Online Color Analysis
Receive a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast levels, with practical recommendations for flattering clothing colors, hair shades, jewelry, and makeup tones.
Discover the colors, outfits, and wardrobe choices that bring out your natural features with personalized guidance from Sterling Style Academy. Our personal color analysis stylist services combine modern tonal analysis with practical styling support for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories. Choose a convenient online consultation or a more comprehensive styling experience designed around your goals, lifestyle, and confidence.

Personalized color, wardrobe, and shopping guidance for a more cohesive, confidence-building personal style.
Receive a personalized assessment of your hue, value, intensity, and contrast levels, with practical recommendations for flattering clothing colors, hair shades, jewelry, and makeup tones.
Work live with a stylist by video to explore your personal coloring in depth, ask questions, and gain tailored direction for creating a more harmonious wardrobe.
Clarify your style direction through digital closet review, outfit curation, personalized shopping recommendations, and a digital lookbook built around your coloring, lifestyle, and wardrobe needs.
Create an adaptable capsule wardrobe with coordinated pieces and color combinations that make daily dressing simpler while helping each purchase work harder for you.
Get strategically selected online shopping recommendations that complement your color direction, wardrobe gaps, fit needs, and budget, reducing uncertainty when choosing new pieces.
Develop a strategic visual presence through color direction, style personality, body architecture, and wardrobe priorities aligned with your professional goals and personal brand.
A personal color analysis is more than a palette—it is a practical foundation for getting dressed with greater ease. Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System to assess undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast, then translates the findings into wearable recommendations. Whether you need guidance for a career transition, a wardrobe refresh, or a stronger personal image, your consultation is tailored to the way you live and dress.

See how personalized color and wardrobe direction supports clearer, more confident personal style decisions.
Our approach pairs detailed color expertise with practical, individual styling direction.
The Sterling Color Quality System evaluates tonal characteristics beyond a single traditional seasonal label.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings over 20 years of fashion and image consulting experience.
Live online services make personalized color and styling support accessible wherever you are.
Recommendations connect color findings to wardrobe choices, shopping priorities, and repeatable outfit combinations.

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 personal color analysis identifies the color characteristics that work most harmoniously with your natural features. Sterling Style Academy evaluates factors such as undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and personal contrast. The result is practical guidance for clothing, accessories, hair color, and makeup, helping you select shades that create a more balanced, energized 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—from wardrobe clarity to a stronger personal image—and we will help you select the right 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.