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Coming back from a cruise vacation, I expected to bring home memories, a tan, and maybe some new souvenirs. Not a fresh round of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. A breakout I had during the trip left behind dark marks that refused to fade, and my usual brightening serums weren’t cutting it.
So when I learned
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