New name and design

To avoid any confusion, for all my dear followers, I've came up with this small note:
Firstly, yes, my blog got a new name, and the old url aliceinboots.blogspot.com no longer exists!
Secondly, yes, I am back and revamping my blog for upcoming awesoness aka new posts and stuff, so stay tunned! xx

Life is not a competition.

This post was "inspired" by my exams...and by life itself, honestly.
 I mean, look at the picture above, isn't it the perfect definition of our life now?

We all want to "win" at life. You hear it from people on social media, you read about it in the books, you see all these "How to be winning" tutorials and advices, and you think "I really should win this, I have to do everything to achieve that"

But wait a second.

Wait and think, what is it exactly you are winning? Or that one social outcast, that everybody calls a loser, what did they lose?

Nothing.

I wish someone told me, I wish someone taught me that this life IS NOT A COMPETITION. I mean, yes, evolution had it perks, the strongest ones survived, but it also taught us that only cooperating will get us to the true success.

You were born, which means you are already a winner, you won a life and that's the biggest award.
And to think that people spend that life turning it into some constant contest of who is better, it's horryfying me...I don't want to do that. I am not obliged to and neither are you.
I spent my entire teen years, always worrying that I was somewhat worse than the others. I did not want to be below in that score I created in my head. I used to be obsessed with getting best marks, best everything and if I got anything less than the best then I would literally think of dying. I know just how bad it sounds, and what is worse is that, it wasn't only me. I look around and see people trying to achieve goals they do not truly need, in order to impress others  and convince themselves they "won one round".
There is a huge difference between wanting to be successful and to be a winner. Because on first case, there will be no losers. It will be just you on the road, that you chose, and it will be only your path.

It's good to compare yourself with other world every once in a while, but if you see it as some huge Olympics Game, then I am sorry to break it to you...but then we all are destinied losers.
1. You can't be better at everything.
2. There will always be someone who is smarter, prettier, wealthier (and anything else) than you.
And chances are, these people will never find out that they won...at your life.

Review: Timotei Precious Oils Shampoo & Conditioner

Hey everyone! So first of all, I want to say sorry for my sudden disappearance off of the blogland, it is due to me having an exam time, and being busy with uni life, but no, the posts won't stop coming! There will be a little less of them in following two weeks, and after that I promise, I'll get back to my regular blogging "routine".

For today's post...yet another haircare product, and this time something that people clearly overhype about, but eh lets just get to the point.

Price range: Affordable.

Hair condition before using the products: natural color, dry ends, normal to oily roots.

The actual review: I've used both of this products and clearly, for the price (they're  ridiculously cheap) these babies surely work. Shampoo leaves my hair looking fresh and shiny for a great amount of time and is more gentle to my hair in general than any other shampoo I've tried. BUT (huh, always with that but, ya know) while I really really love the shampoo, I don't really like the conditioner. It's obviously not bad, but at the same time it always left me thinking and feeling that it's just not enough for my hair as it didn't soften enough. But then again, for those who don't have such dry hair ends as me, or dry hair in general, this conditioner can be your holy grail. 

Hair condition after using both products: slightly better.

8/10. 

Have you tried any of Timotei products? Did they work for you? xx

All About That Bag || Topshop edition

Some girls crave new shoes, some obsess over makeup... Well, I demand new bags!\
Especially the bags from Topshop, I wish we had this store in my town, so I could see all these amazing clothing items in real. But sadly, all I can do is creating yet another wishlist of stuff I so want to buy.
This time it's bags. Bags. Oh and...bags.

1) Clean Smart Backpack / 2) The Sheena Bag / 3) Perforated Backpack / 4) Spectrum Clutch Bag / 5) Premium Leather Boxy Shopper bag / 6) Clean-Cut Satchel

P. S. Which one of these bags you like the most? Oh let me know if you would like to see more wishlist posts! xx