I've hadn't had much luck with electric razors up until that Braun. I still recall the two electrics I had previous to it. Immediately preceding it was one of those Norelco triple head deals that actually was rather smooth against the skin but took an comically large number of passes over the same spots to actually get all the hairs and I remember thinking countless times that the whole reason I had an electric razor was to make the process of scraping my face faster and I would have been better off just using a standard hand razor & shaving cream for both time & results. Anyway- the Norelco looked like one of these jobs...
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Before that one- I had a Remington something or another. That had its own unique set of issues. First off- I remember thinking that the engineers who designed it somehow managed to put a mini-lawnmower engine in it because it was loud as hell and would not only take the hair off your face but also the first layer of your epidermis and leave you with terrible razor burn. I've likely cut myself with that more times than with a straight razor, it was just an animal shredding anything it touched but I'll give it credit that it was at least fast & didn't require multiple passes over the same spot. Looked something like this...
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Of course I had spent good money on them (although I don't remember either of them being exactly expensive) so I dealt with their idiosyncrasies for as long as they lasted and (perhaps mercifully) I don't think I got much more than 2 years out of either of 'em before they crapped the bed. I had all but given up on electric razors until countless folks told me to spend the money on a good Braun and how much better the Brauns were and how they wouldn't use anything else.
That always stuck in my head but I stubbornly went back to wet shaving. That is up until Gillette had come out with the Fusion razors and I was trying to make every dollar stretch as far as I could and the local grocery store stopped carrying the "cheaper" Mach 3 heads in lieu of the more expensive Fusion and I wasn't having much luck or saving much money with the Shick or Bic disposables so that's where the Braun Series 7 entered my life and damn if that wasn't one of the best purchases I ever made.
