Overview:
When trawling “teh interwebs” for hotties, guys (and some girls) the world over are sharing a mutual experience whether they like it or not. You might think you’re beating off to x-rated pics of Michelle Trachtenberg all by your lonesome, but in reality you’re tapping into an astral circle jerk of the grandest scale – unless, of course, you, like me, are one of the very few youngish men who instead ogle Martha Stewart and Tracey Ullman. When you next find yourself mid-stroke, stop and consider that thousands, if not millions, of your fellow men are currently in exactly the same position. They too are enjoying the visual pleasures of the female form. They too are participating in the global masturbatory consciousness. They too are lifting their eyelids and watching for beauty. It’s even a pretty solid bet that you’re never alone in pleasuring yourself to the stunning young European women of Watch 4 Beauty, so attractive are the site’s models.

Consistently rated one of the ‘net’s best “erotic art magazines”, Watch 4 Beauty (a.k.a. W4B) is easily one of the most immediately impressive softcore glamour sites currently in operation. With a beautifully designed interface greeting all newcomers, W4B aims for a sophisticated, modern look that compliments the untouchably attractive women it hosts. Reigning from Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland as well as other areas of Central and Eastern Europe, W4B’s models are almost all quite slender with perfect skin and dark, alluring eyes. Be that as it may, the way they’re presented is of even greater importance to you, the paying customer. Sure, there are updates “every other day” that feature exclusive content - in both photo and video form - of these gorgeous young girls, but a tantalizing tour page does not a champion website make. Why don’t we hunker down, dive into the trenches, and see if this portion of the EU can compete with our homegrown American talent?

So, you've logged in and settled at the main members' page. What do you see? The whole site has a slick and polished feel, which makes it very pleasant to look at and invites continued browsing. W4B updates content "every other day" with a new photo gallery "issue" - this site treats its updates as magazine issues, complete with classily designed covers. An erotic film is added once a week to compliment the photo collections. All of these recent additions can be viewed in order of release on the Galleries page and each displayed item gives you the gallery’s title, model’s name, date of upload, and number of photos included in the set (or the run time of the video for updates of that kind). The W4B webmasters also boast about their 5000 pixel resolutions and High Definition videos. From the get-go, everything looks and sounds pretty swank, don't it?

The navigation around the site is fairly simple and very easy to grasp on your first visit. Starting at the main page, you'll have a number of menu options laid out in front of you, most of them situated in a menu on the left hand side. Galleries, Cams, About, and Forum are presented in prime position with All Galleries, Erotic Photos, Sensual Videos, Models, Top Galleries, Top Models, Wallpapers, E-Cards, and Jokes bringing up the rear. The last three links give you direct access to the site’s collection of bonus content. Sure, some wallpapers, e-cards, and mildly amusing cartoons probably don’t fit your bonus material preferences, but at least it’s something, right? With only eight wallpapers currently online, there’s not a lot of draw here – the same goes for the e-cards catalog, which holds only 18 options. There are, however, 405 cartoons in the jokes archive, so you can probably waste a fair bit of time in there yukking it up at some pretty obvious dick humor.

Back to the main event…so you've taken your time perusing the gallery listings, tried to pull yourself away to a safe distance and decided which incredible example of the feminine form you're going to examine more closely. Personally I went with Marta, a big breasted, raven-haired stunner who currently has twelve photo galleries (or “issues”) online. On Marta’s profile page you’ll find her basic information (birthday, nationality, measurements et al) and links to all of her W4B work. Marta appears to be one of the more adventurous models, with photoshoots that dip into fetish territory (latex, chains, that kind of thing) and pseudo-arty adventures that show her sporting Lady Ga-Ga-ish makeup and posing with inflatable pool toys – yes, you read that right. Vicious Spiral (a.k.a. “the pool toy photoshoot”) presents 62 images (a little below average) over a clean thumbnail display. To the right you'll notice a Resolution section where you can choose from 1200, 2000 and 5616px options. The largest resolution changes from here to there, going both a little higher and lower than the most common 5616 pixel mark. After making your choice and hitting the "change" button, a mouse click on a thumbnail pic will cause the image, now sized to your preference, to open in a new window (or tab, depending on what browser you use). You can also download an entire gallery to your hard drive in zip files that are available for all the resolution options given above. One especially cool thing about the galleries is the availability of PDF downloads. The Adobe Portable Document File format has seen increased use in the past five years, but I don't recall ever seeing it on a porn site before. If you opt for a PDF instead of a zip, you'll only have one single file to worry about, instead of decompressing the zip and getting one image per file. The PDFs store every photo from the gallery, just like the zips, but as pages of the same document. Cool, huh? With almost 800 galleries currently online, the PDF format is incredibly convenient and makes collecting the entire archive much less of a hassle. Good thing, too, as the hi-res photos look so incredibly sharp you’ll want to grab everything. The models’ gorgeous faces and bodies are beautifully presented here, that’s for sure.

The 120-odd scenes that make up Watch4Beauty's video content can be found almost exactly the same way as the photo galleries. After checking out what's on offer and choosing your desired video, a page containing a short streaming preview video and all the standard download options will appear. What exactly are the standard download options? Well, W4B looks after its members by providing them with the choice of downloading videos encoded in WMV, MOV and iPod-ready M4V formats with resolutions ranging from 480x270 to 1280x720. The 1280x720 WMV is High Definition and man, does it look great! There are some higher quality videos on other sites run by the same studio but there's really nothing to complain about when the vids look this slick. The lithe bodies of these European goddesses look absolutely breathtaking in 720p and everything seems to download pretty darn quickly off the W4B servers.

The content, both photo and video, is strictly softcore with nary a cock in sight. The girls delight in getting their gear off for you and the photographers go to great lengths to ensure that everything is captured with pristine clarity. Occasionally the photos will be "artistically blurry", something some users have complained about that I don't consider a big issue. It comes with the territory, you know? Any erotic photography site worth its salt is sometimes going to attempt to use "artistic" abstractions in their imagery. Shoots take place indoors, outdoors, and quite frankly wherever the photographers think the models will shine. The models themselves are thankfully none too picky and seem to enjoy the variety.

Membership to the erotically charged world of W4B will cost you $29.95 for 30 days' access and, for that price, you also get access to the "Dream Sites", individual sites devoted to four of the most popular W4B models, Monika, Ambra, Nikky and Verunka, all of which are definitely worth checking out...unless, you know, you hate looking at the hottest babes alive! So, does this make your loin tingle, or are you looking for something a little more extreme? Whatever your position, please allow me a few more minutes of your time to wrap up this review so we can all go to bed and dream of cascading waterfalls, tranquility and superhot chicks exposing muff in the buff.

Pros:
- The models of W4B are undoubtedly some of the hottest you'll see anywhere on the 'net, let alone in real life.

- The quality of the content is very high and everything is thoroughly enjoyable.

- Video download options are fantastic (HD!), as are the photo viewing options (lookit dem pixels!).

- The design of the site and its navigation system is near flawless. A first-timer will latch on immediately and nothing is amiss, making for great user satisfaction.

- The bonus "Dream Sites" are all very much worth checking out.

Cons:
- The model index is a little lacking. It'd be awesome, for example, to know a little bit more about these gorgeous gals.

- Videos can't be streamed in full and I'm sure that'll disappoint many of you.

- The content is generally quite similar to that of other erotic photography sites.

- What's really missing right now is more video content. Hopefully the future will see new videos come online with greater frequency.

Conclusion:
When it comes to erotic glamour sites, Watch 4 Beauty is one of a handful that really set the bar above what most others are able to achieve. With incredibly good looking galleries and videos available in a great selection of viewing options, W4B brings you the hottest European women in the hottest way possible. The design of the site is ultra chic and makes you feel comfortable in the knowledge that the folks behind the site know what they’re doing and aren’t afraid of bucking trends in favor of making an imprint. Great stuff, all around.