Learn Color Analysis by Analyzing Real People—with Personal Feedback.
Learn the complete Your Color Style methodology, apply it to three real people, and receive personalized feedback from Jen as you work through each analysis.
Instead of wondering whether you're interpreting what you see correctly, you'll work through 18 focused guided submissions, create three complete professional analyses and reports, and finish with a private 45-minute review.
Knowing the lesson is one thing. Knowing what you're actually seeing is another.
Real people rarely look exactly like textbook examples. Hair changes. Skin tones are nuanced. Olive coloring can be confusing. Chroma can be subtle. Several characteristics can pull in different directions.
Guided Training gives you an experienced set of eyes on your work while you're developing your own.
Learn the Method
Work through the complete YCS Professional Color Analysis Training and learn the structured methodology.
Apply It to Real People
Move beyond examples by analyzing three different people from photo preparation through final recommendations.
Get Feedback While You Learn
Receive personalized feedback on your decisions so you can understand what you're seeing and refine your eye.
Learn how to analyze real people—not just textbook examples.
The Your Color Style methodology gives you a structured process for evaluating color characteristics instead of relying on stereotypes, isolated clues, or guesswork.
Depth
Learn how to evaluate whether someone is best supported by Light, Medium, or Deep colors.
Undertone
Learn how to evaluate Warm, Cool, and Olive undertones through visual comparison rather than surface clues alone.
Chroma
Learn how to recognize whether Clear or Soft color intensity creates greater harmony with someone's coloring.
Gray & Transitioning Hair
Learn how to analyze people with gray and transitioning hair without allowing hair color alone to determine the result.
Olive & Brown Skin
Develop a more structured approach to olive skin, brown skin, and a wider range of complexions and undertones.
Specificity & Dominance
Learn how individual characteristics refine the analysis and how dominant traits can influence someone's final color direction.
Three people. Eighteen focused submissions. Three complete analyses.
You'll choose three real people to analyze. You may use yourself as one of the three.
Each analysis is divided into six focused assignments so you can work through the process one decision at a time and receive feedback before moving forward.
Prepare the Client Photo
Learn what makes a photo useful for online analysis and prepare the image inside the professional tool.
Evaluate Depth
Work through Light, Medium, and Deep comparisons and explain the visual evidence behind your decision.
Evaluate Undertone
Compare Warm, Cool, and Olive characteristics and receive feedback on what you're seeing.
Evaluate Chroma
Compare Clear and Soft color directions and determine which level of intensity creates greater harmony.
Refine the Analysis
Consider specificity, dominant characteristics, individual features, and the nuances that make this person different from a textbook example.
Complete the Analysis & Report
Bring your decisions together, build the final color direction, and create a polished professional report.
By the end, you'll have completed three professional color analyses and created three finished client reports.
Practice inside the same workspace you'll use to analyze clients.
During your eight-week guided practice period, you'll have access to the complete YCS professional Color Analysis Tool.
This allows you to practice the complete workflow rather than learning the methodology separately from the tools used to apply it.
- Client management
- Professional photo preparation
- Structured Depth, Undertone, and Chroma analysis
- Side-by-side virtual color comparisons
- Lip & Draping Studio
- Complete YCS digital palette library
- Create and upload professional palettes
- Professional Report Builder
You don't have to abandon the system you already use.
Guided Training teaches the Your Color Style methodology, but the visual skills you're developing go beyond a set of YCS labels.
Learning to evaluate depth, undertone, chroma, visual harmony, photo quality, gray hair, olive skin, brown skin, and complex coloring can strengthen the way you analyze clients within another professional framework.
Bring your professional palettes into the tool.
If you already practice a seasonal, tonal, or another professional color analysis system, you can upload your own professional palettes.
Use the YCS tools for photo preparation, client management, digital color comparison, and reports while continuing to make recommendations within the color system you already practice.
Professional education plus personal guidance.
Guided Training combines the complete YCS Professional Color Analysis Training with hands-on practice, professional tools, and personal feedback.
Professional Color Analysis Training
- Complete 6-module YCS Professional Color Analysis Training
- 8 weeks of complete training access
- Depth, Undertone, and Chroma
- Specificity and dominant characteristics
- Gray and transitioning hair
- Olive skin and brown skin
- Professional photo preparation
- Professional online analysis workflow
Your Guided Experience
- 3 complete professional color analyses
- 18 focused guided submissions
- Personalized feedback from Jen
- 8 weeks of guided practice
- 8 weeks of complete Color Analysis Tool access
- Access to all YCS digital palettes during guided practice
- 3 finished professional client reports
- Private 45-minute final Zoom review with Jen
Eight weeks to learn, practice, and build your confidence.
Your Guided Color Analysis Training begins as soon as you enroll. For eight weeks, you'll have access to the complete Professional Color Analysis Training, professional Color Analysis Tool, guided assignments, and personalized feedback from Jen.
Work through the Professional Color Analysis Training while applying what you're learning to three real people.
You'll have complete access to the professional Color Analysis Tool throughout your eight-week program so you can learn and practice inside the same workflow.
Each of your three analyses is divided into six focused submissions so you can receive personalized feedback as you work through the process.
Complete all three analyses and finish your guided experience with a private 45-minute Zoom review with Jen.
Finish with a private conversation about your work.
After completing your three professional color analyses and final reports, you'll meet privately with Jen for a 45-minute Zoom session.
This isn't another general training class. The conversation is about your development—where you've become confident, where you're still hesitating, patterns Jen has noticed in your work, and what will help you continue refining your eye.
You'll also have time to clarify remaining questions and talk through how you'd like to use your color analysis skills going forward.
For learners who want flexibility without learning completely alone.
Future Color Analysts
Learn a complete professional methodology and get feedback while developing the practical skills needed to analyze real people.
Beauty & Style Professionals
Add deeper color knowledge to your work as a stylist, image consultant, makeup artist, hair stylist, boutique owner, or personal shopper.
Practicing Color Analysts
Strengthen your eye, improve your virtual analysis workflow, and incorporate useful techniques into the professional color system you already use.
Self-paced, guided, or certified?
All three paths teach the professional Your Color Style methodology. The difference is how much individual support, evaluation, and professional credentialing you want.
| What's Included | Self-Paced $127/month | Guided $597 | Certification $1,997 first year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional YCS Training | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional Color Analysis Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Practice on Real People | Independently | 3 Guided Analyses | Structured Certification Work |
| Personal Feedback | — | 18 Guided Submissions | ✓ |
| Private Review | — | 45 Minutes With Jen | ✓ |
| YCS Professional Credential | — | — | ✓ |
| Best For | Independent learners | Learning with feedback | Pursuing the YCS credential |
What students say about learning with YCS.
“I had already started two other color analysis certifications before joining YCS, but Jen's tonal, non-seasonal approach felt far more systematic, repeatable, and forward-thinking. The training dramatically improved my confidence with virtual analysis because I finally understood what I was actually seeing instead of second-guessing every decision.”
— Virginia S.
Color Analysis Training Student
“Even as a certified color analyst, I was amazed by how much I learned in this course. My confidence, understanding, and ability to see color accurately grew tremendously. This wasn't just a review—it refined my skills, sharpened my eye, and renewed my excitement for working with clients.”
— Terry P.
Certified Color Analyst
Guided Color Analysis Training
Includes the complete YCS Professional Color Analysis Training, three guided real-person analyses, 18 focused submissions with personalized feedback from Jen, three finished professional reports, eight weeks of professional Color Analysis Tool access, and one private 45-minute final review.
Your eight weeks begin when you enroll.
There is no cohort start date and no weekly live class schedule. You'll work through the professional training at your own pace while completing your three guided analyses during your eight-week program.
Throughout those eight weeks, you'll have access to the professional Color Analysis Tool and can submit your guided assignments for personalized feedback from Jen.
Frequently Asked Questions
When can I start?
Anytime. Guided Color Analysis Training is evergreen, so you don't need to wait for a cohort or scheduled start date.
Are there weekly live classes?
No. The Professional Color Analysis Training is self-paced. Jen's personal time is focused on reviewing your guided work, giving you individualized feedback, and meeting with you for your private final review.
When does my eight-week program begin?
Your eight-week Guided Color Analysis Training begins immediately when you enroll.
During those eight weeks, you'll have access to the complete Professional Color Analysis Training, professional Color Analysis Tool, guided assignments, and personalized feedback.
What will I learn?
You'll learn the Your Color Style methodology for evaluating Depth, Undertone, Chroma, Specificity, Dominance, and overall color harmony.
The training also teaches you how to work through gray and transitioning hair, olive skin, brown skin, and other nuanced coloring combinations.
How does the personal feedback work?
You'll choose three people to analyze, and you may choose yourself as one of them.
Each analysis is divided into six focused guided submissions, for a total of 18 submissions. This allows you to receive feedback as you move through the analysis rather than waiting until the entire case is complete.
What will I have completed by the end?
By the end of your guided practice, you'll have completed three real-person professional color analyses, worked through 18 guided submissions, and created three finished professional client reports.
What is the final 1:1 review?
After completing your three analyses and reports, you'll meet privately with Jen for a 45-minute Zoom session.
You'll review your progress, clarify remaining questions, discuss patterns Jen has noticed in your work, and talk about what will help you continue developing your professional eye.
What's included in the Color Analysis Tool?
The professional tool includes client management, photo preparation, structured analysis through Depth, Undertone, and Chroma, virtual color comparison, the Lip & Draping Studio, the complete YCS digital palette library, the ability to create or upload professional palettes, and the Professional Report Builder.
Can I use what I learn with another color analysis system?
Yes. Although the training teaches the Your Color Style methodology, the visual analysis and decision-making skills can strengthen the way you work within another professional framework.
You can also upload your own professional palettes into the Color Analysis Tool.
How long do I have access to the training?
You'll have access to the complete YCS Professional Color Analysis Training for eight weeks beginning when you enroll.
How long do I have access to the Color Analysis Tool?
Guided Training includes eight weeks of professional Color Analysis Tool access during your guided practice period.
If you'd like to continue using the professional tool afterward, standalone Tool access is available separately.
Is Guided Training the same as YCS Certification?
No. Guided Training teaches the professional YCS methodology and adds structured real-person practice and personalized feedback.
Certification is a separate professional pathway that adds formal competency requirements, additional evaluation and mentoring, and the Certified Your Color Style Color Analyst credential.
Do I have to pursue certification afterward?
No. Guided Training is designed to stand on its own. Certification is available if you later decide that earning the YCS professional credential fits your goals.
Who is Guided Training best for?
Guided Training is best for someone who wants professional color analysis education but doesn't want to learn completely independently.
It can be a good fit for future color analysts, practicing analysts, stylists, image consultants, makeup artists, hair stylists, boutique owners, personal shoppers, and others who want professional-level color analysis skills with personalized feedback.
Don't just learn color analysis. Practice it with feedback.
Learn a structured professional methodology, apply it to three real people, create finished client reports, and receive personal feedback as you develop your eye.
