Learn color analysis with guidance along the way.
Learn how to evaluate depth, undertone, chroma, harmony, and the unique characteristics that influence a great color analysis — then put what you're learning into practice with professional tools and personalized feedback.
You'll learn the Your Color Style methodology, complete three full professional color analyses through 18 guided mini assignments, receive personalized feedback along the way, and finish with a private 1:1 review.
Already trained in another color analysis system? Use the skills you learn here — and even the Color Analysis Tool — within the professional system you already practice.
Knowing color theory is not the same as knowing what you're actually seeing.
Real people rarely fit perfectly into simplified examples. Hair changes. Skin tones are nuanced. Olive coloring can be confusing. Chroma can be subtle. Different characteristics can create combinations that require more thoughtful analysis.
Guided Color Analysis Training gives you a structured way to work through those decisions — and an experienced set of eyes on your work while you're learning.
Learn the Method
Work through the complete 6-module YCS Professional Color Analysis Training at your own pace.
Apply What You Learn
Analyze three real people from start to finish using the YCS methodology and professional Color Analysis Tool.
Get Personal Feedback
Receive personalized feedback as you work through your analyses so you can understand what you're seeing and refine your decision-making.
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.
You'll learn the foundational analysis process and then learn how to apply it when someone's coloring is more nuanced.
Determine Depth
Learn how to evaluate whether someone is best supported by lighter, medium, or deeper colors and understand the role depth plays in the complete analysis.
Determine Undertone
Learn how to evaluate warm, cool, and olive characteristics through comparison instead of relying on surface clues alone.
Determine Chroma
Learn how to recognize whether clearer, brighter color or softer, more muted color creates greater harmony with an individual's coloring.
Analyze Gray Hair
Learn how to analyze people with gray and transitioning hair using the YCS methodology instead of allowing hair color alone to determine the result.
Analyze Olive & Brown Skin
Develop a structured approach to analyzing olive skin tones, brown skin, and a wider range of complexions and undertones.
Work Through Unique Combinations
Learn how to think through people whose coloring doesn't fit neatly into common assumptions — including unique combinations of depth, undertone, chroma, hair color, skin tone, and contrast.
You don't have to abandon the system you already use.
You'll be learning the Your Color Style methodology, but the 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 combinations can strengthen the way you analyze color within another professional framework.
If you already practice a seasonal, tonal, or other professional color analysis system, you can incorporate the techniques and decision-making skills that serve you into the system you already use.
Practice inside a complete professional color analysis workspace.
Your Guided Color Analysis Training includes eight weeks of access to the YCS Color Analysis Tool so you can apply what you're learning to real people.
The tool brings client management, photo preparation, structured analysis, virtual color comparison, professional palettes, and report creation together in one place.
Client Management
Create and manage individual client records so your client information, photos, and analysis work stay organized in one professional workspace.
Photo Prep
Prepare and adjust your client's photo inside the tool before beginning the color analysis process.
Structured YCS Analysis
Work step by step through the three core decisions in the Your Color Style methodology: Depth, Undertone, and Chroma.
Lip & Draping Studio
Compare a client side by side with different color palettes and lip colors so you can evaluate how different color directions interact with their coloring.
All YCS Digital Palettes
Access the complete collection of Your Color Style digital color palettes while you train and work through your analyses.
Upload Your Own Palettes
Already use another professional color analysis system? Upload your own color palettes and use them inside the tool for your own professional work.
Professional Report Builder
Turn each completed analysis into a polished professional client report. Your guided training takes you through the entire workflow — from preparing the client photo and making your color decisions to creating the finished report.
Use YCS palettes — or bring your own.
You don't have to become a Your Color Style analyst to benefit from the Color Analysis Tool.
Because you can upload your own professional color palettes, you can use the tool for client management, photo preparation, analysis, side-by-side virtual color comparisons, and professional reports while continuing to make recommendations within the color system you already practice.
You'll also have access to all YCS digital palettes, giving you everything you need to learn and practice the YCS methodology during your guided training.
Professional education plus personal guidance.
Guided Color Analysis Training combines the complete YCS Professional Training with hands-on practice, professional tools, and personal feedback so you can turn what you're learning into a repeatable skill.
Professional Training
- âś“ Complete 6-module YCS Professional Color Analysis Training
- âś“ 6 months of access to your training
- âś“ Training in Depth, Undertone, and Chroma
- âś“ Training for gray hair, olive skin tones, brown skin, and unique coloring combinations
- âś“ Professional photo preparation and virtual color analysis workflow
Guided Practice
- âś“ 3 complete professional color analyses
- ✓ 6 guided mini assignments for each analysis — 18 guided submissions total
- âś“ Personalized feedback from Jen as you work through your analyses
- âś“ 3 finished professional client reports created with the Report Builder
- âś“ 8 weeks of access to the complete Color Analysis Tool
- âś“ Access to all YCS digital color palettes during your 8-week tool period
- âś“ One private 45-minute final Zoom review with Jen
Learn the process. Apply it to real people. Build complete reports.
There is no cohort start date and no weekly live class schedule. Begin when you're ready and move through the training and guided practice during your access period.
Work Through the Professional Training
Learn the Your Color Style methodology, the professional workflow, and how to use the Color Analysis Tool.
Choose 3 People to Analyze
Select three people for your guided practice. You may include yourself as one of the three if you'd like.
Complete 6 Mini Assignments for Each Person
Each complete color analysis is broken into six focused submissions. Work through the analysis step by step and receive personalized feedback as your skills develop.
Complete 3 Professional Analyses & Reports
Bring your decisions together inside the Color Analysis Tool and use the Professional Report Builder to create a finished client report for each person.
Finish With a Private 1:1 Review
After your three analyses and reports are complete, meet privately with Jen for a 45-minute Zoom session to review your progress, clarify remaining questions, and discuss your next steps.
Complete 3 full professional color analyses from start to finish.
You'll choose three real people to analyze. One of them can be you.
For each person, you'll work through six focused mini assignments that guide you through the professional color analysis process step by step.
Instead of waiting until the end to discover whether you understood the process, you'll receive personalized feedback while you're learning and applying the methodology.
By the end of your guided practice, you'll have completed three full professional color analyses and created three finished client reports inside the tool.
Complete Analysis #1
Choose your first person — yourself, if you'd like — and work through all six guided mini assignments.
Complete Analysis #2
Apply the same structured methodology to a second person and strengthen your ability to make consistent decisions across different coloring.
Complete Analysis #3
Complete a third full analysis and bring together everything you've learned into another polished professional result.
The result: 3 complete professional color analyses and 3 finished client reports.
Six months to learn. Eight focused weeks for guided practice and tools.
Your training access and guided practice period are intentionally different. You'll have time to revisit the education even after your guided work and included tool access are complete.
Revisit lessons, review demonstrations, deepen your understanding, and continue learning from the Professional Color Analysis Training for six months from enrollment.
Use the Color Analysis Tool and YCS digital palettes while completing your three professional color analyses, 18 guided mini assignments, and finished client reports.
Finish with a private conversation about your work.
After completing your three professional color analyses and their final reports, you'll meet privately with Jen for a 45-minute Zoom session.
This isn't another training class. It's time focused specifically on your development — where you've become confident, where you may still be hesitating, patterns Jen has noticed in your work, and what will help you continue refining your eye.
You can also use this time to talk through how you'd like to continue using what you've learned.
For learners who want flexibility without learning completely alone.
Guided Color Analysis Training is designed for both new learners and experienced professionals who want stronger color analysis skills with personal feedback.
Future Color Analysts
Learn a complete structured methodology and begin developing the practical skills needed to analyze people confidently.
Beauty & Style Professionals
Add deeper color knowledge to your existing 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 what serves you into the professional color system you already use.
Keep practicing — and get help when you need it.
Your included Color Analysis Tool access and guided practice period end after eight weeks, but you'll continue to have access to the Professional Color Analysis Training for the remainder of your six-month course period.
After the guided period, you can continue using the professional tool or purchase individual case reviews from Jen when you want feedback.
Certification is a separate professional path.
Guided Color Analysis Training is designed to stand on its own. You don't need certification to continue using what you've learned, continue with the tool, or purchase individual case feedback.
If you later decide you want to become a Certified Your Color Style Color Analyst, the YCS Certification Program is available as a separate professional pathway.
Guided Training Does Not Include
- Ă— Your Color Style Certification
- Ă— The Certified YCS Color Analyst credential
- Ă— Unlimited ongoing personal feedback
- Ă— Ongoing tool access after the included 8 weeks
“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 6-module YCS Professional Color Analysis Training, 6 months of course access, 8 weeks of access to the complete Color Analysis Tool and YCS digital palettes, 3 full professional color analyses developed through 18 guided mini assignments, personalized feedback from Jen, 3 finished professional client reports, and one private 45-minute final review.
There is no cohort start date and no weekly live training schedule. Your six months of course access and eight-week guided practice period begin when you enroll.
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 giving you feedback as you work through your guided analyses and meeting with you for your private final review.
What will I learn?
You'll learn the Your Color Style methodology for evaluating Depth, Undertone, and Chroma and how to apply that structured process to real people.
The training also teaches you how to work through people with gray hair, olive skin tones, brown skin, and other unique or nuanced coloring combinations using the YCS methodology.
Can I use what I learn with another color analysis system?
Yes. Although the training teaches the Your Color Style methodology, the visual skills and decision-making process can strengthen the way you work within another professional color analysis framework.
You can also upload your own professional color palettes into the Color Analysis Tool and use them in your professional work.
What's included in the Color Analysis Tool?
The Color Analysis Tool gives you a complete professional workflow in one place: client management, Photo Prep for adjusting client photos, a structured analysis process through Depth, Undertone, and Chroma, the Lip & Draping Studio for side-by-side color comparisons, access to all YCS digital color palettes, the ability to upload your own professional palettes, and a Professional Report Builder for creating finished client reports.
How long do I have access to the training?
You'll have access to the complete YCS Professional Color Analysis Training for six months from enrollment.
How long do I have access to the Color Analysis Tool?
Your enrollment includes eight weeks of access to the complete Color Analysis Tool and YCS digital color palettes.
After your included period ends, continued tool access is available for $97 per month.
How does the guided practice and personal feedback work?
You'll choose three people to analyze — and you may choose yourself as one of them. Each complete analysis is divided into six focused mini assignments, for a total of 18 guided submissions.
This lets you work through the professional analysis process step by step and receive personalized feedback as your skills develop. By the end, you'll have completed three full professional color analyses and created three finished client reports.
What is the final 1:1 review?
After completing your three professional color analyses and final reports, you'll schedule a private 45-minute Zoom session with Jen to review your progress, clarify remaining questions, and discuss what you may want to practice or pursue next.
Can I get feedback after the guided period ends?
Yes. After Guided Training, you can submit an individual completed color analysis to Jen for personal review and feedback for $49 per case.
Can I keep using the Color Analysis Tool afterward?
Yes. Continued access is available for $97 per month after your included eight-week tool period ends.
Is this certification?
No. Guided Color Analysis Training teaches the professional YCS methodology and includes guided practice and personalized feedback, but it does not include the Certified Your Color Style Color Analyst credential.
Do I have to pursue certification afterward?
No. Guided Training is a complete learning experience on its own.
You can continue using the tool for $97 per month and purchase individual case reviews for $49 each without joining certification.
Can I pursue certification later?
Yes. If you later decide you want to earn the Certified Your Color Style Color Analyst credential, you can continue into the separate YCS Certification Program.
Who is this training best for?
Guided Color Analysis Training is appropriate for future color analysts, practicing analysts, stylists, image consultants, makeup artists, hair stylists, boutique owners, personal shoppers, and serious color enthusiasts who want professional-level education with personalized feedback.
Learn color analysis by actually doing color analysis.
Learn a structured professional methodology, apply it to three real people, use professional tools, create finished client reports, and receive personal feedback as you develop your eye.
