Nicole Magazine : Holiday Edition 2015/2016

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Editor-In-Chief | NICOLE DOSWELL EDITORS Gift / Travel Editor | Lori Riviere Graphic Design | Pawat Napathorn Graphic Design Asst. | Irene Acosta CONTRIBUTORS Editorial Assistant | Rebekkah Kimani Masthead Designer | Daimion Peppers DENIM EDITORIAL Photographer & Stylist | Sushant Panchal Assistant Photographer | Rupesh Sutar Model | Mariette Valsan Make-up | Sehar Ahmed Hair | Siddhesh Sawant COVER STORY Photographer | Mark Squires Makeup Stylist | Saisha Beecham Hair Stylist | Cesar Wardrobe | Melanie Fiona

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Letter From The Editor

When we decided to start this magazine, people said we were crazy.

"Magazines are dead," everyone said, and we agree. The old standard of magazine publishing is dead because today's woman is smart, savvy and can read between the lines. They know when the advice given is masked as editorial content but really comes from a key advertiser. They know when a story has been recycled and regurgitated 50 times in 50 different ways. Newsstands are filled with magazines that are designed to line the pockets of the suits and investors, who are mostly men. When

online media companies and blogs began to pop up women flocked to this "new media" with fervor and excitement and let's face it, we all get a good bit of news, fashion tips and other lifestyle material from online resources. However, in the last few years the volume of online media content has become completely overwhelming and we felt it was time to get back to basics in a totally modern, fresh and future seeking way. So, we created Nicole Magazine to give women something to read cover-to-cover with real, engaging fresh content. Think of us

as the curators of the huge wealth of information out there. We promise to give you something you have yet to discover in each issue. We promise never to sell out to advertisers. We promise to always care about what's new fresh, affordable, but also what's worth the "splurge." Most of all, we promise to create a magazine you actually want to read cover to cover... and the best part is we distribute the magazine in Blo dry bars, salons, spas and boutiques where you actually have the time to read it cover to cover! Our Holiday issue is packed with fashion insight and trends.

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12 “I Want It All” : Melanie Fiona [COVER]

Two time Grammy award winning R&B songstress dishes with Nicole about pregnancy, music and love.

14 Holiday Gift Guide [SHOPPING]

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20 Brooklyn [TRAVEL]

There’s more to New York than Manhattan, venture to Brooklyn and explore with some tips from us.

23 The Joys of a Single Cinderella [RELATIONSHIP]

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We first heard of your pregnancy on Instagram. What prompted you to make your baby announcement on social media? To be honest, I think that it’s [being pregnant] the most special and blessed thing that ever happened to me and I was really wanting to share that with the public and with my fans in the most genuine sincere and private way. Being in the public eye and having to go out and be visible, there were moments when I was definitely showing and I wasn’t prepared to share that very private and important part of my life just yet with the public and the media. I feel like in entertainment sometimes media take the most private and beautiful things and turn them into gossip and this is just one of those things I didn’t want for the reveal of my first child. I had a song from my album called “I Want It All” and I shot a video for it and I wanted to share the song and the reveal of the pregnancy together… I wanted it to come from me as a personal letter and presentation from me to my fans. And I couldn’t have asked for it to go over any better; everyone was so positive.

So both you and your love Jared are singers. Are you hoping that some of that talent is going to be passed onto your child? I hope so. I never even really think about it, but everyone keeps saying “That’s going to be one singing kid”. But you know we both are musical and our parents are musicians and they love music as well. I think the kid is in for a musical future somehow.

be very difficult to please, but he was just super charming, fun, sincere, kind, and had a genuine spirit. I loved that it was casual and friendly it wasn’t an instant “I love you” type situation it was just like “wow you’re so cool”. I didn’t feel like he wanted anything from me other than just to be a gentleman and to be really nice. And that was refreshing and then from there it was just like well I guess I can’t stop thinking about you like forever.

who thought I was, whom I thought I needed, and what people thought. Letting go of all of that just allowed myself to open up, I was able to see the world, fall in love again and experience new experiences. To let go, to fly and become who I am now, and it’s still a process. I still have to work on letting go.

So, what is on your holiday wish list? Do you have any gifts that you want under your What’s your weirdest pregnanChristmas tree? cy craving? You know what, I’m I don’t NEED anything right not! I love all things that I used So, I watch your YouTube now, but if there’s two things to love. One thing that weird is channel and I noticed you that I would want they’d be I used to hate olives and I like cover a lot of rappers like, a pair of over the knee suede them now. I guess I just like the Biggie, Drake and Wale. Are boots, because I have a really salt. I also love fruit a lot more you a big rap fan and do you hard time fitting into pants now. But I don’t ever have those find that rap has influenced these days and so wearing crazy cravings, like I eat ice your music? Yeah, I do. I love dresses with thigh-high boots cream with Doritos at 4 o’clock hip-hop a lot. I have a brother I think is always fantastic. And in the morning. No, I’ve been who’s seven years older than then my other indulgence is pretty even keel throughout me and when I was a kid he a Chanel bag, and I am not this process, so I’m thankful was in high school and he was a huge bag person. I have a coufor that. I do miss eating sushi hanging around DJs in college. ple bags that I really love that though.

So I got introduced to hip-hop are designer and they’re big and really young and I’ve always serve multiple purposes. The Who was the first person loved hip-hop. Like if there’s an Chanel bag I’ve been eyeing is that you told when you found 90s R&B jam, I’m there. I love the classic, double-flap, chainout that you were pregnant? it! So I just feel like there’s a lot link bag, and if I have to just Jared...he was the first to know of musicality in hip hop that be like “Hey Santa”, that’s what naturally. The second person I sometimes people overlook and I want. But I really don’t need told was my manager, that’s what I love about hip hop. anything. I really just want to Carmen, who is also like my Sometimes I’ve written songs have a beautiful and relaxing best friend and a mentor. in a rap cadence versus actually Christmas -- around my family, Carmen’s been like a big sister approaching it like a R&B song. eat really really good food, be to me throughout my entire life I feel like hip hop artists are happy and healthy (especially and I actually told her over cof- some of the deepest lyricists out in this stage of my pregnancy). fee. You know she’s like my ride there. I just I love lyrics and I or die. She definitely knows all love the musicality (of hip hop) When can we expect your new like my biggest successes, and that sometimes people overalbum Awake? my deepest secrets as well. Of look. That’s what led me to start The thing that I love about course she helped me through doing the covers. I feel like oh being an independent artist is Is “I Want It All” how you my career so it was important man this is a dope hip hop song that the rules are, there are no want to move forward after for me to share it with her first but it would be better as a love rules and I can service my fan, you have your baby as a musi- so that we could talk about song if somebody sung it. And and I can service my music and cian? Yeah. It’s definitely all en- what this means for my career, I think that’s just like a flip of I can service myself as a human compassing; I do want to do it my personal life, and me as a being able to love hip hop and being, all in a space that really all. That phrase for me is really woman. be a singer and so people love has no limitations. So I am important because I feel like in that side of me. I love wearing releasing music every month. life, especially being a woman, Do you and Jared have a really sneakers and baseball caps, I I’ve already released two songs, we get told that there are so cute “how did you meet” stolove Biggie , I love Drake, and this is about to be the third off many limitations that we face ry? Yes, I do. It’s actually really Jay Z. It’s the music that influthe album. “Bite the Bullet”, “I and some of them are real and cute it makes me sick someenced me growing up.

Tried” and now we’ve got “I some of them are in our minds times how cute it is. Jared and I Want it All” coming. I’m just and I really don’t believe in met years ago. He’s a super suc- If you could give some words trying to do it differently than setting boundaries on ourselves cessful songwriter, and we were of advice to your 25 year old I’ve done it in the past where and so that’s why for me “I working in the same studio - I self, what would it be? Words we just release a song and then Want It All” is so perfect -- with thought he was cute, but we of advice: Let go! 25 is acturelease a album and you work being a mother, a musician, and didn’t really notice eachother or ally when I really started to it and you work at a record -- I a businesswoman. I want to be look at eachother in “that way”, come into that understanding think the way artist release muable to have it ALL. I feel like plus I was in a relationship at because that’s when I first got sic has changed, especially with more so now than ever we’ve the time. Fastforward years my record deal and I had just online streaming. So, the goal [women] progressed so far and later, and a work trip had us on broken up with my boyfriend for me right now is to just keep have become more diverse and the same flight leaving out of (who I thought we were going releasing music at least multifaceted -- I just don’t beNY. We ran into each other at to be together forever), so I was every month to set the album lieve in limitations. I did a tour the airport and grabbed lunch with him and “let go”. Letting up. So, we’ll say next year all over in Europe when I was well during our layover. I was like, go, learning, and moving on good things are coming in into my pregnancy and I’m still “oh wow he’s actually really is what allowed me to be the 2016! traveling, I’m still working and cool”. Most people annoy me woman I am today. Letting go I’m going to do that as long as I right away, so I don’t get that of the idea of what I thought physically possibly can… instant connection often. I can I knew, what I thought I was,

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Brooklyn THERE’S MORE TO NEW YORK THAN MANHATTAN.

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Where to Stay: Box House Hotel This NYC cool hotel is housed in a converted door factory in Brookyln’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Big airy loft style rooms with kitchens and living rooms are perfect for making you feel like you’re a temporary resident of the big apple. www.theboxhousehotel.com

Where to Eat: Emily’s Pizza This Clinton Hill wood fired pizza joint is cozy, hip, urban and serves delicious melt in your mouth pies. They don’t accept reservations for parties under 6, so this is the perfect spot to soak in the neighborhood feel.

919 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 www.pizzalovesemily.com

Delaware & Hudson This Michellin star Williamsburg eatery features a season menu of American food made with local ingredients and inventive new flavors.

135 North 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.delawareandhudson.com

James The James is the perfect brunch spot in Prospect Heights with a delicious menu of classic American dishes with a twist.

Our favorite brunch dish is the Carolina shrimp on a bed of polenta topped with two poached eggs…it will make you swoon. It is the perfect spot to grab a bite after a morning in the park. 605 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238. www.jamesrestaurantny.com

Where to Shop: Brooklyn Flea & Smorgasburg This weekend-only indoor market is housed in 50,000 square feet with over 100 vendors including artisanal foods and wares from local Brooklyn vendors. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. www.brooklynflea.com

Where to Feel the Holiday Cheer: Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Tour Whether you tour yourself or take a bus tour offered by A Slice of Brooklyn Tour company, this neighborhood is known at Christmas time as “Dyker Lights,” with over the top light displays that have been featured on TV shows and international media. www.asliceofbrooklyn.com

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