A Little Help from My Electric shaver

I received an electric shaver on Fathers’ Day from my wife as a pressie. An electric gadget that I wouldn’t have bough for my own use for several biased reasons. The main issue was the expensive price tag that comes along with a real good electric shaver.

I started shaving as a teenager and I shaved it the wrong way. Then there’s no turning back as the facial hair grew coarser over the years. During my years drafted into the army the shaver kit is as important as making your bed sheet straight every morning as a regimental routine and discipline.

I progressed from cheaper disposable shaver that bruised the face with razor cuts and skin abrasion due to blunt blade to the more expensive blades that boasted R&D with ever improving technologies that never seems to satisfy the demand of a clean shaven face. So I rant about the expensive consumables that ripped me off every time i ran out of blades and over the years it has diminishing returns; the blades had become more expensive and lasted a shorter period.

My option for alternatives are limited as far as shavers are concerned. Only cheaper brands and makes but none the satisfying shave that’s economically viable in the long term.

I have resorted to keeping stubble, moustache, beard and goatie for the hassle of shaving clean every day. My wife, my daughter, my bosses, my customers all had more negative remarks than positive ones. Honestly I felt heavy faced and haggard whenever i revert to that unshaven look. Yes it affected my morning mood when I look myself in the mirror after I brushed my teeth. The longest period I had my beard on was about 4 months and I had enough of upkeeping an unkempt beard and all the comments on my look. Yet i have no other alternative then the good old traditional shave using a razor or blade.

So when i unboxed my Father’s Day pressie I had conflicted feelings. Between us, we had failed in gifting electronics gadget with the well intentions of bettering the other lives. And this could be one of those moments of epiphany again.

I decided against cold-storaging the item or reselling it or re-gifting it without the guilt. And I charged it up and started using it. I realised after using for almost 4 months now some of the biasedness of it has disappeared. Especially when it come to a fast non self-inflicted quick shave pleasing to my lookers’ eyes. It is still not the cleanest of shave a razor brings but it get me through the better halves of my days.

In fact before I gotten the pressie I was already deciding on whether I should buy a kick-starter project that cost as much as a mid-high end electric shaver which promises no more blades change. I just have to drop the idea and believe into such unfulfilled promises.

Now on days when I want to lux myself of a good old shaving experience especially on Sunday morning I dish out my traditional double edge shaver which my dad used when I was a greenhorn teenybopper.

There is truly no absolute right or wrongs of what electric or razor shave is to a man. However I have benefited from saving on running tap water since I use the electric shaver. In itself was a benefit and habit that I can never develope while using a razor shave.