A MESSAGE FROM THE TEAM

How We Got Our Start

Since opening in 2009, we have become masters of our craft. Our commitment to quality photos, exceptional services, and dedication to our craft, has helped us grow and build our company into what we have now. More followers, more business social media pages, and Our own magazine called, B.A.Y. Style Magazine, which we started and built-in June 2020. We have always hoped to be published in other corporate magazines, but we were not always picked. This went on for a while until I woke up one day and decided to create my own magazine, Something with my flare, Bay Area Flare, clothing, and photos that always tell a story.

The Models and Clients of the community keep coming back again and again because our services and creativity match no one else’s. We make sure whatever vision that client is looking for, we deliver, Always. We will never stop improving and will continue to expand our services, based on how we can best serve the Bay Area and our clients. We thrive on giving our clients the best and most enjoyable experience and customer service. We want and make sure our clients and customers to have the most professional photos and creative directing we have to offer.

Letter from the editor

SHONTA JONES Owner, Editor and Chief

This magazine is a collaborative process of many wonderful and talented creators in the fashion community.

We are thankful for everyone who has helped us make this Magazine Issue possible.

All the hard work, long hours, editing, photoshoots, fashion styling, traveling, set up and takedown, make-up artist, designers, models, photographers, and all the assistants

Shonta Jones, the Ceo, Editor, and Chief of Bay Style Magazine would like to thank everyone who made our First Issue #1 a success. Shonta was born and raised in Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, and Union City CA, went to elementary, middle, and high school with some of the most stylish students of her time. Shonta has been modeling for over 15 years, for major shows like Oakland Fashion Week, Queer Fashion Week, San Francisco Fashion Week, Sustainable Fashion Week, Sacramento Fashion Week, and many private and designer fashion weeks throughout the Bay Area. Shonta has an eye for creativity and fashion, she loves art and going out of the box. Shonta has also been a model coach, runway coach, backstage manager, hostess, mc, and private coordinator for Fashion Weeks. Shonta started her own magazine called Bay Style Magazine because she is here to help her sisters and brothers thrive in an industry that counts us out or uses us as a trend. The Bay Area is a melting pot for all races, religions, and all sorts of creative art. Shonta wants to bring that to the mainstream and let the World know, we are not just a tourist area, but a staple and starter of many fashions and trends. Shonta of Bay Style Magazine would like to thank all those involved in this issue and made this launch possible. My creative agency agent and good friend and fashion advisor Minh Tran of San Francisco Ca, for everything he has done. All the long hours of writing, editing, and posting, for all the hard work he put into the layout of the Bay Style Magazine, we are truly thankful and honored you are with us and helping us build and brand our magazine and company. Bay Style Magazine would also like to give a big thanks to all the Models, Makeup Artist, Hairstylist, Designers, and Photographers involved, without you, it would just be clothes on a rack and no content, I thank you for putting in the long shooting hours, image editing, all the faces you applied makeup, all the hair you styled, all the clothes you brought to style the models in, all the creative poses and garments and just being an amazing and coming and slaying every concept thrown at you. We have so much more to come, this is just our first issue, much more creative content, issues to come, and many more new faces to introduce. Stay Amazing and Be Amazing.

Special Thanks to

Neferttiti Stewart Bernadette Rose Anna Jacquez Minh Tran Kam Mariee DaNorman Bobino Britney Freeman Khamiko Olivera Tiffanye Young Kenyetta H Todd Alexis Telfer-Tran Yolanda Yogibopg HarbinVenson Vert Wright Carrie Smith Nisha Brown