Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive practical colour direction based on your hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast levels.
Discover the colours that bring clarity, balance, and confidence to your wardrobe with Sterling Personal Styling. Our personal color analysis consultants evaluate undertone, value, intensity, and contrast to create guidance tailored to your natural features. Choose a convenient online analysis, a live virtual session, or an in-person experience where available, then shop, dress, and select makeup with greater certainty.

Flexible colour consultations and resources that turn your natural colouring into practical wardrobe, hair, jewellery, and makeup direction.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive practical colour direction based on your hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast levels.
Meet one-to-one with a consultant by video for real-time guidance on the colours, hair shades, jewellery, makeup tones, and clothing choices that best support your features.
Book a focused New York consultation combining personal color analysis with shopping guidance. Build confidence choosing flattering pieces and coordinating colours while you browse.
A personal color analysis gives you more than a seasonal label—it provides a usable framework for getting dressed. Sterling Personal Styling uses the Sterling Color Quality System to consider undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast. Your resulting guidance can support clothing, hair, jewellery, and makeup choices, helping you create combinations that feel cohesive, reduce uncertain purchases, and keep your wardrobe aligned with your natural colouring.

See how focused colour direction supports more confident, intentional personal style decisions.
Work with a colour education leader whose method connects visual analysis with real-world style decisions.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image consulting experience.
The Sterling Color Quality System assesses multiple colour characteristics beyond a single seasonal classification.
An alumni community across 60+ countries informs an inclusive approach to diverse personal colouring.
Corporate and luxury-fashion experience brings strategic perspective to wardrobe and image recommendations.
Experienced guidance for a more intentional visual presence.

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.
Sterling’s online color analysis options begin at US$49.97 for a basic analysis delivered within 24 hours using five unfiltered photos. A more detailed online assessment for skin, hair, and clothing is US$97.97. A live online color analysis consultation is US$347, while a live analysis with a virtual closet cleanse is US$597. In-person Color Express Shopping consultations in New York are US$297 for 1.5 hours.
Speak with a stylist about the consultation that fits your goals.
Founding-member industry leadership and professional commitment.
Recognized entrepreneurial leadership in image consulting.
Tell us what you want to refine, and we’ll help you choose the right color analysis 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.