Now you're speaking my language, hazelf. Slow and sensual is my favourite way to do tickling. Especially when done with mind-games.
See, what I think is that, if their mind is in the right frame, a single stroke of a feather can be worse than a thousand brushes. If the tickler has built up the suspense, accented on how helpless they are, and made their mind a wrack, even the lightest, tickly touch can be very torturous.
A build-up I really like is when the ticklee is bound helplessly, with a blindfold over her eyes. She can't see, and all the other senses are getting heightened. So, I would slowly walk up to her, taking my time so she can savour the sensation of helplessness - of not knowing where I am, of where my fingers are, and when the tickling is going to begin.
Then, I would whisper in her ear: "I am going to tickle you, for a very long time." And just as those words would leave my lips, I would accent it with a light touch of my index finger on her belly, making slow, small circles on that very spot. Just enough to tickle only very lightly, and to carry a point.
The whispers and the caress would continue: "It will take a while... a long while... but you are going to break. Oh, yes... touch after touch after touch, I will bring you to that beautifully awful place between heaven and hell. That place in your mind where each and every touch will drive you crazy... in all the best and worst ways. Each and every little stroke will feel so torturous - you'll be sure you won't be able to stand one more - but also so good - you will yearn for... crave the next one. And it's going to go on and on... no breaks. No mercy. At least not for a long... long time."
And with that, I'd stand up, stopping the touch and letting my precious ticklee think about my words for a while. I would further taunt her lack of sight by doing so - she wouldn't know where I was - was I at a safe distance, or was I looming somewhere, just millimetres away from her skin? Why the delay? What would be in my mind? And the images of what would happen when I would start tickling - oh, how vivid and numerous they would be.
I would accent this anticipation by light touches upon her ticklish spots... a quick swipe of finger along the sole, a breath of air on the tummy, a quick kiss to the thigh or neck...
Slowly, but surely, I would be homing in the light, infrequent touches to the one place where I would decide to start. I would herald the place to her with my touches, letting her think about what happens when I actually get to that place. And then, when the spot would be picked, and the touches would zone in on it, I would whisper: "Are you ready?"
And with that, the slow, sensual tickling would begin.
Sorry for being so long - but you got me started. :stickout My point is, slow and sensual is my favourite, especially when topped with a good mind-game before the tickling start. I want my ticklee to feel the tickling, but also to feel those good, pleasant impulses coursing through their body. I want to bring them to the edge of orgasm and keep them there for a very long time before finally offering them that final, beautiful release - all, if possible, using only tickling (sex would come later). When I am a tickler, I prefer working my best to please my ticklee.
And, of course, after-care is very, very important, too.