Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
Pros:
- Official site of UK glamour model Melissa Debling.
- 5’3”, blonde, curvy, big boobs, no tattoo.
- 50+ photo sets. Average 100 photos per set.
- 1200x800 (75%), 1600x1050 (25%). 75% are portrait.
- Solo teasing in casual clothes. Up to topless.
- 60+ videos. 60% photo-shoot BTS, 40% camera teasing.
- Flash format, 720x400. Avg 5 Mbps video rate, 5 minutes long.
- Lots of closeups on boobs and ass in videos.
- One new photo gallery and one new video per week.
- A little bit of interaction: forum, short blog entries.
- Free tour makes me think it’s still updating.
- Free tour claims you may now also access other solo sites.
- Shop offers prints, posters and other merchandising.
- Billed by epoch. No regional pricing.
Cons:
- Model has recently been tweeting against joining this site.
- Most likely they won’t be updating/online for much longer.
- No metadata on photo galleries, videos (no release date, etc).
- Galleries compressed in RAR format instead of ZIP.
- RARs become available some days after gallery release.
- Slow motion segments, unrelated new-age music on every video.
- Videos are streaming only. No downloads available.
- No link between same scene’s photos, tease video and BTS.
- No webcam chats despite free tour lists the feature.
- No way to privately message the model.
Bottom Line:
This is or, more precisely, was the official site of UK glamour model Melissa Debling. Melissa Debling is blonde, petite, curvy and has a phenomenal rack and no tattoos. She has appeared in UK men’s Magazines like Nuts and Zoo, on the page 3 of tabloids and also on UK glamour websites like Only All Sites. I was reluctant to join this site after my experience with Official Lindsey Strutt from the same company but her looks made me take the plunge.
The type of content is very similar to that on Official Lindsey Strutt: very tame posing up to topless in casual clothes (almost no pantyhose, thank God). Videos are somewhat better here even though a bit repetitive. You get almost every video twice: as BTS of the photo shoot and as a tease segment. The only difference between the two is that in the tease segment the model looks at the camera while in the BTS she looks at the photographer. Melissa Debling seemed slightly more involved with the site, periodically replying to forum messages and posting short blog entries regularly but I’m pretty sure that has stopped.
It’s unclear whether this site will stay much longer online. Melissa Debling has for some time been warning on Tweeter not to join this site anymore. Even though, I see the site is now offering 3 and 6 month memberships. Free tour shows photo sets that have been released since my membership expired, but it seems unlikely they have enough new material to fill the next 6 months if the model is no longer shooting with them. You do get access to other sites from the company, which I didn’t get when I was a member.
I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with this company that keeps closing its sites after just a few months life. I was a member of a site from this company that closed without any explanation shortly after I knew about it as a new listing on TBP. Several sites from them are no longer accepting memberships or are plain and simply deleted after a very short time online.
Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
Pros:
-Official site of gorgeous UK glamour model Lindsey Strutt.
-Great looking all natural model. No tattoos, no piercings.
-Nice choice of clothing, lingerie and accessories.
-Model always ends posing topless. But no full nudity.
-Content looked original and exclusive to me.
-70 image sets. Average 80 images per set. 85% vertical.
-6 sets with Kayleigh Pearson or Staci Noblett. Rest, solo.
-Image sizes: 45% 850x567, 45% 1200x800, 10% 1600x1065.
-30 BTS videos. Specs vary a lot.
-Update schedule shown in a calendar.
-Currently updating photos and videos at these rates:
--1 new photo gallery every 6 days at 1600x1065.
--1 new wmv video every 6 days at 1920x1080 8500 kbps.
Cons:
-No update metadata: no release date, no update name, etc.
-Image galleries are not available to download in zip format.
-Useless image thumbnails: all look either distorted or blurred.
-Inconsistent video formats and file naming.
-Only one format available per video.
-New HD videos are pillarboxed (aka reverse letterboxed).
-No video previews but a single thumbnail in the listing page.
-No interaction at all with the model.
-No webcam chats although announced to start 6 months ago.
-Useless message board: model logged just once to answer.
-Pointless diary option: candid photos with no caption at all.
-No information on who the model is (for those new to her).
-No access to other sites from this company.
Bottom Line:
I came across this site because of the new listings section at The Best Porn. I had never heard of the model and I knew almost nothing about the glamour business in the UK but I liked her looks and decided to take the plunge.
I like the photos. She basically wears either bikinis by the pool or bra and panties indoors. Nice, simple sexy lingerie and none of those pantyhose that seem to be so popular in UK erotica. I cannot say the pictures are technically excellent (I’m not very savvy but I felt there were some lighting issues and too many similar shoots within a set) but, for a change, I enjoyed watching a beautiful woman with a perfect bust posing in sexy lingerie that didn’t make her look too young or too slutty. I don’t mind that she never shows anything below the waist but this could be an issue for some.
Videos, on the other hand, offer little. Leaving aside the fact that there are endless combinations of format (flv, mov, wmv - a couple of them are even offered compressed in RAR format for unknown reasons-), resolution (from as low as 384x288 up to 1920x1080 -but letterboxed from an original in 4:3 format also for unknown reasons-) and bitrate (from FLVs at 200 kbps to MOVs at 30,000 kbps), the ones I managed to play without stuttering on my not-so-old computer were basically 1 minute BTS clips with superimposed music. I believe I’d have gotten a better impression had the site offered no videos at all.
As for the interaction, I came out of the site knowing as little about Lindsey Strutt as before. An “About Me” section explaining who she is would have been welcome for those who are not in the UK. For instance, the diary section had some pictures of her with a bunch of soldiers. Turns out Lindsey Strutt went to Iraq to visit the troops as a spokesperson for UK magazine Nuts but I didn’t learn about it here. There’s no point in offering so many interaction options in the site’s menu (webcam chat, diary, message board) if you then make a half-hearted attempt at it or have an “under construction” sign for a year.
In the end, looking at this and the other site from the same company I checked (Official Staci Noblett, no longer listed here), I’m under the impression the models are more interested in posing for magazines than working for their own site. At least for me, it’s not worth staying a member of a solo site if I don’t feel the girl is a bit involved in it. There are other good looking UK models I’d never heard of who have a site with this company but, given the precedents, I’m afraid I’ll have to pass.
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