Review Us for Discounts!

Hi all!

Just a quick one to let you know that we offer 10% discount codes for recommendations of our kit! It doesn’t matter how long ago you bought it – write a great review and link it to us via FetLife (@Edgeplay_co_uk) or e-mail (sales@impact-toys.com or sales@edgeplay.co.uk). Reviews can be posted on FetBook, FetLife, the product pages on our websites, your own personal blog or website, Tumblr… it doesn’t matter! As long as we can find it and link other customers to it.

A few Ts&Cs just to keep things fair for everyone:

• Reviews should be stand-alone posts – while we of course LOVE comments on our pictures and threads, to get 10% off codes your review needs to be a writing, article, photo-set, thread etc in it’s own right or a review on the product pages on our website.
• Reviews should contain a link to Impact-Toys.com or Edgeplay.co.uk if being posted off-site
• Reviews need to be of reasonable length – again, we LOVE it when you get excited about our kit and have great things to say about it even if it’s just a couple of words, but to qualify for 10% off codes the review needs to be at least a couple of paragraphs and give a good description of the item and how you’ve enjoyed using it
• Reviews need to remain available as long as possible – we collect the reviews so that we can make them available to our customers, so in order to qualify for the 10% off codes the review needs to be in a format that we can provide a link to and stay ‘live’ online
• We offer one 10% code per review, per order – if you place three orders and write three reviews, that’s 3 x 10% codes! If you place one order for three items and write three reviews, we’ll love you forever but that’s only one 10% code (sorry!)
• You don’t have to own something to review it! If you had a great experience with one of our toys then get typing and claim your 10% code

So what are you waiting for? Dust off your keyboard and let us know how much you’ve enjoyed your toys!

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Play Piercing/Needle Play Guide

Piercing the skin with hypodermic needles in a non-medical capacity is practised for many reasons, such as:

• Body piercing with jewellery (aesthetic)
• Body piercing with jewellery (spiritual/religious/symbolic)
• Hook pulls and suspension (recreational/spiritual)
• Artistic piercing and skin corsets (aesthetic/sensation, temporary)
• BDSM (sensation/sadism/masochism)

Here we're going to talk about needle use in BDSM and for temporary artistic piercings such as skin corsets.

So why do people use needles in BDSM?

The act of piercing the skin with a needle can trigger the body to produce hormones such as endorphins and adrenaline, which may cause desirable feelings in the person being pierced. This is one reason why some find body piercings ‘addictive’ – they find themselves craving the experience of being pierced as much as the final result. In BDSM, we can utilise these feelings to create rewarding experiences without creating a long term body modification.

Piercing can also create interesting physical sensations, including pain. Depending on the dynamic of the people playing, these sensations can be inflicted for the pleasure of the top/dom/sadist or desired by bottom/sub/masochist, or both.

Some also enjoy the atmosphere and the connotations of needle play, such as those with medical fetishes.

What was that about hormones?

When we pierce the skin with a needle, we trigger the nerve endings in the skin to send signals to the brain that the body is being damaged. In response, the brain produces endorphins to help manage pain. This can create endorphin ‘rushes’ or ‘highs’ which can cause a happy, giddy feeling or a floaty, light headed feeling. The body also produces adrenaline in response to perceiving itself as being under attack, and some people enjoy the feeling of an adrenaline rush (similar to why some people enjoy extreme sports such as sky diving).

There are numerous factors that contribute to whether a needle play session is painful or pleasurable, and this guide will help you explore different ways to use needles in your scenes. This guide will also discuss the safety aspects of needle play, the risks and what you need for a hygienic needle play scene.

To read more, check out the full article on our website

What do you need for play piercing...

We got a lot of questions from people who would like to try sharps play but are not sure what they need, so here is a helpful list of the essentials and some recommended extras:

The Essentials:

• Your sterile sharps of choice (needles, scalpels, sutures, etc)
• A sharps bin - this is a legal requirement for the safe disposal of opened sharps and is very important for reducing the risk of needle/scalpel sticks
• Alcohol wipes (or similar disinfectant wipes) - these are to clean the skin prior to using the sharps, even if the person has just had a shower!
• Gloves - latex or one of the many non-latex varieties, these procedure gloves are invaluable for reducing infection risk when breaking the skin as hands are very hard to clean and the gloves can be 'freshened up' with alcohol gel during the scene as well as reducing the risk of cross-contamination in the event of a needle/scalpel stick.
• Gauze swabs or other clean (ideally sterile) wound care swabs - these are for controlling blood trickles and cleaning up the wounds after play.

Helpful Extras:

• Clean area packs - these packs contain a sterile paper sheet that can be laid down to create a 'clean area' for your sterile play supplies, and some contain gloves and gauze swabs as well. Recommended
• Bio-haz bags - useful for containing any contaminated swabs and wipes as well as needle cases, these can go in the general domestic waste.Recommended
• Skin marker pen - a skin safe pen for marking out designs
• Ribbon - for skin corsets and other designs
• Alcohol gel - for 'freshening up' gloves during play if you need to handle something other than your sharps and the cleaned area of skin. Also good for glooping all over the recipients skin for added post-play tingle... I mean cleanliness! Recommended

Everything here can be purchased on our website, Edgeplay.co.uk

We also do a range of starter kits and taster packs:

• Needle Taster Pack - not yet on the website, this little pack has a handful of the essentials for a single short session to allow someone totally new to needles to see whether they like the experience or not in a safe manner.
• Needle Starter Kit - the older sibling of our needle taster pack, this kit has a selection of needles in a range of sizes as well as the necessary safety supplies to allow for a few sessions for those just starting out with needles. It also comes with a set of instructions that will guide you through and answer questions you might have.
• Scalpel/play cutting starter kits
• Skin staple starter kits
• Skin corset kits
• We can also put together suture kits and body piercing kits.

If you have any questions or would like to enquire about an order, contact our profile on here or e-mail sales@edgeplay.co.uk

Check out our page of sharps play resources!

Needle Price Update

Thanks to another price and supplier review, we've been able to drop the price of our play piercing needles yet again!

Starting at just £3.50 for a box of 100:

• 16 Gauge (white/1.6mm) by 1.5 inch - £22.00
• 18 Gauge (pink/1.25mm) by 1.5 inch - £4.00
• 18 Gauge (pink/1.25mm) by 2 inch - £3.50
• 19 Gauge (cream/1.1mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 19 Gauge (cream/1.1mm) by 1.5 inch - £3.50
• 19 Gauge (cream/1.1mm) by 2 inch - £3.50
• 20 Gauge (yellow/0.9mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 20 Gauge (yellow/0.9mm) by 1.5 inch - £4.25
• 20 Gauge (yellow/0.9mm) by 2 inches - £3.50
• 20 Gauge (yellow/0.9mm) by 2.75 inch - £3.50
• 21 Gauge (green/0.8mm) by 5/8 inch - £3.50
• 21 Gauge (green/0.8mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 21 Gauge (green/0.8mm) by 1.5 inch - £3.50
• 21 Gauge (green/0.8mm) by 2 inch - £3.50
• 22 Gauge (black/0.7mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 22 Gauge (black/0.7mm) by 1.25 inch - £3.50
• 22 Gauge (black/0.7mm) by 1.5 inch - £3.50
• 23 Gauge (blue/0.6mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 23 Gauge (blue/0.6mm) by 1.25 inch - £3.50
• 24 Gauge (purple/0.55mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 25 Gauge (orange/0.5mm) by 5/8 inch - £3.50
• 25 Gauge (orange/0.5mm) by 1 inch - £3.50
• 26 Gauge (brown/0.45mm) by 1/2 inch - £4.25
• 27 Gauge (grey/0.4mm) by 1/2 inch - £3.50
• 27 Gauge (grey/0.4mm) by 3/4 inch - £3.50
• 30 Gauge (yellow/0.29mm) by 1/2 inch - £3.50

All our needles are in date, sterile and either Terumo Neolus or BD Microlance - no cheap imports!

And of course, we're still offering our mixed needle packs starting at just £2.75,£3.00 needle taster kits and needle starter kits from £19.00!

We're continually reviewing and updating our prices, always looking to bring you quality medical and edge play supplies that don't break the bank. We believe our latest price update makes us the cheapest supplier of needles for UK fetish and BDSM, and of course we offer a free advice and back-up service for needle and sharps players, along with comprehensive written guides that are available in our kits and on our website.

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