I. Fucking. Love this.

The paint brush whip is as awesome as it sounds, a wonderfully simple device that can create sensations raising from a light tickle to a hard, swear-inducing stingy swing or an amazingly unique combination of thuddy and stingy. And the patterns it makes! Oh. My. God. It's amazing! BDSM or sensation-inclined users of any experience level will adore this!

This beautiful, wonderful toy is just as beautifully made. It comes in only one color: Black. It measures about 14" long or so, though as the tails are latex, you may get a little more distance due to the stretch.

The handle is a stiff, sturdy black leather with a core. Not sure if it's an additional layer of leather, a piece of aluminum, rawhide, or what. Whichever it is, it feels wonderfully sturdy in your hand. I think I actually said "Ooh" when I took it out of the box! It has a really cool heft despite being quite light and no flex. Oftentimes leather handles, even with an additional leather core have some flexibility when being swung, but there handle of this manages to be completely solid. It also manages to be not quite stiff... the leather itself is quite supple. I have smaller hands and this fit perfectly in them! The stitching is nice and even, though the loose ends were evident on mine. Not a problem, as that's not the end taking a beating!

The tails are latex, and more than I really wanted to count. They're all rather thin, only a few millimeters in diameter. They're velvety smooth to the touch, and my husband liked the feel of playing with them so much I had to take it away! As mentioned earlier, they have a bit of stretch, at least a good four inches or so with a hard swing. Each tail is bonded very securely to the handle, so even with a vigorous scene, you don't have to worry about any coming loose.

Just trailing it over your skin, it sort of tickles, but it glides smoothly thanks to the texture of the tails. At a slower pace, it has an interesting thud. As speed and the strength of your swing continue, you'll find it first increases in thudiness then meets a halfway point where it's pleasingly thuddy and stingy at the same time. Swung at your hardest, it produces a sharp stingy sensation that had both of us swearing. I was curious about potential recoil, given the stretchiness of the tails, but I suppose that's taken care of by their length; There was NO recoil!

The marks it left were beautiful. With just the ends, it leaves the sort of mark you'd expect from someone painting hastily with a wide brush and not enough paint. The more of the length you use, the longer and fuller the strokes become. The harder the swings, the more colorful they'll be! If any purples start blooming up, you'll get really cool looking speckles dotting the red strokes. You're pretty much limited to straight strokes (unless you're more talented than me, haha) but you'll 'Ooh' and 'Aah' over the pretty marks nonetheless.

I store it in my toybox pretty haphazardly, honestly. I'm not particularly worried about the latex getting kinked up, it slides very smoothly across itself. You'll only have to worry about knots if someone puts them there. Latex decomposes naturally when exposed to air, and if this starts to happen, it will first become frosty in appearance, and then brittle. Higher temperatures and sunlight will accelerate it if it begins to happen. I don't know about the purity of the latex, so I'll probably start putting it in a plastic bag with all the air squeezed out in one of the cooler parts of the house, just in case.

The tails could easily be cleaned with soap and water or a toycleaner, though I'd be careful not to get TOO close to the leather. To clean the leather itself, all you should need is a damp cloth.

If the handle of mine gets wet, I'll update this review with what its response was.

This did not come with instructions, in a plain box with paper as a filler. For packaging, all it had was a tag on the end of a handle, stating its maker and 'Paint Brush Whip'. That's good enough for me.

This is an amazing toy that can't cause real damage. Used on the thighs, breasts, or genitals ESPECIALLY, it will probably be too much for a beginner. On the back or the butt? Heaven~~!

Getting it wet would make it purely vicious, and over clothes it will lose most of its pretty, pretty bite.