The 3 Pillars of Style On Purpose
IDENTITY
Style as a mirror for selfhood.
Clothes aren’t just fabric—they’re a reflection of who you are and who you’re becoming. Dressing with identity in mind lets you reconnect with yourself on purpose.
CLARITY
Tools that simplify and ground your wardrobe.
Amid the noise of trends and quick fixes, clarity is its own form of slow joy. Our tools strip away overwhelm so your wardrobe feels effortless, grounding, and aligned with your life.
JOY
Clothing as play, curiosity, and confidence.
Style isn’t about rigid rules. It’s about experimenting, noticing, and delighting in the details—the way a lipstick lifts your mood, or a textured bag makes you feel rooted. This is where we romanticise the everyday.
OUR FOUNDER
I didn’t set out to be a stylist. I started my career as a hydrologist, doing the “right” thing as the firstborn daughter of migrants: study hard, get the stable job, make everyone proud. But deep down, I knew it wasn’t my path.
What felt like a nudge at first grew into a calling I couldn’t ignore. Styling wasn’t 'just' a hobby I turned into a business. it was the way I saw the world.
To me, it's never just clothes. I see patterns, psychology, and identity. What we wear every day is more than fabric—it’s a mirror of who we are, how we feel, and how we move through the world.
Clothes can weigh us down with doubt, or they can anchor us into clarity, confidence, and ease.
CAREER TO DATE
After leaving hydrology and training with Australian Style Institute, I built a career at the intersection of fashion, content, and community. What began as sharing affordable everyday style, through my then blog and Instagram Trash To Treasured, soon grew into a loyal following.
Over more than 12 years of content creation, I’ve had the opportunity to style collections for major global brands, appear in regular style segments on national TV, write for online publications, and co-design sell-out collections with leading Australian retailers such as The Iconic.
Along the way, I noticed a pattern: personalised style advice was either unattainable or overly simplistic. My focus shifted to bridging the gap. To making style practical and accessible and deeply transformational.
That vision became Style On Purpose: a personal style studio offering in-person and virtual services, alongside digital tools like The Wardrobe Reset Method, and Fashion Directory.
Welcome to the Style On Purpose chapter.
BEHIND THE STYLE
My husband Paul and I split our time between Sydney and Los Angeles. We love to travel and explore new places, and also go back to Sri Lanka (my birth place) to recharge and ground.
As someone who has struggled with anxiety and burnout, this chapter of my life is focused on slowing down, setting my own rhythm instead of the one the internet, and society, tries to set for us. Overall goal? A regulated nervous system! I'm building a business that allows me to connect on a deeper level to the woman in my community without self-abandoning.