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast rather than relying only on a traditional seasonal label. The result is practical direction for clothing, accessories, hair color, makeup, and wardrobe combinations that can make getting dressed feel more straightforward.
Speak with a style expert about the right virtual consultation.
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.
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You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.