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October 27, 2009

Bear vs. Bare

Filed under: All Shavers.com Blog Posts, What's New, Which Shaver Is For Me? — Tags: body grooming, body hair removal — Bogie @ 3:02 pm

Ever been accused of wearing a sweater to the beach?

Got more hair on your back than you do on your head?

Cant see the tree for the forest in your pants?

Thus comes the staring into the mirror and the great conundrum of balancing out the acceptance of what God gave you and the extreme “manscaping” going on in more “beachy” areas of our great nation. Where do you stand? Smooth or sasquach?

Ultimately, just like shaving our faces, men have limitless possibilities with incremental hair removal. Luckily, we also have many possibilities in which we can accomplish these trim-or-not-to-trim options. For instance, the personal groomers section of Shavers.com has many such products that will ultimately accomplish the same thing, but matters of personal taste and comfort definitely jump to the front of the line here. Lets explore a few options.

Surprisingly, Norelco has had such a machine out for years now, with the BG2020 Men’s Body Groomer Trimmer/Shaver and it has enjoyed great popularity and steady sales for men (and women) doing a little body, leg, lawn mowing. We’ve also found this unit good for head shaving. It’s also easy to hold and has a good design in the shaving head configuration.

Braun has thrown itself into the body-shaving arena by coming up with the BodyCruzer Men’s Body Groomer that looks to this webmaster that while it may work well, it looks a little “dangerous” for trimming/grooming/thatching “certain areas” of the male body. (Hey, what do you want from me? This is a family blog.) However the trimmer on the other business end of this unit certainly looks like it’ll do the job on the rest of the body.

Remington has a body groomer that seems to be more geared toward shaving ones back called, appropriately enough, the Remington BHT600 Body and Back Groomer. While the doohickies on this thing allow it to supposedly extend to the point where you could shave your back, I for one cannot see how you could know that you managed to cut every hair without seeing behind you. I guess you could do the double-mirror thing, but seems a little iffy regardless. What’s nice about this unit thought is that it comes with lots of different heads for getting the job done.

Our recommendation? Now you know better than that. Those of you who read this blog know perfectly well that we always say that not every shaver is for every man, and any of these units did pass the strength tests for trimming body hair down–a whole different ball game than facial shaving and beard trimming–so at least the choice is only amongst 3 instead of 30.

As far as should you or shouldn’t you? Well, if you ask me…let HER decide. Just whatever you do, clean the hair up off the floor when you’re done. She will not appreciate the unexpected fluffy bath mat that you create.

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July 30, 2009

Two Out Of Three Aint Bad

Filed under: A Better Shave, All Shavers.com Blog Posts, What's New, Which Shaver Is For Me? — Tags: better shaving, new shavers, shavtronics, ST-100 — Bogie @ 9:59 am

It’s finally happened.

The heavens have opened. Pigs are flying. Snowballs are not melting in hell. All that and the fact that Shavetronics finally has another shaver ready for sale. The first attempt came out pretty good with the Weekender double-head pocket rotary shaver. Then there was the disaster of the ST-50 single-head cord model shaver–there will be no need to rehash that here. But now, finally, another success with the “soft launch” of the new ST-100 universal (110-220v), Intercontinental Rechargeable Shaver.

Hallelujah.

What’s the skinny? Well first and foremost what must be said is that this is a POWERFUL shaver. It’s like a freight train across your face so the first piece of advice we are offering with the sale of this unit is to please us a gently touch with this razor. Pressing hard against your face with this machine will dramatically reduce the lifespan of the foil and cutter, and in some cases cause razor burn. Dont press hard.

Another thing we are proud of is the single unit foil/cutter/headframe combo for replacing the parts. Oh sure, you can take the foil and cutters out individually if you want to, but we will be selling the entire unit as a combo to make the swap as easy as possible. And yes, the headframe is one solid unit of metal. Yes, a metal headframe. Try damaging that by tapping on the sink. You’ll break the sink.

The shaver comes with everything you need to get going, so if you are looking for a simple, powerful, easy-to-use shaver with minimal bells n whistles and at a great price, then the Shavetronics ST-100 Shaver is for you.

Available now on Shavers.com.

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May 20, 2009

Sereez Three dash thReEseveNty

Filed under: All Shavers.com Blog Posts, What's New, Which Shaver Is For Me? — Tags: braun, new shavers, series 3 — Bogie @ 12:59 pm

The first round of new Braun shavers have landed with a resounding “thud” at the doorway of Shavers.com. The new “series-3″ shavers, as they’re called, promise a whole new experience of good shaving fun for all us unbearded boys.

Yeah, right.

Y’see, there’s a problem. Now I hate to start off resoundingly negative, especially when I have yet to touch of those new beauties to my face as of yet. The problem started even before the shavers went into production. As many of you may have noticed, for some reason the Braun company (aka P&G) feels that there are far too few numbers in the universe and therefore must reuse them continuously and promote mass confusion in those who have bought a Braun shaver prior to…well, today.

While this new line has many of these examples, let’s focus on one in particular. A shiny new example called the “Braun Series 3-370″. Sounds simple enough, right? It’s a series 3 shaver and it’s the 370 model. What’s the problem?

The problem is that up until about a month ago (as of this writing) the Braun series 3-370 was a completely different shaver. It was a shaver that used to be called the model “5885″ which was changed to “series 3-370″ in order to conform to the new naming and numbering system that the young suits at Braun are all frothed up about.

Confused yet? No? Don’t see the issue here? Wait…it gets better.

You see, the “old” series 3-370, formerly the 5885, takes a foil and cutter set called the “5000/6000 series”. Why? Because when it was still called the “5885″, that made perfect sense to all the existing Braun customers and shaver sellers. 5885=5000 series, and it was good. But then the name was changed to include the words “series 3″ which said to existing Braun customers that it must be the 3000 series foil and cutter set that fits that shaver. That would only make sense based on the way Braun did their numbering system for the past 60 years, right? Wrong. Not anymore.

So what do we have here? We have a brand new “series 3-370″ that just came out to replace the old “series 3-370″ that uses a different foil and cutter set (not yet available for sale) that has no relation to the old (5885) model, that comes either with or without a clean & charge system, and no way for the poor customer to officially differentiate the models they have for the purpose of purchasing parts.

OH! And did I mention? The number “370″ also refers to a Braun pocket shaver that is still out for sale today, but has been officially been renamed the “P70″, despite that there are literally thousands of Braun 370 pocket shavers out there with the little “370″ imprinted on them. What fun!

All summed up, my fine fellows, this is a mess. And not just some crumbs on the table, mind you. We are talking mud on the celling, lost all control of the hose, dog ate the ex-lax kind of mess that makes you want to just suck the thumb and cry for awhile. We’ll do the best we can on the website to keep the confusion under control, hopefully Braun will learn from mistake backlash they’re going to get from all this. Maybe.