nipple stimulation

Review: Velora Crest wearable vibrating nipple clamps

Kate Sloan

What is the Velora Crest?

Velora’s Place sent me a product they call the Crest wearable vibrating nipple massagers. This pair of soft silicone toys can be affixed to your nipples and then controlled via the included remote. It’s a rechargeable toy, with a cute double-pronged charger so you can charge both clamps at once.

Interestingly, the company markets the Crest as a product you can wear out on the town, under a bra, for surreptitious public play. The wireless remote helps with that – it’s certainly a lot subtler than if you had to reach down your front every time you wanted to change the vibration setting!

Things I like about the Velora Crest vibrating nipple clamps:

  • Pleasantly painful: While marketed as nipple “massagers” rather than nipple clamps, I find that the Crest’s little pincers cling onto my nipples in a wonderfully painful way. It’s a relatively low-level pain, not overwhelming by any means, but I’m always aware of it while these are on, which is fun for a masochist like me. As with other nipple clamps, these are easiest to put on when my nipples are hard, and are often most painful in the moments right after removal, as the blood flows back in. (Obligatory safety tip, though: you generally shouldn’t leave nipple clamps on for longer than about 30 minutes at a time, to prevent complications from cutting off circulation to your nips.)
  • Discreet enough for public play: True to its marketing copy, the Crest can indeed be concealed effectively when worn under a bra + shirt, so you can do surreptitious nipple play at a bar, restaurant, or wherever the night takes you. (Wouldn’t recommend wearing these out while braless, both because they could fall off more easily and because they’d be much more visible that way.) The Crest is even relatively quiet, although weirdly the sound gets higher-pitched and a decibel or two louder (I measured!) when I’m wearing clothes versus when I’m naked.
  • Decent variety of vibration modes: The Crest has 4 steady speeds followed by 6 vibration patterns. Normally I’m not a fan of vibration patterns, but I think they work well for nipple play; dunno about you, but my nipples prefer the sensation of motion (e.g. being licked/sucked) over vibration, and patterns can feel more dynamically motion-esque than steady vibration.
  • Remote control pre-paired & stable: I had zero issues with connectivity while testing the Crest. Its remote was already paired to the toy by default, and the toy responded quickly to each button-press, even when I wore it under clothes.
  • Relatively secure: This’ll vary based on your particular nipples, but I found that the Crest stayed affixed to mine without any trouble, even when I swung my tits around experimentally. (Sex toy reviewing is a tough gig but somebody’s gotta do it!) Naturally, they stay in place even more securely when you wear them under a bra.
  • Cool aesthetic: I’ve never seen nipple clamps that look anything like this before! The design is inspired by angel wings, but it reminds me moreso of Sailor Moon’s wand. Love that these clamps are red, too, since it’s one of my favorite colors.
  • Fully waterproof: Yay! Try ’em in the shower, the bath, or a rainy-day alleyway makeout – hey, why not?
  • Price: $33 is a decent price for nipple clamps of any kind, let alone vibrating nipple clamps that can be controlled remotely! (For reference, Lovense’s Gemini vibrating nipple clamps cost $79.)

Things I don’t like about the Velora Crest vibrating nipple clamps:

  • Extremely buzzy: The Crest’s vibrations are very buzzy, i.e. high-pitched and surface-level. Ultimately this doesn’t bother me as much for nipple stimulation as it does for clit stimulation, largely because I’m not trying to have orgasms via nipple play so it doesn’t bug me if my nipples get a little desensitized from the buzziness – but it’s still not my preference, to say the least.
  • Not very strong: In addition to being surface-level, these vibrations also just aren’t very powerful, even at their top speed. However, that may not be an issue if you’re just looking to use the Crest as a fun tease while you’re out in public.
  • Not adjustable: Nipple size can vary a lot from person to person, so while the Crest fits my nipples fine, I can’t guarantee it’ll fit yours. It is made of pretty bendy silicone, though, so it should fit most nipples, I think. The lack of adjustability also means you can’t easily lessen or increase the pinchiness/pain level if you want to, the way you can with (for example) my beloved Weal & Breech nipple clamps.
  • Short battery life: You get about 50 minutes of use from a 40-minute charge, which is fine but not great.
  • Easy to lose pieces: The Crest doesn’t come with a storage bag, so it would be all too easy to misplace one of the clamps (since they’re not attached to each other) or the remote.

(Not safe for work warning: there is a photo of tits below!)

The Crest under a bra, under a bra + shirt, and sans clothes

Final thoughts

When I think of the Crest as a pair of nipple clamps that can be worn sneakily under clothing in public, I love ’em! They are elegantly designed, thrillingly painful (but not too painful), and are contoured in such a way that they lie relatively flat under a bra, so no strangers would suspect me of secret sexy shenanigans.

When I think of these toys as nipple vibrators, though, they fall short of my expectations: I wish the vibrations had a wider range of intensities and were much less high-pitched in timbre. It always sucks when the vibration is the worst part of a vibrator!

That being said, for $33, you could do a whole lot worse than the Crest clamps. Consider them for your sadomasochistic needs, especially if you think you’d prefer their silky-soft silicone over the hard plastics and metals that most other nipple clamps are made of. After all, when you’re craving nipple pain, why not have it administered by a pair of bright red angel wings?!

 

This post was sponsored, meaning I was paid to write a fair and honest review of the product. As always, all writing and opinions are my own.

Review: VVD Vkini vibrating bra

Kate Sloan
By the way, if you want to see more of my tits, here’s a photo set and a video in which they’re prominently featured. Or you could email me to commission some custom content!

How do you feel about your breasts, if you’ve got ’em?

I feel neutral-to-mildly-positive about mine, most days. I don’t feel insecure or self-conscious about them like I did when I was younger (thank fuck!), and I certainly don’t have any dysphoria about them like some of my trans and nonbinary friends have experienced – but I also don’t think about them much, and it doesn’t often occur to me to request breast/nipple stimulation during sex, even though it usually feels good when it does happen. They’re just… not a big part of my self-conception, sexually or otherwise, and never really have been.

Part of the reason for that, I’m sure, is that there aren’t very many breast-centric sex toys (relative to other types)! Maybe I’d be more “in touch with” my boobs, so to speak, if I’d reviewed tits-focused toys in equal proportion to all the clitoral and vaginal toys I’ve tried – but almost all of the breast-y products in my collection are nipple clamps, designed to provoke pain, not pleasure. Don’t get me wrong, I like nipple clamps – but I have to be in a pretty specific mood to want my tits to be tortured.

So you can see why I was intrigued when VVD, makers of the rideable vibrating “sex saddle” I reviewed last year, reached out to tell me they’d created a vibrating bra and wanted me to review it. It’s called the Vkini (cute name!). Let’s talk about it.

What is the VVD Vkini?

VVD describes the Vkini as a “wearable nipple stimulator.” Structurally, it’s similar to a very skimpy bikini top, with adjustable back and arm straps – but instead of breast cups, it’s got spring-like silicone spirals which hold your breasts in place, while the heart-shaped vibrators in the centre of each spiral stimulate your nipples.

While it can be controlled directly via the buttons on the two nipple vibrators, the Vkini also optionally pairs with an app called MetaXSire which allows you to control the toy from nearby or afar. (More on that later.)

Included with the bra itself is two pairs of magnetic attachments, one shaped like little flowers and one shaped like little mouths, complete with tiny silicone tongue. These serve to vary the sensations you can get from the toy.

Attachments

Things I like about the VVD Vkini:

  • First of all, shout-out to VVD for this concept. I genuinely think it’s cool and unique. As I mentioned above, a lot of the breast-focused sex toys on the market are pain-based – think nipple clamps, “tit-tuggers,” and bondage bras – so it’s refreshing to see an entirely pleasure-based product in this category. I think it’s clever the way the spiral-shaped cup holds each tit in place so that the vibrator more-or-less stays put on each nipple.
  • The aesthetic of this product is very up my alley, as a lovecore fanatic! It reminds me of those LoveLife vibrators from back in the day, which I once found too girly-looking but have since come around on, because our world is so full of hatred and division that symbols of love seem more important and subversive than ever. The spirals embedded in this toy’s design also lend it a certain hypnokinky aesthetic; I think it would be particularly adored by those whose hypnosis kink crosses over into ‘bimbo’ play, like my pal Sleepingirl. (Actually… Sleepingirl, if you’re reading this and want me to send you this toy once I’m done with my review, let me know – it should belong to someone like you! 😂)
  • If you control the toy’s vibrations via its buttons, you can flip through 5 speeds and 5 patterns, which is a decent amount of variety. And unlike with most genital vibrators, I found myself actually enjoying the vibration patterns this toy has, because their rhythmic variation feels more like the type of nipple stimulation I like (having them stroked or licked) than standard vibration does. I also like that each nipple vibe can be controlled independently, as this allows for more variety of sensation.
  • If you want even more variation in the vibration intensity, you can download the MetaXSire app on your phone and control it that way. It has many of the functions I’ve come to expect from vibrator apps these days: long-distance control, syncing to music/sound, motion-sensor control, and the ability to try other people’s custom-designed vibration patterns and create some of your own. (Like many other vibrator apps, this one seems to borrow heavily from Lovense’s app in terms of design and functionality, and I don’t love when companies copy other companies, although I have to admit that Lovense has a damn good app so I understand why so many people crib from them.)
  • VVD claims proudly that the Vkini is “crafted for women of all shapes and sizes” (no love for nonbinary people…?!) but then also says it will only comfortably fit “small to medium chest sizes (A-C cups, some D cups).” That being said, my current bra size is approximately 30DD, and the Vkini fit me just fine after adjusting the straps, albeit with a bit of cup-runneth-over. My wife has much smaller breasts (an A cup or thereabouts) and it fit her too – and looked super cute, I might add! However, VVD is right that the Vkini isn’t entirely suitable for people with larger breasts than a D cup, as Sydney Screams describes in their review. Even if your boobs are small, having a wide chest may make it difficult to wear this product, because the length of the short strap between the two cups is barely adjustable.
  • The Vkini is IPX6 water-resistant, so you can use it in the shower (or in the rain… or in a waterfall… hey, I don’t know your life!) but you shouldn’t submerge it in a tub, pool, etc. Normally I prefer my sex toys to be fully waterproof so I can jerk off in the bath if I want to, but it matters less to me for a breast-focused toy because my boobs are usually above the waterline anyway.
  • I appreciate that this toy is priced at $50 (that’s cheaper than many actual bras!), and I think that’s a decent price for what you get: the vibrating bra itself, two sets of attachments, and a storage bag for the whole kit and caboodle.
  • Speaking of the attachments – while I have my issues with them (see below), I like that they’re easy and quick to magnetically attach and detach, and I haven’t had any issues with them falling off or moving around during use.

Things I don’t like about the VVD Vkini:

  • Unfortunately, the vibrations are pretty buzzy, i.e. high-pitched/surface-level, as opposed to deep/rumbly. This doesn’t bother me as much for nipple stim as it does for clit stim, since at least I can still get off if my nipples go numb (by stimulating my clit, as I normally would) – but it does make it hard for me to use this toy for more than 5-10 minutes at a time, after which the buzzy vibrations feel annoying, itchy, and desensitizing to my skin. (I will say, however, that these vibrations are rumblier than those of Lovense’s vibrating nipple clamps, which are so troublingly buzzy that they sometimes felt almost like heart palpitations to me – scary!)
  • On a similar note: the vibrations seem to be focused in the outer-facing part of the bra, not the part that actually touches your nipples. When I tried out the Vkini’s magnetic attachments, I found that very little of the vibration was conducted into them; the sensation was significantly dulled compared to using the toy without attachments. As a result, I wasn’t able to notice much of a difference in sensation when using an attachment vs. not using one, aside from the reduction in vibration strength.
  • It’s mildly annoying that each of the toy’s two motors has to be turned on and off individually and charged individually – although the toy does come with a double-pronged charger to make this more convenient, and many of the modes in the MetaXSire app allow you to control both vibes at once, after you’ve turned them both on.
  • Speaking of the MetaXSire app – it has a bunch of weird A.I.-porn functionalities built into it, which you have to pay extra for, in the form of “X-Coins” which can then be spent on things like A.I. image generation and text generation. There’s even a feature where you can clone your own voice (😬) and have it say whatever dirty talk you type in. Weirder still, there’s a bank of pre-existing A.I. voices that can talk dirty to you, including celebrity voices such as Matthew McConaughey, Lady Gaga, Anthony Hopkins, Demi Lovato, and… “King Trumpy,” a.k.a. the authoritarian sex-pest currently in the White House (YIKES!!). All of this feels unnecessary and off-putting, for reasons that myself and various anti-A.I. thinkers have previously articulated.
  • While the wearability and Bluetooth-controllability of the Vkini might lead you to believe it’d be a good toy for surreptitious public play, I think it would be EXTREMELY obvious under pretty much any kind of clothing. I’d wear it to a fetish party, maybe, but certainly not to the bank or the grocery store, etc.!

Final thoughts

If you’ve been looking for an easy, hands-free way to experience nipple vibration, I think the VVD Vkini would be an awesome choice for you, provided your boobs are within the A–D cup range. It’s a super inventive (not to mention cute-as-fuck!) product for targeted nipple stimulation.

Personally, I’d prefer if the vibrations were quite a bit rumblier, and transmitted better into my actual nipples instead of just buzzing dully on the surface of my skin. But this is the type of toy that’s probably best as a deliciously torturous tease, rather than a grand finale, so maybe it’s okay that it doesn’t entirely satisfy 😉 I especially think a toy like the Vkini would be fun for people who like long-distance teasing, since you can control the vibrations from afar using the app. Just imagine trying to carry on a normal conversation with someone while they intermittently surprise you with little buzzes, Hysterical Literature-style!

If you’re considering picking up a Vkini of your own, you can use my discount code GIRLY at checkout to get $5 off, which brings the price down to $45. That’s less than you’d spend on a new bra at Victoria’s Secret, and those don’t even vibrate. 😂

 

This post was sponsored, meaning I was paid to write a fair and honest review of this product. As always, all writing and opinions are my own.