Honour Leather Lock Down Hood Review
The Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is a genuinely thrilling piece of BDSM kit. I was incredibly lucky to be sent this sensory deprivation hood free of charge, in exchange for my fair & honest review here on the Cara Sutra sex blog. Thanks Honour!
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Let’s have a closer look at this intriguing and arousingly kinky hood.
First Impressions
The Honour Leather Lock Down Hood came in Honour’s usual discreet outer wrap for the post, so no worries about the postie or neighbours knowing about the kinky gear you’ve ordered.
When I retrieved the hood itself, I was immediately impressed by the weight, the material (look, feel and scent) as well as the variety of features which set this hood apart from other types.
Features
Top Quality Material
The Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is made from genuine leather, which radiates quality as well as tantalising your senses from the start with its evocative scent. The leather is soft and supple, with the traditional leather outer and a soft feel, comfy-against-the-skin reverse side of the material.
Versatility
Instead of being made from just one piece of material where you’re either in sensory lockdown or free of any bondage, the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood offers varying levels of confinement, humiliation and sensory deprivation.
This hood can be laced up and buckled, or your own small padlock can be added to transform it into a lockable piece of bondage gear. The psychological effects of adding a lock are intense, for both parties.
As the eye mask and mouth gag parts are removable, you can opt to put your submissive in full sensory lockdown or allow them to wear the hood with eyes and mouth uncovered. This also means you can remove one or both of these parts during a D/s session for a variety of reasons, without needing to remove the whole hood. You can inflict as much sensory deprivation as they can handle/you want to inflict, with this amount being immediately adjustable at any time.
The Honour Leather Lock Down Hood fits any head size, and is suitable for people of any gender or sexual orientation.
Adjustable Fit
As mentioned above, the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood fits any head size. This is due to the clever way this hood fastens – instead of being a pull on piece of kit, there’s a lace up back. The laces can be tightened or loosened according to head shape and size. Once this is done, the bondage is intensified and sealed thanks to the eye mask and mouth gag buckles overlaid, and the collar part of the hood being buckled at the back of the wearer’s neck.
This fastening method results in a perfect snug fit every time.
Lockable
This blackout hood is lockable, you just need a small padlock from your own BDSM gear collection. Slip it through the specially designed loop on the buckle once it’s fastened, and click the padlock to lock. Make sure you don’t lose the key!
Integral Collar With D-Rings
The collar part of the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is adorned with metal rivets plus a few D-rings, the largest being front and centre. The D-rings aren’t just for decoration, they can be used during your power exchange session and with other bondage accessories to heighten the sensations and the eroticism felt by both Dominant and submissive.
Hook a finger in the central D-ring to lead your hooded/blindfolded/gagged slave wherever you want them to be. Or attach a leash with trigger clip to this central D-ring, providing a comfortable way to lead the submissive around on their hands and knees whilst learning to ‘heel’… or you know, whatever you fancy.
If you have a pair of nipple clamps which are connected by a long enough chain, or wrist cuffs which attach to each other by chain, these could be attached or threaded through the central D-ring on the collar too, for a humiliation/predicament bondage session that no-one will forget in a hurry.
Built To Last
Made from genuine and good quality leather, the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is resilient and built to last. Not only is it made with a durable and traditional bondage gear material with its comforting traditional D/s look/feel and evocative scent, the eye, mouth and nose holes are also reinforced with smooth, cool metal. This helps ensure that the hood stands the test of time throughout your many sessions through years to come.
Easy To Use
It’s really easy to fit this sensory deprivation hood to your submissive, and just as easy to adjust while it’s in place. Just put it over their head, tug gently (or not, however the scene is going) into position and lace it up to a snug fit with the laces at the rear. The eye mask/mouth gag are then positioned and buckled up at the back of the head.
During your play session, you can either remove the whole hood, or just the eye mask/mouth gag parts leaving the rest of the hood in place, which is perfect for allowing you to adjust the level of sensory deprivation and bondage to match the pace of the session, for access to their mouth, for general comfort or for necessary, quick relief if the submissive reaches their tolerance limit*.
Delivers Instant Kink
One feature that particularly turns me on about the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is that it provides instant kink. There’s no subtlety here, no vagueness. This isn’t a gentle, giggling nod towards naughtiness. This is all-out, heavy leather, buckles and D-rings, removing your vision and stuffing your mouth with a gag, BDSM. And all of the above in one beautifully designed, well-made and easy to use piece of bondage kit.
During Use
I thoroughly enjoy using the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood. As I’ve mentioned, it unleashes intense kinkiness from the outset with its evocative leather and strappy, metal D-ring enhanced design. The hood promises erotic depravity from first glance, then makes good on that promise.
First of all, I tried on the bondage hood myself. I like to know how D/s accessories feel from personal experience before using them on a submissive; this insight helps to guide me when I’m dominating and the one in control during a FemDom BDSM session. The word I keep revisiting to describe how it feels is intense.
This hood was the ‘bondage kit’ star of the show during a particularly arousing day and night in a hotel with my long-term slave. Lacing it snugly into position then buckling the collar, seeing and sensing his body tense slightly as the reality of the situation struck him, as the physical bondage around such a vulnerable part of his anatomy took hold, made my pussy ache even faster than I’d anticipated.
Then the gag and blindfold. Moving round to face him as he sat on the chair, I inserted the mouth gag first – I wanted to be able to see his eyes widen in fear as he was forced to take it fully, before I buckled it behind his head. He’s not very good at ‘taking’ gags, a constant source of irritation (when in my Mistress ‘zone’) so the smaller than usual size of this dildo gag was perfect for him/us.
The blindfold went on and was buckled next… then I had a hooded, gagged, almost naked (except for a lacy red thong) slave to play with for as long as I wanted.
What followed was an unforgettable session of kink, with plenty of punishment via floggers, paddles, nipple clamps, using him as a footstool as I took some refreshment/relaxation breaks, foot/heel worship and tease and denial of him while in the chastity cage.
He wore the hood with the blindfold and mouth gag in place for several hours without indicating to me (via our pre-arranged hand signals) that he’d reached his limit. This is certainly not a hood for the faint-hearted, and for longer duration play such as this you need to keep tabs on the situation to ensure your submissive is still able to tolerate such an intense level of bondage and sensory deprivation. The psychological effects are profound, and my slave still enthuses about this particular D/s session as one of the most arousing he’s experienced during his years in the BDSM scene as a submissive and slave to Dominant Women.
Summary
The Honour Leather Lock Down Hood is a superb quality bondage kit item which feels like it was designed by people who know what I want from a sensory deprivation item in my BDSM sessions. Sure, it doesn’t provide total sensory deprivation on its own – unless you insert ear plugs before wearing it. But the combination of lockable bondage, evocative, reinforced leather, removable blindfold and mouth gag with those teasing D-rings on the collar make this hood a firm favourite in my D/s gear collection.
It may not be cheap at its current price of £135, but this reflects the investment you’re making in your future power exchange and kinky play sessions. With so many wear and activity options available with just one item, I believe this hood is worth every penny of the price tag -and it’s a bit of a bargain at that, to be honest.
An easy full marks for this raunchy, red-hot lock down hood.
Where To Buy Sensory Deprivation Hoods
I strongly recommend the Honour Leather Lock Down Hood if you’re looking for a versatile, durable bondage item which will take your D/s sessions to the next level. Buy yours from Honour (& check out the rest of their kinky wares while you’re there) through the button below:
Thanks again to Honour for sending this hood to me free of charge, in exchange for my review here on the blog.
*Always agree a safe word before BDSM sessions, and/or verbally affirm that traffic lights are in play. If using mouth gags, arrange another form of signal in place of a spoken safe word.
BDSM is an intense exploration into psychological needs, desires and vulnerabilities. It is vital that everyone’s physical and mental health is safeguarded and prioritised at all times, especially throughout these forms of activities in which the word ‘no’ may simply be part of a ‘play scene’. Everyone has limits/has their limit, which should be guarded by safe word usage and 100% respected. Active consent is a non-negotiable element of BDSM, sex and any form of relationship.
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