Battleangel | Personal

It would be fairly difficult to think of anything more superfluous and tedious than shaving. And yet one doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter. For one I don’t have the hair growth to produce and manage a good beard. So until there is a gene therapy to either turn off facial hair growth or stimulate it, I’m stuck with shaving, which of course is something I do as seldom as possible. Twice a week or so.

Seeing as I ran out of blades for my old Gillette Mach 3 type razor I started looking around. After all it has been a while since these razors were in fashion and so I figured there might just be something better around the corner. I considered going for a safety razor, but the learning curve and preparation put me off. So in the end I decided on the Gillette Fusion Power or whatever it’s called. Frighteningly expensive spare blades and a questionable need for a five blade design but I figured that since I seldom change the blades anyway and keep them dry to prevent oxidation, maintenance costs wouldn’t be much of a problem. Mach 3 blades weren’t exactly cheap either.

The pulsating design seems like something of a gimmick, but other than that it actually worked better than the three blade Mach 3 model. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now and it seems pretty much as sharp as it ever was. It seems to follow the facial contours a little better and as an added bonus I don’t get nearly any hair cuttings stuck between or behind the blades compared to the Mach 3 design. But in the end I guess that all depends on the thickness of one’s facial hair. The razor head is just that much bigger and easier to clean anyway. The Fusion razor may not be the best razor around, but it is probably the best for lazy bums like myself that loathe shaving.