Section: Lip Service Models & Partners in Fashion

Yes, it’s that time again! We’re shooting our upcoming collections next week and the 2nd week of April, so submit your photos and info now to be considered.

A few notes:

Please ONLY submit through the linked form.

Our stylists, if interested, will contact you to schedule a test fitting, so make sure to provide your most current info.

If you’ve submitted previously, it is still not a bad idea to re-submit with more recent shots and info.

Model size/height requirements are based on fit sample production sizing. If you are not sample size, please don’t take offense. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes but fit samples, sadly, don’t.

requirements:

• You must be at least 18 years of age.
• You must be in the Los Angeles area and available during the time-frame of the shoot.
• Women must be near a size 5 and be between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 10 in. tall.
• Men must be approximately a size 32 in. pant and slim to medium size top.

Best of luck to all!

When bands we love show their Lippy love by rocking some Lip Service on stage, we LOVE to share! Here are the Murderdolls rocking some custom Ghost Town gear and Stretch Fuck’n jeans on The Daily Habit (on FuseTV).

You can check out more killer Murderdolls music news, and pics at their website, MuderdollsBand.com

Lip Service has new Halloween Costumes!

This year, Lip Service created a new collection of affordable Halloween costumes, all ready to wear, in one easy package! Choose between the sultry Midnight Vamp and playful Major Mayhem … or sweet Wonderful Alice and naughty Teacher’s Pet. They’re all good for gearing up for Halloween in über-sexy form!

Check out all the Lip Service costumes for Halloween 2010! Available costumes are: Black Panther, Captain Blackheart, Gangster Vixen, Maid of Lace, Major Mayhem. Midnight Vamp, Molten Metal Devil, Night Nurse, Officer Vice, Queen of Hearts, Roaring Flapper, Sassy Sailor, Teacher’s Pet, Troop 666 Scout, and Wonderful Alice. Enjoy!

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Now, we’re guessing you’re probably asking yourself, “Where can I get my hands on one of these killer Lip Service Halloween Costumes?” We’ve got you covered there, too. Below is a comprehensive list of authorized Lip Service costume retailers, USA first (by state) and then International (by nation then city). There are also some web-based retailers, too, in case you don’t have a shop nearby.

Happy, spooky, Lippy Halloween, Fashion Freaks!

USA

Alaska

THE LOOK
ANCHORAGE, AK

Arizona

Adam & Eve Tempe
Tempe

HYDRA LEATHER & MORE
TUCSON

California

A Touch of Romance (web)
www.atouchofromance.com

Condom Revolution (web)
www.conrev.com

A Touch of Romance
Brea

Condom Revolution
Costa Mesa

CRYPTO TECHNOLOGY
El Cajon

VALENTINO’S
FRESNO

BED BEHAVIOR
HOLLYWOOD

ELECTRIC CHAIR
HUNTINGTON BEACH

party city HUntington Beach
Huntington Beach

song bird
Long Beach

bizzy b
LOS ANGELES

Velcrokitty
Los Angeles

A Touch of Romance
Orange

hee be jeebe store
Petaluma

A Touch of Romance
Riverside

Party City Riverside
Riverside

Skates on Haight
San Francisco

CAMOUFLAGE
SANTA CRUZ

cognito
Santa Cruz

the dungeon
santa rosa

cc’s Pirate Treasures
South Lake Tahoe

incognito
Ukiah

Connecticutt

The Lady and the Leopard
West Suffield

Florida

Ded Goth Girl

http://stores.ebay.com/DEDGOTHGIRL

The Party Shop
Jacksonville

playthings
miami

Miami’s Vice
Miami

FETISH FACTORY
OAKLAND PARK

FAIRVILLA MEGASTORE
ORLANDO

flirt
flirtcatalog.com

KICKS ON 7TH
TAMPA

Hotty Costumes
HottyCostumes.com

Georgia

JUNKMAN’S DAUGHTER
ATLANTA

selkets
stores/ebay.com/SELKETS-STUFF

Illinois

TABOO TABOU
CHICAGO

Kansas

LC DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
WICHITA

Louisiana

WICKED ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS

Massachusetts

NEWBURY COMICS
BRIGHTON

itza party
PEMBROKE

Maryland

MDG Enterprises Inc
Gathersburg

Michigan

NOIR LEATHER
ROYAL OAK

Sky Limited / Couples Corner
Southfield

Fantasy attic costumes
YPSILANTI

Minnesota

Halloween Costumes.com
MANKATO

Missouri

cryoflesh
Polo

CHEAP TRX
ST. LOUIS

New Jersey

TOO FAST
toofastonline.coml

Spirit Halloween.com
Egg Harbor Twp.

Nevada

INFECTIOUS THREADS
Incline Village

rack
Las Vegas

chocolate walrus
Reno

ROMANTIC SENSATIONS / CENTURIAN
RENO

New York

PHASE ID
Amherst

Live fast
New York

PATRICIA FIELD/ HOTEL VENUS
NEW YORK

vampire freaks
New York

Gothic renaissance
NEW YORK

TRASH & VAUDEVILLE
NEW YORK

Halloween Wearhouse
Staten Island

Ohio

THE MISSION
LAKEWOOD

Oregon

dysfunctional doll
Portland

Metro BODY PIERCING
PORTLAND

Pennsylvania

Halloween Adventure
GARNET VALLEY

LE CHATEAU EXOTIQUE
NEW HOPE

planetcoustume.com
PHILADELPHIA

Crash Bang boom
PHILADELPHIA

passional
PHILIDELPHIA

South Carolina

EXCHANGE FACTOR
CHARLESTON

Texas

SECRET OKTOBER
Austin

nine tails
san antonio

TRUE IDENTITY
SAN ANTONIO

Utah

pibs exchange
Salt lake City

Virginia

the underground asylum
Portsmouth

Halloween Express
Fairfax

Vermont

OLD GOLD
BURLINGTON

Washington

LOVER’S (web)
www.loverspackage.com

LOVER’S
Everett

LOVER’S
Kirkland

LOVER’S
Tacoma

LOVER’S
Tukwila

Wisconsin

AMSTERDAM
MADISON

BuyCostumes.com
New Berlin

International

Australia

UNDERWORLD REALM
COOPERS PLAINS Queensland

Austria

frontline/MEDUSA
WIEN

Belgium

Fans
Antwerpen

Asher
GENT

Canada

Detox
Burlington

jack d clothing
Comox

Millennium (#2-Metropolis)
Edmonton

Millennium (Edmonton)
Edmonton

nightshade corsets inc.
edmonton

rowena
edmonton

SANCTUARY
EDMONTON

Out of the Past
Hamilton

CRUELLA
MONTREAL

Fetiche Store
Montreal

sexe cite (st hubert)
Montreal

TRIVIUM
OTTAWA

Amazing Party & Costume
Toronto

Borderline Plus
Toronto

Original
TORONTO

Hell’s Belles
TORONTO

HE AND SHE GALLERY
TORONTO

SHEREES
TORONTO

archetype
Vancouver

venus and mars
Vancouver

sinn fashion
Vancouver BC

Hands of Time Inc.
wasaga beach

DELIRIUM
WATERLOO

Denmark

black no. 1
copenhagen

LUST
COPENHAGEN

England

Dark Side (Dow Jones Ltd.)
London

SO HIGH SOHO
LONDON

Finland

MORTICIA
Helsinki

Batz Oy
Helsinki

NIGHT SOUL/BACK STREET
TAMPERE

Germany

rock’n’roll alley
Berlin

paranox
BONN

ABADDON
dresden

BUGS
MUNICH

XTRAX Gmbh & co. kg
NEU-ULM

Italy

HYDRA II
ROME

Japan

NUDE VAMP
FUKUI, JAPAN

epicurean garden
KITAKU NAGOYASHI AICHI

Mexico

Cicatriz
Planta Baja, Centro Mty

Netherlands

babashop
MAASTRICHT

Dark-4-Leafs
Middelburg

Norway

manillusion
OSLO

ragnarakk
TRONDHEIM

Portugal

Androm
Lisboa

Switzerland

BOUTIQUE MEPHISTAUNDERGROUND FASHION
Bern

antishop
GENEVA

“What Fear Fears Most,” is the slogan for this year’s Universal Halloween Horror Nights. This annual event has people flocking from all over the world to attend for a night or, if you’re lucky and live local, with a pass that guarantees multiple days of horror.

I get a pass every year for a few reasons: 1) The lines often take up so much time you can’t get to everything! 2) A pass makes it much easier to go with friends when you want. 3) It’s so much fun you’ll be dying for more!

This year, like most others, there are 5 haunted mazes including:
-Nightmare on Elm Street with new Freddy Krueger
-Friday the 13th with new Jason Voorhees
-Saw featuring horrific new traps
-House of 1000 Corpses in 3D Zombie vision
-Vampyre: Castle of the Undead

multiple scare zones featuring:
- La Llorona
-Nightmarez
-Klownz
-Lunaticz
-Freakz
-Pigz

The Terror Tram: Chucky’s Revenge

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure

Most of the main rides are open, too.

You’ll be happy you got there on time when you’re waiting in line for both security and to get into the park. Finally, once through the turnstiles, you’re greeted by Freddy in the middle of the fountain and 2 smokin’ Freddy go-go girls. You know you’re inside, though, when you start hearing those chainsaws go off and the screams of scared tourists. All the rest of us can do is feel like we’re home and sit back to watch the show. Huge pyros go off above a clown ringleader and his army of evil chainsaw welding clowns. Of course, you can’t miss the giant jester towering over you.

Vampyre: Castle of the Undead is the first house you come across, being that it is inside Universal’s year-round House of Horrors. Not much is changed to the actual houses, just a bunch of vampyre girls and guys that actually make a nice addition. If you head toward the left of the park, you walk into “Lunaticz”, where the dangerous and demented asylum inmates have taken to the streets of London on a murderous rampage.

If you make it out of there, you come across your next task, making it through House of 1000 Corpses! Here you’re taken through Captain Spaulding’s and his Murder Ride, The Firefly house where you see Baby, Odius, and Tiny … all in Zombievision. The house is so realistic, you find yourself taking off your 3D glasses just to look at everything. Without even noticing, you exit into Paris where the “Freakz” have set up camp, anxious to get their hands on you food.

Next you come across Friday the 13th and the campgrounds of Camp Crystal Lake, where you see desperate campers in a bear trap and a sleeping bag. Various versions of Jason from the new movie come at you as you go through scenes such as the barn, The Vorhees house, Jason’s lair, the forest making you feel as if you were right there in it. As Jason chases you out, you come across the scarezone of La Llorona weeping for her children. They pushed this on the advertisements over the Vampyre House,why I will never know. It was a pretty big let down, with ghost children running around trying to scare you.

If the scarezone puts you to sleep, you’ll be right where He wants you in the next maze. The notorious Freddy Krueger is back in this new vision of Nightmare On Elmstreet where you see his world, the preschool, the highschool, Nancy’s room, and other familiar scenes from Springwood in the new movie. The sets are very well done, but I’m still a fan of the original Nightmare on Elmstreet editions.

The last main Horror Nights thing to do upstairs is, of course, the Terror Tram, where the legendary tram takes you and lets you out on the back lot. This has always been a thrill, featuring such big names as Jason, Leatherface, and Freddy. This year the theme was Chucky’s Revenge, with a huge hand from La Llorona. Besides the usual things they do to it each year to enhance the back lot (i.e. lots of dead bodies and Psycho with Normal Bates) the rest, sadly, was a disappointment and wasted a lot of space. La Llorona wasn’t scary and the Chucky guys were a little less than horrifying. Although the idea of Chucky being responsible for the fire there so long ago was really funny.

Downstairs more chainsaws, drawn by the ever-haunting Saw Pigs, come after you. The Saw maze awaits as you make your way through the fog. It’s became last on our to do list because of how similar it is to the previous year it was done and, of course, the horrible smells are sort of overwhelming. Although it’s cool to see a few updated traps and realistic set designs, I recommend it for first timers rather than frequent goers.

It is a fun night that keeps your heart pumping and you guessing what’s around every corner, nonetheless.

Remember, the crowds usually hit what they see first, then make their way to the bottom, so the lower lot is more packed later, leaving the front houses less full, with the exception of House of 1000 Corpses! Also, if you scare easily and show it well + happen to be female, they WILL chase you! Just a warning =]

Hope to see you guys there this weekend!

Horrific Dreams!
Rebecca a.k.a Sage Sin

modelmayhem.com/rebeccasage

halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood/2010

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It is not an usual thing for the Webmaster or I to send along a stylist request to get some Lippy gear for a photo shoot, video, what have you. But, sometimes that request gives us a big smile, just knowing a project like the one we’ve just read about exists.

The Bloody Best Project is that very thing!

The project can be described as four horror fans on a mission. Photographer, Ama Reeves, Wardrobe Stylist, Autumn Steed, Make Up Artist, Melissa Pizzamiglio, and Visual Effects Artist, Roger Johansen, are artists who want to create their own horror images, using the faces and visuals they’ve loved in their favorite horror films. They recruit horror luminaries, actors, directors, you name it, and shoot some of the most beautifully bloody, gory, creepy photos we’ve yet to enjoy with them. How can gore freaks like us NOT love something like that?

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Fortunately, Lip Service was happy to offer some killer style help to The Bloody Best crew. So, now we have these superb images of Adam Green (“Frozen”, “Hatchet” and just-released “Hatchet II”) and his wife, Rileah, in Spring collection Step In Time as Frankenstein’s Monster and his bride. I’d show you a few more of their awesome photos, but would rather you give them some much-deserved traffic by checking them out on their site, TheBloodyBestProject.com. You can also get up-to-date news and the latest images through their (BloodyBest) Twitter and behind-the-scenes fun at their (BloodyBest) Facebook page.

We can’t wait to see what gruesome gorgeousness they have in store for us next!

Did you know the new Fall military fetish stylegroup, Das Bunker, was inspired by one of LA’s most popular and long-running clubs?

Check out Das Bunker every Friday night at The Catch One in Los Angeles for three dance floors, three full bars, two lounges and a smoking patio to a soundtrack of everything from Industrial dance and EBM to PowerNoize.

When : Every Friday Night
Time : 10:00 p.m. – 03:00 a.m.
Where : The Catch One
4067 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

Always wanted to model for Lip Service? We’re looking for fresh faces for our latest Lip Service shoot in October. Maybe that could be you …

Pretty awsome, huh?

There are a few requirements:

• You must be at least 18 years of age.
• You must be in the Los Angeles area and available during the time-frame of the shoot.
• Must be near a size 5, ideally between a small to medium.
• Must be between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 10 in. tall.

Think you’re who we’re looking for to bring the heat to our hottest new looks? Give us your info + a few photos (full + head shot) through our Model Submission Form. If our stylist digs your look, we’ll be in touch to schedule an audition fitting so make sure to include current contact info. Please do not send submissions via email, through webzine or webmaster contact forms, or through social networks. Submissions will only be accepted through the online Model Submission Form.

Best of luck to all!

HOT TOPIC PRESENTS:

The Sacred Ceremony Tour

Black Veil Brides

Vampires Everywhere

Modern Day Escape

Get Scared

TOUR DATES

7/2 – San Diego, CA    @Epicenter

7/3 – Anaheim, CA    @Chain Reaction

7/5 – Mesa, AZ        @The Underground

7/6 – Albuquerque, NM    @The Launchpad

7/7 – Ft. Worth, TX    @Ridglea Theatre

7/8 – San Antonio, TX    @White Rabbit

7/9 – Houston, TX    @The Junction

7/10- New Orleans, LA    @High Ground

7/11- Jacksonville, FL    @The Pit

7/12- Tampa, FL        @Transitions

7/13- Atlanta, GA    @The Masquerade

7/15= Springfield, VA    @Jaxx

7/16- Poughkeepsie, NY    @The Chance

7/17- Allentown, PA    @Crocodile Rock Cafe

7/18- Vineland, NJ    @Hangar 84

7/19- Worcester, MA    @The Paladium

7/20- Montreal, QC    @Underworld

7/21- Toronto, ON    @Sneaky Dees

7/22- Buffalo, NY    @Xtreme Wheels

7/23- Detroit, MI    @I-Rock Night Club

7/24- Cleveland, OH    @Peabody’s

7/25- Pittsburgh, PA    @Club Octane

7/26- Covington, KY    @The Mad Hatter

7/27- Chicago, IL    @Fiesta

7/28- Dayton, OH    @The Attic

7/29- Sauget, IL    @Pops

7/30- Milwaukee, WI    @The Rave

7/31- Des Moines, IA    @House of Bricks

8/1 – Tulsa, OK        @The Marquee

8/3 – Denver, CO    @Marquis Theatre

8/4-Colorado Springs,CO @Black Sheep

8/5- Salt Lake City, UT @In The Venue

8/6- Boise, ID        @The Venue

8/7- Seattle, WA    @El Corazon

8/8- Portland, OR    @Hawthorne Theatre

8/10- Modesto, CA  @Modesto Virtual

8/11- Sacramento, CA    @The Boardwalk

8/12- Fresno, CA    @Club Retro

8/13- Las Vegas, NV    @Area 702

8/14- Lancaster, CA    @Cedar Center

8/15- Los Angeles, CA    @The Whisky

We’re shooting the new Lip Service Holiday 2010 catalog + our new costumes line July 16, 17, and maybe the 22nd. Would you like to join the ranks of Lip Service Models?

Here are the basic requirements:

* You must be at least 18 years of age.
* You must be in the Los Angeles area and available during the time-frame of the shoot.
* Women must be near a size 5 and be between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 10 in. tall.
* Men must be approximately a size 32 in. pant and slim to medium size top.

Think you’re the right fit to be the face of Lip Service as we close out our 25th year? Just fill out and submit the information on our Model Submission Form. Please remember that all information is required, as well as a head shot and full body shot.

Ape Leather was a part of Lip Service long before the daggers were even a glimmer in the skull’s eyes! And since this is our 25th Year Anniversary (!!!), we decided to celebrate by doing something extra special -  paying homage to our roots! That’s right! We’re super excited to announce we’ll now be offering Ape Leather’s fine products right here on our retail site! We’ve loved Ape for over 25 years…..and we know you will, too!

Ape Leather has been designing and manufacturing high-end quality punk, gothic, fetish and bondage leather gear since 1979 in downtown Los Angeles. Not only that, but Drew Bernstein, owner and founder of Lip Service, worked as a laborer for Ape and was later given his first intro into the fashion business, when Ape Leather owner, Ellen, hired him as a sales rep!  Thanks, Ellen! Go! Go! Ape!