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By Jean Patteson / The Bulletin
May 27, 2008
Q: My sister has this wild idea that if you wear lip gloss in the sun, your lips will get sunburned. I don’t see how, do you?
A: That’s actually not so wild of an idea. Because your lips do not produce melanin, the pigment in the skin that acts as a natural sunscreen, they....