Don't worry, they get easier as you do them

I agree with Carrie Ann. The only difference in the DR review is that you're not talking about how the product worked for you. You're talking about what the product is. This takes away the personal aspect of the review and gives the customer an idea of what the product is and how it is supposed to work on a generic level.

You said it way better than I did!

You can still put your experience with the toy in the experience section right or should I just leave it out if its bad (not that I'm expecting it to be)?

Yup, it goes in the experience section, even if it did not work for you. In that case, try to explain why, and if possible, make a suggestion for whom it may work better. For instance, if it's too big for you, recommend it to size queens.

Gotcha so it almost sounds like it might be better for me to write the other sections mostly before I use it and then make my comments about it's use in the experience section? Sound right?

I do that sometimes. Or sometimes, I start at the end and work my way forward. Whatever excites me most is usually what I write about first. But I'm a weirdo. So you should totally not listen to me.

I would not write about a toy before using it, because I'd have to guess about a lot of the details.

What I try to do is use it and then think about who it would work for (and who it wouldn't work for), and use that to guide me. Instead of focusing on what *I* like about a toy, and what *I* would change, I make my statements more general. "Sensitive users may not enjoy this toy's texture" -- this can be said whether I like the texture or not.

I try to point out what features of the toy would make it desirable or undesirable to certain users in the main part of the review, and then in the personal comments / experience section I'll say whether I personally enjoyed it.

I've done a few. My first wasn't the greatest, but I really feel the rest have been great. Want links to those?