Online Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive practical color direction based on your hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast levels.
Discover the colors 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 color consultations and resources that turn your natural coloring into practical wardrobe, hair, jewelry, and makeup direction.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System. Receive practical color 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 colors, hair shades, jewelry, 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 colors 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, jewelry, and makeup choices, helping you create combinations that feel cohesive, reduce uncertain purchases, and keep your wardrobe aligned with your natural coloring.
See how focused color direction supports more confident, intentional personal style decisions.
Work with a color 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 color characteristics beyond a single seasonal classification.
An alumni community across 60+ countries informs an inclusive approach to diverse personal coloring.
Corporate and luxury-fashion experience brings strategic perspective to wardrobe and image recommendations.
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.
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.
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 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.