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An animal-print trench goes great over any rainy day attire.

The Rain Coat
Spring showers don't mean drowning yourself in baggy, shapeless rainwear. Look for a lightweight, belted, ultra figure-flattering trench in a stylish animal print instead. Animal prints are the new neutral-and something that can easily layer over any look. Or try a trench in a vibrant cobalt or emerald color to brighten up your next rainy day.

Betsey Johnson Double-Breasted Animal Print Trench, $180, Macy's

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The Blazer
From drab to fab-a blazer transforms the plainest outfit (jeans and a tee) into a polished look. A bright color, such as coral-a major shade for spring-is chic and unexpected. And something with contrasting, color-blocked panels along the sides will help create an Hourglass figure, no matter what shape you are!

Rag & Bone Jefferson Blazer, $535, Barney's

For a more affordable option, try Nine & Co.'s Button-Notch Collar Jacket, $45, JC Penney

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The

That drink might be doing more bad than good.

Many people end their evenings with a nightcap to relax and help sleep come easier. In fact, physicians once recommended a nightcap as a sleep aid! Although alcohol may help people unwind and put the stressors of the day at bay, it can actually have detrimental effects.

Many people with insomnia self-medicate with alcohol because it is sedating and induces sleep at the beginning of the night. However, it is a poor choice overall because the body quickly metabolizes alcohol and its effects wear off within a few hours. Despite being able to fall asleep with alcohol at the beginning of the night, consuming it before bed can actually lead to more awakenings, lighter sleep and disrupted sleep stages.

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Most importantly, regularly relying on alcohol as a sleep aid can lead to tolerance (the need to drink more and more alcohol over time to achieve the same initial level of sedation).

A recent meta-analysis to appear

Your healthy measures might actually be hurting you.

Do you pop supplements like jelly beans? When it comes to the vitamins and minerals your body needs to function properly, you might think you can't get too much of a good thing-especially when they're wrapped in foil and taste like candy. But just like wine spritzers and apple crumble, you can overdo it on supplements.

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They're complicated: More is not always better-and more can sometimes be dangerous. Vitamins, mineral supplements and even some herbs can interfere with each another, interact with the medications your doctor prescribes and it's even possible to overdose on them. (We're not talking about a scene out of the movie "Pulp Fiction" here, but the effects can be serious nonetheless.)

Before you down another multivitamin full of everything from A to Z, read on to find out which ones can spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

1. Calcium
To support bone strength, stave off osteoporosis and keep your muscles and joints working well, it's

If there's one thing that's worse than shopping for swimsuits, it's shopping for jeans. And the area that seems to cause the most despair? You guessed it: the derriere. To help ease your pain, we've rounded up the best jeans for your butt. Flat, wide, small or saggy, it's all about strategic pocket placement and knowing when to embellish and when to keep things simple.

Now, who's ready to hit the stores? It's time to learn to dig your denim.

- by Lesley Kennedy

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Get the right formulas to work with your skin.

What works when you're 20 usually doesn't work when you're 40-whether it's your food choices, your ability to rebound from a hangover (enter the two-day recovery!) or how you apply your makeup. When it comes to cover up, our needs shift over our lifetime. The formula you used to cover your teenage breakouts is decidedly not the one you want to layer beneath your 30-something eyes to disguise your baby/work/social life-induced sleep depravation.

The good news? Thanks to major innovations in the concealer department, simply adjusting your approach to the shifting needs of your skin can have you looking vibrant, no matter your decade. We asked Sandy Linter, celebrity makeup artist and Lancôme's Beauty At Every Age Expert (who is incidentally looking damn good at 65) for her best concealer-blending tips for skin of every age.

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Concealer in Your 20s
Late nights up studying, working or out on the town with friends can

That mountain looks big, doesn't it?

Have you ever held onto a secret? Been weighed down by a secret? Felt the burden of secrecy? They way we talk about it, you'd think a secret was a physical entity you had to carry around with you from place to place. Surprising new research finds that might not be so far from the truth.

Michael Slepian, a social psychologist at Tufts University, recently tested whether the burden of secrets goes beyond the metaphorical. To do this, he recreated an old experiment where participants had to hold a heavy object and look at picture of a hill and estimate the slope, then try to toss a beanbag at a target. The idea is that if you're schlepping a full backpack, the thought of having to lug it up a hill is going to make that hill look like a tough climb. And it will make that target look so far away . In Slepian's version, subjects held a secret instead of physical load. He had them write down either a big or small secret they were holding, then perform the tasks.

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Pilates and fitness instructor Cassey Ho-a YouTube sensation with nearly 340,000 subscribers and more than 32 million video views on her "Blogilates" channel-knows that exercise is only part of the equation when it comes to trimming down. Here, she shares her favorite healthy dishes (including dessert!) so you can make these tasty, good-for-you meals at home.

- by YouBeauty Editors

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Why your hair just never seems to grow.

You have begged, you have pleaded, wondered what kind of voodoo magic Demi Moore is up to and finally, given up. But there's no question that countless middle-aged women share the same lament: "Why-really, why?-won't my hair grow any faster? And is it just me, or does it seem to get slower each year?"

In a world of Blake Livelys and Giseles (not to mention plenty of more mature leading ladies), it can seem like everyone is sporting insanely long locks. But keep in mind two things. One, natural, mid-back hair growth is not as common as Hollywood would have you think. While there's no statistic measuring the overall population's varying hair lengths, consider a Los Angeles hair expert's very educated guess. "Oh please, it's so rare! So many women have extensions. It's very, very unusual to see naturally long hair. I'd roughly estimate it's not even 10 percent of women," says Christophe Belkacemi, a top stylist at the Serge Normant at John Frieda salon in LA.

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