Merry Christmas

Another incredible year comes to a close, and for good or bad, we’re still around, still together, and still posting ;)

We’re up to 1343 posts with this one since September 2008 - if you’re not bored yet, well neither are we!

The world keeps changing at breakneck pace, much of it for the better.

The regularly announced catastrophes - be it in land, residents, or commerce - failed to materialize, and if there are a few less malls and clubs, there is no less excellent creative activity.

A huge thank you to Inara Pey for our Christmas snap location - do yourself a favor and see her blog for a varied, in-depth view of SL.

Our best wishes to our friends, readers, and the amazing designers who make the beautiful things we’re happy to show you every day. Have a wonderful new year in your First and Second Life.

Deirdre and lelo

As we mentioned, we’ll be back on Monday, January 6th, 2014

Latexia Party and Last Karu Holiday Release

This is nearly our last post of the year: we’ll be back on Christmas day with our wishes, then on Monday, January 6th, 2014.

Two cool quickies for you before we go: a winter solstice party at Latexia, and another holiday re-release from Karu Karu.

The Latex Dolls are dropping their latex and gasmasks for a Stonehenge pagan fest.

The date: Saturday the 21st of December (that’s tomorrow!) starting at 8:30 SL time. The location is Latexia, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fetish%20VooDoo/149/131/1003

If you don’t like slurls, the landing pad at Latexia has a cool, multiple-people teleporter to the party location. Look for a silver oval booth at the left side, and have a seat!

Full details at The Latex Dolls' own blog:
http://sisterhoodoflatex.blogspot.com/2013/12/solstice-bdsm-event-and-extra-long-party.html

And our last fetish outfit of the year is Jennie, Holiday Edition by Karu Karu. It’s a little more daring than Ilona, even featuring an open version. It’s for really, really happy holidays, I guess ;)

The Karu Karu SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karu%20Karu/128/185/22

Have a great weekend!

Deirdre and lelo

Domina’s Duo - Glance Overknee Leather Boots

Deirdre:
Hot off the mesh press, we’re pleased to present the Glance Overknee leather boots by Domina’s Duo.

These are Tawny and Gina’s first laceup boots, and they look very good.

They feature the fashionable current platform look, a sleek tight shape (look at the ankles!) and almond-shape pointed toe.

Great folds and highlights starting at the front make these boots really stand out. No black on black here!

Tawny didn’t even wait for me to ask.. she said, “tell lelo a ballet version is coming in January” ;)

lelo:
Just in time for the holiday season, Tawny and Gina at Domina’s Duo bring us their Christmas gift for 2013, lovely leather overknee boots.

The leather texture is a bit rough, but that way you can see it’s leather even without zooming in with your nose on the boots, not that we all would mind doing that. *smiles*

There are 7 sizes for the boots, so should fit most in SL, i’m in the biggest size, but then i do have pony legs. *winks*

The boots come with a HUD that lets you personalize them to your personal taste and needs.

You can select one of 24 preset color combinations, but you can also set the colors of all parts separately, using a color scale or rgb settings.

The boots are copy so you can save every option you make for yourself, and when you mess up a pair there is a nice little reset button in the HUD.

So better make some extra room under the christmas tree, these boots come in a big box.

Name : Domina’s Duo
Owners : Tawny Mirror and Gina Lurra
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gratia/233/231/22

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	9	9
Price	8	8
Service	9	7
Store	9	7

Karu Karu - Ilona Holiday Edition

Deirdre:

A festive outfit from Karu Karu tonight, this is Ilona, Holiday Edition.

It’s a fun outfit for us because it’s also the first Karu Karu outfit we ever featured, in March 2011 - wow, where does the time go?

This Ilona is a pants-layer only version, so you’ll either want to wear ankle boots or Edit Appearance and shorten pants a bit - you know the drill by now, I'm sure.

Gloves and a shirt-layer top, so lots of room to wear a jacket or coat over it if you get chilly - I wrote that and I just had to throw on my Republica fur jacket from Indyra   ;)

A cool Karu Karu classic, revamped for the season, at a decent price. Grab a mic and do your best Santa Baby karaoke!

lelo:
You might have noticed that the holidays are coming again and in honor of the festive season Chane at Karu Karu brings us a special holiday season version of Ilona.

Ilona is an oldie but goodie and still very popular catsuit from Karu Karu and this edition comes with a festive fluffy border.

Thankfully Chane took all the extra layers out of the package, so you just get pants, top and gloves, your inventory will be grateful.

You also get Lolas and Phat Azz appliers for those who need more curves in their lives than the Lindens provides us with. *winks*

So get into the festive spirit and slither into this sexy number… happy holidays...

Name : Karu Karu
Owner : Chane Karu
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karu%20Karu/128/184/21

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	9	9
Price	8	8
Service	9	8
Store	9	9

DeVicious - Big City Girl and Memories

Deirdre:

We stopped by DeVicious again, just to see that gorgeous board fill up.

The visual impact is a lot stronger than simply thinking, hm, 17 outfits at 99L$ or free. Not that the words don’t have a lot of impact by themselves, but you know what I mean.

I was impressed at how many of the outfits are free. 99L$ or 69L$ won’t break the bank, but free is pretty darn awesome.

Tonight, I’m wearing Big City Girl, an ultra-fashionable capri pants and bolero jacket combo.

It was love at first sight, and the red just jumped out at me so I’m not showing you the other nine colors. The clever HUDs (two of them!) let you change the jacket, belt and pants color independently.

Included in the box are the excellent spiky Glow booties (we showed them to you in April), but I knew my Bax ankle boots would look awesome with this outfit, so voila.

Tell your friends to go, pick up everything, and tell their friends. The best Christmas gift you can give them is what we give you every day - good information ;)

lelo:
On the 12th day of Christmas my good friend Steph made for me 20 lovely mesh dresses… *smiles*

Christmas is drawing nearer and nearer and the board keeps filling up with lovely little gems like the Memories dress i’m wearing here.

As before the dress comes in 5 sizes and 3 versions; default, shiny and leather. I’m wearing the leather version here, in a Large, i am a big boned girl. *winks*

The Vega boots come in black and white and 3 sizes, so they should fit most.

Keep an eye on Devicious, that calendar is filling up nicely and with prices ranging from 0 to 99L$, it’s always worth the tip, even if it’s only to see all the people go by.

Name : DeVicious
Owner : Steph Catseye
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/DeVicious/80/131/2001
 

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	9	8
Price	9	9
Service	8	8
Store	8	7

Stroker’s Sexpo - Month Long Adult Expo

We got a tip (we love tips!) from Chill3 Mills of Latex Station - a huge adult expo is coming, and we should come have a peek.

We arrived and saw Cindy putting up shop - I don’t know anyone who works the way she does - the expo starts on the 21st and her shop is already done.

Looking around the cool, incredibly-well-laid-out sim, I was impressed. Broad avenues, cool-looking stores with a retro fifties-diner look (that reminded lelo of the show Reboot!), I instantly liked what I saw.

We have a lot of info to share, so let’s begin:

When: Saturday, Dec. 21 - Wednesday, Jan. 15
What: Stroker's Sexpo, a huge adult commercial fair, with tons of gifts, hunts, a charity auction, and lots and lots more
How: Clothing is optional. I think that’s a first in big SL events we’ve covered :)
Who: Ahh.. now *that* is interesting. Stroker Serpentine, the founding father of adult content in Second Life, making an astounding comeback!

Stroker not only put the event together, he built the sim, and everything on it is mesh. It looks clean and wholesome, a departure from the usual urban decay or space station stuff we see so often.

The sim is separated in four quadrants, called Fashion, Furniture, Fantasy and Farrago (that last means hodgepodge, and I had never heard it!).

We were lucky enough to catch Stroker for an impromptu interview - he mentioned being totally in love with mesh, and the Sexpo signalling his return to SL in a big way.

This is definitely someone we’ll be hearing from again :)

I’ll quote from the notes we received :
“The pinnacle of scheduled events is the charity auction of exclusive items generously provided. One hundred percent of this auction's proceeds will be presented to The Children's Miracle Network in the name of the Second Life Adult Content Community.”

What more do I have to say? Don’t miss it!

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Strokerz%20Toyz/128/128/32

Kidnapped! - Christmas Bondage Set 2013

Pet is earning her intern badge with another tip tonight.

Kidnapped! has put out a cool little Christmas Bondage Set freebie, including ribbon wrapping and candy-cane gag.

The kit is no trans, so you’ll have to visit the store - fiendishly clever marketing ;)

I’ll recycle a few pixels from last year - I love that Gaga pic :)

Have a great weekend!

Deirdre & lelo

The Kidnapped! SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lefabre/159/18/302

Community Doll Key and Dolly Dreams

A tip from Pet led us to a Doll Key and a thriving community of dolls, living at the Dolly Dreams SIM.

We were lucky enough to run into one of the owners, Jo Ronin, who is also an old friend and pony correspondent.

Jo filled us in on the history of the group: started in 2009, it started as a place based around RLV transformations, and eventually evolved into the current dolls group.

Click here, or paste this URI in a SL chat box to get the Community Dolls group profile:

secondlife:///app/group/0f0c0dd5-a611-2529-d5c7-1284fb719003/about

and see http://communitydolls.com for more information

The Dolly Key is a fun RLV toy, that will make you pretty much dependent on everyone around you to keep you going and get you going in all the wrong directions. ;)

Ohh and best thing about it, its free…. always the best price.

You can read the key manual here.

As we wandered around Dolly Dreams, we came across LSI Laboratories, Jo’s own store.

She makes clever speech and hearing restriction toys, and we were pleased to see she still gives her free pony starter kit.  See the link for the updated SLURL.

So visit Dolly Dreams, get a key, join a large active doll group, read the web site, and pick up some good free tack.

If you have energy left over, you can apply for an internship with the SL Fetish Fashion Blog ;)

Immerschoen - Jaydee and Donna

Deirdre:

Another walk down memory lane - we hadn’t featured Immerschoen in ages. Too many good stores!

I’m wearing Jaydee, a nearly-full outfit (just add footwear) and lelo’s wearing Donna, a clothes-layer outfit.

Jaydee includes a mesh leather jacket and pants. You’ll have to decide if you want tight waist or realistic legs, but you can’t have both. Eh, look like a supermodel for once, it won’t kill you :)

The jacket is good, with a simple shape and great leather texture: seams, folds, and not too much black.

The clothes layer bustier top adds a feminine touch to a tough biker chick look. Fingerless gloves and tats bring you right back to tough, though ;)

This is a good outfit if you like the biker look, and the price is quite decent. If you like the red and black combo, their MarySue outfit is the reverse: red jacket and black bustier.

lelo:
Another round of latex tonight, this time from the Vienna based Immerschoen, in the form of a sexy, black, of course, catsuit.

The contents of the folder is pretty basic, just pants, jacket and gloves that give you the complete catsuit.

Used to be that you needed the the outfit in all layers, but with that lovely little add button that’s all in the past, a good thing for our inventories i would say.

As an extra you get a tattoo in a tattoo layer, which works great filling the big cleavage of the catsuit.

Have a look at the new catsuits Nici has produced, this is the least sexy of the bunch, we do have our rating to consider. *winks*

Name : Immerschoen
Owner : Gismo Rhode & nici Sewell
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rurik/187/189/26

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	9	8
Service	9	8
Store	9	8

Places - ImPAKt Fetish Mall

Our recent Malls page took us to cool places, to double-check slurls, decide what was too small to call a mall, and so on.

We stopped by Pak (Phssthpok says hi!) this weekend, and saw that a little bondage-fetish-rlv ecosystem had grown around Marine’s little shack on the prairie.

Good stores we know and have featured are represented, and one building has the name of the mall on signs in the window: ImPAKt Fetish Mall.

There’s even a building featuring the Adult Hub; I think it’s the first time I see a place renting space in a mall to advertise itself. Recursive!

The layout is typical SL land chaos - no neatly ordered rows of same-sized shops here, but it’s a nice concentration of kinky shops, with the dean of SL kink sitting unobtrusively in the middle.

Well worth an entry in our malls page, and well worth a visit :)

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pak/75/61/105

DeVicious - Love Shack 2 and Peace

Deirdre:

Already day 9 on the DeVicious Christmas Calendar - or, as vanilla people say, “December” ;)

I’m wearing a little Mrs Peel number called Love Shack 2, which comes in normal and “materials shiny” versions, five sizes, and 10 textures.

So long as we’re not mad about running beta viewers, that means 10 dresses. That’s ok - it just means 10 more next year ;)

I was thinking there might be some hint of materials recognition, but there’s no difference I can perceive at all. Oh well, now I know.

Love Shack 2 (you just *know* I’m going to have to walk the halls in DeVicious to find Love Shack 1) is a tight, elegant little sixties-style dress. The bare arms are fun, I’m usually a lot less exposed than this. And it’s Uhura-short ;)

Also included in the box were these excellent boots (in black, brown, pink, red and white).

Not enough? How about a 100L$ store card? You basically can’t lose with this outfit :)

lelo:
I’m wearing Peace, the 9th
outfit in the ongoing saga that is the Christmas calendar from Steph at DeVicious.

As with all Steph’s dresses you get loads of textures and with her new love for materials, the peace dress comes in default, glossy and sequins material.

Size wise she goes from a XXS to a L and i’m wearing XS so this one is pretty loose fitting, but then that’s how they were in the sixties.

As before she kindly gives you some good boots, ok they aren’t Bax boots, but as give aways go they really are super and come in white and black.

Get your butt over to Devicious, this is the sale of the year, and next year she’ll do it all over again… *winks*

Name : DeVicious
Owner : Steph Catseye
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/DeVicious/80/131/2001

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	9	8
Price	9	9
Service	8	8
Store	8	7

Mall Page Progressing Satisfactorily

We added locations, we added slurls.. received a few tips, added those.

The Fetish Mall page is growing, and with luck, turning into something useful.

We’re still debating what would be a good prize for a contest.. I’m thinking cash, it goes with everything ;)

We’ll be polling designers - if anyone knows malls, it’s people who sell in them, n’est-ce-pas?

We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, have a great weekend!

Deirdre and lelo

Graves - Splice Dress and Cy-Boots

Deirdre:
A lovely dress and scifi-y boots from Graves tonight, we’re wearing Splice and Cy-Boots.

Splice is the dress version of the classic Splice suit. It’s cut generously in front and black - well, sides too - and has a very smart rigged mesh skirt panel, the first we’ve seen.

Aside from the clothes-layer dress (all layers plus tattoo) and gloves, you get the trademark Graves prim bits on the upper arms, plus some cool bracelets and matching collar that look like they’re made of futuristic bullets.

All prim bits have a resize script and are copy, so backup before fiddling, as usual.

Jackie moved to Caspervend so we got to see the new gift cards in action. They mount as a HUD item, and are pretty darn cleverly made. Good job, Casper!

A good-looking outfit, with some pretty good shine highlights on the buns ;) I like the Splice straps running all around the skirt.

lelo:
Jackie Graves has her own futuristic style, that’s why you can so easily mix and match her outfits, tonight i’m wearing her Cy-Boots, which neatly follow that tradition.

I do love my blue LEDs, which is a joke between Mistress and me, so these boots were just crying out to me.

The boots come with a HUD that lets you control the color of the rings, rivets and screens on the boots, i went a bit mad on the first picture to give you an idea.

The HUD also lets you adjust the size of the boots with a simple plus/minus button, easy to miss but works beautifully, not that i needed much of an adjustment.

The boots are copy so you can make color matched versions for all your (Graves) outfits, she even added a backup pair, just in case you really went berzerk.

So get yours and start playing with colors, i know you want to.. *winks*

Name : Graves
Owner : Jackie Graves
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Oxymoron/54/113/31

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	8	8
Store	8	8

Xalia’s Curiosities - Cuffs and Collar set

Dear Deirdre and Lelo, 

I've been a long time reader of your blog and actually one of my older products, the Rubber Infusions Catsuits, was reviewed around 2010.

You guys have been an awesome source for finding new gear and I was hoping you would review a new item that I've made apart from my partner.

I've been been working on a set of collar and cuff scripts to replace my dependence on OpenCollar for several months now to reduce the over lag associated with these (...)

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,
~Kensuke Leviathan/ Xalia

Deirdre:
When we’re tired and frustrated with the work of putting this blog together, a letter like that comes along.. it helps a lot, I’ll admit it :)

Xalia’s Curiosities is not the largest store we’ve featured, and that’s totally cool. You guys would get bored of nothing but Bax and Kcreations in a few months, I’m sure ;)

While OpenCollar is popular enough, anyone making their own scripts to reduce lag has my cheers. Lelo likes them well enough, and they look good.

If you give them a try, leave comments here or send me a message in-world with your feedback, hm?

lelo:
We received a lovely set of cuffs from Xalia and we didn’t want to keep them from you as i love the look of them, but then i’m that kind of girl. *winks*

The currently available version uses the OpenCollar script we all know and love, but that also has its problems.

Xalia sent us the (at this time) still in development V2 that features a complete new script to replace the OpenCollar one.

I really like that she’s brave enough to script her own collar/cuffs and i must say, even if it’s work in progress it feels solid, is easy to use and she’s open for suggestions. *smiles*

The fitting is pretty straight forward, even if the leg cuffs are pretty big and at an odd angle, she explained that that’s because she was a furry and that it will be fixed in a future update.

The cuffs have a nice and chunky look and you have a choice of 9 colors for the strap and backing and the buckle has 3 color options.

So go and support the brave little designers in SL and if you have any good suggestions for her script, i’m sure she will love to hear from you.

Name : Xalia’s Curiosities
Owner : Xaliadrakes Resident
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chained%20Tail%20Estates/84/246/22

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	-	-
Store	7	7

Nova's Femdom Fashion - Night and Asmodeus

Deirdre:

I called Nova to say hi Sunday, and was lucky enough to catch her online. We got a tour of her nice new store, and a few great outfits for tonight’s post :)

I’m wearing Night, Nova’s great Christmas release, and lelo loved Asmodeus, a devil-red catsuit.. er, not for Christmas ;)

Night has a couple of good options, revolving around the elegant sleeveless top. You can wear it with the old-school prim skirt, with pants, and with the included gloves and stockings.

I like the sprinkling of stars over the black - simple and original. Muted reflections here and there enhance without stealing the show.

Visit Nova’s - we updated the SLURL in all old posts so nobody gets lost ;)

lelo:
I’m wearing another sexy cut latex catsuit tonight, this one is by Nova at Nova’s Femdom Fashion.

Nova gave the catsuit a dull shine which is more like rubber in origin, the folds in the texture also give a rubber feel to the outfit.

The print on the catsuit makes it stand out from the crowd in a good way, black and red is always a winner.

The catsuit comes in under- and cloth layer, giving you the option to wear long or short sleeves and long or short pants.

A pair of gloves with red tips finish off this lovely catsuit, i’m convinced you can never have enough catsuits and like i said black/red will always be en vogue. *smiles*

Name : Nova’s Femdom Fashion
Owner : Nova Lustre
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/WIKKED%20COVE/195/38/21

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	8	7
Store	8	8

DeVicious - Christmas Calendar

For the third year, Steph is doing her crazy Christmas countdown: “24 Days - 24 Releases from 0L$ - 99 L$”, as she puts it.

We visited the new store and were impressed by the bright new look. You want light and air, you got it. You want water, you got it too :)

We’ll be covering the awesome new releases a lot, as a lot of those little mesh dresses have tons of great leather textures.

And while new releases are great, discounts on old releases are also pretty terrific.

When you visit the bright new store, make sure to have a peek in the “69 Gets Me Excited” section for past favorites at 69L$ each.

We’ll keep the DeVicious posts down to one a week.. well, we’ll try ;)

Name : DeVicious  
Owner : Steph Catseye  
The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/DeVicious/43/128/21