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June 07, 2004

Review - The Face Race.

Slice and DiceWith the past release of the Schick Quattro, Gillette has come out with their long awaited response.

Creating the natural mix of vibrating sex toy and a razor that you drag across your face (often in a rush), Gillette introduced the M3Power. Touted as the "World's Best Shave", the M3Power (M3P) is certainly stylish, and does indeed vibrate.

After having my maiden "World's Best Shave" this morning, I will comment on a couple of things. While the idea of a vibrating blade at one's neck seems like a great idea, it was the strange feel of this blade that made my usually longer razor strokes much, much shorter. The vibration creates a slight drag that wasn't there before. It took me about 10 strokes to get used to the device. But should a simple lever really have a learning curve?

After about 1 minute, the battery started to tax a bit, and the vibrations were a bit shorter, creating a new learning curve.

As far as comfort is considered, the blade's vibrations resulted in no nicks, cuts or scratches, and for the neck a very comfortable shave. For the finer details, like beneath the nose, the chin and around the lips...I would suggest shutting the blade off.

Bottom line: At $14.95 and $11.99 for a four pack of refills, I think I would probably recommend downgrading to the Mach3Turbo, which I think really is an improvement over the previous model. In the meantime I'm heading down to Chinatown to see if I can mod the razor with some neon and blinky lights.


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Much like David, I am a sucker for marketing and I also purchased one of these contraptions (the device follows the long standing contraption tradition of just jamming a motor into something to make it better). After using it for a week I must say that the best description I can give of the experience is that is it like shaving with Heisneberg’s Uncertainty Principle since you never feel like the razor is making solid contact with the thin layer of skin encasing your jugular. The result for me has been to push much harder then I usually do, causing some irritation. Once I learned to ease off I found the experience much more enjoyable. The best technique as mentioned by David seems to be using the motor for the overall first pass then turning it off for the fine detail work.

If you already have a Mach3 based razor don’t buy this since it is not that much better, you can always just buy the blades since all the Mach3 razors use the same connector. I do take comfort in the fact that both my brothers and my father have also these, once again proving once of the commandments of marketing “If you want men to purchase it, it must make a whirring noise.”

Posted by: Chris Watts at June 7, 2004 07:02 PM

As a Mach 3 owner, I am glad to have the advice given so freely here. I, too, am often drawn to whirring noises. I've found much pleasure, though, in making my own whirring noise while using my still-expensive-but-not-motorized razor.

Posted by: jb at June 7, 2004 10:59 PM

After reading the comments thus far I just want to make sure you are all clear on something:
THE RAZOR IS MEANT FOR YOUR NECK!

Posted by: Peter at June 10, 2004 06:28 PM

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