Battleangel | Personal

After having read a great deal of positive reviews I decided to get the Philips TT2030 hair trimmer / shaver solution.

It pretty much works as advertised, but the trimmer head is by far the most useful. The shaver head is slow and it’s hard hard to get a clean shave. I’ve never used electric shavers before so I don’t know how this compares. But if I had bought this unit solely for smooth facial shaves then I would have thrown it away.

Though to be fair, the device isn’t meant to be used on the face or neck. But you still can if you’re not too picky. I should note that despite the shaver feeling awkward and grinding it back and forth it did not produce any rashes or bleeding. Not on the neck nor anywhere else for that matter. Nor did I experience any pulling, at least once I had learnt to use the machine.

I use the trimmer mostly for getting a good stubble, which is so much easier than actually shaving. Anything else is just an added bonus really. One should note that the comb only allows trimming hairs down to a minimum of 3 mm. So it’s a pretty long stubble. Beyond that you’ll have switch to the shaver head and do a sloppy job (easy, as mentioned above) for real stubble.

One perhaps really obvious side-effect of the device that I also believe is worth mentioning is the way it tends to spray half your bathroom with hair clippings. Same thing for both the trimmer and shaver heads. It’s not the end of the world and I guess it’s what electric shavers do, but you better count the time it takes to clean up afterwards against the perceived time savings of using a machine.