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CARMINA SUZANNE MODERN DAY CLEOPATRA COVER MODEL ENTREPRENEUR SPOTLIGHT SERESTA PILLOW HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FASHION SHOW PARTICIPANT NATALIE DAWN DANGERS OF LOW SELF ESTEEM IN DATING CARRIECE JEFFERSON CHEAP SHOES/ EXPENSIVE HEALTH ANDISSUES FITNESS TAWANA BLASSINGAME AND MORE....
BEHIND THE LENS JOSEPH MERRELL
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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A RELIABLE MANAGEMENT TEAM? Queen Size Model Management is a company created to guide aspiring models along the path to becoming successful models. If you are looking for a management team that truly cares about your success, and is looking to dedicate their time and resources in you; then reach out to us and let’s talk about how we can help you. Please email us two photos of yourself to queensizemodelmanagement@gmail. com Tell us why you want to model and we will contact you for an interview. Remember, you have to take the first step. We are waiting.
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ARTICLE TITLE | BY AUTHOR MAKING QUEEN SIZE MOVES
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Note from the Editor Welcome to the December 2015 issue of Queen Size Magazine. Who is ready for the New Year? If you said no then join the club. It feels like only a couple of months ago we were discussing how much we hated the snow and how we could not wait for summer. And if feels like yesterday we were talking about how hot it was. Now we are Christmas shopping and getting ready for the New Year. Well as you can see, time waits for no one. Don’t keep assuming that we will always have tomorrow to do what we should be doing today. Before you know it, you are going to look back and your kids and grandkids and wonder what happened to the time.
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Photo by Paul J. Heyw
I was asked just recently how many issues I have released so far. It made me realize that I am soon coming up on the release of Queen Size Magazine’s 50th issue. To God be the Glory. I went from trying to find work at other magazines to having my own; and it all feels like just last year. With that being said; I know that I say thank you all the time, but I really and truly want to thank you all for all of your support. I could not do this alone. After you are done reading this issue, set a major goal that you wish to accomplish and then set it in motion little by little. Make it happen. You owe it to yourself to be successful.
TAWANA BLASSINGAME CEO/Editor In Chief
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MAKING QUEEN SIZE MOVES
MASTHEAD TAWANA BLASSINGAME CEO/Editor In Chief PHILIP DREW Executive Director PAUL J. HEYWARD JR. Photographer/Videographer NATALIE DAWN Assistant Editor MARIA WILLIAMS Beauty Editor KAMILLE RIVERS Assistant Editor SHIRLEY BEALE Assistant Editor CARRIECE JEFFERSON Assistant Editor DUANE JONES Director of Photography for N. Carolina DOUG SWAIM Director of Photography for the DMV area KENDALL REED Photographer DAWN HALL Model Recruitment Manager DIONNE REEVES-GRUBBS Model Recruitment Manager
CREDITS - Cover, this image and all images on pages 24, 25, 26 and 27 Model: Carmina Suzanne Photographer: AMP Studios/ Doug Hansgate Head Stylist, CoProducer: Adrian McAdory Hair: Brittany La Bella the Hair Artist Make-up: SalleyNycole Esthetics & Makeup Artistry Creative Director: Carmina Suzanne Designer: Dede Allure AMP Studios, North Tonawanda NY
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CONTENTS FEATURED STORY
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CARMINA SUZANNE
HEALTH AND FITNESS
06 TIME TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL By SARAH CURVEYBEAUTY
10 TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION By SHIRLEY BEALE
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FAT GIRL
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DANGERS OF LOW SELF ESTEEM IN DATING
FEATUREDMODELS
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By FATIMA GASKIN
By CARRIECE JEFFERSON
BUSINESS
THE LENS 12 BEHIND PHOTOGRAPHER |JOSEPH MERRELL HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL
14 FASHION SHOW PARTICIPATE By NATALIE DAWN
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ENTREPRENEUR SPOTLIGHT SERESTA PILLOW By TAWANA BLASSINGAME
32 THE COLOR OF TEAL 2015 By TAWANA BLASSINGAME
42 COUTURE BRIDAL RUNWAY By TANEYASHA WILLIAMS
BEAUTY&FASHION
28 SETTING SPRAY
By THE COLOR BOX BY MARIA
TRACES OF MY PEN
40 I AM MORE THAN JUST A MOTHER By KAMILLE RIVERS
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