Photo Color Analysis
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System™. Receive personalized insight into your most harmonious colors within a 24-hour turnaround.
Discover the colors that bring out your natural features with Seasonal Color Analysis Online from Sterling Style Academy. Using the Sterling Color Quality System™, your assessment considers undertone, temperature, value, intensity, and personal contrast—not just a one-size-fits-all label. Receive practical direction for clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories, delivered conveniently wherever you are in the U.S. or worldwide.

Choose flexible online assessments, live guidance, and digital tools for clearer, more confident color choices.
Submit five unfiltered photos for a focused online assessment using the Sterling Color Quality System™. Receive personalized insight into your most harmonious colors within a 24-hour turnaround.
Meet virtually with a Sterling stylist for real-time guidance on your skin, hair, clothing, makeup, jewelry, and color direction. Ask questions and explore recommendations tailored to your goals.
Use digital seasonal palette resources to reference compatible Pantone colors, neutrals, and accents while planning outfits, shopping online, or creating wardrobe and mood-board inspiration.
Seasonal Color Analysis Online turns color theory into usable everyday guidance. Sterling Style Academy evaluates the qualities that affect color harmony—undertone, temperature, value, chroma, intensity, and contrast—to identify shades that support your natural coloring. Whether you are refreshing a wardrobe, choosing makeup, considering a hair color, or shopping from U.S. retailers online, you receive direction designed to make decisions simpler and more intentional.

See how personalized color direction helps clients shop, dress, and present themselves with confidence.
Receive thoughtful color guidance grounded in professional education and extensive image-consulting experience.
The Sterling Color Quality System™ evaluates multiple color characteristics for more nuanced personal recommendations.
Michelle T. Sterling brings 20+ years across fashion, retail, and image consulting.
Training and client insight informed by an alumni network spanning more than 60 countries.
Recommendations support real wardrobe, makeup, hair, jewelry, and online-shopping decisions in everyday life.

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.
Seasonal color analysis online is a virtual assessment of the colors that most naturally harmonize with your features. Sterling Style Academy uses photos or a live video consultation to evaluate characteristics such as undertone, temperature, value, intensity, and contrast. The result is practical guidance for clothing, makeup, hair color, jewelry, and accessory choices, delivered digitally without an in-person appointment.
Speak with our team about the right online assessment.

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.
Share your goals and select an online color-analysis option that fits your needs.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.
You can also send us a quick email at info@sterlingstyleacademy.com.