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User Reviews (2)
User reviews consist of pros, cons, and other thoughts.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
Choice of billing by CCBill or Epoch
Reduced price $20 cross sale to Only Tease offered through CCBill which I was happy to take advantage of. (Not pre-checked)
A stunning collection of well known top tier models
A paradise for stocking lovers.
A new photo set or video added 7 days a week. (Every 3rd or 4th update is a video)
Photos in 3 sizes, Standard (711 x 1066), Extra Large (1365 x 2048) and Ultra Large (2000 x 3000)
Zips available in each of the sizes
Videos downloadable in 1280 x 720 wmv, 640 x 360 wmv and an ipod version. Streaming also available in HD and standard resolutions
The above stated resolutions apply since the site started so there is no drop off in quality as you go back through the archives.
Easy navigation with customizable browse options and an excellent search facility.
All file sizes and run times listed
User comments and ratings for model and lingerie
Cons:
Regional pricing
No model info or bio, a name is all you get, not even an age or country which is the bare minimum I like to know.
Some may find the site too softcore
Awful file naming, just seems like random numbers and letters.
Too much air brushing of photos but hopefully this will change in the future as webmaster appears responsive to customer’s wishes.
I’m afraid this photo lover found the videos here mind numbingly boring.
Few fully clothed sets. I appreciate the theme is lingerie but it would be nice to see more fully clothed sets before they strip down to the lingerie.
“Lingerie” doesn’t always mean bras and panties here. Too many sets start with the model already topless or bottomless or both, wearing only stockings and suspenders
Bottom Line:
Art-Lingerie provides an impressive collection of 122 models in a collection of softcore mostly solo photos and videos with the main theme being lingerie with a particular emphasis on stockings. In fact I would go as far as to say every single update involves the model wearing stockings. The site is very softcore and features nudity but doesn’t go as far as spreading or masturbation. When I say “nudity” what I mean is that the models show boobs and pussy but they are never totally naked because the stockings never come off.. The site has been online since May 2009 and with daily updates has already grown in to a decent sized collection with 732 photo sets (58,000+ pics) and 256 videos to date.
Although as I mentioned in the cons they provide zero information about the models I think most regular subscribers to softcore glamour sites will instantly recognise many of the models here. I found many of my favourites here from the US (Celeste Star, Carli Banks, Faye Reagan, Georgia Jones, Shay Laren) and Europe (Ariel, Cikita, Eufrat, Jenni P) as well as some of the popular British models from Only Tease such as Bryoni-Kate, Carla and Hayley-Marie.
The navigation makes it really easy to get around the site and download the content. Browsing via the model index will display all of a model’s photo shoots and videos on one page and what I like is that all the download links for zips and videos are right there on the page, all you have to do is scroll down and click, click, click to grab all the zips, no need to mess around opening every single gallery. If only every site made downloading content this simple. If you are more selective about what you download you also have an excellent search engine allowing you to search not only by model’s hair colour or breast size but even down to the style and colour of the stockings she is wearing.
With regards to the photos I won’t go on about the photo-shopping too much here as plenty has already been said on that subject in previous reviews and comments on this site. Although my preference is for natural looking photos I’m probably more tolerant of the airbrushed look than messmer and didn’t really let it spoil my enjoyment of the models and lingerie too much. In fact I quite liked some of the sets where it looked like they filtered out some of the colour to give them an almost retro look. My main complaints would be too few fully clothed sets and possibly too many that start wearing nothing but stockings. As the theme is lingerie I also think it might be nice to see some photo sets where the model starts naked and then dresses up in her lingerie and stockings which is something I enjoyed seeing at Petites Parisiennes.
The HD videos here are excellent quality and even the lower res 640 x 360 ones I checked out had an average bit rate of 6-8000 kbps so looked fairly decent even when on full screen. Unfortunately as my preference is for photos I found it difficult to appreciate the videos here and the ones I have watched so far nearly sent me to sleep. The videos I’ve watched pretty much all take the same format, you have a model dressed in lingerie, sometimes only stockings and suspenders, the model doesn’t speak, there’s no background music, the only noises you here are the sounds of the sofa or bed creaking as the model moves around on it or the sound of her heels on the wooden floor as she’s walking around. It almost seems like an awkward silence in my opinion. I know a lot of people don’t like background music in their videos but for me if the model is not going talk or interact in any way then some music would help create a better atmosphere. And of course there’s no sexual action to get excited about either. The model will just sit or lay there caressing her hands up and down her stockings and over her breasts, she might remove her shoes, then perhaps her bra or panties if she’s wearing any to start with, you might get the odd close up shot of a pussy and her hand glancing lightly over the top but nothing even close to a masturbation scene. Videos usually range from 5 to 10 minutes in length.
Overall I enjoyed the site and would recommend it for fans of softcore glamour and stocking lovers as long as you can tolerate the photo-shopping.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
This site has maintained its emphasis on beauty since my last review. Not one bad looking model to be found.
Videos can be downloaded at 720p and lower. 720p would be my preferred size as the picture is good (albeit not as crisp as I would like it) and the file size is relatively small.
Picture sizes available in three resolutions. This review will have to be a one pointer because I have not downloaded one single set so far, therefore I cannot quote any picture dimensions.
Downloads have been at my top speed.
Daily updates. Usually two - three picture sets in a row, then a video.
If you are near the end of your subscription it might be worth your while to look at the coming updates because you can get five freebies (fast tracks) of material that has not yet been published, A very nice and generous touch.
Very nice, user friendly, lay out. Models and outfits can be rated, comments are possible and are not censored, to my knowledge.
Cons:
It could be such a terrific site if only they put away the air brush, body make-up and photoshop for good and went with natural! For an ultra high resolution fan this can be so aggravating. I look at the models' faces and bodies, and all the small imperfections that make them the persons they are have been carefully removed until they look like someone from Madame Tussauds' Wax Museum. One can admire them but they are not erotic.
Bottom Line:
Because the choice of lingerie sites is so limited I subscribe to Art-Lingerie now and then. I am limiting myself to the download of videos to escape the "improvements" in the picture sets, even though I am a collector of both.
To those who like the Only Tease, Only Satin etc. sites (and their picture sets) this site is highly recommended. You will find some more of the same, except there's more nudity here, but with none of the raunchiness found on other, similar sites. You will also find the same, user friendly home page and search engine as in the "Only ... " sites.
To the 58% who, like me, are craving something more crisp, more natural in their picture sets and more natural coloring (a bit too warm for my taste) in their videos, I would recommend waiting for a while before subscribing, just to see if the webmaster will give serious consideration to their preferences.
Until the unnatural softness and coloration of the pictures is fixed I can give this site no more than a 75.
messmer wrote 1 review (04-25-11) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score.
*Newbie reviews and ratings don't count toward a site's overall score/rank until the user reaches the Rookie status level (5 points). This rule is needed to help prevent fake (or heavily biased) profiles and reviews.
User Comments (10)
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... I am not quite sure, going by the site's sample pictures, if they have done away with re-touching them as promised by the webmaster in my last comment.
Could a present subscriber or the webmaster please let us know! Thanks!
And it is still in connection with the same complaint: too much air brushing, too much photo shopping until the model looks incredibly beautiful but totally plastic. Others must feel the same way because in a recent poll 58% of the subscribers would prefer if they did away with photo shop and presented their models "as is!" Hope they will listen and make the necessary changes soon because this could be a very good lingerie site.
Just attempted to subscribe at our listed price and CCBill threw me a curve by wanting CA $32.00 for the first month and then reducing to CA $27.00 the following month. I have never come across this before with any other site. Is this a new business model for CCBill or is it Art-Lingerie's doing? BTW, present conversion rate is 0.983 US $ to 1.00 $ CA.
It would be so easy to love this site. The videos are great, the girls are great, the lingerie is just what the doctor ordered, yet I look at set after set of pictures that are way too soft and lacking in detail even in High Resolution.
Many people will like this softness just fine but for someone who likes to see every detail of a model's face and body (as well as every fold and drape of the beautiful lingerie) this site is a huge disappointment. I just got finished looking at today's and yesterday's updates, drooled over the lingerie in the preview pictures and once again didn't download a single set for the above reason. I sure wish they would take the art out of this lingerie site. As usual, a purely personal and subjective opinion!
I just got a member here and after downloading about 970MB my access to the site is blocked. I did not notice this in their terms though. Maybe it's of interest to anybody who wants to join.
I appreciate it is obvious where the bias of this site will be, but I would just like to ask a couple of questions about the format of their photosets/videos.
Do they ever start fully clothed?
Do they ever reach full nudity?
( I have a pretty rigid definition of nude. Wearing a garter (suspender) belt and or hose & shoes is NOT nude ;0) )
I have just joined Art Lingerie, having been longtime member of OAS and a huge stockings fan. I can tell you the members area is in exactly the same format as the OT sites, you can download all the images as zips, they are in the three sizes upt 3000 px wide and also videos are downloadable in HD and hig res sizes.
Quality is as good if not better than OT, and the girls are stunning. All the other features from the OT members area are there, like custom zips, slideshows etc, just no forum.
Judging from ONLY the preveiw this looks like another mistake from Only Tease Co. - Like the other new site Babespotting.tv - this only has in-browser flash-videos (and in a damn small/low quality).
Nowhere at Art-Lingerie it says anything about downloading the videos - when you play the previews, it states: 'See the videos on the net'
This site looks attractive, but I wonder what distinguishes it from the other "only" sites that this same company puts out. The tour isn't nearly as good as at OnlyTease, for instance. Sure, it looks good, but it lacks the important details about image dimensions, zips, and so on.
Don't they'd think that people would want such details?
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