The time has finally arrived! Time to gather all my latex gear and head to London. Where I'll join thousands of other kinky people, from all around the world and take part in, what to me is, the greatest show on earth: The fabulous Skin Two Rubber Ball!
Dressed in latex and armed with a digital camera, I'll give you the highlights of this kinky gathering of major proportions!
Day one at the Skin Two Expo!
I'm in London and just spend most of my day at the Skin Two Expo. There was loads of people there and loads of exciting stuff. Spend time with the NPNG team, Miss Fuzzy Bunny, Sway, Shiny Moniree, Sandra, Valentina and Helen Lane and many more. I have taken some really nice photos of the friends and the models here.
Prew! Well, I'm off to the Torture Garden Skin Two Special party now. The party is sold out and rumors say that there has been sold 400 more tickets than the venue can hold. I heard the venue can hold 800, so if 1200 people show up, there will be chaos! Better be there early.
Torture Garden's Skin Two special party!
Last night went to the Torture Garden's party. I arrived together with
Tom andShiny Moniree a little past 10 o'clock. I dressed up as a latex priest. A combo of my long matrix coat, a white collar, a silver cross around my neck and a real latex bible!
The venue was a old church, so my outfit was perfect! There was two dance floors and a play dungeon. The party was not as crowded as I feared, but around 3 o'clock the place did get packed. The music was techno on one dance floor and mixed on the other. But after 2 it was primarily techno and it was way to loud for my ears! So I went down an chilled out in the dungeon bar where the music was more moderate.
I had quite a good response on my outfit. People asked for forgiveness, folded hands or made the cross sign in front of their chests. Some photographers took photos of me, so hopefully we'll see some in a week or two.
I spend most of the evening in company with
Tom and Shiny Moniree. But I did also have time to talk with
Isabeau,
Valentina,
Martin and Bianca,
Kumi,
Norman and Sway.
We left the party around 3 o'clock, took a frew photos outside and took a cab to our hotel.
Sales frenzy at Skin Two Expo - Day two!
Second and last day of the Expo. A sales frenzy hits the Expo when
Libidex start off by giving a 50% discount on all latex items! I brought a black glued latex hood for 45 pounds and a pair of short gloves for 12 pounds. What a bargain! I had to leave the Libidex stand so I did not get tempted to by more latex clothing. I fell in totally in love with a pair of latex boots with laces in the back from
Fantacy Shoes. Sadly, my wife's size (5) was sold out.
I saw a lot of new things at the Expo.
Flesh Fetish had some really cute polka dotted flare latex skirts.
Atsuko Kudo had some of her wicked creations made in a beautifully new black on white leopart texture.
House of Harlot showed off their skills in utterly cool and detailed latex corsets and catsuits.
My friends at the
NoPainNoGain stand told me that they had a really great time at the Expo, they got some happy new custumers and made a load of new contacts. There was a great intrest for thier latex clothing for men. I'm 100% sure that they will be back for more next year.
I think that the Expo was great this year. Great fun! It's such a great place to browse for latex clothing, meet old and new fetish friends. I'm already looking forward to the next Expo!
Remember to check out the compleate
exhibitor list at Skin Two's website.
Annual Latexlair Forum Get-together!
After the Skin Two Expo, I joined MissFuzzyBunny and other people from the
Latexlair Forum, at a pub called "The Kings Head". We had a meeting like this last year.
After frew pints and a lot of talking we all whent to a "Pizza Express" on Old Street, where we got great food and talked some more. I left around 11 o'clock.
Here is a list of who was there:
MissFuzzyBunny
The NPNG team
Sandra
Kitty
Bianca $ Martin
MCtriumph & wife
Tokubetsu
Isabeau
Marc
DoubleDutch
Kiswa
... and around seven others.
Skin Two Rubber Ball 2004!
The time was a little past 10 o'clock when I arrived at the Hammersmith Palais, ready for some serious latex pimping! I was wearing my shiny new "Latex Pimp" costume; black jacket, white shirt, black pants, pimp hat with huge white plume feather, silver cross necklace, two finger "dollar sign" ring, diamond earring and pimp cane. After a short visit to the cloakroom, I inspected the venue.
There was a huge ball room with stage, dance floor and three bars. There was multiple staircases there lead up to a open 1.st floor facing the main ballroom, with more bars, chairs and couches. The theme of this Rubber Ball was "Medical Fantasy" So there was some decorations with red cross marks, and scenes with clinic furniture, x-ray images, syringes and much, much more. There was some performers there was playing in some of the decorations. A little needle torture there and some tube bondage over there. Very nice!
The Ball was opened with a live performance on the stage. Followed up you the Skin Two Fashion Show 2004 with
Torture Garden Clothing,
Puimond Corsets,
Absolute Danny,
Bodycult,
Pressure Corsets,
SintheteX,
Fräulein Ehrhardt, Starfire,
HW Designs and
Libidex. Most of the designers had a little performance or play in their shows. Among the models on stage was:
Kumi,
Sway,
Bianca and
Darenzia.
It was a really a great show, but I would have liked it to be a little longer. The highlights for me where Pressure Corsets and Fräulein Ehrhardt. Katja Ehrhardt's thin transparent underwear was very sweet, sexy and delicate! Pressure Corsets had some outstanding gowns with huge blowup's attached to them, it really looked like something out of this world! Nice eye candy!
After the fashion show I spend some time walking around the room saying hi to friends, had a few beers and did a little dancing. I took some photos of the happy people I ran into on my way. I'll update my gallery with all the photos in the next couple of days. There are around 200, so please be patience. Until then, try to search for "Rubber Ball" on
GettyImages.
The last performer on stage was LucyFire. After 2 o'clock over half of the crowd was gone. Then the clock was 3 o'clock and the Ball ended. Some of the guests went to the official after party at
ClubRUB, but I was to tired. All there was left to do for me was to say goodbye to everybody and go home and get some sleep.
I hope to see all of you again next year!
