research and planning: college magazine evaluation

The font sizes on both my front cover and contents page I feel are appropriate, as they are noticeable from their headings, yet don't over power the whole pages. The mastheads on both the contents page and front cover I feel are large enough to catch peoples attention but still fits in nicely with the whole layout of each page.
I have tried to follow the three colour rule, but I found it difficult to find three colours I was happy with that would look good on each page. So I used the three colours of light blue, brown and pink on my front cover, but only brown and pink on my contents page.
I think you can definitely tell both pages are from the same magazine as the masthead are the same front and colour, the heading of the stories are the same colour and front as the page numbers on the contents page, the main image on both pages are of the same style; both girls dressed in black and playing with their hair but one is a medium close up which i was asked to do on my front cover and the other is a medium long shot, but they are of two different girls to keep the readers interested.
I think the pictures I have took are of an okay standard as this the first time I have taken professional photographs in medium close up, but if you look at all the other pictures I have taken and chose not to use, they have some problems with them i.e if they aren't a medium close up or I felt they just didn't fit in with my magazine well enough.
I think there are enough stories on the front cover to interest the readers and want them to read further into to magazine, but not tell them all the stories on the front cover so that they don't need to read inside, and I think all the stories are appropriate for this magazine. However I feel I could have put more stories on my contents page as I feel it looks a bit bare and traditionally magazines have more pages than just 21.