Review (5/5): Prepare to be Amazed!
I moved from wet blade shaving to electrics 8 years ago now. Shaving against the grain with a blade makes a real mess of my face and shaving only with the grain doesn't give me a brilliant result. I'd figured that technolgy marches on and that electrics would be better than they were when I'd first started shaving and I was right. I was pretty happy with the remington that I bought, but after a year or so I saw a Braun activator 8585 at half price in a local store and as at the time it was close to the top of the range, I bought it. That was a revelation to me. It shaved even better and the cleaning station left it refreshed again and again. 7 years later, the battery isn't holding charge and so I looked again. I was amazed to find 'shaving forums' on the web! You guys are nuts ;) but thanks for all your craziness and for sharing the tales of your hunts for the ultimate shave!
A lot of these shaving enthusiasts were raving about the new Panasonic Arc 4 Nano wet/dry and many thought that the cleaning station version just isn't necessary as this one can be cleaned easily with liquid soap under the tap (fawcet?)(yes, I'm english). So I bought this model (8423A) and it arrived today..... Ok you want to know what it's like, so I'll tell you,,,,
- It looks great!
- It charged in about 40 mins
- It shaved off 3 days of beard in about 7 mins (I was being careful bearing in mind its a new type of shaver on my skin).
- It's shaved me SO close that I'm absolutely Amazed.
- I have no irritation (the foils just don't seem to pick up my skin at all).
- I used it dry - can't wait to try it in the shower.
- It did miss a few particularly flat hairs on my neck, but I was able to get them with the trimmer and then shave over.
- I had a go at the cleaning routine - it's not difficult.
Technology continues to march on!
Whether you go for this one, or the cleaning station version, I'm sure that you will be delighted. This shaver is FANTASTIC!