I use Occum's Razor, myself.
May 19 '00
Blades versus Electric. A burning question that has defined shaving circle gossip since Tommy Edison plugged in his hedge clippers and tripped. Thus inventing Mohawks 75 years before The Road Warrior.
Akin to the Lincoln/Douglas debates in scope, more talked about then Kennedy/Nixon (in Dick’s case, either blade or electric would have helped big time), the Great B & E Debate has had no winners or losers. It has left a path of hair filled sinks and talcum powdered towels, and each man must come to his own decision in his own way. It is a rite of passage that cannot be ignored, unless you can grow a decent beard (I’ve tried; I make a good impression of a short Rabbi. Neat trick for an Italian).
I’m here to speak unto thee mine bold declaration, thought out and tested in the scope of 10 long years of hair mowing and trimming, that I, LPMiller, use both.
What, you cry?!? A fence straddler! For shame, the man who cannot make up his mind!
Becalm yourself, fellow Dudes.
If you read me regularly (and I know I do), you know that I am a klutz. You also know I am a bleeder. I’m very good at both. Put a razor in my hands and I’m worth hours of slapstick entertainment the likes of which John Ritter could only dream of matching. I am lazy; the shortest distance between any two points is not bothering to go to the second point in the first place, not as long as the TV works. I’m Italian, so hair growth isn’t just a good idea; in my case it’s The Law.
Geez, you should see my toes!
So taking all that into account, I find that there is no one happy solution. With a razor I get a close clear shave and hold off 5 o’clock shadow at least till noon. I don’t have a lot of skin left, but that’s ok I get a 2 for one special on the new face and the blood transfusions.
With an electric, I’m in and out in moments – but that talcum powder gets into EVERYTHING, makes me sneeze, and as soon as I’m done my facial hairs come out of wherever it is facial hairs hide. Not that I don’t look good swarthy. I look good period.
Hey, a reviewer needs to be honest with himself above all others, no?
I strike a balance. Over the weekends, excepting social occasions, I don’t even bother to shave – I need the blood to hold the whisky. Sunday I bathe myself and shave with the blade – no cream, I need to see what personal sacrifice I’m making for a clean cut. Most of the workweek it’s the electric; they cannot complain that I don’t shave, and I don’t have to work that hard on a dull task.
Blades are closer but more deadly; Electrics are convenient yet less efficient. I live Yin and Yang in the Great Shaving Debate, balancing desire against abject survival.
Oh, you can actually cut yourself with an electric; I’ve done it scads of times. But I have special talents only those begotten from a long line of Klutzes’ develop; my genetic potential for self-inflicted harm is unrivaled. Conversely, I have managed to use a blade and come away unmarred. Heck, gotta get lucky sooner or later.
But I shake my head at the debate, for I have little choice. I envy the man who can pick the straight blade, or the Remington, and declare, “I have chosen! I am a Blade/Electric User! I bend you, Mistress Nature, to mine will and desires!”
No, really gals, we actually do things like that.
So son, what shall it be? The butt smooth face, or the mastery of time itself? Don’t ask me, I’m a shaver of all trades, master of none.
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