Have you ever wondered what it might be like to spend most of your days in the sun, hanging out on California beaches, working on your tan and watching the surfers? Here's a titillating insight into such a life and your hostess is called Gia Marie!
Gia is a firm-bodied tanned California chick who seems to be living the life that many of us would envy. Fortunately, she's more than happy to share her (especially more sexy and sexual) escapades with us at her site, Gia Marie. According to her own bio, she has been doing her dirties for quite some time and accumulating a healthy collection of pictures and movies. When you sign up as a member to her site, you get full access to her decent-sized library of images and videotaped erotic adventures plus some extras to round out the mix a bit.
Needless to say, this site is more of a single model site (than not), and as attractive and sexy as Gia may be, it's tough to score high as a membership site unless there is lots of other content to pad out and expand on the topics, OR, the member happens to get totally addicted to this chick. We'll start with the Gia-centric content and work our way out as we explore how this site measures up.
When you arrive at the members' home page, the look and feel of the site is very cozy and friendly. Gia does a good job of presenting herself as a hostess - welcoming members, and explaining about herself. The navigation system of the site is pretty good - left column links zip you over to all the main categories which include: Home, About Gia, Diary, Forum, Pictures, Videos, WebCams, Bonus, and Contact Info.
Of the main options available, the greatest wealth of content seems to be planted behind 'Pictures' and 'Videos'. When I first check out the pictures page, I was a bit surprised to find only 6 items (Early Gia, Nasty Gia, Naughty Gia, Nude in Public, Members, and Sexy Gia). I had assumed that those were all the picture galleries she offered, but when I selected a category, I then discovered that the galleries where hidden there! When I tallied them up, there were 100 picture galleries spread (unevenly) across the various categories.
Each gallery is presented on paginated thumbnailed pages with nice title graphic thumbs showing what each set is about. The photo sets vary in quantity (averaging over 30 pics per set) and I am happy to report that these galleries have been culled - each of the images is unique enough to belong. If you've read any of my other commentaries, you'll know that I'm not a fan of 200-300 pic galleries of which only 25% (or less) are unique images. Gia Marie gets top points for gallery content editing! However, I was not thrilled about the quality of all the photos. They are generously sized (from 600x450 to 739x1280) and the quality of photography is very good (to excellent), but I found lots of images which SEEMED to be retouched (especially indoor ones) and had trouble with depth of field (too much was oddly out of focus). It feels like someone over did it with the post production editing. Even so, overall, the images are very good and at least 'pro amateur' quality.
Gia Marie also offers members 108 video galleries which include a variety of solo, lesbian, straight couple, and group sex action featuring Gia. Two versions are offered for each video (WMV) - broadband and dialup formats. As with her photo galleries, most of her video galleries include some descriptions of what the epsiodes are about (and where). Each of her videos includes a dozen or more screenshots to give you a sense of the content.
The cost of membership to Gia Marie is regularly listed at: $29.95 (30 days), $54.95 (90 days), $99.95 (180 days). When I checked out the signup page there was a notice that membership was on sale 'that day' ($24.95 for 30 days, $49.95 for 90 days) - you'll have to check out the join page to see what it costs the day you want to sign up.
As far as wanting to sign up, if you're thinking that one model (with all her playmates) may not be enough to merit the membership fee, membership also includes access to several other girlfriend sites (pictures and videos) including: Jean, Kim, Diamond, Erin, Alannah, Amy, Missy, and Misty.
I'm not a big fan of solo model sites (my attention span is a bit too limited) but it's fair to say that Gia Marie IS hot, and does offer a reasonable amount of original and exclusive content to justify the cost of membership.
-- Nandy
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