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.
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.
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.
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—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.