First Contents Page Mock-Up

This is my first idea for my contents page. I've taken influence from Dazed and Confused magazine and also Q. 

Here's the process of my first contents page.

The result:

I really like this contents page. However I don't think its suitable for my final contents page, as the two images put together make the face look distorted and isn't nice to look at, also this image doesn't link to my Front cover. But the pug, features/articles and other images work very well and I will be using them again in different mock ups. I do like the images in the bottom left corner, I've masked this image making her appear to be popping up on the page, I used a speech bubble as I've seen it a few times when researching pop magazines, however I feel its creates a childish and tacky effect to the contents page, and I wont be using it again.