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Suits For Your Shape: Your Guide to Swimsuits

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oregon chapter.

There are so many different bathing suit options out there that it’s difficult to decide which ones to get for those hot pool-side days. And on top of all the different patterns and styles, it’s difficult to determine which swimsuits will flatter your body type! Swimsuits should enhance your body’s best assets, not hide them! This guide will help you figure out which swimsuit is the suit for you!

If you’re like me and you’re a little smaller on top compared to other girls ruffled top bathing suits are perfect for you! This is because it puts a little more volume appear there, and gives the illusion that it’s much fuller up there than it would normally appear.

If you’re a little self conscious of the belly area, which most of us girls are, a cute one-piece number with block colors! The block color helps to draw attention away from the midline to and to the narrow parts of your body!

If you have a voluptuous trunk, there are a few tricks of the trade that can help draw attention away! The first is to try a bathing suit with a deep neckline; it draws attention away from your booty! Another is a bottom with a low-rise cut! It can make your behind look slimmer when bottoms are placed lower on the hips!

Serena Piper will always be a Southern belle at heart, but for now she is a Senior Magazine Journalism student at the University of Oregon. She is an avid news reader and watcher, loves to bake yummy desserts and watch Sex and the City reruns, has big travel plans for after graduation and would eventually like to work for National Geographic. She wouldn't mind one bit if her life echoed Elizabeth Gilbert's in Eat, Pray, Love. To find out what Serena is up to, check out her blog and follow her on Twitter