Blog Posts by Elise Solé, Shine Staff

Getty ImagesOn the heels of the highly-publicized recall of Lululemon's nylon and Lycra yoga pants, some women report that the Vancouver-based company is asking them to try on their too-sheer pants and bend over in front of sales associates who will assess them before a return is permitted.

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Last week, the yoga-inspired athletic company had to recall 17 percent of the pants (sold for roughly $100 each) bought between March 1 and March 8th because the fabric was too see-through, inspiring a wave of "I see London, I See France" jokes across the Internet. On March 18th, Lululemon wrote on its blog:

"At the beginning of March, our stores and ecommerce site received some black luon women's bottoms that didn't meet our high standards. The materials used in construction were the same but the coverage was not, resulting in increased sheerness. We want you to Down Dog and Crow with confidence and we felt these pants didn't measure up."

For

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INFDespite her 2011 acquittal in the murder of former roommate British exchange student Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox's case has been overturned, and she's now coping with the threat of being ordered back to Italy to stand trial again. The news of a retrial, announced Tuesday, means that Knox's relationship with her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito will again be scrutinized. 

In the meantime, she's been in a new relationship.
For the past two years, she's been reportedly serious with University of Washington classical guitar student James Terrano.

According to Terrano's nuclear physicist brother William, 27, the pair, both 25, were friends long before Knox's fateful trip to Italy in 2007. Knox and Terrano reportedly share a $1,500 per month apartment in a brick building with a flashing neon sign out front that reads: "Hong Kong" in Seattle's Chinatown neighborhood and have been spotted engaging in normal couple activities: Sharing Haagan Dazs ice cream, strolling on coffee runs, buying

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Photo by Facebook/West Coast Choppers. Is this really happily-ever-after?On Sunday, reality star and infamous cheater Jesse James tied the knot to drag racer Alexis Dijoria, his girlfriend of a mere seven months, marking his fourth marriage. Uh, congrats?

As we all know, it's not the first time James has been a blushing groom. From 1991 to 2002, he was married to his first wife Karla with whom he had a daughter and a son. The same year he got divorced, he wed stripper/porn star/producer Janine Lindemulder and had a daughter with her. The union lasted just two years before they split (and Lindemulder claimed James cheated on her just weeks into their marriage). Just one year later, James married actress Sandra Bullock. After reportedly cheating on her with at least seven women, Bullock divorced him in June 2010. Cut to two months later, James landed in another relationship—this time with tattoo artist Kat Von D with whom he had an on-again, off-again engagement to in 2011. Two months after the breakup, Von D posted on her Facebook page that James had cheated

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A bold Maryland teen recently put his heart on the line by inviting his crush to their high school prom in a very public manner.

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Last Wednesday, 18-year-old Bobby Chin approached his friend Sofia in the hallway of Centennial High School in Ellicott City, MD with a red rose tucked behind his ear. His friend Kevin Qin played Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" on the guitar as a crowd gathered. “Hey Sofia, I want you to know that I met you about six months ago. You made me some large fries. They were the best fries of my life,” Chin sang. "What are you doing on 4/20? That’s our prom you want to go with somebody? I’m hoping that person is you. Please make my dreams come true.” 

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Chin handed the rose to Sofia who looked mortified but accepted his invite for their April 20th prom.

The video, which has gone viral earning almost 21,000 likes on Facebook and 1,230 shares, is just

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ThinkStockA pinch of salt can perk up your morning omelet—but that innocent shaker is responsible for 2.3 million deaths around the world and 85,000 deaths per year in the United States, says a study released Thursday from Harvard's School of Public Health. 

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One in ten people die from heart attack, stroke, or other type of cardiovascular disease as a result of eating too much sodium, according to lead study author Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard University. 

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Despite the fact that the World Health Organization recommends limiting sodium to less than 2,000 milligrams a day and the American Heart Association recommends 1,500 mg per day, the global national average for the U.S. is 4,000 mg of sodium," Mozaffarian told Shine. For perspective: One teaspoon of salt has 2,325 mg of sodium.

Researchers analyzed 247 national surveys

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Getty ImagesEating supper at the campus dining hall, showering in a communal bathroom, and washing clothes at the laundromat isn't the type of lifestyle typically associated with the name "Trump." But that's just a normal day for Tiffany Trump, the 19-year-old daughter of actress Marla Maples and real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who's navigating her freshman year in college as a girl who just happens to have one of the most famous names in the world.

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"I love school," Trump told Shine. "I toured 31 colleges with my mom before deciding on UPenn. My dad went here, it's close to New York, and the people are awesome." That's not to say that navigating the social scene has been easy. "When I got here, I was a little nervous about how people would perceive me because of my last name. There will always be people who judge me as a spoiled L.A. rich girl like when football players, who shall go unnamed, shout 'Look, there's the Trump!' when I walk

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GreyLondon/TwitterMichelle Obama as fashion royalty? There's a stamp for that.

After Britain's Sunday Times Style magazine ranked the FLOTUS at the top of its Best Dressed List (Kate Middleton, who?), they promoted their issue by releasing an ad created by the Grey London agency featuring Michelle Obama wearing a crown on a British first-class postage stamp, a space traditionally reserved for the Queen of England's profile. 

According to the style mag, the first lady achieved the top honor “for understanding that, as her primary role as first lady is visual, fashion can be a force for good used to inspire and entertain."

The stamp campaign comes off the heels of Michelle Obama's recent Vogue cover where she wore a blue Reed Krakoff dress with a flourish of purple at the neckline. Inside the issue she said, "I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do."

"I also believe that if you’re comfortable in your clothes it’s easy to connect with

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American Eagle Outfitters, a clothing and accessory retailer that targets 15 to 25 year-old girls and boys, has put out a line of blue jeans so incredibly tight, it has people wondering if the whole thing is a joke—and it turns out, it is.

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On Thursday, a representative who did not want to be named revealed to Yahoo! Shine that the jeans are part of an April Fool's joke. When asked for an official statement about the controversial jeans, the rep said, "We're releasing another video closer to April...can you read between the lines?" then requested help with keeping things "under wraps."

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The video ad for the jeans features a woman's voice over saying, "You spend so much time working but if it's your passion, it isn't really work…I love coming up with something new." A guy chimes in saying "I like skinny jeans. Sometimes they're not

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