Relaxing at the beach and overloading on ice cream are pretty universal perks of summer. But some of the season's unfortunate downsides are experiences shared only by women -- and men will never quite get what we're talking about.
Here are nine summer strugs that women who are just trying to enjoy the warm weather encounter on a daily basis.
1. Your thighs sticking to the subway seat … and then walking around for the next hour with strange imprints all over your legs.
2. Doing everything you can to make sure your swimsuit is securely tied at all times.
3. Boob sweat. Ughhh.
4. Constant reminders of the made-up, unachievable, nonexistent bikini body.
5. The search for a pair of unique sunglasses so you don’t look like everyone else with the same mirrored aviators.
6. Flashing everyone within eyeshot thanks to the summer breeze and your cute, flippy skirt.
7. If you have long hair, here's how a typical day goes: before you leave your room in the morning, your hair is lookin' gooood. Maybe it's blown out to perfection or you finally got those Blake Lively beachy waves down. But once you leave the indoors (and the A/C) and walk around for a few minutes, your neck becomes SO LADEN WITH SWEAT that you decide to screw that hour you spent working on your mane. You pile those long locks up into a bun (that will take forever to untangle later) and vow to never choose hair over sleep again.
8. When it’s hot outside, but freezing in the office. So. Many. Layers.
9. Plain white T-shirts are usually easy, go-to tops, but in the summer they’re annoyingly unreliable. SWEAT STAINS ARE REAL. (OK, men probably feel our pain here.)