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Day trips from London #2 - Stonehenge and bath

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My second day trip is very much impromptu. Group of friends got an offer and booked the tickets the night before - next morning we got into the double decker coach. This time I quite enjoyed the coach travel as our driver and tour manager are super nice and friendly plus I was with fun group😜. Our first stop was Stonehenge and, even though we didn't have much of expectations of the trip, I still felt a tinge of disappointment. I was hoping we could walk in-between the stones and would be able to touch them, however, the nearest we could get to the stones is a good ten feet away from them.   Loved this guy more than Stonehenge😍 After about an hour, we started from Stonehenge and made our way to bath. Rest of our gang already went on Europe tour by then and they felt like we were in Rome ( I was still waiting for my schengen visa at that time and didn't get a chance to visit Rome in my later trip either😥).  We roamed around a bit, had a baguette for lunch (my...

Lip products - currently in use

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My lips tend to dry very often and I had the habit of peeling the dry layers off when I am occupied or nervous. Result - pigmented lips. To make up for the damage, lip products ooccupy major share of my skin care/makeup collection. Listed below are the lip products I am currently using and few thoughts about them. Starting with lip balms: Maybelline baby lips: all time favorite. Don't remember how many of these I went through - I rarely repurchase lip products but this one is a frequent buy. Burt's bees lip balm: I believe this is the very first purchase from boots (along with Dr Palmer cocoa lip balm which got damaged when I forgot it in trousers pocket and washed them in machine 😥). I use it during night as it's non tinted and have no SPF. It's provides good moisture without feeling heavy - in fact it don't even feel like anything is applied. Body shop Shea lip butter: it's quite common to get lip balm in most offers or skin care kits. I got this i...