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@katppayne

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20+Years Editorial•Bridal•Events I help women feel the best version of themselves

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Hi, I’m Kat — the face behind Style Society ✨ For 20 years I’ve been doing hair and makeup because I love helping women bring out there best features so they look in the mirror and love what you they see and step into their most beautiful , confident self s . I can’t wait to bring that to you. Melbourne lets create something magical get in touch 💋 by @katppayne

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Before you buy another foundation, look at what's going on underneath it. 👀

Great makeup starts with great skin. @medicube_global_official @dalba_global @embryolisseau @kiehlsanz

Why it matters:
💧 Hydrated skin means no patchy or cakey base
✨ Smooth, prepped skin lets foundation melt in
🕐 A good prep keeps your makeup fresh from the first photo to the last dance

After 20 years behind the brush, I can tell you the best-looking skin on the day isn't about the most expensive foundation. It's the prep: hydrated, calm, well-cared-for skin that lets makeup melt in and last.

Want a flawless base for your wedding, event or shoot? Book your Style Society artist via the link in bio.

📍 Melbourne-wide mobile hair and makeup

#StyleSocietyAustralia #MelbourneMakeupArtist #MelbourneBride #MobileMakeupArtist SkinPrep by @katppayne

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Basking in the holiday after glow ✨ Greece, you were everything. Long lunches that turned into long afternoons, salty hair, golden light, and not a single alarm clock in sight.

I came home with a tan, a camera roll full of sunsets, and something more valuable: a reminder of how I actually want to live.

Slower mornings. Better food. Time for the people I love. Work that fits around a good life, not the other way around.

That's the energy I'm bringing back to my business, too. Showing up fully, creating beautiful things, and leaving room to breathe. 🌊

Holding onto this feeling for as long as I can.

Where's your happy place? Tell me below 👇

#GreeceTravel #HolidayGlow #AfterHolidayGlow #LivingWell #SmallBusinessOwner taken in Santorini, Greece by @katppayne

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The details make the difference. Behind the glam ✨ Getting our Wise Women Magazine guests ready to shine ✨

Want this for your event? Email us 📩 link in bio taken in The Kilburn by @katppayne

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Wait for it ….✨✨✨style society s signature soft glam . Fresh glowy and perfect for any event . Book on our website. Products used tagged below 👇. Foundation @house_labs Eyeshadow @patricktabeauty Bronzer @Rhode @hourglasscosmetics Blush @makeupbymario @hourglasscosmetics Lipliner @makeupforever Lipstick @maccosmetics Lipgloss @fentybeauty Body glow @be.u.beauty by @katppayne

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Wonderful to celebrate women’s wisdom with the launch of this year’s Wise Women magazine. Honoured to be among this incredible group of amazing women 🤩🤩#wisewomen #suziethoraval #simplygrayphotography #adaptivestability by @katppayne

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Meet Jane Lynch, 70. @_notplainjane

Diagnosed with an autoimmune liver disease in her early forties and told she would need a transplant within ten years, Jane found a way to halt the disease's progression and never looked back.

At 53, a stroke left her speaking in single syllables while her employer made her redundant, and she rebuilt from there, unable to say the word marketing but understanding exactly where the industry was heading. She built a social media business, then moved into real estate, then home styling, at its peak leading a team styling forty properties a month.

Somewhere along the way, women started asking her what to do next with their lives, and those conversations became Not Plain Jane, a reinvention company for women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies. She is currently building her fourth business and writing a book, much of it from a hospital waiting room while her husband receives cancer treatment, the truest example, she says, of what reinvention actually looks like.

Jane reminds us: You can wait for the right conditions. Or you can begin with the actual ones.

Wise Women Magazine 2026. Launching August 19, at The Kilburn, Hawthorn.

Tickets on sale now: https://www.trybooking.com/DNWAK. LAST DAY TO BOOK TICKETS

Follow Simply Gray and Jane to be part of the big celebration.

MUA: @katppayne @stylesocietyaustralia

#WiseWomen2026 #SimplyGrayPhotography #WomenOver40 #MidlifeWomen #WomenInBusiness by @katppayne

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Meet Kellie Lyons, 46. @kellie.m.lyons

In Year 3, a teacher told her she could be smart or beautiful, never both. Kellie chose smart. She joined the debate team at nine, got called a square for it, and kept going anyway. She had every box ticked for law at Melbourne University, and at the very last moment, walked away from it. It was never the courtroom she wanted. It was the thinking.

Twenty-five years on, she is the founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of Perspicacious, currently writing her first book on decision mastery, and still walking into boardrooms full of men, prepared every time. She used to measure success by the house, the car, the things you could point to. Now she measures it by freedom, by being the one who gets to decide.

Some days that old teacher's voice still finds her. She has learned exactly what to say back.

"I am intelligent. I am capable. I am strong. And I am beautiful."

Wise Women Magazine 2026. Launching August 19, at The Kilburn, Hawthorn.
Tickets on sale now: https://www.trybooking.com/DNWAK.

Follow Simply Gray and Kellie to be part of the big celebration.

MUA: @katppayne
Photographer and Wise Women Editor: Gray Tham@simplygrayphotography

#WiseWomen2026 #SimplyGrayPhotography #WomenOver40 #MidlifeWomen #WomenInBusiness #WomenWhoLead #MidlifeReinvention by @katppayne

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Meet Jacquie Quaine, 52. @jacquieq_beauty

For 14 years she ran a successful personal training and running coaching business, until wear and tear from years of training led to three tough surgeries, both ankles reconstructed and fused. She shut the doors on the business she loved. Then, at 47, came three lumps in her left breast, and a body reconstructed through removal, reduction, hernia repair, and a radical tummy tuck. What broke me, made me, she says, and she means it.

From that place she built Mrs Q Skincare, a business for women like her, mature, real, and done settling. A personal trainer for the face, just without the cardio.

Jac reminds us: Life will always have its challenges and sometimes we get knocked to the ground. That is not the challenge. The real challenge is picking ourselves back up and walking forward again with our head held high and shoulders back.

Wise Women Magazine 2026. Launching August 19, at The Kilburn, Hawthorn.

🙌Tickets on sale now: https://www.trybooking.com/DNWAK.

Follow Simply Gray and Jacquie to be part of the big celebration.

MUA and Assistant: @katppayne
Photographer: Gray Tham @simplygrayphotography

#WiseWomen2026 #SimplyGrayPhotography #WomenOver40 #MidlifeWomen #WomenInBusiness by @katppayne

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Have you ever taken a risk and, in the moment, felt like a complete fool?

You know that little voice. “What on earth am I doing? People are going to think I look ridiculous.”

Then something unexpected happens.
You see the result and realise you absolutely nailed it.

It feels as though someone has given you permission to be bold, to trust yourself, to take up space. But the truth is, you never needed anyone’s permission. You had it in you all along.

That is exactly what happened with this portrait of Leonie.

A couple of weeks ago, I asked her to trust me. She laughed and admitted she felt a little silly doing this pose. I understood. It was different. It felt unfamiliar.
But I could see the photograph before we had even taken it.

When we sat down together at her reveal, we both knew. We had created something special.

It took courage from both of us. I had to be brave enough to ask her to do something that felt a little uncomfortable. She had to be brave enough to trust me and follow through.

That is where the magic happened.
So, what do you think? Did we nail it?
To be honest, I do not really care what everyone else thinks.

I love it. Leonie loves it. And that is what matters.

Maybe that is the reminder we all need.
Stop worrying so much about what other people might think. Trust your instincts. Follow your heart. Lean into the uncomfortable.

That is often where the most extraordinary things are waiting.

Hair and make-up by the wonderful @katppayne

#simplygrayphotography #womenover40 #womenover50 #womenempowerment taken in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia by @katppayne

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At eleven she wanted to be the magician. Not the assistant. The one who performed the tricks.

She grew up with nothing and put herself through law school Built the career. Got the status. The money. The firm.

And found it did not feel like freedom at all.

On her 50th birthday she resigned the next day. Not on a whim.

Meet Suzie Thoraval, 51.
Leadership strategist. Coach. Board director.
@suziethoraval

Woman who learned that growth only ever lives on the other side of comfort.

She says:
"Rest is not a reward. It is a requirement."
"You can lead in your way. There is no archetype of a leader you need to follow."

Suzie's full story is coming in Wise Women Magazine 2026.

Launching Wednesday 19 August 2026 at The Kilburn Hotel, this special evening will be both a celebration and a reunion.

A chance to honour Suzie, celebrate our 2026 Wise Women, and bring together the women over 40 who have been part of this project, this community, and this story.

Save this. Follow along. You will not want to miss it.

@simplygrayphotography

MUA: @katppayne

#WiseWomen2026 #SimplyGrayPhotography #WomenOver40 #MidlifeWomen #WomenInBusiness #WomensWisdom by @katppayne

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