Meet our Personal Stylists

One of Australia’s most sought after personal stylists and early pioneers to bring personal styling to the everyday Australian, Cindy Newstead has carried out over 7,000 personal consultations over the last 16 years and has provided inspiration and motivation to men and women from all walks of life across Australia and beyond.

Cindy’s professional style journey has taken her as far as Europe and the US. She is a leading trainer and mentor of many successful stylists and has been a head stylist as part of the Australian L’Oreal Fashion Week. Her impeccable skills as a stylist are enhanced by her qualifications as a certified colour consultant, an NLP Master Practitioner and an educator and facilitator of Australia’s finest and most respected styling academy.

Cindy is also the creator and presenter of the bi-annual Style Review runway, a real world fashion parade that is fast becoming a highlight on the fashion calendar. She is Chadstone – The Fashion Capital’s ‘A’ list stylist and is the author of “You Are More Than Just Your Bits” a book that helps people with the emotional issues that surround their appearance while helping them through their style challenges to find a style that suits their personality, body shape and lifestyle.

Trained as an Advanced Personal Stylist under Cindy Newstead, Gabrielle has a passion for fashion and a dedication to empowering her clients to realise their true potential. “Inner beauty, outer style” is a philosophy Gabrielle personally lives by and also brings to her work as a Personal Stylist. She is a big believer that the inner and outer are inextricably linked. By helping her clients look more fabulous, she is passionate that this can also help them feel more fabulous, opening up new possibilities in their professional and personal lives. Gabrielle’s Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner certification provides an added richness to the personalised styling experience she offers her clients.

Having spent a lifetime exploring and playing with fashion, Gabrielle has a style that can be described as elegant and “put together”.

Alice began her career as a beauty therapist, and realising how much she enjoyed working with people, went on to study her degree in nursing.

Alice worked as a registered nurse in between raising her two boys and continued to enjoy making a difference in people lives.

Unable to resist her love of fashion and Style, Alice decided to team her incredible visual eye with her empathetic nature to work as a personal Stylist with the everyday person.

Karen first realised her gift for styling after many years of friends asking her to take them shopping for clothing that suited them…”you know what looks good” they would say.

Nikki’s background in sales, marketing and training has a common thread running through it…. a strong passion for fashion and style.

Starting in teaching, her career encompassed retail fashion, modelling, then working as an image consultant, for a number of years. Nikki has extensive experience in high level corporate and personal training and styling.

Her focus has always been on empowering the individual, through development of self confidence and self esteem.

Vanessa has completed in-depth training with Cindy Newstead, including further certification as an Advanced Personal Stylist. Vanessa describes herself as ‘a Melbourne born and raised woman who loves food, travelling, shopping and most of all, making people feel amazing about themselves.’

With 15 years experience as a national Retail Design manager for a Melbourne and Sydney based Architectural firm, Lesley’s knowledge and appreciation for the retail industry is unquestionable.

After moving to Sydney from Melbourne in 2005, the transition for Lesley from the retail design industry to becoming a personal stylist has been a very natural and positive progression. Lesley’s commitment to styling clients is professional, efficient and personal, as she recognises that each client is unique and so should their styling experience.

Spending close to 20 years in a corporate environment as a successful Project Manager running National and International committees and then working with the Government as an Investigator, Céline finally took the plunge and stepped out of the corporate world and embarked on a journey of self-discovery and found herself seated in Cindy’s Personal Styling course.

Céline had finally found what ‘stirred her heart ablaze with passion.’ Céline continued on with Cindy and completed the Advanced Styling Course with astounding results and shortly joined the family.

Kris’s career began in fashion with an International Women’s label that enabled her to encompass all areas of fashion including selling to boutiques in Australia, international buying, house modeling, retail and opening a boutique in Canberra.

Her passion and connection of working with people took her to the Recruitment Industry as a Consultant for six years before she left to have her two girls.

Over the many years that Meagan has worked in the Fashion Industry developing her skills and love for Fashion and Style, it encouraged her to pursue her dream to become a Personal Stylist and since her training and mentoring from Cindy, her dream become reality.

Meagan’s relaxed and easygoing personality quickly allows clients to

After a successful career worldwide in Trust Management, Project Management, and Retail, Tracey has taken her passion of people and fashion to the forefront of her work to join the Style with Cindy team.

As a mother of 2, Tracey understands how easy it is to put everyone else