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The Beauticate Collective

Meet The Beauticate Collective

Meet The Beauticate Collective - a curated network of editors, experts and tastemakers shaping beauty, wellness, style and modern living. These are the women redefining what trusted recommendations look like now.

There’s something quietly powerful about a trusted recommendation. Not the kind that shouts. The kind that lands softly. The one you save, screenshot, and come back to. At Beauticate, that has always been the goal. To cut through the noise and bring you what actually works. What’s worth your time. What feels good, not just looks good.

Building this platform has been, among many things, a long and deliberate search for the right women to be part of it. Some I met in the magazine world over two decades ago. Some I discovered through their work. Some have been in my life for so long that formalising it almost feels funny: Mon has been colouring my hair for five years, Kristin has been styling Beauticate shoots for nearly a decade, and Kate, Rae and Jocelyn were among the very first women I interviewed for Beauticate, twelve years ago, when all of this was still a passion project I was building after hours at Vogue.

What we are announcing today is not an influencer program. Nor is it a paid partnership arrangement dressed up as editorial. It’s something I’ve been quietly building toward for years.

The Beauticate Collective is a curated group of editors, experts and tastemakers. Women at the top of their fields whose opinions carry weight because they have lived it, tested it and refined it over years, not weeks. Not built on follower count – built on credibility, taste and trust. Think of it as an extension of Beauticate’s editorial voice: a network of contributors who will share personal product edits, expert features, their real routines and rituals, and help shape what lands in the Beauticate.Shop (Eeep! More on that soon!).

I am so excited for this. I hope you love The Collective as much as I do.

Sigourney x

Kate Waterhouse

Kate Waterhouse

Kate was one of the very first women I ever interviewed on Beauticate, twelve years ago (and then again just a few months ago). Effortless, polished, always one step ahead – and, it turns out, completely one of us. She once tried to squeeze a laser facial between hosting sessions at a major fashion event. Sprinted there in full glam. The technician sent her straight back. “Honestly, the confidence I had in that plan is concerning,” she says dryly. Her mornings, by her own admission, are chaos: pyjamas, the dog, the garden, lunchboxes, school run.“It’s not giving ‘wellness morning routine.’ It’s giving survival mode.”

Rae Morris

Rae Morris

Another of the OG Beauticate beauties and one of the first makeup artists I interviewed when I became a beauty editor over 20 years ago. Four-time Makeup Artist of the Year, bestselling author, known for her skin-first approach – and, it turns out, a brilliant storyteller. She once got veneers without fully understanding the filing process involved. The temporaries arrived looking like, in her words, “luminous yellow piano keys.” They fell off on day one of a major shoot. “It remains one of the more humbling moments of my career.” On feeling beautiful now: “Kindness – always – is the most beautiful thing. I really wish I’d known that earlier.”

Jocelyn Petroni

Jocelyn Petroni

Joss used to look after my skin when I was at Vogue and when I first went to shoot her for Beauticate over 12 years ago (read our latest chat). I was in awe of her polished style and home. It always struck me as so beautiful that she would meditate while she gave facials. You could literally feel her healing energy through her hands. As one of Australia’s most respected facialists and CHANEL’s first Australian nail expert, she closed her famous salon recently and now works on a variety of projects while juggling two beautiful children. “I am embracing my age. I don’t want to conceal it, and I don’t want to try to look younger than I am.”

Michelle Bridges

Michelle Bridges

One of Australia’s most recognised voices in health and fitness (see our first interview together). Trainer, author, creator of the 12WBT program and host of podcast We Have A Situation. Decades of experience helping people rethink their relationship with movement, strength and longevity. Her biggest beauty regret? A high-frequency laser treatment that made her, in her own words, “absolutely unrecognisable”. “Even my phone couldn’t do face recognition. My son was scared. My dog too. The least glamorous part of her day? Driving her son to school in her pyjamas and a puffer jacket. “People think I’m in the gym for hours, or that I’m super strict with food. They feel they need to confess their sins to me! I promise you, you don’t.”

Jacqueline Alwill

Jacqueline Alwill

Accredited Nutritionist, author and co-host of Channel 10’s Good Chef Bad Chef. Known for making nutrition feel practical and achievable through her platform Brown Paper Nutrition (read our chat here). “I think people see me as calm, organised and structured, and in a lot of ways I can be, but the reality of my life with three kids and running a full-time nutrition business means life is actually complete and utter chaos,” she admits. Her most relatable confession? “I do my makeup in the car nearly every single day. Which, for someone not very confident with makeup, really shouldn’t be done.” Feeling beautiful? “Strong, confident and grounded.”

Monique McMahon

Mon McMahon

Hair Editor Mon has been colouring my hair for five years. When you find the person who just gets it, you don’t let them go (read about QUE). Founder and Colour Director of Sydney salon QUE, with more than 30 years of experience, she trained with some of the great houses in hair – Christophe Robin, Vidal Sassoon and Jacques Dessange – and brings that global perspective to hair that looks effortless because the work behind it is anything but. Her philosophy is simple: healthy hair first, always. “You don’t have to do a lot to get an incredible result.”

Camilla Thompson

Camilla Thompson

Author of Biohack Me and executive coach Camilla Thompson specialises in longevity and performance. She once flew to Dallas for a biohacking conference and came home with food poisoning. “Nothing like being surrounded by the world’s top health experts while feeling your absolute worst.” Her bedtime routine? “Nose strips, mouth tape, eye mask. I look absolutely unhinged.” And she swears by cold showers with humming. “The cold activates a stress response; the humming stimulates the vagus nerve. It’s about training your body to stay calm under pressure.” “People think I live like a full-time biohacker. In reality, I’m a busy founder doing my best.”

Kristin Rawson

Kristin Rawson

Kristin and I go way back, and I trust her eye implicitly. She spent nearly a decade styling for Harper’s Bazaar and Teen Vogue in New York before turning her eye to interiors. She has styled Beauticate shoots for over ten years and is one of the first people I call when I need to make a decision about anything from cushions to couches. “When it comes to ageing, I say go gracefully – with a little bit of help.” Check out one of our first chats here.

Shentel Lee

Shentel Lee

I’ve admired Shentel’s creativity for years, but when she started her philanthropic work with Kuching Food Aid, she rose to a whole new level in my eyes. The Australian-Malaysian designer and entrepreneur straddles two countries while producing thoughtful, inspired work across design, retail and community initiatives. Her feeling beautiful answer stopped me:“It’s about self-trust. Being comfortable in your own decisions and not dressing or living for someone else’s approval.”

Dr Amy Chahal

Dr Amy

Cosmetic physician and founder of The Centre for Medical Aesthetics and FutureSkin. Known for evidence-based treatments that are considered, never overdone – and for holding herself to exactly the same standard she holds her patients. She once booked herself a full day of back-to-back treatments purely to understand how it feels from the other side. “The waiting, the discomfort, the vulnerability, the moments where you question your life choices mid-procedure. It wasn’t glamorous. But it changed how I practise.” Her most relatable truth? “People assume I’m always on. The truth is I’m either completely on, or completely off and horizontal – with zero in between. The aesthetic is polished. The pace is not.”

Dr Leanne Girgis

GP, cosmetic physician and founder of ingestible wellness brand Innour, Leanne has a holistic approach to health shaped by clinical practice, motherhood and building a brand from scratch. “People assume that being a doctor means neatly scheduled appointments and always having it together. The reality is racing the kids to school, unexpected emergencies, and piles of paperwork.” Her philosophy is that “consistency and simplicity will always outperform extremes.” And naturally, her secret weapon is marine collagen: “It quietly does its thing behind the scenes – supporting joints, connective tissue, energy and mood.”

Brooke Stevenson

I first met Brooke in her former life managing high-end skin clinics, and years later our paths crossed again after she became a Reiki Master and founder of Luxe Wellness Collective. Her 9D breathwork sessions – combining binaural beats, music, live affirmations and guided breathwork through immersive headsets – have to be experienced to be believed. “The breath reveals where stress, tension and emotion are stored within the body,” she says. “With intention, awareness and conscious breath, we can begin to regulate the nervous system and create space for clarity, calm and transformation.”

Kerrie Gentle

I met Kerrie many moons ago when she gave me a mini facial at a beauty event. Let’s just say, a face massage with those hands was never going to be long enough. With 37 years in the industry, Kerrie still can’t say no to an opportunity. She once agreed to overnight film shoots while simultaneously working backstage at fashion week. “I’d go home as the sun came up, attempt to look human, and head straight backstage running on Red Bull, bad coffee and adrenaline.” As Senior Colour Specialist for MECCA and one half of Kerrie x Simone Masterclasses, she’s passionate about making women over 40 feel genuinely, modernly themselves.

Simone Aspinall

Simone Aspinall

Twenty-eight years of experience as a beauty therapist and makeup artist, Simone has a philosophy as simple as it is effective: enhance, never mask. Her morning ritual is, by her own admission, slightly extra. She fills a metal bowl with pH 6.5 water, freezes it during the school run chaos, then dunks her face into it post-shower. “Puffiness, gone. Inflammation, calmed.” The reality behind the polish? “It’s less effortless glow and more organised chaos with good lighting.”

What is the Beauticate Collective?

The Beauticate Collective is a curated network of editors, experts and tastemakers contributing trusted content across beauty, wellness, fitness, interiors, health and modern lifestyle.

The Collective includes Kate Waterhouse, Rae Morris, Michelle Bridges, Jocelyn Petroni, Camilla Thompson, Dr Amy Chahal and a curated group of Australian beauty, wellness and lifestyle experts.

Beauticate.Shop is an upcoming editorially curated marketplace featuring products selected and recommended by The Beauticate Collective.

This is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you’ll see each of these women in their own right – individual editorials, product edits, expert features and deep dives into their worlds. Think of this as the introduction. The full stories are coming.

And to mark the launch, the Collective is coming together for its first shared edit – a curated selection of the products, pieces and rituals we genuinely use and recommend for Winter. Because the right recommendation really can change everything.

Kate Waterhouse Photos by Camilla Quiddington and various photographers supplied by The Collective Members.  

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