However, I’ve been thinking of buying an electric one. IN particular one of those wet’electric ones might seem to work the best. I was just wondering if any other baldy’s have had any luck with this.
I tried one of those last year. Didn’t like it. I’ve gotten used to the clean, close shave of a Mach3 over my scalp. An electric just doesn’t, if you will excuse the expression, cut it.
In my experience the electric shaver works ok, but it is cumbersome and takes much longer to get the job done. They also are a pain to clean. I avoid anything more than a single blade saftey razor anymore. Easy to clean, they stay sharper for more uses and don’t clog up at all.
Same here. I’ve tried electric razors and razors that fit in the palm of your hand, and nothing so far has beaten the ol’ Mach 3. I wonder if those powered Mach 3s would do any good?
I used to use my Braun Syncro on my head, but it was slow and messy: it wasn’t immersible, so hair bits got everywhere, and it clogged up about 2/3 of the way through. On the upside, though, it did have the nifty cleaning/charging base that got it ready to go for next ime.
I’ve since switched to the Schick Quattro after using the HeadBlade for a while and suffering many nicks and cuts from it. Why the Quattro? It has handy lil guard wires over the blades, making it just about impossible to cut yourself with it, which was the problem I was trying to avoid in the first place. I still use HeadSlick, though, as it lubes better than anything else I’ve tried.
Man, that HeadBlade, despite seeming like a good idea, gave me The Worst Cut of My Life. Those head wounds NEVER stop bleeding. I had to put a bandaid on it, and all I had in the house was a novelty bandaid that was black and had glow-in-the-dark symbols and stuff on it (you know, for kids!). And then I had an interview to go to- the very reason I was shaving that morning, in the first place.
No, I didn’t get the job, since you asked. The interviewer was rather bemused, I thought.
The t-shirt I got with my HeadBlade, though… that’s a good shirt.
Ouch! I think part of the problem is that the HeadBlade’s adapters only fit crap cartriges. I have a birthmark on the rear left of my head, and regularly sliced the bejeezus out of it before moving on.
To get back on topic, I think that the primary problem with using an electric on your noggin is that one’s head is generally a good deal larger than the hair-growing part of your face, so if your electric razor’s shave quality decreases with time (it clogs up, loses charge, etc.), you 're more likely to run into trouble before you finish your shave. I find cleaning a regular razor is generally easier, as well.