Minna Limon Lightning Review: An Adorable And Versatile Vibrator

Minna Limon Lightning Review: An Adorable And Versatile Vibrator

If Crave’s Flex is the Linux of vibrators, with its long menu of settings and programmable waveforms, Minna Life’s Limon is more like a slimmed down iPhone app. It lets you change just one variable — the strength of the buzz — with an equally simple and intuitive method: how hard you squeeze.

Using It

The lemon-like shape isn’t just a cute pun (squeeze it — ha), it also means there’s a smaller nub at one end for directing vibrations where you want them. However, I wouldn’t recommend trying any insertion play with this one, simply because I can’t figure out how you’d get it out again. Hospital visits are not sexy.

Its battery life is great: I’ve been testing it out all week, and it definitely lives up to the company’s claim of a 2-to-3 hour charge. You recharge its batteries via USB, using a proprietary, disc-shaped dock: the vibe snaps on magnetically and a pulsing light on one side lets you know it’s charging (it glows steady when it’s ready to go).

But apparently marrying simplicity and style doesn’t come cheap — the Limon is priced at $US119. Even its package screams “high end” — instead of a boring cardboard box, it comes in a colourful and sturdy cut-down poster tube, and opening it up is worthy of one of those unboxing videos for fancy electronics. When you lift the top of the tube, you reveal the sleek lemon-shaped vibe, which comes in teal or pink, but (oddly) not yellow. Its charging cord and a soft cloth storage bag are tucked in a hidden compartment underneath it.

What’s Good?

Simple operation and nigh-endless variation of patterns.

Medical-grade silicone surface is super easy to clean: just use mild soap and water.

Fucking adorable.

What’s Not So Good?

Silicone-based lubes could damage the Limon’s surface. Water-based lubes only.

Should You Buy It?

If the price tag doesn’t scare you off, this is a sweet little toy that lets you play at your own pace rather than the manufacturer’s. [Limon]


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