Photo Color Analysis
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your coloring. Receive practical direction on the clothing shades that best complement your natural features, with basic analysis delivered within 24 hours.
Discover the colors that bring clarity, confidence, and polish to your everyday style with personalized online color analysis from Sterling Style Academy. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, we assess the harmony of your natural coloring and provide practical guidance for clothing, makeup, hair, and accessories. Utah clients can receive expert virtual direction without needing to travel for an in-person appointment.

Personalized virtual color guidance to help you choose harmonious shades with greater confidence.
Submit unfiltered photos for a personalized assessment of your coloring. Receive practical direction on the clothing shades that best complement your natural features, with basic analysis delivered within 24 hours.
Go beyond a basic palette with guidance for skin, hair, clothing, jewelry, and makeup compatibility. This detailed online review helps create more consistent, flattering choices across your wardrobe.
Meet one-on-one with a professional stylist by video for real-time color guidance. Discuss your goals, review your coloring, and leave with tailored recommendations you can apply while shopping or getting dressed.
A personalized color analysis replaces guesswork with a clear framework for choosing shades that support your natural coloring. Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to consider hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast—not simply a traditional seasonal label. For Utah clients building versatile wardrobes for work, events, or changing seasons, virtual guidance makes it easier to select colors with confidence.

See how personalized color direction helps clients dress with greater ease and intention.
Professional color guidance shaped by extensive image consulting and stylist education experience.
Our Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates undertone, value, intensity, and contrast for nuanced recommendations.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of image consulting experience to every approach.
Utah clients can receive professional color direction remotely, without coordinating travel to an in-person location.
Recommendations translate into useful decisions for clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry, and wardrobe planning.

Founder and Training Director
Sterling Style Academy provides professional education in image consulting, personal styling, color analysis, personal shopping and fashion styling for students around the world. Founded by Michelle T. Sterling, the Academy offers both flexible online courses and intensive in-person certification programs designed to build practical, client-ready skills.
Students can choose from the 1-Day Stylist Training, 2-Day Color Analysis Training, 3-Day Fashion Stylist & Color Analysis Training, 5-Day Personal Stylist Training, 7-Day Image Consultant Training, or the comprehensive 2-Week Image Consultant & Personal Stylist Training.
In addition to training students, Sterling Style Academy works with private clients through Sterling Personal Styling, offering image consulting, personal styling, and color analysis services.
Color analysis is a personalized assessment of the colors that most naturally harmonize with your skin, hair, eyes, and overall contrast. Sterling Style Academy’s Sterling Color Quality System™ considers hue, value, intensity, temperature, and contrast. The goal is to provide usable direction for selecting clothing, makeup, hair shades, and accessories that create a more balanced, polished appearance.
Speak with a stylist about the virtual option 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 would like to improve—clothing, makeup, hair, or wardrobe confidence—and we’ll help identify the right virtual color analysis option.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.