A holiday in the sun

Added 20-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, satin, handcuffs, blonde, silk, leg irons, cloth gag, metal bondage, outdoor

All holidays are better with a bit of bondage pool-side! Ariel sexes it up in the sun, barefoot in red satin and steel handcuffs!

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The Perfect Victim

Added 19-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, brunette, nude, dungeon, ungagged, rope bondage

International bondage superstar Rachel Adams is the perfect kidnap victim, naked, bound and gagged in the Restrained Elegance dungeon!

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BONUS PREVIEWS: What We Did In Wycombe

Bonuses, Behind-The-Scenes & Outtakes

Added 19-05-2019

Tags: gag, barefoot, lesbian, chains, lingerie, metal bondage, nude, outdoor, documentary, rope bondage, yoke

We just hired a big old party house and filled it with the kinkiest creatives we could find for a few days. The results are simmering hot- and will be up here on RestrainedElegance.com starting in a few weeks! Don't miss out- by far the best way to appreciate them and enjoy them is by being a RestrainedElegance.com member because you get to see EVERYTHING we produced on release day for no extra charge as part of your membership!

Here's just a few tasters and teasers of what Ariel Anderssen, Faye Taylor, Natalia Forrest, Sophia Smith and Temptress Kate got up to at the hands of rigger/photographer/RE members-turned-crew Steve, Merlin, Graham and me. Plus meanness from multiple threat model/rigger/photographers! Ariel rigs, Faye shoots, Kate does both. As do Natalia and Sophia from time to time, although we had them modelling full-time on this trip.

And for me it was just the right balm for a bit of broken bondage brain. I rushed around making sure everyone else had everything else they needed to shoot- most particularly the lighting, which I set up for every one of the 88 photosets we shot. I had plenty of input, but unlike a normal shoot day I didn't have to swap modes from lighting to rigging to shooting to digital imaging tech to cooking and catering: I got to concentrate on the stuff I'm most enjoying at the moment and have plenty of input and suggestions.

It's the first really big location trip we've done in almost a decade (it's the biggest since our mega-trip to Sweden). I'd forgotten how awesome it is to sit down as a big group every evening and look at what each shooting unit had produced. It was an absolutely superb fun experience as well as being a fountain of creativity from everyone.

Anyway, enough ado - without further delay, here are a few samples from just some of the stunning stuff we shot, coming your way very soon!

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Trophy Slave Girl Shop

Added 18-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, blonde, slave training, nude, crotch rope, ungagged, rope bondage

Ah yes, hello. I am in the market for a trophy girlfriend. Well, specifically a trophy slave girl. I want a nice, presentable, amenable well-trained sex slave. Of course, she'll have to look absolutely stunning, I do want to parade her around to make all my friends and competitors seethe with envy. Do you think you might have something suitable in stock? You do? Both blonde? Why, that's excellent! I shall visit the shop this very afternoon to peruse your selection.

Well, you certainly weren't kidding about the physical attributes. Both are absolute goddesses! Phil and Boris and Tarquin will be green with envy. Are they trained to be TROPHY girlfriends though? Of course! They can do exactly what you want. They can be saucy, obedient, glamourous? Shall we inspect this one first? Lucy.

Lucy loves to be taken out on glamorous dates, but she's also really kinky in the bedroom. She loves to be tied up- anything you want, your wish is her desire. Wow. Well That's quite a sales pitch. But what about Ariel? The original lady in the streets but freak in bed. She loves to be dripping in diamonds and rope and nothing else!

Listen to the two girls' sales pitch! Take your time, have a good inspection, which will you select?

I'll be the distraction...

Added 17-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, historical, blonde, blouse, leg irons, medieval, steampunk, cloth gag, metal bondage, outdoor

Miss Hortensia Primrose Jones - not in fact a wilting damsel in distress, or one to ever wait for rescue like a fairytale princess. So what exactly is she doing stripped out her artificer's armour and letting the bad guys lock her in handcuffs and leg irons? Isn't it more in her dramatic idiom to smash them over the head with the cuffs, choke them with the chains, steal the keys with her delicate toes and rescue herself? Why, yes it is. And if the villains were smarter, they might realise that. But instead they just see a very pretty blonde blushing damsel in distress just waiting for them to take ungentlemanly advantage of her chained-up predicament and slake their lusts upon her. But you see, while they are doing that, Miss Jones' accomplice is sneaking up on the nega-reactor itself and will blow the whole plan sky high! And just this once, Miss Jones is prepared to subtly sex it up to keep the thugs good and distracted....

Delightful damsel distressed

Added 15-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, bedroom, bit gag, jeans, brunette, denim, rope bondage

Barefoot babe Alicia is bound and beset by bondage! Tied in a simple white top and blue jeans, this delightful damsel in distress struggles against the ropes, bit-gagged to muffle her moans.

I love Alicia's struggles and expressions in this set, and we were lucky to get some spectacular setting sunlight to work with just at the end of the day!

A Passionate Affair

Added 13-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, brunette, lingerie, cloth gag, ungagged, rope bondage

It started with a chance meeting on a film-set. Not between the movie stars, nor a sordid encounter with the creepy producer. No, it was a chance encounter between the stunt performer and the expert brought in to tie her to the chair for the scene safely. He was tall, blonde, rugged, and a bit of an artist at heart despite the professionalism he brought to his job. The actor he was doubling was a wimp, but he was the real deal. She was... well, you can see what she was. Athletic, slim, pretty, and quite the daredevil. The B-lister she was doubling was a complete diva- but she was the real deal. Sparks flew. And that weekend they recreated the scene in private, in the hotel they booked to get the hell away from show-biz.

The Spider Queen's Downfall

Added 12-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, dress, dungeon, redhead, ungagged, rope bondage

Today the Spider Queen's web of deceit is torn apart as her rival finally invades her palace - and ties the delectable, manipulative regent who has caused so much discord and strife within the kingdom in a web of inescapable rope! Like so many of her victims before her, there will be no escape from the dungeons of the Spider Queen for the queen herself, trapped in her rival's ropes.

(Annoying) Nude in Metal lifestyle YouTuber!

Nude In Metal

Added 11-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, bedroom, handcuffs, self bondage, brunette, leg irons, nude, nude in metal, thumbcuffs, toecuffs, ungagged

YouTuber Honour May's just bought a big box of metal bondage and she's going to do a classic YouTube review and unboxing video of it! In classic YouTube review style she tells you all her thoughts about every bit of metal, locking it on herself as she goes- so let's put these bad boys on! All the noises as she locks them on their tightest, layering multiple cuffs everywhere she can!

Hywel's note: Honour May made me promise to tell you that this was her doing an IMPRESSION of being an annoying narcissist who you'd dearly love to lock in metal bondage for weeks :-)

Spying on slave girl Chloe

Added 10-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, leg irons, chains, metal bondage, nude, dungeon

I wanted a darker, more noir feeling to this photoset. A bit more like we were spying in on a forbidden world of kidnapped slave girls kept in dark dungeon cells, locked in heavy metal shackles and chained to the ceiling, mouths filled with unforgivably big ball-gags to muffle their moans.

To achieve that I started off by shooting with a 300mm mirror lens which vignettes quite a bit on a full-frame sensor but has a really interesting "nervous" rendition. (It's also manual focus, which is why the focus is a little hit and miss on those shots if you're looking at the full-sized 42 megapixel images). There's not space in our house to shoot full-length shots with that lens in the dungeon, so I had to swap to other lenses to get a full set's worth of shots, but I tried to keep someone of the same claustrophobic feel to the look and the lighting.

Chloe of course did an awesome "lost soul" slavegirl with her expressions and poses to suit the mood as well. Definitely the best part of my job is the collaborations with good models, the ones who can interpret my vague airy-fairy ideas and really sell the story that they've been kidnapped and sold as a sex slave, or are having dinner with the countess, or just sailed here in a steam-powered dirigible!

At The Lake

Added 08-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, blouse, jeans, metal bondage, outdoor, ungagged

Back-woods eco-terrorist Ariel is arrested and charged with intent to damage the water company's property... and sherrif Jones is keen to get as much metal on her as possible, since she's a known wildcat!

Hywel's note: sorry, I know the light is a bit iffy on this one. We were out on a hike around the lake and the wind was getting up, so I didn't feel confident putting a diffuser over the fill-in flash (it might well have blown over/away). Totally my fault, I got better at tuning it for the other couple of sets we shot around the lake.

Many thanks to the awesome Busy Wilder for sponsoring and organising this shoot, and for kindly allowing us to use the resulting sets on Restrained Elegance!

Not the exam she was expecting!

Added 06-05-2019

Tags: barefoot, blonde, dress, topless, ungagged, rope bondage

Dolly is ready to qualify as an accountant, there's just the final exam to pass - the viva. She knows she's going to be examined by the head of the firm and the external examiner to make sure her skills are up to scratch. But it turns out the pervy duo have decided that she's going to have an entirely different sort of exam- she's going to be bound and have her breasts bared to see whether she's really the right girl to "front" the firm in its new public-facing role....

Hywel's note: at some point I knocked the aperture dial and grossly over-exposed a few shots. Since it happened at an interesting juncture (when Dolly's breasts were bared) I decided to try recovering the shots rather than just binning them. There's only so much you can do when channels are clipped, so there's no way they were ever going to look normal. But I think they look quite pop-art and stylish, and they preserve the excellent outrage/quizzical bondage emotion faces Dolly was giving the camera. So I've left them in - sometimes content trumps technical OK-ness!

The Reunion

Added 05-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, brunette, nude, ungagged, rope bondage

They hadn't seen each other in years - not since they both headed off to University. But a chance reunion at the vicar's garden party led them to talk about the games they'd played when they were too young to understand why he was so keen to play cops and robbers, and why she was so keen to be the robber and to always fail to get away. And now they knew exactly what game they wanted to play - bondage, for mutual pleasure!

Domme Dating Agency (Part Three)

Added 04-05-2019

Tags: girlgirl, barefoot, blindfold, slave training, brunette, leather bondage, cage, lesbian, chains, mockumentary, collar, dress, topless, romance, rope bondage

The finale of this awesome custom video commission starring Sophia Smith and Zoe Page.

Mistress Zoe has assessed submissive Sophia's desires and aptitudes, and imprisons the wannabe slavegirl in a cage, blindfolded while Zoe plays match-maker with the ideal owners for Sophia. Restless and breathless from excitement, Sophia cannot wait to be introduced to her new owners and being her life as a sex slave! It feels like hours and hours but finally there is a sound! The cage is unlocked and slave Sophia crawls out. She is shocked, excited, nervous, happy, scared... and very, very turned on! She must display herself to her new Master and Mistress and finally bend over the cage to give them a proper welcome to her submissive sexy side....

Maximum Vamp

Added 03-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, blonde, dress, ungagged, rope bondage

Stunning Nicky Phillips returns and has a brush with our new bondage pole! Dressed in a super-short figure-hugging dress, tied tight to the pole and ballgagged, she vamps it up delightfully for the camera in super-hot seductive style. I really like working with skilled professional models- love the way Nicky carries the subtext of sexiness as well as the damsel-in-distress element here. Smokin'!

Hywel's note: spare a thought for poor Ariel here. She bought the pole in order to do some pole dancing and working out, but it turns out there's only one room in our house to put it, and the ceiling in that room doesn't seem to have stout joists to fix it to. So the only place she could put it was under this beam, where there isn't enough room around it to dance or exercise without risking injuring herself by bashing into the wall. On the plus side, it's in an ideal place for bondage, so in the end that's a win!

Svjetlo Vatre

Films by Drago Bee

Added 02-05-2019

Tags: blonde, spanking, lingerie, stockings, romance

We are proud and privileged to showcase the work of Drago Bee and Ariel Anderssen in "Svjetlo Vatre" (Firelight). This beautiful, erotic spanking film gets to the heart of what BDSM and spanking feels like, rather than just what it looks like. Their work is fantastic and it is an honour that Drago has kindly chosen Restrained Elegance as the home for some of the stories. Honestly I can't praise it highly enough- just watch it, it is hot as hell.

Glamour girl for sale

Added 01-05-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, bedroom, brunette, lingerie, ungagged, frogtie, rope bondage

Top glamour girl Millie Fenton has put herself up for sale in the slave auctions! Anything for an adventure, to get out of her dull routine. You win the bidding, you've got her for a whole month to do with as you please!

Sea, sunset, icy cold Swedish waters and stunning hot Swedish model!

Added 29-04-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, lingerie, metal bondage, thumbcuffs

Beautiful Pling is barefoot in bondage at the water's edge, hands locked behind her in cruel steel handcuffs!

Hywel's note: as part of RestrainedElegance.com's 18th birthday party I'm releasing some never-before-seen sets from the early days! This set dates back to 2008, to what I think most of us on the RE crew think of as the high point of the website in some ways- the Sweden location trip. That sounds a bit defeatist and downbeat somehow, looking back in nostalgia, but it isn't really that. We've had some brilliant shoots and comparably-excellent location trips many times over the years since. It is just that this was the biggest, most ambitious and most luckily-successful trip we ever had, with the people who would form the core RE stalwarts for the next decade, and we managed to avoid a whole bunch of potential pitfalls on the way. Including car crashes, delayed flights, the potential for awful weather (where in fact we got a perfect week of sunshine and clear skies), nosy neighbours, falling-out-windows, a collapsing old house, Steve and Merlin driving for almost 24 hours after the ferry to bring the cage to the location, Kobe Lee flying in across the Atlantic and dealing with jet-lag, and many more adventures.

I guess at that point I was at my most happy-go-lucky. The website had been on a slowly-increasing trajectory for eight years, the credit crunch was about to happen but hadn't really hit yet, tube sites and piracy hadn't really kicked in, and I didn't really know better. This trip was by far the most expensive and ambitious one, and it is in that sense that it's the pinnacle: the sensible business case just isn't there for doing such a high-risk, high-payoff location shoot again. We had Merlin, Steve, Svampen, Hywel and Kate on camera, Kate, Pling, Sophia Smith, Kobe Lee and Ariel Anderssen in front of camera. With five girls and five(ish) photographers, we could split not just into two units but three or four. Someone was always slipping out to shoot just one more set in the supernatural almost-midnight sun - we got golden four or five hours, not golden hour.

What I think now is oh my god we could so easily have got next to nothing from the trip. At the time, I could just about have afforded to lose the £16,000+ or so that the trip cost without getting any content (which could easily have happened- if we'd all got food poisoning on the first night, for example). If I did that now, I'd be looking for a bailout and I don't know that my business would survive. So I have to spread the risk with multiple £4,000 trips instead. Which is why we've never taken so many people so far for so long in one trip ever since. The trip was a magnificent folly which, thankfully, worked out amazingly!

It also marked the final end of the shoot-JPEG era. You can see from these shots that a few have some funky stuff going on in Pling's skin tones on the very bright highlights. This is where the red channel has slightly clipped, because of the unusual lighting conditions (very low, very red sun) and us not dialling in quite enough underexposure to allow for it. RAW records more information, so there's a lot more chance of recovering in post - the red channel may not even have actually clipped on the sensor, it might have done so in the white balance step in making the JPEG. But the information isn't there to recover. After this trip, everything we shot for RE was in RAW.

So in one sense the Sweden trip also marks the change between me being a dedicated amateur who happens to have lucked into a business, and me deciding to be a professional photographer selling bondage images for a living and necessarily approaching the thing from a slightly different perspective. Truth be told it is a bit less fun, which is the final reason why we look back on the Sweden trip so fondly. But it is the reason why we are still here a decade later, producing material of a higher technical quality and just as much bondage intensity and integrity. A lot of the other "playful" producers went out of business in the aftermath of the credit crunch and I'm SO glad we made the necessary changes to still be here- because on a good day, something like our recent North Wales location trip is every bit as inspiring and collaborative and creative and productive and fun as the Sweden trip was. Just not quite as high stakes!

Vintage Hogtie

Added 28-04-2019

Tags: barefoot, satin, bedroom, blonde, hogtie, silk, cloth gag, rope bondage

Stunning Chloe is looking super in her vintage lingerie - and even better when hogtied nice and tight! The cleave gag is a thick silk scarf, just to colour co-ordinate, you understand. Hogties are ace.

Dirty Filthy Bondage Gorgeous

Added 27-04-2019

Tags: barefoot, brunette, topless, ungagged, frogtie, rope bondage

Short but sweet! A stunning dungeon bondage music video starring the lovely Kate Anne, set to a pounding beat. Kate Anne starts dancing in the dungeon but is quickly tied and restrained in tight rope around her tights, wrapped around her breasts, cinched tight confining her upper arms then her wrists tied down to the frog-tie ropes that keep her on her knees. She arches her back sexily as she pulls and tugs and tests the ropes, but she's definitely not getting loose any time soon! It's so electric as she fights so hard her breasts pop out of her zipped-up skin tight catsuit! Elegant glamour bondage at its best.

Scarlet Ariel on the Rocks

Added 26-04-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, leg irons, metal bondage, outdoor, dress, ungagged

Super spy Scarlet Ariel has been captured by the henchmen of Doctor Destructo and is handcuffed and leg ironed awaiting the arrival of the infamous super-villain himself! To prevent her attempting escape they've even stolen her shoes- she's not going to be trying to run away barefoot through the cactus, that's for sure!

Bondage before breakfast

Added 24-04-2019

Tags: barefoot, bedroom, brunette, lingerie, ungagged, romance, rope bondage

Sophia Smith has her priorities straight for her romantic weekend away- there has to be bondage before breakfast! A nice little classic damsel pose with hands bound together by her side, barefoot in her sexy strappy lingerie. Just the thing to get the blood flowing and summon up the passion first thing in the morning!