Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your coloring. Receive guidance on harmonious clothing colors, hair shades, makeup tones, and jewelry choices using the Sterling Color Quality System.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural clarity, warmth, and confidence 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 a one-size-fits-all label. Seattle clients receive practical guidance for choosing clothing, makeup, hair shades, and accessories that work beautifully through the Pacific Northwest’s changing light.

Flexible online color services and tools deliver clear, personalized guidance for a more cohesive wardrobe.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your coloring. Receive guidance on harmonious clothing colors, hair shades, makeup tones, and jewelry choices using the Sterling Color Quality System.
Meet virtually with a professional for an interactive analysis that explores your coloring, wardrobe questions, and the colors that best support your individual features and style goals.
Use a digital palette resource to explore seasonal color options, save Pantone shades, and make more confident choices while building outfits, shopping, or creating visual inspiration.
A personal color analysis gives you a practical framework for getting dressed, shopping, and refining your image. Sterling Personal Styling evaluates the interplay of hue, value, intensity, and contrast to identify colors that complement your natural features. For Seattle’s overcast days as well as brighter seasons, you’ll gain versatile guidance that helps clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories look intentional, balanced, and authentically you.

See how personalized image guidance helps clients make confident, intentional style choices.
Experience-led color guidance built on a refined, professional approach to personal image.
The Sterling Color Quality System evaluates multiple color dimensions for more individualized palette guidance.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings 20+ years across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
Seattle clients can receive personalized color guidance virtually without travel or location-based limitations.
A worldwide alumni network across 60+ countries informs a broad, inclusive approach to personal coloring.
Guidance shaped by global expertise and individualized style insight.

Founder and Training Director
Michelle T. Sterling is the founder and training director of Sterling Style Academy, bringing over 20 years of award-winning experience across retail, fashion, and image consulting. She has developed affiliations with luxury houses like Giorgio Armani and Cartier. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish from Wellesley College and is a former Certified Image Consultant, along with credentials from the Dale Carnegie Performance Training Program and the Protocol School of Washington. She has authored over 30 educational training books, DVDs, and CDs, and co-authored 'Success Simplified' with Stephen Covey. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, Michelle is dedicated to cultivating the talents of aspiring image consultants worldwide, having trained alumni across more than 60 countries throughout her distinguished career.
Personal color analysis is a personalized assessment of the colors that best complement your natural features. Sterling’s approach considers undertone, hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast, rather than relying only on a traditional seasonal label. The outcome is guidance for selecting clothing, makeup, hair color, jewelry, and accessories that create a more balanced, harmonious overall appearance.
Speak with a stylist about the consultation that fits your goals.
Training graduates represented across more than 60 countries.
Recognized entrepreneur and international image consultant.
Tell us what you want to improve—your wardrobe, makeup choices, hair direction, or overall confidence—and we’ll help you identify the right virtual color consultation.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.