Fat Chance Bellydance

1.19.2010 @ 12:03 am UTC by lilah wild

Fat Chance Bellydance skirtAn American Tribal Style studio equipped with a boutique of all the costuming essentials. Cholis of cotton and velvet, voluminous skirts, fringe belts, veils, tribal body jewelry and sparkling hair flowers, the practicewear of kneepads and legwarmers, and a few holster bags from Wild Card. Also kohl and henna and tiny pocket mirrors shaped like mosques.

Finders Creepers

1.11.2010 @ 1:02 pm UTC by lilah wild

Finders Creepers Eric PigorsA Des Moines art gallery specializing in the dark and morbid. Shameless pulp, unsettling black and white photography, surrealistic cartooning, the styles are diverse with a welcoming vibe towards outsider artists. Besides signed prints, they also showcase other horrific wares: monster masks, horror movie tees and toys, scream-filled pop art pendants, body jewelry that leans towards the demonic, evil dolls, and if you’re in the area, the in-person items include such delights as a “vintage case full of dead stuff.”

Robot Piercing and Tattoo

1.6.2010 @ 12:49 pm UTC by lilah wild

Robot Piercing and Tattoo wooden manowar hanging plugsA large, diverse catalog of body finery: amber flower plugs, silver lotus eyelets, all kinds of silver hoops and fringy shoulder-dusters, septum mustaches, striped glass spirals, hanging shapes sprouting wings and fins and intricate curlicues, ear weights taking on the forms of little animals, plus a selection of antique and repro tribal jewelry.

Quetzalli Jewelry

11.13.2009 @ 4:37 pm UTC by lilah wild

Quetzalli Jewelry filigree hoopsExquisite body jewelry crafted from natural elements. The plugs are bits of miniature art: wood carved into tiny mandalas, amber circling itsy-bitsy hummingbirds, the spirals of ammonites curling up inside silver windows. Filigree crawls over the hoops and swirls of earrings, opals are set to flash beneath the lips, fossils are shaped into ear weights, just lovely. The filigree also pops up on intricate hairpins. Custom welcome.

Jannis Erotic Jewellery

11.6.2009 @ 12:25 am UTC by lilah wild

Jannis Erotic Jewelry alien locketWhile the name kindles images of intimate adornment, this site looks like a sci-fi villain’s treasure chest. Necklaces that wrap around the back, menacing pointed chokers, demonic codpieces, “alien lockets,” daggers and axes, bold chunks of gemstone, much of it made with secret compartments and hidden doors. Even glasses can be reworked for a subtle bit of futuristic style. And they do deliver on the erotic front – these are nipple shields ready for battle.

Body Candy

10.29.2009 @ 7:34 pm UTC by lilah wild

Body Candy chaos star nipple ringBody jewelry of the crystal charm-dangling kind, but also a go-to source for blinking bellybuttons and chaos nips. Good for basics and replacement pieces, and they have all the standards of plugs and monroes and sparkles for intimate parts, but where this site really shines is in the grand array of over-the-top nipple rings: tribal flames, spiderwebs, swagged chains like tiny medieval necklaces, saw blades, demon jaws, and most psychotic of all, Christmas jingle bells.

Rivet

9.14.2009 @ 3:21 pm UTC by lilah wild

Rivet industrial corkscrew earringsHandmade jewelry where bold, clean lines swerve into bouts of understated industrial elegance. Earrings hook spirals and corkscrews through the lobes up to 10g, the rings look spit from the mouths of dainty little robots, the necklaces are distressed hearts and sci-fi discs, the bangles are sometimes collapsible, and some of this can be customized with names and messages. Thanks, Miko!