Sorry, but need far more information from your review to justify a perfect score, particularly reading other reviews from the site below yours which seen far more objective.
I'm quite choosy about the content I download, so normally cherry-pick my favourite videos/pictures by hand, but there are exceptions where I really like a model and want to collect everything they do, so if ZIPs aren't available and it's permitted by the site, I'll use a download manager.
It's not MUCH worse, but for me yes, it is worse. If it's a trial, call it a trial - but I think to pass it off as some 'age verification' fee is pretty dishonest. I agree with your sentiment about trials, though.
Clicking through from the main homepage, I can see thumbnails of the videos, but like you, when I click on them I get a 'you must verify your age for $1' message.
Cynically, I guess that once you have to paid $1 to verify your age, it will probably automatically upgrade you to full membership a day later or something 'for your convenience' - to me it looks like a limited trial by stealth, and I would be surprised if it didn't try and trick you into full membership.
$1 to verify my age is hassle and not something I'd ever do. And if the website is trying to trick people into a recurring membership, then it's not a site I'd ever give my money to.
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Very good balance of photo and video content
- Talia has a great figure and gigantic (if fake) breasts
- Immediate access to Bella Network including six solo sites
- Consistent, high quality of content throughout the site
- Regular, dated updates (incl. recent updates in preview area)
- Bonus content like blogs, video blogs and behind the scenes
- Easy navigation either via Bella Network or her own site
- You seem to stay logged in without username/password prompts
- CCBill with no pre-checked cross-sells – good value for money
See my Bella Pass review for in-depth thoughts on the network as a whole.
Cons:
Points marked with * don't bother me personally:
- Video previews are a bit limited
- Regional pricing
- No ZIP files for photo galleries
- Automatically generated username/password*
- Download limit of 20gb per 24 hour hour period*
- Talia has large, fake boobs*
See my Bella Pass review for in-depth thoughts on the network as a whole.
Bella Pass sites have a very clear but strict download policy. Be careful not to exceed their download limits. Improvements have been made to the network's customer service to deal with legitimate members who might accidentally get blocked (it hasn't happened to me yet on this membership term).
Bottom Line:
Talia Shepard is a curvy 28GG model, part of the massively impressive Bella Pass network to which you get immediate access. Her site is the third largest in the network and has 8,808 photos, and 208 videos (of which 45 are HD, 114 are webcam archive videos and 19 are behind the scenes footage).
Talia is a confident performer who does strip tease, masturbation with toys and soft lesbian action. She has also had a boob job with her site offering content both pre- and post-boob job with about 70% of the content being since the enlargement. I have to say I definitely preferred her before and she had good size boobs even before the enlargement. Obviously this is just personal preference, and the preview is clear enough for people to make their own decisions.
The site is extremely easy to navigate. Once you log in, the member’s homepage shows updates from across the entire network. You can go to just Talia’s member area by using a drop-down top right, or search and/or filter updates by site/update type at the top.
The content is divided into various categories in addition to the usual photo and video sections.
She has a blog which is constantly updated by Talia herself. Lots of candid snaps from her phone, updates from her life (whether she’s ill, going on a trip etc), and also personal blog posts (eg her favourite tweets from fans over the last week). It’s always good to see a blog on a solo site, but even more impressive to see it’s actually updated.
BTS has behind the scenes footage from video and photo shoots. This is an impressive feature and shows Talia and the girls who often join her enjoying sessions.
Talia also takes part in video blogs. There’s not a separate section for these, so you’ll have to search for videos tagged with ‘Video Blog’, but they’re well worth watching, and, in addition to the blog, candids, behind the scenes footage and her Twitter feed, all give a great insight into the life of Talia. For me, this is a huge plus and surely helps build the model a huge following as I’m not alone in liking models beyond their physical attributes.
There are many thousands of photos on Talia’s website. All are downloadable, but you can’t use batch downloaders and zip files are not available. Even for someone like me who doesn’t download everything, the prospect of so many photos to download is quite bewildering (to the point I’ve only downloaded video content).
The gallery homepage has 20 galleries per page with thumbnails that animate on mouse-over to show a slideshow of photos inside. Inside, photos are arranged 20 to a page, and you have the option to toggle between showing photos at 4000px on their longest side, or low-fi 1500px.
You have the option to rate, add to favourites and comment. The date the gallery was added is shown along with a short description and the categories that apply to the gallery.
Pictures are well shot, include a small, unobtrusive watermark and often show excellent close-ups of various parts of Talia in various stages of undress or enjoying her own company.
Video content is similar. Again, videos are arranged 20 to a page and thumbnails animate to show a vague idea of what the video is about. You can watch a Flash version online, or can download an impressive number of formats and file sizes, including:
* As of March 2013, WMV is no longer being added as it’s becoming a redundant file format, but it is still available on older updates
The videos are a good mix of striptease, masturbation with toys and soft lesbian-style action with Bryci and/or Katie Banks who, it has to be said, are all fairly similar looks-wise. There’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s all very impressive and obviously car wash, whipped cream and mock BJs with dildo videos are popular for a reason and Talia ticks all of these boxes.
For photos and videos, the locations are varied. Many are bedroom, bathroom or anywhere else around the house. There’s a few updates from the pool and a few vaguely public but nothing too outrageous in this respect.
Talia also takes part in Babe Chat, along with Katie Banks. Her shows are typically at 2pm EST which is a good time for European members as that’s early evening. There’s a full archive of her shows, which are all downloadable as Flash files, each around an hour long. You can also watch them from an embedded flash file on the site, which you can skip to any point in while it loads.
Overall, this is an impressive, polished website with a lot of content. It comes with access to Bella Pass which is a very impressive network including at least two active girls who are very similar to Talia. If you don’t care for bonus sites, then Talia’s website is more than self-sufficient with lots of videos, photos, frequent updates and lots of bonus content which gives you a real insight into Talia herself.
Not very, I'd say. She's fully nude, and you can see everything, but no spreading etc. Honestly, I think it's a nice contrast from the other Bella Pass sites in this respect so I don't mind at all.
Will update my review to be clearer in this respect. Thanks for the feedback :)
Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Hunter is stunning with a great figure and beautiful complexion
- Immediate access to Bella Pass including six solo sites
- Decent quality content, consistent throughout the site
- Regular, reliable updates with previews of forthcoming updates
- Updates are dated (including recent updates in Preview area)
- Easy navigation either via Bella Pass or her own site
- You seem to stay logged in without username/password prompts
- CCBill with no pre-checked cross-sells
See my Bella Pass review for in-depth thoughts on the network as a whole.
Cons:
Points marked with * don't bother me personally:
- Not much content at the moment, particularly videos
- Updates not as frequent as other Bella Pass sites
- Regional pricing
- Content not as high quality as other Bella Pass sites
- Misses features such as candids, blog, behind the scenes etc
- No ZIP files for photo galleries
- Movies are currently just videos of photo sessions
- Automatically generated username/password*
- Download limit of 20gb per 24 hour hour period*
- Hunter has fake boobs*
See my Bella Pass review for in-depth thoughts on the network as a whole.
Bottom Line:
After Bryci, Katie Banks and Talia Shepard, Hunter Leigh’s website might come as bit of a disappointment. Her site is a bit cast in the shadows of the holy trinity of those three and although her site has regular updates, the lion’s share of updates across the network are for Bryci, Katie Banks and Talia Shepard, so the gulf of difference looks to increase over time rather than decrease.
Navigation-wise it is identical to all the other Bella Pass sites, which is to say it’s excellent and very refined. With your membership you get access to the whole Bella Pass which includes:
Bryci - biggest site on the network, now featuring HC content Katie Banks - looks fairly similar to Bryci, 2nd largest in network Talia Shepard - similar to Katie again, frequent updates
Lexi Mason - extremely petite, relatively new to Bella Ava Dawn - site no longer updating but has over 50 videos
Monroe Lee - super-curvy but site no longer updating
I think Hunter is actually one of the most beautiful on Bella Pass. She is slim, and although she has fake boobs, they're pretty natural looking.
Currently there are 1,683 photos across 28 galleries, and 3 videos. Out of all the Bella Pass websites (updating and not), her site is the smallest. Updates are approximately weekly.
When you log in, you land on the Bella Pass member’s homepage which displays updates from across all sites. At the top there’s a drop-down you can select to go directly to Hunter Leigh’s membership area, or any of the other models/sites in the network.
You can view updates by type (photos, videos, etc), or search by category and/or site. The navigation is incredibly refined, particularly when you factor in the amount of content across the entire network.
Currently there’s three videos. The run time ranges from around 2- to 4-minutes which, again, doesn't compare favourably to other sites in the network (normally around 10-minutes). From the video homepage, you can hover over the thumbnails and they’ll show a slideshow of frames from the video by means of a preview.
Movies are basically videos of photo sessions, with her moving from pose-to-pose with the camera flash going off. Hopefully now that Hunter has made the move to Bella Pass, the video content will improve. Quality is decent, all videos are downloadable and there is a Flash video embedded onto the site which you can skip to any point in while it loads.
Downloadable formats include:
- 3GP (352x288)
- Flash (900x506)
- MP4 (1280x720 and 640x360)
- WMV* (1280x720 and 640x360)
* WMV videos are likely not to be added to future updates in line with other Bella Pass sites.
Gallery-wise, there’s currently 28 galleries. From the gallery homepage, like the videos, you can hover over the thumbnail and it'll animate to show a general gist of what's inside.
Galleries are around 80 to 100 pictures large, but zips aren't available. Most galleries have the option to view/save images as 1500px and 4000px on their longest side, but a few (presumably older ones) only have the 1500px option – they're in the minority, though.
Photos are definitely this site’s strength with the galleries being fantastically well shot, and Hunter looking effortlessly beautiful in front of the camera. Sets are shot in a variety of locations ranging from bedrooms to bathrooms, and also venturing outside, but not in public. All are well lit and great quality, with images watermarked in colour with the site logo (approximately 350-400px wide, but non-intrusively placed). Her site is a lot softer than Bryci or Katie's sites and focuses on strip-tease (no toys/masturbation/spreading) but she is fully nude and shows everything.
Beyond photos and videos, there’s currently not much else in the way of content. If you are joining Hunter’s site as a solo site, you will miss features like behind the scenes, candids and webcam archives as features like this to me make an amateur site an amateur site as you get to know the model – currently there’s not much opportunity to do this on Hunter’s site.
Although Hunter herself can more than hold her own against the other models in the network, currently her site can’t. My review probably sounds a bit negative, but as she’s new to the network, my score and opinion will go up as the amount of content does. I just hope her site isn't overlooked in favour of other Bella Pass sites.
Currently, there’s not as much content, fewer updates and less features.
I think in a few months her site will become more self-sufficient in terms of updates because it is regularly being updated. I think once this happens, the score will climb by at least 5.
Add some ‘personality’ to the site by means of more natural videos, candids (if she’s comfortable with this) or behind-the-scenes footage, and the score will probably climb by another 5.
At the moment Hunter’s site is a great bonus site, but if you’re joining for just Hunter, her site will probably leave you wanting more
Wow, one set an hour? So you're expected to spend a full day on the whole website to download ten photo sets? That has got to be one of the worst, least-practical and unworkable download restrictions I have ever heard of.
Really good feature, that. I try and cancel straight away if I know I'm not going to renew, but on some where I do stay for a while, it's always sod's law that by the time I cancel it's a day after the rebill, so this is a great feature.
Just reading through the comments and it's a shame that the webmaster is blindly defensive to the point they pick holes in largely positive reviews. I know if I ever join the site I won't be reviewing it on Porn Users.
My membership's ended on Anna's site, so I thought I'd give my final thoughts. During the month there were 4 gallery updates (none hardcore), and 2 video updates (1 hardcore). Most content was the same kind of stuff you'd get on her old site. The hardcore content was disappointing and in a minority.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
- Access to 8 bonus sites (6 solo models, 2 multi-model sites)
- Slick navigation – easy to filter by girl/site/keyword etc
- All content downloadable with no download limits/DRM
- Lots of download options for video (by size/format/scene)
- Photos downloadable as zips with lots of different options
- Extremely high quality content covering a lot of different genres
- Ivana is an absolutely fantastic performer
- Long history of updates, all of which are dated
- CCBill – with non-recurring option, no pre-checked cross-sells
- You seem to stay logged in without username/password prompts
- Great value for the amount of content available
- Active Diesel Access forum and visible member support
- Webcams available on bonus sites to suit various timezones
Cons:
Mostly minor. Points marked with * don't personally bother me:
- Ivana is no longer posting hardcore boy/girl updates
- Ivana hasn’t done a webcam since February 2013
- Out of the 8 bonus sites, 4 are no longer updating
- Automatically generated password*
- She's bulked out a little bit – still slim but looks quite different*
Bottom Line:
An incredibly slick website, part of a very polished network. You can join with recurring membership (pre-checked), but also a non-recurring, and also a 5 month membership to all 13 of the network sites.
CCBill confirmation and username/password arrive in separate emails. Inside, you can see updates for all the Diesel member sites that you have access to. These are:
- Ivana Fukalot (300 galleries, 202 videos)
- Young Legal Porn (1375 galleries, 1184 videos)
- 18 Only Girls (1482 galleries, 1202 videos)
- Beata Porn (271 galleries, 96 videos)
- Skinny Super Girl (116 galleries, 87 videos)
- Vika Nymph (196 galleries, 182 videos – not updating)
- Alice Wonder Bang (228 galleries, 167 videos – not updating)
- Natasha Shy (348 galleries, 263 videos – not updating)
- Sasha Blonde (529 galleries, 431 videos – not updating)
You can click on any of the above to be taken to that specific member’s area, and once inside you see all updates (video and photo) chronologically presented as thumbnails with the title, date, keywords, and who the video stars.
You can also view just galleries or videos by clicking the option on the navigation bar at the top. Pages have two views; ‘Normal’ which displays just the updates, or ‘Advanced’ which allows you to sort by date, rating, most popular or most commented. You can also filter by site, or by keyword (eg, anal, blowjob, cum in mouth, cum on face etc). A good feature is that you can select multiple tags (eg, ‘blowjob’ and ‘outdoors’ for all outdoor blowjobs).
VIDEO:
Content across the site is high quality with older updates having fewer options and are lower quality.
Formats available include MP4 at 1080p (since around May 2012), 720p (since around February 2009), 480p (since the site began), and 360p (throughout most of the archives). A WMV of the largest video size at the time is also available with each movie update.
You can also view the video embedded as a Flash file which you can skip to any point in while it still loads, and even on the Flash video you can select the video quality.
You can also select scenes in a video to play or download. You simply toggle the scenes you want, then can play the selection, or download in various different qualities – I’ve never seen this amount of versatility and customisation on any other website. This is available on all videos.
GALLERIES:
Almost infinite amount of customisation options. On the majority of galleries you can view a slideshow, change the size of thumbnails (with a slider), download as 1000px resolution or the original sized images. In the last week or so, new galleries have the option of downloading images as 1000px, 2000px, 4000px or the original 6000px resolution.
The best feature is customisable zips – you select the photos you want to download (or click the link to select all images) and you can download them in a zip. It suits literally everyone.
THE CONTENT
Ivana is versatile and caters for lots of niches. Earlier content was mainly sex and masturbation. Her sex scenes were all with the same guy, but together they put on a great performance with a perfect balance of sex being hard but romantic. Scenes have her contorted in excitement before ending with a passionate embrace.
Her masturbation scenes are something to behold – Ivana puts everything into each scene and writhes around in excitement.
Later scenes include anal, and there is also a lot of lesbian content too. However, since May 2011 there is no boy/girl content.
Scenes take place in lots of locations – bedroom, bathroom, gardens and pools, and also in outdoor locations such as abandoned buildings and even in public. Most have multi-angles, both POV and from multiple other angles.
UPDATES
Updates on Ivana’s site are weekly with bias towards two galleries for every video posted. There’s normally around three updates every day across the bonus sites included. In the last few updates Ivana has put on a bit of weight – she’s still slim, but her face has filled out in particular and she’s not as boney around the midriff (I could understand people thinking she was too skinny before) and honestly looks very different – I had to double-take to see if it was still her.
WEBCAMS AND BONUS CONTENT
The webcam is exceptional. There is a weekly schedule and comprehensive archive of shows. Ivana’s last show was in February, and is not on schedule to reappear soon. Shows are spread throughout the day, so no bias towards Americans time-wise. Each show is a couple of hours long.
With regards to the bonus sites, it’s a shame that Sasha Blonde, Natasha Shy, Alice Wonder Bang and Vika Nymph are no longer updating, but if you like Ivana, Skinny Super Girl and Beata Porn are both in a similar vein, and across all sites there is a huge amount of content.
VERDICT
Exceptionally slick member's area like nothing I've ever seen. Updates are not as exciting as they used to be now that she no longer does hardcore. The huge archive will entertain most members.
Oh yes, I completely understand that. Make sure you nominate it for a re-review and/or submit a correction. The problem is obviously that there's many hundred sites and sadly adult sites do have a habit of slowing down or stopping updates altogether.
I've only reviewed about 10 sites here, but it seems to be a never-ending job to keep them up-to-date, so can only imagine how difficult it is with all the sites on TBP.
Make sure you review the site here giving the site the score you think, as people do check Porn Users as well as TBP.
What review? If you mean the one on The Best Porn, that hasn't been updated since 2009, so I think it's unfair to cry conspiracy. Why not write a review here as that's the point of Porn Users.
There's quite a lot of pre-boob job scenes, definitely more than two. No evidence of scars now, and I have to say, although I'm not a boob job fan, I think hers are pretty decent.
Updates still erratic/less frequent - review updated
Have updated the review and reduced the score as unfortunately the updates are less frequent than when I originally wrote the review. While they used to be weekly, now it averages around one update every two weeks (six updates this year, and we're in week 12 of 2013).
The site seems to be updating with new content, still, no reason to suggest they're stringing out old content, but I hope Chica's not losing interest in the site as it really is a fantastic site in every other respect. I think amateur websites really need to update at least weekly.
In that case, then, congratulations! Really hope you can continue in some form, but obviously understand that work and family comes first. Really appreciate that you'll keep fans posted - can't think of any other adult star who is so good at interacting with fans.
I saw on another forum that Tia Ling is retiring. Not sure what that means for her site as I'm not currently a member, but thought I'd let people know. Happy for Tia, though, and hope she enjoys her post-HC life :)
I'm generally very choosy about what I download, and only ever download the best bits that are relevant to my tastes.
If it's a model I particularly love, I'll probably work on downloading all the content eventually, but I never do this during a single membership term. I think I've probably only ever downloaded an entire site's-worth of content for about three or four models, and that was over many, many months of membership.
Probably around 25% if we're talking about my personal computer, but obviously much, much lower if we're taking into account time spent online at work, too.
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