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FANCIFUL TEAM’S LETTERS AISHA

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As a 16-year-old living in the UK, with a love for comedy sketches, vlogs and animals, I discovered I had become a professional fangirl and very much attached to the world of YouTube. I have been watching various youtubers over the years and loved the idea of a normal person behind a camera reaching out to hundreds, then thousands, and eventually millions of people. I loved how everyone had a different style on their channels and how friendly the community was. One video led to the other.

Eventually, Bianca reached out to me and invited me start writing for the YouTube section. This has been an amazing opportunity for me to put my YouTube knowledge to good use and produce weekly fact-files for the magazine. Have fun checking them out!

SOFIA ALESSANDRO

I was starting to write myself, tiny posts. I PATRICIA used to write as a hobby. When Bianca NEVADO asked me to be part of the team, ‘TALK’ Hey everyone, I’m a 20-year-old Spanish would have been my selection, I didn’t hesitate a second. Philology student.

Giving advices is one of my favourite things to do and be able to give them to people who need it, trust me, it’s very pleasant.

Starting to write at Fanciful Magazine was a very important fact in my life, because it made me start writing seriously, and it was a big step, as it’s related to my degree.

My section, which is music, it’s so pleasant because I’m a music lover. Thanks for keep reading, guys.

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BIANCA DUBOIS

TWILA MARIE BERGANIA

When I first created Fanciful Magazine, was only a blog where I would write articles to practice, as I am a journalism student. Things got so much more serious very quickly, and I decided to make it a prop magazine. Write about, not only the celebrities we already know, but also, to find interesting people out there. I will never be thankful enough to the amazing people I have writing on this magazine and all the support we get.

I am a blogger, professional fangirl, YouTuber fangirl and a digital extrovert based in Manila, Philippines. Yep, a bit far away, but I’m ready for everything!

When I’m not too busy stalking people on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, I’m lurking in local coffee shops, drowning my hyperacidity with friends and paperback novels! And now, part of the Fanciful Team

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ADAM WAITHE 26 VANQUISH 36 ANAVAE 44

CYBERSMILE FOUNDATION 30 BETHAN LEADLEY’S SHOW 46 DAN AND PHIL IN A DISNEY MOVIE 33

MUSE 22 ACE AND JIG 18 MARY DESMOND 16

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ON YOUTUBE My Top Food Tips Youtube.com/beautycrush

Sammi is always looking after herself with healthy food and exercise, she also looks after us, and shares her best seven food tips to keep our healthy diets up and cut out all the junk we eat. Let’s start the year healthy!

JADAM MAKES A CAKE Youtube.com/JakeBoysUK Jake Boys and his new flat mate and best friend Adam Waithe, decided to show us their cook skills baking a cake with ingredients found in their kitchen. With these two now living together, sure we all will have much more coming soon.

30. Back In Time youtube.com/willdarbyshirefilm This time, will take us through his thoughts on time. How many things could we have changed if we could go back in time, well would you even change anything if you had the chance?

Top 10 On YouTube in January on fancifulmagazine.com

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FEBRUARY’S PLAYLIST

1. Uptown Funk – Bruno Mars 2. Gone, gone, gone – Philip Philips 3.Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran 4. You Got It All – Union J 5. You There – Aquilo 6. Up – Olly Mars ft. Demi Lovato 7. Silly Boy – The Blue Van 8. National Anthem – Lana Del Rey 9. We Own The Night – The Wanted 10.Power Trip – J Cole 11. Night Changes – One Direction 12. Fire Escape – Foster The People 13. Brazil – Declan Mckenna 14. Billion Girls – Elyar Fox 15. We Come Running – Yougblood Hawke 16. I lived – OneRepublic 17.

Comeback – Ella Ayre 18. Midnight City – M83

19. Elastic Heart – Sia

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february Style of the month So here is every month’s style section! I think you'll never have the problem of "I don't know what to wear".

First, lets go with the parka on the left side. These are the colder months, what could be better than something that keeps you warm while you're walking down the cold streets?

We also have cape (right side), so here we have two choices, the first one, a cozy camel parka, and a nice cape!

High Wasted Shorts. My favourite of all the time, these won't let you down, if you have Naomi Campbell's body or not this will make your body the sexiest ever, plenty are the ways to wear them and plenty could be the combinations. Just pick out your favourite ones!

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Black Heavy Tights. Here we have two ways to wear this black tights, they can be worn with everything, if you go for a formal outfit you can wear it with heels, if you go for a casual one you can wear it with trainers, boots, they are so easy to combine, also they are so fashionable right now, at least they will keep you warm! Trust me!

High waist glittered black shorts and dark coat, this outfit it’s perfect for a special night out, you are going to make your friends envious catching the attention all around.

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STREET STYLE Walking around the beautiful town of Brighton, we thought we could share a couple of our outfits, just in case you might need a little help when trying to find something to wear. The best advice you will ever get is: you should make sure you are wearing something confortable. Cold or uncomfortable outfits just to look good are a bit silly. So here are two nice and confy outfits!

Paloma Fenty & Marina Roldan Photography by Bianca Dubois

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LANA DEL REY MAKES THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOVIE “BIG EYES” Lately Lana Del Rey has been disappeared from the music scene. But luckily for her fans, she has become part of the soundtrack of the film directed by Tim Burton Big Eyes.

In this movie, we can see the true story that lived the painter Margaret Keane in the 50's, who painted characters with big eyes, which later took her to have legal problems with her husband, Walter Keane, due to the award of the authorship of such works.

For this film, Lana made two songs, I Can Fly and Big Eyes. This last one, has been nominated to “Best Original Song” by the Academy Awards, “Best Song” for the Critics’ choice movie awards and “Best Original Song” for the Golden Globes.

TANYA BURR ACCUSED OF PLAGIARIZING “IF I STAY MOVIE POSTER FOR HER BOOK COVER Tanya Burr is set to release her first ever book on Thursday 29th January, called 'Love Tanya'. On 29th December Tanya released her book cover for 'Love Tanya' and wrote a blog post about her book cover.

She wrote "I'm so happy with the cover. I designed it using a website called PicMonkey, (to make all the squares and choose the photos I wanted in them) as I am no graphic designer and even if I had photoshop, I wouldn't know how to use it haha. Then, the design team at Penguin were amazing and helped my amateur designs come to life and look all professional and stuff!" Tanya asked her fans for honest opinions on her book cover and to comment on her blog post what they thought of it. But later after she posted the cover fans were saying it reminded them of 'If I Stay' movie poster and some believed she copied the movie poster.

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GRACE HELBIG GETS TV SHOW E! CHANNEL

New York Times #1 best selling author, youtuber, movie star and podcast host Grace Helbig now has her own TV show on E! Grace will now star in a comedy/talk show pilot for the channel network.

Helbig, has also recently won a Webby and a Streamy award (both for her youtube work). She starred in and executive produced the film Camp Takota, with fellow yotubers Hannah and Mamrie Hart.

Chelsea Handler recently ending her long running talk show "Chelsea Lately" it has been rumored that Grace is to take over her spot on the cable network. The shows title is currently "The Grace Helbig Project" but it’s said to be a working progress for the YouTube star, the show is set to air sometime in April. However, when she steps in, Helbig will still be the only female talk show host on the network.

ANGELINA JOLIE & BRAD PITT’S DAUGHTER WANTS TO BE CALLED “JOHN” Of course, many girls and boys share the same taste in clothes, toys or games, but the eight-year-old Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the oldest biological daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is making very clear what she likes, and how she now wants to be called John.

When her parents refer to her as Shiloh, she would interrupt them and say "I'm John", as Brad Pitt said on a interview recently. So following her wish, her family now calls her by the name of John. Back in 2010, Angelina Jolie told Vanity Fair that her four-year-old girl wanted to be a boy. "She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys' everything. She thinks she is one of the brothers." Pitt recently attended to the premiere of Unbroken in Los Angeles with three of his children, Pax, Maddox and John, all dressed up with suits and ties. Jolie and Pitt support completely support their child.

Its said that children constantly expressing their desire in being part of the opposite gender, would grow up to be a transgender or a gender-nonconforming. More and more kids are coming out as transgender and at a really early age. Dr. Johanna Olson, specialist in trans youth health care, said on an interview with the CBS, that we had around 330% of increase of youth trans over 2013. But, it’s natural for kids to explore genders.

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Cereal killer cafe Cereal Killer Café has opened their doors at the end of 2014. As the name says, it’s quite obvious what kind of food you will find in this place.

There is nowhere else that I know, where you can go and only have cereal. The place is owned by twin, “hipsters” as said an article in The Guardian, brothers and cereal obsessed Alan and Gary Kerry.

Their café sells 120 different types of cereal, including not only British cereal, but also American cereal.

You might be thinking, why on earth would go down to this place to have a bowl of cereal? Well, is not every day that you can find place like Cereal Killer Café.

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They can also offer you a big variety of toppings and milk. 30 different types of milk and 20 toppings, all for you to choose.

This is probably one of the most original and fun places to eat in London. Even more, if you are a 90s kid. The owners thought it would be a good idea to have the place decorated with everything from the 90s to bring you back to you childhood. From TVs and comics, to bottles and obviously, cereal.

You can visit Cereal Killer Café everyday from 7AM to 10PM, in case you fancy a night bowl of cereal.

Find them here 139 Brick Lane, London E1 6SB cerealkillercafe.co.uk/

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Mary Desmond Interview by Bianca Dubois

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us a little introduction about yourself,

your age, what do you do, where are you from,…?

MD: I'm Mary Desmond! I'm 16 years old and I love to sing and perform. I'm from Mission Viejo, California and I have been living in the same place for my whole life. I love writing songs and singing songs! Music is my favourite.

Did anything inspire you to get into music?

MD: Well, what made me first love music was my favourite movie "The Little Mermaid". I would watch it on repeat to learn the song "Part of your world". Ever since then, yes I was very young, but regardless that is where my inspiration to do music started.

What made you start YouTube?

MD:What made me start YouTube is the want to show people all over my voice. I love YouTube because it is so convenient for everyone and it has definitely helped me broaden my fan base!

Music comes along many responsibilities, what is the best and the worst of being a singer?

MD: The best part for me is singing a song that you just totally are crazy about. It is so much fun to try new things in a song and sing your heart out. The worst part about being a singer is when you lose your voice. Losing my voice is not a major problem for me, but it still happens.

Losing your voice is hard because you can’t really do what you love.

What do your parents think about you getting into music?

MD: My parents are the most supportive people ever. Without them, I would not be where I am today! I love them so much!

How much has your life changed since you are a singer?

MD: Because I have been singing for a very long time, I can't name any major changes. I think the only thing is that my schedule is always busy, but I love it!

Do you have a favourite singer or band?

MD: My favorite singer is Taylor Swift! I love her music, her sense of style, and I really would love to meet her one day.

What was the best moment of your music career?

MD: A major super happy moment for me in my music career was when I hit 1 million hits on one of my videos. I still feel so blessed that I got to share my music with that many people!

What kinds of projects have you been doing?

MD: I have been working on an EP of all originals that is going to be released later this year. I'm super excited to share my originals with everyone! I am also going on a tour in the UK. And I'm going to be apart a movie that is filming this year too! 2015 is going to be great!

When can we expect your next album?

MD: My next album is going to be coming out in the spring! I've been working really hard on it and I can't wait for it to be released!

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about ace&jig Here at Fanciful, we try to keep ourselves as informed as possible and that also includes fashion.

As soon as we found out about the brand Ace&Jig, we thought we had to share their work with all our readers.

Ace&Jig is a women’s clothing brand created in 2009. The idea was to create something to be worn for a long time in many different ways. They took a long time to find the right people to join the team.

They even travelled to India to find textile specialists.

Their manufactured clothes go through their own yearn-dyeing process. They go to India many times over the year to keep up their work with the fabrics and professionals they have there. They not only provide free childcare for their employees in India, but also, plenty of water to the grown of organic products.

Ace&Jig has a big collection of clothing and their office is based in New York, but you can access and shop online.

The team includes Cary Vaughan and Jenna Wilson, the funders of the brand. They met ten years ago, when they were fashion designers interns. Then, they decided to collaborate together and create their brand.

Their goal is always going to be putting a lot of work and love in create something they really believe in.

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ella grace denton story by bianca dubois photography by jack harries

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Muse. An alternative rock’s British bad, which was originated in 1994 in Teignmouth, Devon (United Kingdom).

Last year was the 20th anniversary of the band, but it has not been celebrated this important event for their fans. Recently, the British band has confirmed some dates of concerts for next summer.

• 29th May, 2015 – Music Festival Rockavaria (Munich, Germany) • 13th June, 2015 – Download Festival (Derby, England) • 4th July, 2015 – Main Square Festival (Arras, France) • 11th July, 2015 – BBK Live (Bilbao, Spain) These are some dates among others that have implemented and which will continue announcing.

If you still don’t know them, Muse consists of Matt Bellamy, who is the composer and vocalist, and also guitar and keyboard player.

Dominic Howard, who is the drummer and percussion, and Christopher Wolstenholne, who plays the electric bass and does the choirs.

In addition to this, Muse is currently recording their seventh studio album, which will be coming out in 2015.

Some of their most popular songs now are “Uprising”, “Madness” and “Resistance”.

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#TALK

Don't you think we are overwhelmed by stereotypes?

It's like society makes us think we need someone to follow as an example, and if you're not like the rest of the world you're not worth it, this is really sad.

Why do we have to complicate our lives when we should LIVE like there is no tomorrow everyday?

I see all of these girls and boys that try their best to look like models, fashion bloggers and so many others but this is not really the point, the thing is that this will lead to eating disorders, lose weight and get skinnier and sick. This is not healthy at all.

Also see boys and girls deny their feelings because of a bad judgment of themselves from bad people, to love someone of the same gender is not illness.

A society to be healthy and good needs both healthy and good people. How can this be possible? We have to be ourselves, no matter what, we have to and that's all.

Take your time coming home and think about how beautiful life is and how much you worth it, scream it, believe it and make it real.

Dress up like you've always wanted and don't care about judgements, you like it and that's all that matters.

Go tell your loves of the same gender that your love for them is unconditional and that you don't care about bad people saying horrible things and promise that you won't let them say it again.

Do things the way you want to and don't let people drag you away, don't get in trouble because of them, think with your brain and take your responsibilities.

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When it comes to our friends we’ve always had the right words to give them advices about their broken hearts and how to deal with it. But why when it comes to us, when we are looking for something, for the right words, for the best decision, it seems like the whole world doesn't have the answer we expected and everyone talks about nothing.

How many of us are in love with someone? How many let someone break our hearts?

When that guy or that girl decides to go away, how many of us fall apart and everything we wonder is: am I good enough? What went wrong? Why me? Am I worth it? Those are the questions we make.

Speaking of this I think we are all a bit masochists, it’s kind of we like being sad for love issues and it’s like we are always in search for the perfect boyfriend or girlfriend. Now I have a question. How many of us can really love? We act like we know everything about love, about how to love someone and stuff and maybe we have never wondered ourselves if we are willing to give our lives to someone we call love.

I think love can’t be defined in any way, no one knows what love really is, they define it with that sensation we feel through our belly when we see the person we really like, I think it’s not.

I think love is more than this, love is when we make that choice to give everything to a person that can be anyone, it doesn’t have to be the person we will share our life with, it can be our mother, our father, our brothers, our sisters, that guy or that girl back in high school, the one we knew in college and even the random guy we met in a coffee shop. The thing is, if we really love someone and we feel loved the same, we are in.

So no rush on finding the perfect person because, it will come to us at the right time, no more tears because of your break up, that one never loved you the way you deserved and it will be hard but we have to keep our head up in our life and go on, and do our best. No one can break us.

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FACT - FILE Adam is a well known “nutellaholic” and for being part of Project Six Youtuber, Viner & Londoner.

Adam Waithe was born on the 29th of December 1995. The 18-year-old first made his appearance on the internet after making his first vine account on New Years Eve back in 2013. Posting comedy sketches and funny relatable vines, Adam now has 101.2K followers on his account.

Adam’s most popular uploaded video was “10 things guys hate about girls” which attained over 184K views and more than 8K likes.

Now with over 130K subscribers and over 7M views on his YouTube channel, Adam has become a social media superstar (yay!). He first joined the magical world of YouTube in January 2013 and uploaded his first video where he expressed his opinions in a series of “Rant Tuesdays”.

Adam is a well known “nutellaholic” and known for being part of the Project Six team on YouTube, whilst it lasted.

PrejectSix consisted of Adam Waithe and 5 other youtubers including: Nick Compton (thenickcrompton), Jake Boys (JakeBoysUK), Jack Dean (JaackMaate), Jamie Cottrell (ChipDaddyTV) and Sam King (SamKingftw). They each uploeaded their own video every day of the week.

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Charly Cox You might have already heard about Charly Cox, you might have not. As we like to keep everyone very well informed, we will do a little introduction for you. Charly is the girl behind many powerful people on the internet, that you definitely know.

She is a 19-year-old English [many things] busy londoner. Getting into different jobs and taking care of the team is her specialty. She is a complete people person!

Have a little read about her lifestyle and work.

Caspar Lee producer, productions manager at Jacksgap and creative media assistant at Burberry are only a few of her jobs around. She has built her image through the years and made people know who she was. She is busy Londoner.

"I meditate for 20 minutes as soon as I wake

In the morning, even if it me late. Then it's a maniac rush and run through my depleting make up routine to later find what I wanted to wear is dirty. Before I know it I'm on the train into London with a worryingly large coffee in hand sorting through the work calendar and pre checking emails before I arrive." Charly told Eddie Magazine on an interview, to describe her day.

"Every working day is diverse, it ranges from meetings and emails to attending events and writing blog posts, organizing is a key element. Then it's dinner with the boys and off back home!"

Not only for her work, but for her fashion and lifestyle blog we can know a bit more her. Charly has a sweet and casual style, and shares it on her blog stylethenatives.co , although, she describes her style as "a total hot mess! I'm a stickler for wear all black."

Charly Cox is a blogger, now vlogger and behind the scenes of some of the biggest people on the internet. We will probably hear so much more from her.

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We are bringing up on Fanciful Magazine a very important article. This time, we are featuring the Cybersmile Foundation. This is one of those things that definitely deserve more attention, and here at Fanciful, we want to help on that. We have many good things out there, but not always everything goes well online, and Cybersmile’s main goal is to make sure people are happy again.

We all make mistakes through our lives, is part of growing up, but sometimes you are way too afraid of being judged by something you have done, that you decide to hide and suffer in silence.

This is definitely not the right choice. You must speak to someone and ask for help to make things better, and that is the amazing job that cybersmile does. They help and support cyber bullying victims and their families.

“People get hurt, the only thing we can do is be there for each other when they do fall down and pick each other up. “ – Trust.

If you have never heard about Cybersmile, we are gladly going to introduce it to you.

Cybersmiler is a multi award winning charity that fights against the cyber bullying.

We all have read before horrible stories about cyber bullying. Many children and teens suffer this without knowing why.

Perhaps, at some point in our lives we do something really stupid that could end up following us for a long time, or forever.

This might seems impossible for you, but it could happen to anyone. Please, be safe online, and do check Cybersmile’s work.

They are amazing people, doing an amazing job.

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THROUGH THE MAKING OF BIG HERO 6

Big Hero 6 is an animated Disney movie coming out at the beginning of 2015. Until then, you can go with us on this little presentation of the movie, that took place back in September in London with the movie producer Roy Conli. He took all the invited audience through the making of the movie and showed us some very exclusive footage that Disney has been working on with the objective of improving their film making skills.

This movie takes place in San Fransokyo (fusion of San Francisco and Tokyo). Is a fictional metropolis where all the action happens. Hiro Hamada, a robotic genius teen, finds out his creation, the microbots, were all stolen by a mysterious villian, and the crime was covered under a fire in the Technologic Institute where the microbots were. Hiro, with his robot Baymax and his new friends, team up to try to catch whoever is behind this villainous plot and disclose their plans.

Roy Conli took all of us through the process of creating this amazing Dinsey animation and told us how long he took to get the work done. All the researches they had to do for the movie took quite a long time and money. They actually travelled all the way to Tokyo to get as much information as possible for the development of the story.

There, by a Japanese scientist, they got inspired to make Baymax, Hiro's robot.

The Japanese scientist was actually working on a robot arm quite similar to Bayamax, so after some investigation and getting the information the filmmakers needed; they then created a robot for the movie.

The movie is being released on the 30th of January in the UK cinemas, but only a month before the movie coming out, big news exploded the internet, getting people even more excited to watch it. YouTube star and radio presenter Phil Lester, aka AmazingPhil, revealed on his video “I’m in a movie!” that Disney invited him and his Youtube friend and also radio presenter Dan Howell aka danisnotonfire to be part of the movie.

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YOUTUBE AND RADIO STAR DAN AND PHIL TAKE CAMEO ROLES IN DISNEY BIG HERO 6 Youtube stars in a Disney movie sounds impossible, right? Wrong. After only earlier announcing they are to be hosting the Brits again, what have Dan and Phil gone and done this time. Only landed themselves on role in the new Disney movie Big Hero 6!

The cameo roles the YouTube duo managed to land themselves are of male technician 1 and 2, unfortunately the roles will only be taken in the UK version of the film in cinemas. Disney UK announced this on their Twitter.

Now As well as Caspar lee and Troye sivan, Dan and Phil will also be “starring” in cinema. The pictures on the following pages were taken at the Gala Screening of Big Hero 6 in London, last Sunday 18th January.

@Disney_UK: “Yes, its official! @danisnotonfire & @AmazingPhil have cameo voice roles in the UK cinema release of Big Hero 6!”

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This time, we are introducing you the Vanquish Girls. There is so many different kind of music you all should know; girlbands out there that you might don't know about, so here is a little bit about one of them!

Vanquish is an English girlband formed by Becky, Lucy, Sophia and Lisa, between the ages of 18 and 21.

They have started uploading covers on their YouTube channel over a year ago, which now has over 2M viewers. Their first video was a cover of the song 'Really Don't Care' by Cher Lloyd and Demi Lovato.

ABOUT VANQUISH But the most popular video ever in their channel, is their cover of 'What Now' by Rihanna, with over 350k views.

Since then, their audience has grown a lot, their fans only keep coming.

They have spent the last year going on tour, having concerts in many different places around the UK.

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Sweet. Talented. Fun. There are no enough words to describe the little flower that is Darcy Cole.

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“I guess I decided to start making YouTube videos because I had an interest for the YouTube community and concept and what it involved.”

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YOUTUBERS OUT THERE has landed on our very first issue. There is no way of us passing by such an amazing and creative human that is the young Darcy Cole.

We have to go through YouTube star Darcy, who is a 16-year-old British vlogger on YouTube. Back in 2012, she decided to start her own channel after watching other vloggers, and also, following the steps of her older brother Louis Cole, who has now achieved the amazing amount of one million subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Darcy also has many stories and talent to share with the world. She currently lives in South London and is in her last year of school, but aspire to start Music Production in college. Having a little chat with her, she shared quite a lot about herself. Cole is still not sure what her channel is really about other than herself and her interests. Darcy’s channel has a range from vlogs, to tutorials, to sketches, to her acapella-style music videos.

“That’s something I’m yet to still try to figure out hence why I have no channel trailer haha” she says when talking about her channel.

Going into detail of her reasons to start her own YouTube channel, was a push of her interest for the YouTube community. “I guess I decided to start making YouTube videos because I had an interest for the YouTube community and concept and what it involved, which I was beginning to be surrounded by anyway through my older brother and his channel. I saw all the opportunities and possibilities it opened up for him and how exciting as well as successful life could be just by being yourself through the platform.”

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Youtube is also a big thing for the rest of her family. When going through their thoughts on Darcy starting her channel and uploading videos, they were completely fine with it. Her family has now joined the crew and are all youtubers. All dragged by Louis and Darcy.

Since the very beginning of their YouTube channel, her family has been very supportive, and now with each other as well as they are all on YouTube. In terms of friends, “they really build you up too as they can appreciate the whole person they know as well as the partial part you put on show for others to see!

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YouTube has brought together so many people through the videos, building many friendships, and Darcy would include herself in this.

Seeing someone on your screen, and then having them in person is one of the awesome experiences the YouTube community has done and the reason why so many kids and teens now join the platform.

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Talking about inspiration, Darcy has also something to say about it. Her friends are very into YouTube and make videos as well, but she can decide who is her favourite one. There are so many youtubers out there, making a huge variety of content that she can’t pick just one as her all time favourite. She goes through many different channels, watching videos and the only the only clear idea this gives to her is she will end up subscribed to a bunch of people. And this will repeat over and over again.

Depends on what kind of content people make to catch her attention.

Cole has also upload a capella videos, as previously mentioned. She told us how much effort she puts this videos. “It honestly depends, but for the past two it’s been 4 hours to record and roughly the same about of time to film & edit them!” she says.>>

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A lot of changes have come along Cole’s YouTube career. Before getting herself out there, she didn’t feel like she had many people around her, but since she is making videos, she has not stopped making friends through the internet. Although, most of them were made at YouTube conventions, getting to know them in person. “It has also opened many doors for my future and has given me so many great experiences and I’m sure will continue to do so!” she then adds.

To finish Darcy has a little advice for those who want to start YouTube. “Don’t hold back, it’s better to learn from mistakes sooner than later (which i can almost guarantee will happen) be yourself. Also do what makes you happy, and not just what you think you should be doing, then your videos will more likely be successful as they develop over time!

STORY BY BIANCA DUBOIS PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARINA ROLDAN

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INTRODUCING

ANAVAE STORY BY KATIE TULIP PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOE PRILESZKY

WHO IS ANAVAE? Anavae is a duo and produce Alternative rock music and are based in London, UK. The two members are Rebecca NeedMenear, she sings the vocals whilst other member, Jamie Finch, plays the guitar.

When they play gigs they have their own live band. Kris Hodges who plays bass and synths, Seb Gee who plays the drums and Josh Platt guitar. Anavae.

HOW DID ANAVAE FIRST BEGIN? They were created in 2011 by lead vocalist Rebecca Need-Menear and Guitarist Jamie Flinch. Soon after they were all together they released four little songs which included there first ever singes "Whatever the case may be" and “Word in a bottle".

Later on in 2012 they created another three songs to create their first EP. They named their first EP "Into the Aether”. They released their EP through Bandcamp and fans could download the EP for free or as the duo suggested a named price. "You know ... if you each gave us just £1 for our music, we could buy a van and tour!, £2 each &

we could record an album. £3 each & we could record an album AND get Josh a nose job. Or if of you gave us £20,000 then you could marry Beccar!". This EP reached over 10,000 downloads.

Anave has not stopped since then. They released Aerlogy on the 7th May 2012. This was another EP featuring six tracks but remixes of the material already made by other artists.

Later that year on 19th August Kerrang which is a rock music magazine featured Anavae in their magazine. This was just the start of a successful career and their first major magazine appearance. Shortly after Rocksound magazine wrote a small feature on them too. joined by features and appearances on Redbull music week, Big Cheese magazine and others.

GETTING SIGNED

Early 2013 in January the band had signed a worldwide deal with indie label Lab Records and they announced that their first single to be release with their record label was "Storm Chaser". >>

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This was to be released on 10th February that year.This single placed position 33 on the UK rock singles chart and this even reached number 10 on the iTunes chart.

In that year the band had their first ever tour in the UK which was I divides tour called "ourzone found tour".In October the band had another single called "Anti-Faith" which was going to be part of another EP called Dimensions which was coming out on 19th November 2013.This single scored number 32 on the official rock chart and number 10 on iTunes rock chart. Â

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Bethan Leadley’s London Show PHOTOGRAPHY BY DEAN LOCK

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Carolina Ballesteros Seeing her everywhere, in so many different places, caught our attention, so we thought it would be interesting to catch up with model Carolina Ballesteros and get her to know her a bit better.

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How long have you been modelling for? Do you see any difference between the first jobs you got to the jobs you get now?

CB: More than many of the girls in the industry now, even if I'm still young, I started at a really young age!

I absolutely see a difference, when you start you normally do small jobs for local clients, and now I'm working all over the world and I have agencies in so many places! I'm really satisfied.

Do you have to stick to any diet or have an exercise routine?

CB: Not really, there was a time back to a couple of years I used to do exercise almost every day. Now, I got a bit lazy on doing sports. I feel really guilty haha.

If you were not a model, what would you like to be doing?

First of all, thanks very much for letting us interview you! What are your origins and how did CB: Actress, singer... and something more realistic: booker. I wouldn't mind at all to work you get into modelling? in the other side of the industry.

CB: My pleasure!

I'm from a small town outside Madrid, where I used How often do you have time to take a break to live with my family until I decided to move to and travel or spend time with your family?

London.

I started modelling mostly because my mom always said I should try it, and here I am! It was something I CB: I have the rule of trying to go back to my also really wanted to do. country every 3 months or so. I hate being out for too long that when I make a comeback I see Becoming a model is something you always had my family looking different. That hurts. planned, or you just bumped into it?

CB: I always wanted to do something in relation with What would you say is the best thing of arts and entertainment, such as acting, modelling, dancing, singing but, to be honest, when I started being a model? And the worst? modelling at age of 12 I was doing casting mostly for CB: Travelling and visiting many places you acting in TV shows. So all this just happened. haha. never dreamed you will go to, the way that it How does it feel to see your face in so many opens your mind, meet so many wonderful magazines? people and having loads of amazing CB: At first, It felt so weird and overwhelming, but experiences you'll never forget. All this makes now, it's different. I obviously still loving it but is your mind rich and makes you grow up as a mature person. >> something I'm used to. :) 54 Â

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CB: The only bad thing I would say its to be far from the people you love. It is a lonely world sometimes and you have to make sure you stay strong, because you will not have fun every day and it's really hard when you're down or you had a bad day and you don’t have your family, friends, or boyfriend close to you.

Do you have a favourite clothing brand, fashion designer and make up brand?

CB: I do LOVE Balenciaga. If I was rich I would have my whole closet full of Balenciaga clothes, shoes, and bags.

As a designer... I'd say Alexander McQueen. His collections were, and they will still be, pure art. But sadly it won't be the same since he's gone...

And make up brand... I love all MAC products... excepting face foundations. I think I like a few things from a few different makeup brands, but none is 100% perfect to me.

What is the best advice you've ever received?

CB: Never forget your place of origin. That's the first advice my mom gave me when I started travelling.

Is there anything you're still want to archive? Any objective in your career?

CB: I want to be happy and have my own place in the centre of Madrid with my boyfriend. I want to feel plenty satisfied with myself, and that's my biggest goal to reach in life. Being happy.

As a last question, what is your advice for the people now trying to become a model?

CB: Even if is not how people from the outside think it is, fight for it. You are the only one who can't stop to get what you want and that experience is unforgettable.

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