What a fabulous night we had at The Emporium Hotel for our Powder Room Bridal Showcase!

Champagne was flowing, gorgeous high tea treats were devoured and a few lucky brides left with some pretty fabulous prizes!

The airbrush makeup demonstration was a hit and the models just looked incredible with their stunning hair and makeup and aahhmazing dresses from Paddington Weddings!

We have posted a few pics from the night below as well as a Powder Room video we showed to all the brides on the night!

We hope to see you at the next Powder Room Bridal Showcase!

Seats are limited, so don’t miss out on booking in for our Bridal Showcase on Tuesday 24th May at Emporium Hotel, Fortitude Valley!

Come and enjoy a glass of champagne, tea and coffee and a selection of high tea goodies while being inspired with great wedding day tips from Premier Wedding specialists:

Emporium Hotel, Paddington Weddings, Net Productions, Julie Whitehead Cakes, Amini Concepts, Butterfly Lounge,The Little White Wedding Co and Flight Centre.

Hair and Makeup artists, Jody, Karen and Sarah from The Powder Room are looking forward to creating gorgeous bridal hair and makeup looks on the night to inspire you for your big day and sharing helpful hints on choosing your dream wedding look.

Don’t miss the great prize giveaways on the night including:
- Powder Room hair salon gift voucher
- 1hr personalised Makeup Lesson at The Powder Room
- French Sparkling from The Emporium
- Vintage style Headpeice from Paddington Weddings
- A vase of the freshest and most fragrant blooms for your dining room table from The Butterfly Lounge
- $100 Gift Voucher from Flight Centre

Numbers are limited, so make sure you get in early and pre-book your tickets so you don’t miss out!
Date: Tuesday, 24th May, 2011, 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Emporium Hotel, 1000 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley
Cost: $15 per person (includes glass of champagne, tea, coffee, high tea goodies and a gift bag)
RSVP: Bookings Essential, Register now! or call (07) 3254 1786 by Tuesday 17th May.

Sarah and Karen attended the Hillstone St Lucia Wedding showcase last Thursday night, and the girls were excited to meet so many new Brides to be!.  It’s so lovely to see the Groom’s to be as well… and the sparkling engagement rings, so pretty!

Hillstone St Lucia announced on the evening that they are giving away a free Wedding in June valued at $3000 WOW!  You can find the details to enter on their website, make sure you enter before the end of May though!


The same day as the Showcase, in the morning Sarah and Jody created amazing hair and make up for a advertorial for Hillstone St Lucia, re creating the beautiful Hollie’s Wedding day magic.  Hollie was one of brides from last year and it was wonderful to see her again.


Speaking of events and prizes to be won, don’t forget about our very own Powder Room Wedding showcase at The Emporium Hotel on the 24th May, so many prizes to be won, it’s just $15 per person and space are booking up quickly!  If you are planning your Wedding it’s the perfect place to start!

Thursday morning Sarah and Jody created amazing hair and make up for a advertorial for Hillstone St Lucia, re creating the beautiful Hollie’s Wedding day magic.  Hollie was one of brides from last year and it was wonderful to see her again. Beautiful Photo’s by Kwintowski Photography

In planning your Wedding, the lead up to your day is sooo busy with what can sometimes seem like an endless list of “to do’s”…Where’s a girl to start!

The Powder Room Bridal Showcase is just the place to be inspired with lots of insiders tips and helpful information on how to plan your perfect Wedding Day.

After such success with their Bridal Showcases last year, The Powder Room are holding their first Bridal Showcase for the year on Tuesday 24th May at 6pm for beautiful Brides to be. With so much interest last year and the events being booked out so quickly, this year they are holding their Showcase at The beautiful Emporium Hotel to cater for more lovely brides to attend

Come and enjoy a glass of champagne, tea and coffee and a selection of high tea goodies while being inspired with great wedding day tips from Premier Wedding specialists:

Emporium Hotel, Paddington Weddings, Net Productions, Julie Whitehead Cakes, Amini Concepts, Butterfly Lounge,The Little White Wedding Co and Flight Centre.

Hair and Makeup artists, Jody, Karen and Sarah from The Powder Room are looking forward to creating gorgeous bridal hair and makeup looks on the night to inspire you for your big day and sharing helpful hints on choosing your dream wedding look.

Don’t miss the great prize giveaways on the night including:
- Powder Room hair salon gift voucher
- 1hr personalised Makeup Lesson at The Powder Room
- French Sparkling from The Emporium
- Vintage style Headpeice from Paddington Weddings
- A vase of the freshest and most fragrant blooms for your dining room table from The Butterfly Lounge
- $100 Gift Voucher from Flight Centre

Numbers are limited, so make sure you get in early and pre-book your tickets so you don’t miss out!
Date: Tuesday, 24th May, 2011, 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Emporium Hotel, 1000 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley
Cost: $15 per person (includes glass of champagne, tea, coffee, high tea goodies and a gift bag)
RSVP: Bookings Essential, Register now! or call (07) 3254 1786 by Tuesday 17th May.

Powder Room hair and make up artists Jody and Sarah created these gorgeous Wedding looks for the Queensland brides designer awards last Friday night for Paddington Wedding designers Bertossi Brides.  We are so excited to see who won the awards, can’t wait!!

Hair and make up looks on Tamblyn models Katlyn and Elsbeth were more bigger and more extravagant and make up was bolder than our normal bridal looks, so that it stood our more for catwalk.  Hair paddings and hair pieces were used to create the bigger shapes with hair.  Bertossi brides were going to be featuring lots of fascinators and hats, the latest in Weddings at the moment inspired by the 50′s think the TV series Mad Men, ultra feminine! The hats and fascinators that the designers used were made by The House of Windsor.  Lips were lacquered with Powder Room’s Lips with Love range “Two hearts”. Check out our Powder Room make up store and spoil yourself today!

Check out Betty and Joan’s hairstyles from Mad Men

Would you like to know how to create these looks for your Wedding day, ask you Wedding hair stylist to hot roller the hair first using Sunscience Thermal setting spray and the hair is moulded using Bain De Terre smoothing wax and shine spray to finish the look.  Hair paddings help create the shape for Joan’s look.

Just wanted to share with you all a sneak peak at one of our new collection’s images photographed last week.


We all love a red head, Katie’s hair is naturally curly and is loosely pinned framing the face with soft curls. The updo, flows softly to one side, but still looks symmetrical with the centre part.


Wedding make up was inspired by Katie’s beautiful porcelain skin, soft apricots and golds and shimmery cheeks, perfect for a Spring Wedding.  Lips lacquered with Powder Room’s “Lips with Love” Only You lipstick and Last Flirt gloss.

Katie looked so beautiful in a dress by “Paddington Weddings” . Photography: 4005 Photography, lots of our brides come and have “Get Gorgeous Shoots” prior to their Wedding, as a pressie for their hubbie to be, incorporate hair and make up and a shoot as that perfect Pre Wedding present!

Choosing your Wedding hairstyle can sometimes be a challenge, you are left wondering “What will it look like on me”  and you do want it to be extra special!  You are also trying to imagine what it will all look like together, that is your dress, Veil, or should you have a fascinator!  I know how confusing!!  Well don’t worry as when we meet you at your pre Wedding trial we make sure we have plenty of time to help you create that special look as we allow double the time to that of your Wedding day and of course the same stylist that you meet on your trial day is the same that spoils you on the Wedding day.

Just wanted to share with you all a sneak peak at one of our new Bridal collection images photographed a few weeks ago. Powder Stylists have created 8 new looks to be launched in the December edition of  Brisbane Bride Magazine out in December! We all love a red head, Katie’s hair is naturally curly and is softly pinned of the face with one section. The Wedding updo, flows softly to one side, using a hair padding to create the gorgeous shape.

Wedding make up was inspired by Katie’s beautiful porcelain skin, soft  warm apricot gold tones and shimmery iridescent cheeks, perfect for a Spring Wedding.  Lips lacquered with Powder Room’s “Lips with Love”  I Do lipstick and Last Flirt gloss.  Visit our Powder Room store to purchase your very own Powder Room shade!

Katie looked so beautiful in a dress by “Paddington Weddings” .

Images Photographed by FourZeroZeroFive Fotografie

Last Tuesday night was a lovely night, with lots of “Brisbane Brides to be” at our Wedding event. If you are a bride an planning your Wedding day , The Powder Room was the place to be last Tuesday night!  It was such a great night and the Tara from “Style magazine” came just to photograph me!  Oopps I mean all of us:) It was so nice to see Tara again, we last caught up when Tar and her Mum cam into our studio just before Mother’s day to have make up lessons.


The evening started with our brides arriving to be greeted with a goodie bag, glass or champagne and a cupcake from “Judy C” Cakes, we even had gluten free cakes!  The studio smelled amazing with Glenda’s Pradella’s gorgeous flowers!


Lots of helpful hints in planning your big day were shared, did you know at Emporium hotel that they even have a pillow menu, Darren helps you plan your day for all Weddings at Emporium……what about that when choosing your dress don’t choose shoes with too much bling as they catch on the inside of your dress, thanks Ann and Gill from Paddington Weddings, such gorgeous dresses! Miriam from Body Essence day spa, talked about what happens if you get a pimple and how to have that perfect back in your gown.

Rebecca from Hypoxi talked to the girls, and one man in the audience (poor fellow!) about how to spot reduce, the latest sensation in weight loss and cellulite reduction, it’s a pity I’m not getting married again:(


Cath from Vivid Photography shared with us their amazing candid shots and how to plan your timing for getting the most amazing looks on your Wedding day. Leanne from Lila designs wowed us all with sparkly bling to enhance every dress, I just loved the sole less jewelled shoes for beach Weddings! The Photo booth hire was such a hit, can’t imagine what that would be like at the end of a night after a few too many glasses of champagne!

Prizes that were won on the evening included a high tea for four guest for a high tea at Emporium hotel, a gorgeous Wedding hair comb, and make up basket form Powder Room, engagement photography voucher and a Wedding clutch bag.


Check out some of our photo’s from the evening. If you are having trouble choosing your perfect Wedding style, see the Powder Room Gallery for lots of style looks!

Thanks also to Discerning Bride for donating a magazine to each bride on the evening!