Blog Posts by Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff

When photos of Kim Kardashian's baby-shower invitation hit the web yesterday, we were admittedly a little stunned. Actual jewelry boxes with spinning ballerinas for everyone on the list? Like, seriously? But as it turns out, these babies are just the tip of the ostentatious iceberg when it comes to celebrity-soiree invites, a world in which hosts must choose between leather and Dupioni silk rather than card stock or vellum. Let's take a little romp through the pretentiousness, shall we?--Beth Greenfield, Yahoo! Shine Staff

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There’s a controversial new ad that’s gone viral this week, and a vocal group of men are up in arms about it, calling it “sexist.”

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Yep, that’s right. This time it’s men who are being belittled to make people buy something: Samsung’s Evolution Kit, which transforms any Samsung television into a smart TV (though the specific product is really beside the point here).

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The commercial was introduced last week on YouTube, where it had neared 10 million hits by Thursday afternoon. In it, a woman strolls into the living room to find her husband/boyfriend lying on the couch and watching TV. He’s a slovenly Neanderthal who’s burping, chewing food with his mouth open, grunting, and watching a moronic cartoon. Said wife sighs in disappointment, plugs the new Evolution Kit into the back of the TV, and then fantasizes about what a similar kit could do for her

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Jason Kroft, center, with saviors including John Carey, far left. Photo: Courtesy of Jason KroftA Canadian man who survived a heart attack on the streets of New York City after a passerby revived him with CPR last fall got another special gift this week: the chance to publicly thank the good Samaritan who saved him.

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“It was wonderful,” Jason Kroft, the 41-year-old survivor told Yahoo! Shine in a phone interview. He added that the reunion was intense, and that, "I'm kind of quiet when I'm around him, and don't really know what to say."

Though he first met and thanked New Yorker John Carey two weeks ago, he got to acknowledge Carey's good deed at an official ceremony, the 19th Annual Second Chance Brunch, on Wednesday. Hosted by the New York City Fire Department as part of National EMS Week, the event brings cardiac arrest survivors—12 this year—together with the paramedics, EMTs, FDNY members and others who saved their lives.

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Carey, a

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Emma Way. Photo: Twitter via Spothaber.comThe criminal mind can be cunningly brilliant—or stunningly foolish. You can safely put Emma Way of the U.K. into that second category. She’s the aggressive 21-year-old motorist who allegedly hit a cyclist while out for a drive in the city of Norwich, fled the scene, and bragged about it on Twitter on Monday.

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“Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier—I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists,” she tweeted.

Her admission was soon retweeted more than 300 times, inspiring angry responses and the nickname “twit and run girl” by fellow Twitter users. They also retweeted her brag to the social-media savvy Norfolk police department, who wrote back, "we have had tweets ref an RTC with a bike. We suggest you report it at a police station ASAP if not done already & then dm us." Though Way deleted her account, the ball kept rolling. The cyclist, Toby Hockley, a chef who had been taking part in an

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Marion Cotillard made a bold, beehive entrance to the premiere of "Blood Ties" in Cannes. Photo: Foc Kan/Getty Images“Mad Men” madness has already spawned the rebirth of shifts and maxis in bold, mod colors. Now make way for the hair—beehives, to be exact, recently rocked on red carpets by celebs from Marion Cotillard to Joesphine Jobert.

“Hair always follows fashion,” vintage-hair expert Kathie Rothkop, 64, told Yahoo! Shine via phone from her California Salon Glam. “Plus, we’ve been doing the straight, flat thing [with hair] for about 10 years now. To make it different, what can we do? We make it bigger.”

Rothkop started doing hair as a teenager in the mid ’60s, at the peak of popularity for the original beehive. Now she's seeing a noticeable uptick in beehive-seeking customers once again.

That’s no doubt thanks to celebrity influence. Years after Amy Winehouse brought the look back into an edgy kind of vogue, folks like Cotillard—who sported a perfect pouf at the Cannes “Blood Ties” premiere Monday—may really make it stick. Jobert’s locks were similarly styled, contrasting with a modern strapless Read More »from Beehives Are Back: How to Get Hollywood's Favorite Retro Hairstyle

Pregnancy shapewear from Cozy Belly. Photo: Cozy BellyAh, to be pregnant and gorging again… I don’t know about other women out there, but personally, I loved using those nine months as a reason to eat two (or three) desserts without guilt and, finally, to unequivocally love every inch of my body. So it made me totally sad this morning when I received a press release from Cozy Belly touting its “pregnancy shapewear,” reminding me that it is, in fact, a thing.

But really, why?

I tried to block out word of the depressing trend when Kim Kardashian blogged about her love of belly shapers recently. “For any concern that my clothes are too tight, I have so many pieces custom fit for my growing body! They make pregnancy Spanx which are tight,” she wrote. “So this theory sounds ridiculous! I feel my best when I am in heels and chic clothes!”

But then came the clincher, so to speak, from Cozy Belly:

"For pregnant women who want to gain a little extra control over the shape of their body, we offer pregnancy shapewear. If you want to cover up some of

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Kylie and her dad Bob on the trail. Photo: Courtesy of the Trawick family.In an effort to fight hunger, 13-year-old Kylie Trawick and her dad Bob are going the extra mile in a major way—hiking more than 2,180 miles from Georgia to Maine, at a clip of about 20 miles per day since setting off in late March. And, at 723 miles in, they’ve already surpassed their goal of raising one pound of food for every mile completed. About 4,000 pounds have already been donated in Kylie’s honor to food pantries across the country.

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The biggest challenge, as it turns out, has been for Bob, a 50-year-old registered nurse, to keep apace with his daughter. “Kylie is a phenomenal hiker, and she’s never quit anything in her life,” he told Yahoo! Shine by phone from Daleville, Virginia, where the two had stopped to rest and refuel for a couple of nights. “So the truth is, she’s wearing me out. She’s just so fit and strong! It’s the Sassafras Express and I’m clearly at the back.”

Muddy father-daughter hiker feet. Photo: Courtesy of the Trawick family.Sassafras is Kylie’s Read More »from Father and Daughter's Amazing Appalachian Trek to Save Lives

Photo: Getty ImagesWant to really enjoy your day in the sun? Start by choosing the best sunblock out there so you don't have to worry about getting burned. Luckily, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has just released its 2013 Guide to Sunscreens, which rates more than 1,400 sunscreens, lip balms, and SPF moisturizers and cosmetics for safety and effectiveness. And some of their findings might surprise you.

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The EWG report found that only 25 percent of products on the market offer both broad sun protection and low-risk chemical ingredients. "Consumers are understandably confused about sunscreens," Sonya Lunder, lead author of the EWG report, told Yahoo! Shine. "And, unfortunately, they are facing some bad choices."

While sunburns are caused mostly by relatively short but intense ultraviolet B rays, longer UVA rays, which penetrate the body more deeply, inflict more insidious damage and may contribute to or cause cancer.  But all

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