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20% off at Booty Parlor for Jack & Hill readers!

Hillary and I had a fab time when we visited Booty Parlor HQ in Los Angeles a few months ago. (Pictured: Dust Up Kissable Body Shimmer: Don't Call Me Honey, which looks, smells, and tastes really freaking good.) So we're thrilled to tell you that you can now get 20% off all products from Booty Parlor, just by entering the code BPFriends at checkout. Plus, orders over $99 get shipped for free. Yay!

If you're doing holiday gift shopping, I highly recommend having a gander at the Booty Parlor Love Kits - there's one for every woman on your Christmas list (apart from your mom, I guess, but you could always treat her to a cinnamon lipgloss or one of those body shimmers).

Booty Parlor doesn't ship to the UK yet, sadly. There are ways around these things though, if you've got a friend in the US who wouldn't mind receiving and passing a package on for you.

More Booty (Parlor) Booty: Add Magic

While Jack is elegantly dusting herself with shimmery, pretty, tasty--and tasteful--things, I, being the trashy slut in this outfit, went straight for the slimy stuff.  The sweet-tasting Cinnamon Shine lip gloss, yes, and the discreetly labeled Add Magic "luxury lubricant" which looks rather demure and stylish on the nightstand and even more importantly, won't embarrass my teenage son when he inevitably happen across it. 

Speaking of non-embarrassment, the item below is not a bottle of nail polish, but a battery-operated pleasure device designed not to embarrass the TSA agent who searches your handbag. 

BTW, on a curious note, while eyeglass cleaner, mouthwash, hair gel, mascara, lip gloss and toothpaste are banned on all flights, you are allowed to carry up to 4 oz. of "essential non-prescription liquid medications" on an airplane, and that includes.... you got it, "personal lubricant."  Thinking creatively, I can't see any reason not to dab a little bit of magic pussy product on dry lips and puffy eyes, eh?

Booty Parlor: Bling-bling for your jiggy-jiggy

It's not often that I end up licking myself furiously within minutes of meeting someone. But that's what happened earlier this week, in LA, when Hillary and I had the pleasure - and I mean that sincerely - of visiting the Booty Parlor HQ. More on the licking thing later. (For the record, Hillary's tongue was working overtime, too.)

For those of you not familiar with Booty Parlor, it's a young brand which helps you to accessorize your sex life - and in a fun, pretty, non-skeevy way. If you've ever bought anything like lubricant, massage oil, or sex toys, you know how off-putting the whole process can be. Everything comes in either ultra-cheesy packaging (mmm, leopard print!), ultra-clinical packaging (KY, anyone?), or ultra-revolting packaging (oh, nice - a low-rent Jenna Jameson lying spread eagle!). Let's not even talk about the hard plastic clamshell that you have to saw open just to get to the good stuff.

All in all, not a process that leaves one feeling like a sex kitten.

That's where Booty Parlor comes in. Dana Braverman Myers, whose background is in celebrity endorsement (blame her for the Britney Spears deal with Pepsi) and her husband Charlie (a former film producer) wondered why it wasn't possible to buy sex accessories which were more like high-end cosmetics. After all, in this post-Sex and the City society of ours, women are taking more control in this area. Why should we be stuck with an aesthetically displeasing style of products and purchasing, especially with all the disposable income we've got? "Hey, it's good enough for guys!" doesn't really wash.

Check Dana out: When she popped out of the room to get something, I whispered to Hillary, "She is really well put-together." Not surprising, then, that Booty Parlor's products follow suit. For example, take the subject of the photo at the top of this post. It's a pink vibrator, yes, and the delicately wrapped and sealed bundles lying next to it are not sweets - they're batteries. Everything comes beautifully arranged in pink tissue paper, in a high quality box that makes you feel the anticipation of opening something that's going to make you feel really good. The pleasure starts with the unwrapping.

Over the next couple of days, I'll be reviewing some of Booty Parlor's products - which include lip gloss, bubble bath, massage oil, and various flavours of body shimmer. That's what had Hillary and I lapping away at our arms when we first sat down with Dana, by the way. I'd tell you to get your mind out of the gutter, but in the Booty Parlor world, the gutter is a fragrant, tasty, beautiful place to be.