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Photo courtesy of Luckymag.comBy Alison Syrett, Lucky magazine

It's May, which means that from now until the end of summer, prices on warm weather merchandise will dip lower and lower to make room for incoming fall collections. Since sale season is just beginning, this is the time to begin your bargain-hunting-before sizes and styles dwindle. Here's 10 great places to start:

1. Openingceremony.com: Sure, it's always fun to poke around Opening Ceremony in person, but when it comes to sale shopping, you'll have better luck online-there are more options and everything is easier to sort through. This morning, we spotted 500 marked-down goodies in the women's section alone, including these really cool Christopher Kane T-shirts that won't cost you this month's rent.


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2. Barneys.com: This department store's sale selection is rife with great transitional pieces for those awkward weather days with 45° mornings that turn into 74° afternoons-such as this midweight sweater

Photo courtesy of Conde Nast Digital ArchiveBy Jessica Matlin, Lucky magazine

It's not the most fashionable topic, but with the season of bare legs upon us, it's time to talk about veins. The ugly kind.


First up, varicose veins: I'm talking about the icky ones that form when the valves in the leg veins stop functioning properly, blood gets stuck there, and they start to protrude. (Shiver.) They're caused by heredity and/or lifestyle factors, such as getting pregnant, being overweight or even being super-active. (You can't win, can you.)

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I decided to pump Dr. Mark Adelman, Associate Professor of Surgery at NYU, for advice on how to deal with these bumpy veins.



"First of all, varicose veins are not just a cosmetic issue," he says. "Left untreated, they can cause bigger problems." He describes a vein disease called chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) that's hideously painful and horrible to look at.



His advice: Treat varicose veins like a toothache.
"If your tooth is

Photo courtesy of C&A BrasilBy Natalie Matthews, Lucky magazine

Brazilian store C&A now has hangers that flash real-time numbers of each piece of clothing's "likes" on Facebook. They're hi-tech, yes, and interesting, too, and they certainly make my fancy velvet no-slip hangers look like junkyard castoffs. But I'm not sure their supposed marriage of online feedback & in-person shopping works that well. And even if it did, I think I'd use it in the opposite way intended.

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I'm not the kind of girl who pouts if their favorite indie band is suddenly #3 on Z 100's countdown. It's not overly important to me to have niche tastes in music, movies and clothes. But at the same time, I don't want to see six other girls carrying my purse on the way to work. So those likes would actually be a repellent.
Or, they would be, if I really thought they represented what people would buy in person. But the photos people like on C&A's Facebook page are just crude still life shots of each

By Jean Godfrey-June, Illustrations by Lauren Friedman, Lucky magazine

So you procrastinated on picking up a gift for Mom until the last minute-and now it's down to the wire. Don't worry! We've rounded up 10 stellar presents you can pick up in-store-no shipping time required. Whether she prefers nail art, electronics or chic timepieces, you're sure to find something she'll absolutely adore.

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By Elana Fishman, with graphics by Sarah Ferguson, Lucky magazine

As undeniably cool as colored denim may be, choosing the pieces to pair with your neon, primary or pastel pants can be challenging. Make the right decision and you're instant bait for street style photogs. A misstep, and it'll look like you got dressed in the dark.

So we whipped up a handy-dandy color wheel to help you mix and match the ideal separates for your particular shade of denim. While by no means should these be considered hard and fast rules for colored denim wear, they should make your outfit coordination a bit easier.

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By Ray Siegel and John Jannuzzi, Lucky magazine

We could pretty much care less about which celebrities are getting married or divorced and then married again. The couplings that excite us are that our favorite designers teaming up on one collaboration after another. Floral Barbour jackets don't just happen by accident-it takes the meeting of two very great minds. Kind of like John and me....

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Illustration by Lauren Friedman | LANCÔME FLASH BRONZER TINTED SELF-TANNING LEG GEL, $37, LANCOME.COMBy Jean Godfrey-June, Illustrations by Lauren Friedman, Lucky magazine

Q: I hate bathing-suit shopping. How do I make it more bearable? -Taylor

A: Dear Taylor, Self-tanner! This works only for the pasty, but for them (me) it really does work. Those with gorgeous alabaster or dark, tawny-perfection skin probably enjoy bathing-suit shopping much more than I do. This self-tanner is tinted so you see any mistakes right away, you get an encouraging, instant glow, and the color is just the best, most realistic one in existence. Apply the tanner the day before your shopping excursion, and you will notice many fewer flaws-scars, blotches, veins, cellulite, etc.-reflected back at you in the unforgiving mirror. The self-tanner kind of airbrushes them away (and makes you look a tad slimmer in the bargain).

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The other thing: Do your hair, do your makeup. Shopping While Attractive, for me anyway, is 100 percent more likely to end in a purchase. Shopping

Illustration by Lauren Friedman | STRETCH NYLON TANKINI TOP, $220, MALIAMILLS.COM. STRETCH NYLON BIKINI BOTTOM, $35, LANDSENDCANVAS​.COMBy Jean Godfrey-June, Illustrations by Lauren Friedman, Lucky magazine

Q: Tankinis: Possible to make flattering-and/or chic? -Jen

A: Dear Jen, 

Anti-tankini propaganda is our patriarchy in action: The culture wants us to either be One-Piece (Madonna, not the singer) or Bikini (lady of the night). That's my crackpot theory and I'm sticking to it. But tankinis can be flattering, even sexy, and they are easy and comfy like bikinis and non-stomach-featuring like one-pieces. Three cheers, I say!

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Malia Mills' Cami tankini top is perfect because it does not flare out at the bottom like a dress, nor does it cling like Saran Wrap. And it is a thin, matte-ish jersey, which is key; the big swath of fabric a tankini requires can look cheap super-quickly if rendered 
in a shiny finish. The Cami is also relatively undetailed; it does not scream about itself too much. I keep buying it over and over in 
a '70s sort of brown and pairing it with various