Basic Photo Analysis
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment. Receive a personal color result within 24 hours, helping you begin making more confident clothing and beauty color choices.
Discover the colors that make your natural features stand out with a personalized online color analysis from Sterling Style Academy. From the comfort of your Wichita home, receive expert guidance on flattering clothing shades, makeup tones, jewelry metals, and hair-color direction. Our modern Sterling Color Quality System™ considers undertone, value, intensity, and contrast for recommendations that feel precise, practical, and personal.

Choose an online analysis option that delivers clear, personalized direction for your wardrobe, beauty, and accessory choices.
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment. Receive a personal color result within 24 hours, helping you begin making more confident clothing and beauty color choices.
Get a deeper review of your skin, hair, and clothing compatibility. This detailed option provides tailored insight into colors, makeup tones, jewelry, and hair shades that enhance your features.
Meet with a styling professional online for real-time color guidance. Discuss your goals, ask questions, and receive personalized recommendations you can apply while shopping, dressing, or updating your beauty routine.
Color choices affect how polished, rested, and confident you appear. Sterling Style Academy uses the Sterling Color Quality System™ to assess hue, value, intensity, and personal contrast—not simply assign a broad seasonal label. For Wichita clients seeking a convenient expert opinion, virtual analysis provides practical direction for everyday outfits, professional wardrobe decisions, makeup, jewelry, and hair-color conversations without needing to travel.

See how personalized color direction helps clients make intentional wardrobe and image decisions.
Expert-led color education and personalized guidance designed to make color choices easier to use every day.
The Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates undertone, value, intensity, and contrast for nuanced recommendations.
Founder Michelle T. Sterling brings more than 20 years of fashion and image consulting experience.
Wichita clients can receive professional color guidance online without travel or an in-person appointment.
Training and expertise informed by an international alumni network spanning more than 60 countries.

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 harmonize with your natural features. Sterling Style Academy’s approach considers your skin undertone, color temperature, value or depth, intensity or chroma, and personal contrast. The result is practical guidance for selecting clothing, makeup, jewelry, and hair-color directions that can make your overall appearance look more balanced and intentional.
Speak with our team about the right virtual analysis option.

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 colors to makeup or hair direction—and we’ll help you identify the right online 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.