Color Studio
Discover Your True Colors
Advanced Personal Color Analysis at District 23
A professional two-session color analysis experience designed to reveal the colors that naturally harmonize with your unique coloring.
Color plays a powerful role in visual harmony and personal presence. When tones align with your natural coloring, the effect is unmistakable: the complexion appears brighter, the eyes more vibrant, and the overall appearance feels balanced, polished, and refreshed.
Advanced personal color analysis reveals the tones that truly work with your skin tone, hair, and eyes. Instead of guessing what looks good, you gain a clear understanding of the colors that enhance your complexion, define your features, and bring harmony to your overall appearance.
With your personalized WOW Palette, getting dressed becomes easier and more intentional. Your wardrobe evolves into a curated collection of pieces that mix, match, and work together effortlessly. Shopping becomes clearer, styling becomes easier, and your personal style begins to feel natural and confident.
As you begin to understand your season and embrace your authentic palette, something shifts. You're no longer guessing what looks good—you know. Decisions become easier, wardrobes become more cohesive, and the confidence that follows is unmistakable.
The 23-Season Color System
A More Precise Approach to Color
Michelle specializes in the internationally recognized 23-Season Color System, one of the most advanced methodologies used in professional color analysis today.
Traditional seasonal color systems often divide individuals into broad categories such as Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. While these models provide a helpful foundation, they often overlook the subtle tonal variations that exist within natural coloring.
The Image Institute system expands upon traditional seasonal theory by evaluating multiple dimensions of color:
• undertone (warm or cool)
• value (light to dark)
• intensity (soft to vibrant)
• contrast and tonal balance
Through professional draping and tonal comparison, these elements reveal how colors interact with your natural coloring.
Michelle has trained in both the Image Institute’s 16-Season Flow System and the more advanced 23-Season methodology, gaining a comprehensive understanding of how subtle tonal variations influence an individual’s most harmonious palette.
Rather than assigning someone to a broad seasonal category, the 23-Season framework identifies a far more precise tonal palette, revealing the colors that naturally harmonize with a person’s complexion, eyes, and hair.
The result is a palette that feels both accurate and intuitive, providing a clear guide for selecting clothing, makeup, and accessories that consistently support your natural features.
What Makes the District 23 Color Experience Different
Color analysis has become increasingly popular in recent years, but not all color analysis experiences are the same.
At District 23 Boutique, Michelle uses a methodical, professional approach designed to ensure both accuracy and real-world application.
Two-Session Verified Process
Rather than completing the analysis in a single appointment, the District 23 experience is conducted over two sessions. This allows Michelle to carefully evaluate the draping results and return with confirmed findings during the color reveal.
Third-Party Verification
Your results are verified by an Image Institute third-party Master Consultant, providing an additional level of professional confirmation and accuracy.
Guided In-Studio Shopping Practice
During your second session, you will practice selecting clothing using your personal palette while Michelle explains what works, what doesn’t, and why. This hands-on experience helps clients confidently apply their colors when shopping.
Advanced Training & Ongoing Study
Michelle continues to train one-on-one with Karen Brunger, founder of the International Image Institute and creator of the 23-Season Color System, ensuring her expertise continues to evolve alongside the most advanced methodologies in the field.
The Signature Lifetime Color Experience
A Two-Session Professional Color Analysis
$395
Your color experience is conducted over two sessions, allowing time for careful analysis, verification, and practical application of your palette.
Session One – Professional Draping
Your first appointment includes a private one-hour draping session using calibrated color fabrics designed specifically for tonal evaluation.
By observing how different colors interact with your complexion, Michelle evaluates brightness, undertone, harmony, and contrast to determine your placement within the Image Institute color framework.
Session Two – Color Reveal & Guided Shopping
During the second session, your verified results are revealed and your personalized WOW Palette of Colors is presented.
Clients then participate in a guided in-studio shopping experience, where they practice selecting clothing using their personal palette while Michelle explains what works, what doesn’t, and why.
This hands-on session ensures you leave with both clear results and real-world confidence when shopping within your palette.
What’s Included
• Private professional draping session
• Color reveal and guided in-studio shopping session
• Personalized WOW Palette of Colors
• Seasonal Guidebook tailored to your season
• Big Book of Makeup tailored to your season
• Result verification by a third-party Master Consultant
Color Confidence Guarantee
Your color analysis is conducted using the 23-Season Color Analysis Methodology developed by the International Image Institute. This highly refined system evaluates undertone, value, intensity, and seasonal flow through a professional draping process to accurately identify the palette that best harmonizes with your natural coloring. Because I stand behind the integrity of this process, if you ever feel uncertain about your results, I will gladly review and re-drape your analysis. My goal is that every client has complete clarity and confidence in the colors that best support their natural coloring.
Optional Color Tools
Enhance Your Color Experience
Fabric Swatch Passport $100.00
Portable fabric swatches designed to help you shop with confidence.
Seasonal Flag $150.00
A full seasonal palette reference is ideal for wardrobe planning.
About Michelle Tjelmeland
Color Analyst, Educator, and Design Professional
Michelle Tjelmeland brings together advanced color science, design expertise, and an educator’s approach to help clients discover their most authentic palette.
She has nearly three decades of experience in design, branding, and website development, giving her a highly trained eye for visual harmony and aesthetic balance.
Michelle holds a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and previously taught 7th and 8th grade language arts, an experience that continues to influence the way she guides clients through the color discovery process.
Michelle’s professional study of color analysis began under internationally recognized image consultant Christie Ressel, where she was introduced to the deeper principles of tonal color analysis and the Image Institute methodology.
Committed to developing a comprehensive understanding of professional color systems, Michelle also completed certification training in both the Color Me Beautiful and Drops de Cor methods, broadening her perspective on seasonal color theory and tonal analysis.
Recognizing the precision and sophistication of the Image Institute framework, Michelle continued her advanced study and completed mastery-level training in person at the Image Institute in Canada under founder Karen Brunger, creator of the 16-Season Flow System and the advanced 23-Season Color System.
Through this rigorous training, Michelle earned the highly esteemed designation as an in-person two-time certified color analyst and now specializes in the internationally recognized 23-Season Color System by Image Institute.
Today, Michelle continues one-on-one training with Karen Brunger, further refining her eye and deepening her expertise in the Image Institute color analysis methodology.
For more questions or to schedule your color analysis appointment with Michelle, call 217-679-1352.