Review (4/5): What mood are you in?
Not as close as a blade, but usually it's less trouble to just run this thing over my face than do the whole set-up for a blade shave. If I've been shaving every day, a touch up takes no time at all, BUT, if I go an extra day, the time it takes to actually get a clean shave seems like forever, going over the same areas over and over again. After all is said and done, this my choice among electrics. My solution to the weaknesses of an electric shaver: 1/When casual shave is all that's needed, and I've shaved a day before: Electric only. 2/When I've shaved the day before, but want to be soft as a baby: Blade only. 3/When I've let myself go for two or more days: Twice-over with electric, to cut down on times the blade runs over the skin , then finish with the blade. The dual technology takes less time than either alone: The set up on electric cutting down on how much hair gets stuck later in the blade, and the blade often finishing a section with only one pass, rare on electric. I also believe that alternating keeps the skin from getting too sensitive to either tool.