- Pictures: 231,097
- Last Updated: January 4, 2024
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#1. About HQBabes
Oh, so you want stunning quality babes and no commitment? Here’s a free porn picture site from 2000 called HQBabes.com. It offers a high-quality collection of softcore and lesbian sample galleries from as many porn sites as possible.
#2. First Impressions
With a branded name that gets your hopes up in the air, HQBabes does a fine job with its first impressions. I was pleasantly surprised and couldn’t find that many faults from the start. You get this “interesting” look with a single wide thumbnail followed by a narrow image and then another broad picture. It’s like having a sidebar at the center that offers content instead of ads. HQBabes (probably) uses hand-picked thumbnails that create this artificial “luxury” feel since there are no faults or misplaced model heads inside those pictures. However, not all is roses and rainbows since it took me just a few moments to realize that the way HQBabes offloads its content is not that user-friendly.
Following the footsteps of Morazzia, HQBabes doesn’t host its content natively, at least not most of it, and all the links that we’ve clicked were nothing but redirects to other pages. It is where the flaws start growing at an exponential rate. It doesn’t matter if HQBabes looks awesome or has all its bugs ironed out because you won’t be staying that long there anyway, and who knows how many partner links there are and how their experience differs. Think of HQBabes as a homepage of bookmarks with thumbnails and some “grouping” features because that’s what it is. This isn’t necessarily a flawed approach because many awesome networks do the same thing. However, you can’t top the all-in-one offerings of its competitors, examples being PicHunter, HQSeek, Fuskator, and many others.
#3. Content & User Experience
Maybe the curation part is epic, and it’s all forgiven, right? The content on HQ Babes is organized according to model names and sponsors or best sites like FemJoy, MetArt, Amour Angels, Art Lingerie, DigitalDesire, and so on. What you should anticipate is lots of erotic solo stripping and posing with hundreds of barley-legal and beautiful babes, as well as some masturbation, light fetish content, and lesbian sex. The galleries feature 16 to 20 pictures in 720p resolution or a bit smaller. They look fine, but nothing to brag about, especially when viewed in full-screen mode. Sadly, there's no option to save a whole gallery, so you can only download them individually.
Wait, did I just mention HQBabes galleries? Yes! As it turns out, if you click on the “babes” category at the top of the menu, the long-awaited and internally hosted pictures appear. However, the homepage is still where most people will end up, and that first impression was just bad. The worst part is that you can’t differentiate between internal and external links. That is my only major gripe with HQBabes that is so easy to fix. However, I don’t know if the traffic or “ad rates” would drop in that case. Therefore, I suspect no other partner will ever work with HQBabes again. Which approach do you prefer?
Whatever the case, HQBabes loads quickly and has a classy layout with a few ads and multiple redirects to similar sites mixed in with the large thumbnails. Overall, if you’re used to being moved from one place to another, nothing that will bother you too much. The galleries offer a slide show with options to download single photos, share, and embed, but also the option to start/pause the slideshow and go full screen. Sorting options are limited here because you can look through an A-Z model index or a long list of sponsor sites. Other than that, there's a basic search while the main page shows the latest daily updates with limited pagination and no option to list all galleries.
#4. Conclusion
Aside from a few ads, redirects to other websites via thumbnails, HQBabes.com is a mixed bag of good and meh. The resolution is not that awesome for the era, and high-quality should stand for nothing but full-resolution pictures. However, you get thousands of free sample galleries, which makes it worth it for some.
