Sunday, 3 July 2011

Review: Zini Deux

The ever fabulous LoveHoney sent W and I a Zini Deux to test out and I must say, with a design so delicious the Zini Deux won the Red Dot Design award, I kind of expected the Deux to be all form and no function. Especially at £139.99 on LoveHoney.

 Boy did I have it wrong!

The Zini Deux comes packaged absolutely stunningly. It has an inky blue outer sleeve with little coffee bean Deux motif on each side and glowy white writing surrounding a black and shimmery white card box held together with a magnet. When you open it, the only tiny amount of plastic is a cover for the Deux so you can see it sitting there all prettily - everything else is encased in thick black card and slotted into the outer box perfectly.

The Zini Deux comes with a little silky and very discreet carry bag, which is pretty well made - something that can often be a let down in luxury toys! It also comes with an instruction booklet and a 1 year warranty, a charger and when you buy with LoveHoney they chuck in a free UK adapter!

 Once you get your little bundle of joy, it needs charging until the light shows green before you can put it to good use and it doesn't work whilst charging but you can use this time to get to know your Zini! The instruction booklet is clear and concise with information on health and safety, storage and cleaning, using the settings and disposal (as if you'd ever want to get rid of it!) it also has a nice little section on "troubleshooting" which is a lovely touch!

The product itself is delicious, really well made, with beautiful curves and a soft, silky platinum silicone coating (don't use silicone lubes, just don't, ok?). The two sections sit beautifully together and are held in the coffee bean shape by magnets. When together you can see the gorgeous deep purple outer section and a little flash of the hot fushia inner section. It looks very pretty! Once you separate the two you can see all those gorgeous curves and imagine just how to use them!

The male part, it a deep curve designed perfectly to stimulate the balls whilst pointing the tip towards the shaft. It really is well designed. The motor sits in the apex of the curve making it very powerful and feel incredible. (The picture below shows the charging slot at the side - it's not there, it's actually at the back)

I do find with the female part of the Zini it's a slower and more "meandering" orgasm rather than the quick and direct orgasm some of my more powerful toys give but that's really not a problem, just something to be aware of!

Now on to the major flaw with the Zini...the 2 parts don't charge together. Zini don't even supply you with 2 chargers! Which is a massive oversight on a couples toy designed for use together! It would be simple enough to rectify - even just having a splitter on the charger or supplying two chargers would work and not be all that expensive. Such a let down on such a promising toy.

On the plus side they only take two hours charge for four hours use!

Overall - a beautiful toy, beautifully packaged perfect for slow and teasing couples play. A great introduction to toys for men and women and for once a really well executed male vibrator!

Alicia d'Amore <3

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