Playful tickler by Cal Exotics - review by Jul!a

Light playful touches are a great way to foreplay, and this little feather tickler does deliver. For the price, one can't beat this tickler as an intro to using ticklers in general, and if you don't like it, it could always be a fancy feather duster, or an applicator for body dusts.

End to end, this little tickler is only about 9" long. Because it's so tiny, it'll store easily just about anywhere. Eden only sells it in purple, but I got a pink one shipped to me. This thing is *bright* pink. I'd put it on par with the hot pink highlighers.

It's made up of a stem and a head. The stem is basically a thick straw that comes in at about 5" long. The bottom isn't cut evenly and is open. The head has all the little feathers in it and looks like it's glued on crookedly, however the feathers seem in place pretty well. I wouldn't consider this the most quality item out there by any means, but it's only going to break if you try to break it.

There was a bit of shedding of the feathers when I first opened the package, but after that I haven't run into any moltage really.

This little tickler sure did tickle, but in a very good way. My fiance and I took turns running it over each others bodies, sometimes with an edible body dust, and just really took our time teasing the other. According to him, it feels great on the balls and on the upper thighs towards where they meet the thighs. For me, while I don't normally like breast play all that much, I did enjoy this on my breasts and also on my butt and where my butt meets the backs of my thighs. We weren't expecting all that much from something that cost so little, but we definitely weren't left disappointed.

Care and maintenance isn't all that tricky if you're careful. Getting the feathers wet will probably ruin them, so if you have a brush for baby hair or fine pet hair, you might be able to break up anything that's dried into the feathers very gently. If you use it to apply body dust, to get all (or at least most) of the dust out after use, what I do is twirl the wand almost violently between my hands. Think like you're trying to start a fire with friction and sticks.

For storage I suggest keeping it in the plastic bag it came in. You could use a toy pouch as well, but either way, you'll want to keep it in something that keeps it away from dust and the like.

The packaging was pretty minimal, clear plastic bag with a cardboard top. The piece of cardboard tells you it's a 'sexy, sensual feather teaser' so if you don't want people seeing that, definitely ditch the top. The bag itself does work well for storage and there's nothing all that bad about it that might make people look at you differently if they see it left out.

This was our first tickler, well, actual tickler, if you're not counting ones that came with body dusts. The handle could be a little bit longer, but I didn't personally have any real problems with the length. If you have larger hands however, you might find holding it to be a bit awkward, as did my fiance, but he got over it.

The feathers were sooo soft and felt so very nice, on both sides of the feathers. There aren't many bright pink things he likes, so major win that he likes this one.