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Lip Balm Addiction
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Does anyone else have this? For several years now, I have to always have lip balm on me. I haven't used any for several hours now and my lips feel dry and painful. Someone told me that lips get addicted to balms, and you have to go "cold turkey" for a few days (during which they will crack and hurt!), but after that you won't need to use it all the time/ Is this true? I spend so much money on lip balms and am sick of it!
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Well if you can bare with it for a few days i suppose the best thing to try is going cold turkey?
Also check out http://www.kevdo.com/lipbalm/ - the right hand collum; Lip Balm Anonymous
Hope it all works out,
FanBoy
Wow i just read it in a bit more detail. They *are* really addictive!
Perhaps you could take it to court, the first LipBalm tribunal!
I suppose your lips can get addicted as the skin on them doesnt have to provide it own oils/moisture etc... or even that the lip baln prohibits the skin protecting itself (blocking pores or whatever) and that the cold turkey phase is your skin getting used to itself again.
I am lucky I suppose in the fact that I have soft lips that dont crack or anything (unless I am snowboarding or something and they get a little dry...)
i think i may have this. i go crazy if im at school and i find out theres no lip balm on me. it makes my lips feel really dry and horrible & i just cant stand it
how long does the cold turkey phase have to last for?
Sad really isn't it?
Ah well keeps ya lips nice, soft and kissable so it doesnt really bother me
I can't go anywhere without my little tin of good ol' Vaseline:D