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GWEN DEVOE
OCTOBER 2016 ISSUE
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Fashion + Lifestyle
MS. MOGUL Cover image by Rick Jones
BOOTS & BLAZERS/ FASHION TO FIGURE By MEESHA ANN
HEALTHY FOOD MYTHS BY DR. ANN
BLACK TO BEAUTY BY CRYSTAL CARMEN
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BLOGGER SPOTLIGHT MEGAN HILLARD BEHIND THE LENS SPOTLIGHT JOSE PAGAN
FEATUREDMODELS KISSI B MODEL RAIANA E. DAVIS SPOTLIGHT WONDREA Y. GILMORE SILVA MEL O.GIBBS FAISON NEDRA PHILLIPS NIKKI CARTER
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Photography | PDrew Photography Dress | Ashley Stewart Shoes | Anne Klein
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ARTICLE TITLE | BY AUTHOR MAKING QUEEN SIZE MOVES
FROM THE EDITOR Tawana Blassingame Founder & Editor in Chief Photography | PDrew Photography Dress | SWAK Jaket | Ashley Stewart
Welcome to the October 2016 issue of Queen Size Magazine. Month after month I pray on what it is that I want to put out to my readers. So this month I would like to share something with you. Sometimes people feel like what they are doing is for all for nothing, and I often have to remind people of their WHY; why did you embark on your journey to begin with? Your WHY MUST be strong enough to get you through those days when you want to give up; this is what that we tell people all the time. Today, this is something that I needed to preach to myself. Running a magazine on a monthly basis is HARD work, especially when you have a 9-5ish job, two kids, a mom to care for and a shitload of other responsibilities. For the most part I LOVE what I do. But then there are those days when it seems like everything begins to work against you. At 7pm, the night before the magazine was scheduled to be released I looked it over and just was not happy with it. Instead of compromising my brand and lowering the standards I set for myself when it comes to the magazine, I started all over and worked all morning until I was happy. The moral of this story is to never give up on what you love, or yourself. WWW.QUEENSIZEMAGAZINE.COM| OCTOBER 2016 ISSUE
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MASTHEAD TAWANA BLASSINGAME CEO/Editor In Chief PHILIP DREW Executive Director NICOLE FRANTZ Assistant Editor & EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR NATALIE DAWN Assistant Editor CRYSTAL CARMEN Beauty Editor SHIRLEY BEALE Assistant Editor DARSHI SHAH 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 DIONNE REEVES-GRUBBS Model Recruitment Manager
Photo Credits for all images in this feature: Model | Gwen DeVoe Photographer | Rick Jones MUA | Crystal Carmen of Pink Stiletto Cosmetics Designer |Charon Richardson of Gwan by Charon Stylist | La TheModel
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CONTENTS FEATURED STORY
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GWEN DEVOE
HEALTH AND FITNESS
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HEALTHY FOOD MYTHS By DR. ANN
08 TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION By SHIRLEY BEALE
BEAUTY&FASHION
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BEHIND THE LENS JOSE PAGAN
MODEL SPOTLIGHTS
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BOOTS AND BLAZERS FROM
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18 BLACK TO BEAUTY By CRYSTAL CARMEN
34 CARDIGANS GALORE
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By MEESHA ANN
BUSINESS
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MALLORY RICHARDSON/BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE By QSM
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BLOGGER SPOTLIGHT/MEGAN HILLARD By QSM
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