OFFICIAL
75.2
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
9.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
1.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
51.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
7.2 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
7.2 / 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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| Editor: Duke |
Initial Review: 01-11-06 |
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1. Original softcore collection.
2. Girl-next-door type models.
1. Simple site design.
2. Only a few videos.
"A basic and straightforward site featuring original softcore photography." |
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This site very accurately describes itself with its title "Grace and Beauty" and tagline "A Celebration of Feminine Sensuality". In the porn biz that's always a step in the right direction and I like giving credit to paysites that use factual titles, descriptions, and guest tours. There really isn't much that's complicated about Grace and Beauty; it's a straightforward collection of softcore photo galleries. There are only a few videos so right now those are seemingly just a little extra something on the side. The photo collection constitutes just about the totality of this site.
When I said this is a softcore action I mean its very softcore. Stripping and nude posing is the style of this site's photographer Jay Greenman. Very rarely a shoot will feature two girls together with some friendly rubbing or pillow fighting, but solo girl shoots make up most of the content. This stuff is geared towards fans who want a bit of teasing from cute amateur girls. I enjoyed his collection of models since most are real looking girl-next-door types. His photography skills come through by the use of different locations, lighting, and clothes so this is not a bunch of studio galleries with the setting for each girl. From what come through in the pictures I have to say it seems like most of the girls enjoyed their shoots which helps makes the galleries that much more fun.
In addition to exclusivity and amateur models Grace and Beauty also relies on hi-res pics for entertainment value. The collection is fairly deep with galleries dating back to before 2003 and the picture quality has continued improving over the years. A newest galleries have nice large pics at around 1280x960 while stuff that's from a year or so back are more like 1024x768. When I got into the oldest galleries some of the pics were down around 800x600 but that's a small percentage of the content. Softcore photography sites desperately need high quality pics to make the content interesting so I'm glad to see Grace and Beauty has continued increasing their resolutions to keep up with the times.
The design of the member's area mirrors that on the guest tour. It's definitely basic with the content organized chromatically, by model, and by theme. Updates are typically made once per week with a new gallery added at each update. That's a bit slow for a photo site, I wish they'd come out with new stuff several times per week. Also, zip downloads for the galleries would help a lot too as would more videos. All in all the site does indeed have sensual collection of softcore pics but is has also left itself room for improvement in some areas like design and videos.
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