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Beach season rolls around and it seems that all anyone can talk about are bathing suits, but it takes so much more to a complete beach bag than that tiny bikini and some sunblock. In fact, I'd argue that what you put over the suit is more important than the suit itself. Think about it - if you're on a beach resort type of vacation, then chances are you'll spend the majority of your time doing off-site, tourist-y activities, not actually laying around the beach in your swimsuit. Click through for some super-cute toppers that can take you from a beach to a BBQ and beyond.

Cover it Up, Beach!

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Green and orange, orange and green, add in some light blue and balance it with a neutral, and what might have felt like a risk, is suddenly totally obvious. With colorblocking becoming as ubiquitous as mixed prints, it's hardly a surprise that less overt color combinations are creeping up.

Diane Kruger arrived at the Liaisons Au Louvre II Charity Gala Dinner in a lacey gown by designer Alessandra Rich. With light neon green, touches of blue and a florescent orange belt, she manages to look utterly demure thanks to some artful balancing. You also have to love a girl who finishes it all off with some bright pink lipstick. Channel Diane with some perfectly colored touches of your own.

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Want a friend on the inside? Add us on Facebook to always stay in touch.Leslie Fremar is a mega celebrity stylist. Anyone obsessed with the world of celebrity styling know this is a girl who's major in the game. Whereas many industry people in her position opt to make super expensive wares few can afford and fewer even have access to, Leslie opted to enter the world of t-shirts. Get your mind out of Kain Label and T by Alexander Wang varieties because Fremar collaborated with comes-in-sets-of-three, often found at Target, Fruit of the Loom. Her shirts for the brand, however, are available at Bloomingdale's locations around the country. The three styles are sold for $18 each, or three for $30 (in a nod to those aforementioned three-packs). Find out why Leslie took the more mass route and her advice for breaking into the small world of celebrity style.

Why t-shirts?
I've been wearing Fruit of the Loom for years, I used to wear the men's ribbed under shirts. I've sourced the

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When it comes to weight loss, we really make it a lot more complicated for ourselves than it should be. We know the changes that need to be made to ourdiets, but of course it's a lot easier said than done. From skipping meals, to compulsively stepping on the scale everyday, we all make mistakes that would be considered diet sabotage. Just in case you aren't aware of what you're doing, I've outlined 10 common missteps in the slideshow above. Maybe seeing it in writing will be your diet wake-up call.

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Here at StyleCaster, we're big supporters of online shopping (Hello, ASOS obsession). Online shopping has its drawbacks, however. You can never bequite sure how something is going to fit until it shows up on your doorstep.

According to Co.Design the days of playing the guessing game with online shopping might be numbered thanks to a virtual fitting robot that shape-shifts according to the shoppers measurements. Previously only available for men (what, like they care how clothes fit?) Estonian startup Fits.Me has now created a female version, the Female FitBot. The Female FitBot is expected to debut at British clothing retailer Hawes & Curtis.

The Female Fit.Bot actually sounds kind of legit. A biorobotics professor co-developed the technology says that the robot conforms to the body types of more than 85% of women who shop online.

I'm all about someone else going through jeans shopping for me. Take a look at

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Even though women are four times more likely to cry than men, it's the fellas that reap the most benefits from a good cry. According to author and journalistAnne Kreamer, after women cry, "they end up feeling unhappy, like they'd done something taboo." Men, on the other hand, felt better. Neurologist William Frey explains, "women cry an average of 5.3 times per month, while men only shed tears 1.4 times."

But there's a better reason for this than the go-to "women are just more emotional." In her book, It's Always Personal, Kreamer explains that we have higher levels of the hormone, prolactin, which controls the development of tear glands. Women's tear ducts are also anatomically different from male tear ducts, resulting in a larger volume of tears.

It's fair to say that a gender double standard definitely exists when it comes to how males and females show their emotions. It's socially acceptable for women to cry,

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Jewelry that's considered earthy doesn't need to be made of hemp and have a vague scent of patchouli oil that lingers from the hippie store it came from. Channeling your inner boho goddess is less about the overt, literally made from the earth, stereotypical looks from anywhere Grateful Dead tees are sold and more about natural cut stones, Native American influences, beading and organic shapes.

The pieces can be gold, precious or costume, as long as they work with that white maxi dress you've been waiting to rock - and make you maybe, kind of want to spin in circles while, possibly or not, chanting. Click through for 12 pieces that get the job done.

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As someone who physically can not function on less than seven hours of sleep, it makes perfect sense that poor sleep can damage a relationship. I become irritable, mean and borderline b*%tchy towards anyone that crosses my path for most of the next day, and apparently so did the sleepless women in a recent University of Pittsburgh study. Troxel and her colleagues studied 35 couples - they found that when women had trouble getting to sleep, there were fewer positive interactions and more negative ones during the day. But insomnia in men didn't appear to affect the way a couple related.

This basically confirms something we probably all already knew: women are moody. What can I say? We need our beauty rest. And Troxel and colleagues aren't the only researchers to back this claim. University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of medicine Dr. Grace Pien agrees, "They [women] are more conscious about how their sleep