N-Core - SHARK

Deirdre:
Some fancy sandals with prim toes from N-Core, these are the Shark model, maybe named for the cool rows of tiny spikes - they look like shark's teeth to me.

The heel is wicked, like the rest of the N-Core shoes, and the prim work is astonishingly good.

(A quick note : we get a prim display bug when zooming in, so there are no missing spikes or bits of chain - it's just our "camera". Linden Labs is doing their best, Linden Labs is doing their best...)

When you visit the store, make sure to stop at the counter in the shoe section (at your right when facing in) and pick up the freebie gifts.

You'll have to join the group to get them, but getting notices about excellent shoes and boots isn't a fate worse than death.

There are more on the second floor : freebies, dollarbies, and cheapies. Someone at N-Core clearly understands SL marketing ;)

lelo:
I really like the way they hide your foot and replace it with a full prim foot/shoe, even if it's a bit prim heavy (200 prims per shoe).

The menu on these is even more impressive than the one in the Stylus shoes.

You can control the color of the most parts of the shoes, including the heel, sole, and the shoe itself.

You get 8 colors for the shoes, two blues, yellow, white, orange, pink, black and the red shown here.

The accessories, like the ring, ankle chain and spikes can be turned off and on and you can change their color.

The skin color can be changed with the HUD but once again in my case the preset worked fine.

The HUD has been improved giving you quick access to all the shoe options.

Name : N-Core
Owner : Claire Messenger & nuria Augapfel
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shopping/106/223/38

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

SHi Sexy Fashion - Latex Kneehigh Boots V2

Deirdre:
Somehow I managed to miss these boots when I got the ultra-long Python boots on our last visit at SHi, so it was a pleasant surprise to see someone wearing them at Bondage Ranch.

These knee boots are gorgeous, and they fit almost perfectly out of the box.

The shine is terrific, and a few cool prim straps and zips and calf chain with an adorable little padlock just make them irresistible.

New readers won't recognize the Alien Leather catsuit and Cipher jacket I'm wearing, so here are the links ;)

Sweel is a dear, we had nothing but excellent and timely assistance from her. The work is amazing, the prices are incredibly low.. seriously, go, and bring a friend ;)

lelo:
This is another case of see them, buy them... we were kinda surprised they were by our old friend Sweel Honi, she always seems to surprise us.

At the shop we couldn't help sneaking a peek at the giant doll she has locked up in the shop.

We got the second pleasant surprise when we checked the boots they are discounted 40% off, not sure how long this will last so better hurry.

The one thing i really love about these boots is that they are one piece so no odd angled ankles.

Ohh and when you are at the store, checking out the lovely doll, and unable to resist this great offer, don't forget to take this months freebie: some lovely suspenders and stockings.


Name : SHi Sexy Fashion
Owner : Sweel Honi
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jeulmun/209/219/102

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

VENDOM - Succubus War Queen (red)

Deirdre:
My friend Hikari Shirabyoshi is a power shopper. I mean, you think lelo and I know a few shops, she blows us out of the water without even trying.

Every now and then she'll IM me "Hey... do you know this store?", send me a landmark, and blow my mind.

Her specialty is freebies. And what we have here today, the VENDOM Succubus War Queen was indeed free.

In fact, it was on a Midnight Mania board, which I didn't even know about. Very cool system : if the set amount of residents click the board, they all get the item.

Best viral marketing I've seen in ages.

I called some friends over, spammed one of my groups... sure enough, at three minutes after midnight, the outfit was in my inventory - and lelo's, obviously ;)

Cool outfit, cool tail, cool store. Drop by with three hundred friends, sometime.

lelo:
When you open the box and copy the contents into your inventory you'll find 27 items, must be one of the biggest boxes yet.

Most items are prims, but there is a LM, picture and some clothes there, though the clothes don't cover very much *winks*

The spikes look rather serious, and make me rather nervous, being a rubber doll at heart.

You get some options like the back flags and the horns, which you can use if you want.

There is even a shape include, but mine seems to come pretty close to the average succubus war queen. *smiles*

Still best thing with a get up like this, you'll always have plenty of room on the dance floor.

Name : VENDOM
Owner : Vendalia Foxtrot
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vengeance/202/63/22

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	8	7
Store	8	8

B-Squared - Buckled Corset Blue-Black

Deirdre:
We found this cool freebie at the TMS shopping mall, picked it up for pictures, and when we went back to check the landmark, it was gone.

A quick IM to Bridle Beattie confirmed that it had been a weekend promo that just ended, but she very generously offered to put it up again at her store for our readers.

This is the part I love best about doing this blog :)

So do visit B-Squared's cool store, and pick up this great corset, and make sure to tell Bridle that Deirdre sent you!


lelo:
Amazing looking cloth-layer corset by B-Squared and the price makes it even better.

The texture is a nicely fitted picture of a real corset, makes for some great buckles on the front and some nice lace on the back.

Sadly the cups are a bit plain, which lets the corset a bit down, but still the quality of the buckles is amazing, best i've seen yet.

So enjoy this freebie and give B-Squared a look, you might end up spending some lindens on her good looking clothes.

Ohh and remember this is only the corset, so better look for something to wear with it... or not.. *winks*

Name : B-Squared
Owner : Bridle Beattie
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/BDSM%20Island/34/85/701

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	7	7
Price	10	10
Service	8	-
Store	8	8

Abranimations : Free Whips

Abranimations is a huge animations place.

You may know them from roller skates and water balloons, among other things.

They also have a naughty side, and some good free floggers, canes and a wicked-sounding bullwhip, all for free. Look for this sign : BDSM ROOM in "adult poses".

To use them, just left-click in front of you. Anywhere except on the whip. Pretty easy, you'll be a whip expert in three clicks.

The whips are meant to interact with the bondage toys and genitalia made by Abranimations.

Anyone who has either, don't hesitate to leave us comments, we're quite curious.

Have fun.. and remember to watch your volume when you crack the whip ;)



Name : Abranimations
Owner : niknak Bugaboo
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Animations/229/58/26

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	-	-
Store	8	7

EvA Footwear : EvA Angelina black

Deirdre:
Someone dropped in on us at Bitch Goddess a while back with the Cheeky Paws version of the Angelina boots by EvA Footwear.

After chuckling at the fun texture, I recognized a very elegant boot design.

It was a pleasant surprise to visit the store and find that Van Stantz is Evangeline Eames's slave and designer - Eva is our new friend from the FEMDOM Magazine and quite a busy person :)

The EvA Angelina is available in different sets : black (includes red, purple, blue and green), gold (includes lighter tints) and silver (with very pale tints). Each comes with 7 sole colors and 21 sole trims. It's like buying a wardrobe! The colors are controlled with a simple menu.

Cheeky Paws, like the other semi-demo versions of the Angelina (with fun textures), are inexpensive but not quite free.

If you drop by the store in the Dominion's shopping district, you may want to have a peek at a stack of freebies hidden as a reward for having a thorough look around.

It's 35m behind you when you face EvA's store, just in back of the "fab pony" store (which sells clothes that may be fab but are not pony).


lelo:
Looking for a pair of good looking leather knee high boots? Look no further.

The Angelina boots have a simple look, but manage to look very real.

The stitching at the top is an nice detail, as are the folds at the ankle.

The heel is straight forward but looks very comfortable without being chunky.

Still a great boot, just add jeans and a leather jacket and you have a great outfit, now where did i put that Harley.


Name: EvA Footwear
Owner : Van Stantz
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Dominion/234/217/30

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

19 Sosaku-Kobo, Onenine : Riders Black

Deirdre
Saw someone wearing this great classic biker leather jacket, and I just had to have it - pleasant surprise, it's a freebie!

Great work on the prim flap folds.. after a bit of tweaking, they look awesome.

The jacket comes with some nice biker shades, and a men's version is also included. All is mod copy, but not transfer... so you'll have to send your friends to the shop ;)

Domo Arigato, Mister PaintO Jie

lelo
Looking for that biker chick look? Well here is a great leather jacket to complete the look.

PaintO manages to make a good combination of prim and clothing layer.

It takes a bit of work to get the prims in the right place, but the effect is great.

And best of all it's a freebie, and i know you all love a great freebie.

Give the shop a look it's nicely done, especially the bike shop is very nice and please don't feed the fish *winks*

Name : 19 Sosaku-Kobo

Owner: PaintO Jie
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/EDO%20JAPAN/107/202/27

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	7
Price	10	10
Service	-	-
Store	8	8

Kayliwulf Kingdom : On Prancer, On Vixen!

Deirdre:
A lovely Christmas outfit for your rubber ponygirl... put some tack on her and let her pull your one-horse open sleigh ;)

Great use of the highly shiny "latex fur" outfits. Note the nice deer spots on the back.

The antlers and tail are cute and not overdone.. just the right touch of cute and fetish.

lelo:
Last of the Kayliwulf Christmas specials, i guess we covered them all except for the jolly fat man himself. *winks*

Only thing missing on this outfit is a shiny red nose.

Ohh, and don't forget to check out the Christmas tree at the shop for some nice freebie presents.

Name : Kayliwulf Kingdom
Owner : Lazarus Luan & Daphne Goodnight
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kayliwulf%20West/219/128/64

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	7
Price	8	7
Service	9	9
Store	7	6

DXD : freebie Mistress heels

Deirdre:

A very nice shoe, with detailed prim work. It's free, the best advertising possible.

This said, the texture is black on light black, with some black highlights.

See the end of this post for a Photoshop-lightened version to show the admirable work that went into this shoe, which you might otherwise miss.

The astute (and regular) reader of this blog may have noticed that I'm not wild about platforms. Well, there you go. If you noticed, you're astute. But this shoe does look pretty wicked, and will make you a foot or so taller, never a bad thing.

The spurs on the Mistress version are awesome. You'd kill any poor slave you stabbed with these in real life, but in Second Life, there's no such thing as excess.

The slave version has heel rings instead of the spurs, which I've only seen in fifties bondage drawings (Stanton and friends). Instant classic!

So there you go. Get the shoes, be the envy of your friends, and drop casually in conversation that they were free... and Deirdre and lelo told you about them ;)

lelo:

Simply the best looking freebies shoes in SL, it's hard to believe they give them away.

The shoes have a very high platform and some killer heels, 3 buckles and some good looking laces, the Mistress version has some nice spurs and the slave version some d-rings.

As these are the freebie versions the texture is very plain, the retail version offers a somewhat better texture, but the are pretty much black on black low contrast.

The slave version comes with a simple RLV locking script, but the retail version has a more elaborate menu driven control system. But i'll go into the workings of those when i get my hands on a pair of them.

The store has a nice lay out in a slight Japanese style, it's small but the rezzing displays of the shoes are great, much better than those static pictures on most vendors.

Name : The Dominatrix shop of DXD

Owner : Xene Demina

The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Evil%20Grins/194/130/315

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	-	-
Store	8	8

Kayliwulf Kingdom : Red Kitty

A little note before I begin : November First, One PM SL time Kayliwulf fashion show at Playboy, more news soon as I get them!

Deirdre:

Kayliwulf is famous for assembling parts into good outfits. This is a freebie I got, made up of the following :

- FetishDoll 3-Buckle Thigh Boots

- FetishDoll Buckled Corset

- FetishDoll Catsuit Top

- FetishDoll Garter Belt

- FetishDoll Panty

- FetishDoll Thigh Stockings (in black)

- FetishEars Kitty

That's right, FetishEars ;) What it adds up to is a fun, complete outfit that you can mix and match endlessly with other clothing, be it Kayliwulf or not - latex or not, for that matter.

Good "reflections" on the latex, and a nice bright color.. and the ears just make the outfit. They were quite huge when I got them, but resizing them was easy.

lelo:

fun looking outfit from KK, this one was in the Easter hunt eggs. I can't help myself i just love a cute little kitty and it's even better when it's in red latex. *smiles*

Just shows you that it's always worth to take a look at the freebies Laz and Daphne give away.

the boots are of an earlier design and it shows how much the design has grown, still these boots beat all the freebies i have seen till now.

The owner : Lazarus Luan & Daphne Goodnight

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kayliwulf%20West/115/98/39

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	7
Price	10	10
Service	9	9
Store	7	6 (lag)

Freebies around SL : KCreations catsuits

Deirdre:

Freebies are not always wonderful. Sometimes they're first attempts; sometimes they're not quite good enough to sell. Let's face it, if an item is so terrific that people are willing to pay thousands of L$ for it, it won't usually be given away.

Sometimes, however, designers will make very good items available for free as promotional material.

This brings visitors to their stores, gets them talked about... and since being found on SL is quite a challenge, a good freebie can work wonders.

This is the case with KCreations's free latex catsuits.

A boxed set of catsuits in black, white, pink, orange and red that will let you mix and match as foundation for any number of outfits.

A simple example: say you don’t have good boots yet. You could wear black latex stockings with a decent shoe or sandal and achieve a pretty neat look, for free.

The “reflections” on the latex are suited to a male or female body – choose the one you need. The outfits are no transfer, so if a friend wants them, just send them to the store.

lelo:
Time for a new feature on our blog : we'll make a list of good freebies we've found in SL, and offer you the opportunity to participated by sending us the slurl of other great freebies.

To start we have chosen the wonderful catsuits by Kat Fetisov, of Kcreations.

The catsuits are simple but show the quality of Kat's work and in that way serve the purpose of being a great demonstrator of the rest of her products. Give them a look if you like the freebies, that's only fair.

The boxes with the free catsuits can be found at:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lineside/102/146/77 (updated 2009-08-13!)

If you've got any links to good freebies, don't hesitated and attach them as a comment.

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	7
Price	10	10
Service	-	-
Store	7	7

Sn@OKs : Lady Zora in Latex

Deirdre :
I don't know who Lady Zora is, but she has great taste. I saw someone wearing this outfit at Bondage Ranch, and I thought, "Me want!"

So a quick right-click, inspect (oh, come on, we all do it.. it's harmless snooping) revealed it was made by Sn@oks. Search, teleport... but once in the store, finding the outfit took ten minutes.

This was a few months back. As lelo and I returned to the store to have a peek before writing this piece... we searched for the outfit for 10 minutes. Yes, again.

Now, I know good store layout is a challenge. Sn@oks has a lot of outfits. But the place is literally like a maze. All the sections look the same, no signs anywhere, and the grouping by category is a little... mysterious.

I don't think you should find things despite store layout. I think store layout should help you find things.

All that aside, this outfit has some of the best leather textures I've seen. The corset is really eye-catching, the boots are pretty good (except the foot, but you mix and match your favorites there - I use Minx) and the arm and leg straps are fun extras, at a very reasonable price.

The cape caught my eye first, though.. I *love* capes. This one is big and full, and falls like capes should and never do in real life.

A great outfit for any fetish occasion.. except dancing ;) No, just take off the cape, silly.

lelo:

This Sn@Oks outfit is very sexy without being slutty, the cape gives it a very domme look, though i would recommend wearing it with other boots or as Mistress does it with other prim heels.

Complete it with a whip on your hip and the subs will be laying at your feet. Next to the great looking leather texture the one thing that really makes this outfit is the lovely cape, it's multi layered and has a very good looking collar.

Look on the second level for some nice freebies and a place to camp.

The store : Sn@oks
The owner : Hendrik Snook
The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scapoli/243/158/21

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	7
Service	-	-
Store	4	4