What a waste of money.................

1 Sep 21st, 2006

Advantages:
My wife likes it  -  is that an advantage though? !

Disadvantages:
Price, head size, too many blades, blade life

Recommendable: No 

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Member since:21.09.2006

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I work in the shaving industry (my company makes shaving brushes and shave cream/soap etc). We also make a razor that accepts Mach 3 heads - we do not make our own brand of razor.
Now I'm not sure if I was influenced by Gillette's multimillion pound advertising campaign or whether I was simply curious to find out how a 5 (6) blade razor feels. Anyway I went ahead and purchased a new Fusion from Tescos.
What a let down. As soon as I got it out of the packaging I knew the head size was too big for an accurate shave. The precision blade on the top is the biggest load of marketing c_ap I've ever seen. Does it actually work?! It very hard to tell where you are shaving if you can be bothered to turn it over and trim under your sidies or your moustache area?! Seriously in all my years of shaving I have never had a problem with accuracy in these areas - come on Gillette, 'if it ain't broke then why try and fix it'???
My next problem is the amount of blades. More is not always better. I beleive the fundamental problem here is that there simply isn't enough room between the blades, especially for a males course hair. The blades get blocked up almost immediately and although there is a nice clear area behind the blades for flushing water through you need to have the tap at full flow to actually get the cuttings shifted - serious waste of water and time. Good luck cleaning out the blade if you are the type of person who fills the sink up and then shakes the razor under the water.
My next problem is a weird one. I swear my beard grows back much faster when I shave with a Fusion compaired to shaving with a Mach3. I guess its because with a Mach3 you are simply getting a closer shave?

Something good: My wife thinks its great. I think the reason is that (A) women don't need to be as accurate as men do when shaving, and (B) their hair is alot softer than ours and won't clog the blades as easily - they also won't apply as much pressure as we do, so for women it will feel like a lovely smooth shave.

I'd like to add that Gillette is NOT a competitor to my company as we don't produce our own blades, in fact we buy our blades for our handle from Gillette.

I think the only reason the Fusion was ever created was for Gillette to underline their reigning superiority over the shaving market, yet another Gillette model will help squash any of their competitors even if it is quite rubbish. 
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reddragonflame87

reddragonflame87

28.11.2006 17:17

I have trouble with my sideburns, since I have very long hair and it's very hard to cut the "beard" part without removing strands of actual hair. I have the same problem under my nose too.

Soho_Black

Soho_Black

23.10.2006 07:23

Although it is overpriced as it's not as good as they claim, I didn't think it was all that bad.

darkangelwing

darkangelwing

21.09.2006 23:55

I use disposable razors, sounds dire.

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