OFFICIAL
76.0
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
15.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
57.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
11.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
5.5 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Extreme facial content.
2. A lot of content.
3. Access to 7 other sites.
1. No full-length streams/downloads.
2. Quality could be improved.
3. Site design and navigation could be improved.
4. Not enough user/download options.
"For those of you like facials, but the quality and design are lacking." |
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Amateur Facials.com claims to be "the original facial MEGAsite on the web", with over 250,000 original images and "hundreds of DVD's featuring more than 500 real amateur girls", as well as "at least 30 updates every month". Based on the tour, if you can call it one, and their numbers versus our numbers alone (40,000+ images, 200+ movies, and 300+ amateur females), I'm going to say that this site has a lot to prove once in side before I start singing it's praise. I am assuming their numbers are based on all of their sites that you get access to and not on Amateur Facials #'s alone. Even once inside the design is a little haphazard, cluttered with bonus site banners, index, model poll, video catalog, and message center, etc. Updating somewhat consistently (10-13 times/month) since February 1998, one thing is for sure, you'll never be at a loss for content here, but your wallet might feel a little lighter once you're done, this site costs a whopping $34.95/month.
So the Amateur Facials.com Index consists of: originals; video clips; exclusives (3rd party content); newsletters; literature; links; updates, as well as a search function. The model poll asks you to choose your favorite girl, with Alicia currently in the lead, and the bonus sites offer an additional 7 sites from Gonzo Vision which are included in your membership, featuring: Gonzo Vision.com; Local Foxes.com; BufTeen.com, and a couple extra amateur type sites; but we'll focus on Amateur Facials for the purpose of this review. If you start at the very beginning (1998), picture sets are sparse, with maybe 3 or less being updated a month. Over the year's that has changed, of course, as well has the size of the pictures. From their very first photo set in Feb of 1998 where the image size is a mere 294x441 pixels large, to today’s images that are as big as 768x1024 pixels and offer a nice touch of quality, though still very amateur in style. The attractiveness of the girls ranges quite a bit with a handful or real hotties counteracting the handful of doozies and then all others in-between. Image sets archived by month, then by year and are set up as a slide show, clicking on the picture takes you to the next, or you can jump from image to image using the numbered links at the bottom of the page. As well, each image file is offered as a zip file downloadable to your computer. The premise is simple: 2 girls, 1 girl, 3 girls, getting naked, giving blowjobs, and walking away with a big load of cum on their face, hence the name amateur facials. These pictures are close up and mostly taken from the point of view of the man receiving the blow job, not a bad perspective.
As if the pictures won't keep you busy enough, there are 42+ volumes of videos and growing, each containing from 4-7 scenes. Every video is offered in streaming format using QuickTime or Real Media and is broken down into clips, though most scenes aren't more than 1 clip anyway. Also, each scene is conveniently linked to the set of picture stills and a written account. Some videos might take a while to load (2-4 minutes), even for me being on a super fast internet connection, and the QuickTime videos play in your browser window. The picture size is slightly smaller than average, at about 250x210, though the quality and sound is fairly good but nothing special. My suggestion is to watch the clips using RealPlayer, even though you have to enter in your password every time, it's worth it to be able to make the video picture size as large as you can without compromising too much of the quality, which you can do quite easily with these since most of them play as high as 640k. It sounds and looks to me like pictures are being taken at the same time that these videos are made so the videos are simply putting action behind the shots, giving you a chance to see these amateur girls suck a good cock and take a face full of cum in live recorded action-- I love videos! If you're hoping to find some sort of hardcore sex action then you might be disappointed, Amateur Facials is strictly all about facials and the blowjobs that precede them.
I know this seems short for a site that's so big, but that's the bulk of it; well, sort-of actually. There's plenty more to do here but I'm assuming the pictures and videos are the biggest draw to the site. The exclusives section features website submissions and member submissions of images of amateur girls and neither have been updated for quite some time. Though if you really get a kick out of true amateur porn, there's some nice stuff to be found there, however lacking in quality some of it might be. Newsletters keeps you up to date on what's going on over at the Amateur Facials' studios throughout the different seasons of every year since 1999, with casting calls, features, and a log; something interesting to check out. Literature, contrary to what you might be thinking, does not only contain erotic stories, it also features interesting facts on Phallic worshipping religions, the aesthetic draw to comeshots, and a few more interesting articles. Also, don't forget about those other 7 bonus sites that are offered with your membership here. Overall, I have to say that I liked the site more than I thought I would. The haphazard design turned out to be one that worked well for the site, but maybe isn't optimal. The quality of the pictures has almost always been very good, with the image sizes continually getting larger and larger. The videos are nicely archived and though there aren't many download options, I think the sheer number of them makes well for the site alone. I can't put my finger on it really, but there's still something that's bothering me here. And it's not just the fact that all you are going to find by going through 6+ years of content is facials, purely facials, but it's something more. The price is too high, I think, I would even be more comfortable here paying $25 bucks a month, or even $30, but $35 is almost unheard of when there's so much great porn out there these days. I would, however, highly recommend this site to anyone who has an extreme fetish for facials, as they do it well here, a whole lot of it, and that's all they do!
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-11-07 |
This is only our second look at Amateur Facials and our first time back in over 2 years. It looks like they've continued with somewhat frequent updates (about 2 per week), but definitely not as frequent as before, with the total number of images up to over 50,000+ (that's about 10,000+ images in just over 2 years), and the total number of videos has gone from 400 to 500+. The site design is still too "haphazard" and I'm a little disappointed to see that that hasn't changed. In fact, based on the industry standards today, I'm almost completely put off by their lack of organization and design. The content is all text-linked and there is no models index or anything to help aid you in navigation. Download & viewing options are as minimal as they come, although it does look as though they've added an MPEG format to their video options, but the overall quality of both the pics and vids could really stand to be bumped up a notch (or 2). It does look like you get multi-site access, however, but I'm still not sure I can recommend this Amateur Facials to those of you looking for quality in content and design, which should be all of you.
Score decreased from 79.4 to 76.0.
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