Meet our Personal Stylists
Style With Cindy led by Style Director and Course Facilitator Cindy Newstead, is a pioneer of the personal styling industry who has been styling clients and facilitating styling courses across Australia for more than 20 years. Style with Cindy is the official Stylist for Chadstone The Fashion Capital and The Glen shopping centre, with elite certified personal stylists working under her leadership Australia wide.
Always regarded at the forefront of the industry, in 2016 Style With Cindy opened the first and only privately owned Styling Suite within a major shopping centre at Chadstone The Fashion Capital. The premiere Styling Suite at Chadstone the Fashion Capital is the hub of Australia’s foremost personal stylists and makeover experts, where we offer a range of affordable personal shopping, wardrobe makeovers, image consulting and colour analysis services that will suit your budget and goals.
Style with Cindy personal stylists work with clients to define their personal style and express themselves through their clothing in a way that best suits the image they wish to portray.
We show our clients how to use clothing to their advantage to enhance their body shape and feel confident about their appearance in every situation. Our personal stylists have an incredible ability to guide our clients on their style journey that saves them time and money by choosing the perfect pieces for their budget, lifestyle and personality.
OUR CLIENTS
With clients ranging from their teens to their eighties and with careers as diverse as stay at home Mum’s to Lawyers to entertainers to farmers to corporate business managers, we understand that everyone is different and to cater for this our stylists are trained to give all our clients the individual look and style that suits their personality, body shape, colours, lifestyle and age.
We are independent and are not aligned with any labels, we only shop at stores that suit the client’s style, body shape, age and budget. For our Personal Shopping service, we have negotiated discounts with many stores that are passed onto our clients and in many cases the savings alone from the client’s purchases exceeds the cost of our services.
Why Style with Cindy
- Our stylists are not self taught, they are highly trained certified personal stylists who have completed over 15,000 sessions.
- Our stylists don’t just have a natural sense of style, they are highly visual, efficient, and have a caring and gentle nature.
- Our stylists are trained to give all our clients the individual look and style that suits their personality, body shape, colours, lifestyle, age and budget. This means they do not dress you like themselves, they dress you for you 🙂
- Our stylists are trained to help people with issues of low confidence and self esteem.
- Style with Cindy has a team & collaboration culture, which means they meet regularly to discuss new styles, fashion, client relations and personal styling processes to ensure that we deliver the very best and unique personal styling service.
- With a diverse range of stylists it enables us to align clients with the very best stylist that will suit them and their desired outcome.
- All stylists are trained and mentored by Cindy who has experience with over 8,000 consultations.
Cindy Newstead
Director & Head Stylist
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 8,000 personal consultations over the last 20+ 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.
Frequently called on by the Australian fashion media for commentary on the latest trends and styling advice and together with her skills as an inspiring keynote speaker with a practical and energetic approach, has earned her a reputation as Australia’s most friendly and inspiring personal stylist and image consultant.
As well as an infectious passion for personal styling, Cindy has extensive expertise in assisting clients to dramatically change self-limiting beliefs that prevent them from achieving their goals. As well as being a certified colour consultant, Cindy’s in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of body shape and aesthetics have enabled her to build a service which many of her clients describe as life-changing.
Cindy is a mother of four as well as stepmother to four, so she can well appreciate the logistics and expense involved in raising a family, juggling a career and the many relationships that go with this, while at the same time still looking great. This is why Cindy’s services are practical and effective and at the same time priced at an affordable rate to help a style makeover an achievable prospect for everyone.
Jennifer Rice
Melbourne
A long-standing interest and enthusiasm for fashion and desire to help women build self-image and confidence led Jennifer to embark on her journey as a personal stylist. After impressing Cindy in both the Professional Styling Academy stylist training course and Advanced Certification, Jennifer was invited to join the Style With Cindy team as a stylist. Not only is Jennifer an in-demand stylist, but her previous experience in the makeup industry paved the way for Jennifer to become the make-up artist for the Style With Cindy’s mineral makeup brand, Femme La Vie.
Jennifer’s main goal with her clients is that they embrace themselves and come away with confidence in how they appear. Understanding how body shapes and features play into clothing choices enables Jennifer to help clients discover styles that are perfect just for them! Her favourite part of working with a client is when light bulb moments happen, the client sees what she sees, and they can take the lessons learned during their session away with them and use this knowledge going forward.
Jennifer “walks the talk” of embracing change at any age or stage and sharing this is her greatest motivation for working in personal styling.’
Kim Kennedy
Melbourne
Kim has been styling for 9 years, and started in the retail fashion industry many years before that while establishing her career.
Having three boys of her own, Kim can relate with clients who out of necessity are trying to create a practical wardrobe, but need help to inject personality and style to take it to the next level.
Kim then went on to combine her sharp eye for style with her innate ability to make people feel good about themselves and launched her own personal styling business which she ran for six years before being asked to join the elite styling team here at Style With Cindy.
Kim enjoys educating her clients about their unique body shape and which styles, cuts and colours work best for them. Kim’s main goal is to have her clients enjoy their styling experience and most importantly leave them feeling stylish, confident and special.
Barbra Williams
Melbourne
Barbra seeks to understand each client’s needs to create an experience that leaves them feeling inspired and confident in who they are through their personal style.
One of the first things Cindy said was: “styling is the heart of the fashion industry”. Barbra embodies that notion as she takes care to create a safe space for clients to explore their style and what works for them.
Mailie Hachem
Melbourne
For as long as Mailie can remember, fashion has been her absolute passion.
Completing the Professional Styling Academy training course only solidified what Mailie already knew, that personal styling was her true calling.
After beginning her career in fashion design and manufacturing, Mailie became an expert in the art of the perfect fit for both men and women. A trained, keen eye from her background in pattern making, has translated into sourcing the best cuts, styles and fabrics for clients that fit and flatter.
Nothing gives Mailie more joy than seeing a client’s face and body language transform in a styling session. Bringing confidence and helping a client see their true beautiful self is Mailie’s greater styling purpose.
Kornelia Speier
Sydney
Kornelia is a remarkably warm, kind, and compassionate individual whose passion lies in fashion and the art of personal styling. With a background that blends her upbringing in Europe and her professional experience with luxury brands in the beauty industry, she has cultivated exceptional people skills. Her journey also led her to become an interior designer, further enhancing her keen eye for detail and her unique ability to create harmonious looks with perfectly coordinated colors.
Aliesha Tuffley
Sydney
Aliesha exudes an extraordinary energy and zest for life. With a wealth of fashion expertise under her belt, she has successfully completed both Professional Styling Academy courses, earned an Advanced Diploma in Fashion and Business from Orana College, and achieved a Cert IV from the Makeup Academy. Her journey in the fashion industry also includes two years of invaluable retail experience at Cue, along with a stint as a presenter for FTV in the UK. These experiences converge to create a powerful foundation for her personal styling skills. Aliesha’s extensive background in styling has truly been her ultimate career choice.
Meagan Duncan
Brisbane
Meagan has styled for Style With Cindy for over a decade, and over that time has developed a very loyal client base that absolutely adores Meagan’s approach to everything fashion, style and confidence.
Meagan’s preparation, efficiency and attention to detail means that every session results in an end to end wardrobe of beautiful pieces perfect for the Brisbane climate.
Meagan’s relaxed and easygoing personality quickly allows clients to
feel comfortable and confident. Meagan enjoys adapting trends that cater for her clients budget and personal style to give fresh fashionable looks for their everyday needs and special occasions. She enjoys the transformation of her clients as they complete their personal journey.