Thursday, February 09, 2006
liter fare
If you haven't the time or taste for the discussion below, try this on for size! Gillette has just introduced a new razor with five (6 if you count the extra one on the back for those "tough to reach" spots) blades. 6 blades?!! I'm a one or two blade man, myself. I have used the tri-blade Mach 3 on occasion but 6? Is this going to far? Or is it a great advance for men everywhere who need to get those "tough to reach" spots? Blog away.
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I don't know. I always consider how many blades are on a man's razor in evaluating him. A common phrase among girls: "Oh, him? Yeah, I'll bet he's a two-blade man!" (*derisive giggling*)
I wish I could shave with a straight-edge razor.
However, until I grow a pair and spring $100-something for one, I'm thrilled with my new Gillette Fusion Power. It's awesome! If you haven't tried it, don't bad-mouth it.
At this point, one blade is "the best a man can get." But if you're not willing to risk slitting your own throat, then it's the Fusion.
Personally, it's not the banal marketing that bugs me so much as the quality difference between men's and women's razors. I've never yet found a designated women's razor that didn't strip the skin off my legs, but when I stole my brother's Mach 3 Turbo (he didn't need it for his two little chin hairs), I knew I had found THE ONE. It was a match made to last.
Four, five, six blades--eh, I knew it was coming from the time I saw the first commercial for the tri-blade. Goofy, but then not so very different from the way car manufacturers advertise horsepower in a car. Since every girl can instantly tell from seeing or hearing a car how many horses are running around in there. And since they care too.
Becca's idea of a bunch of girls sitting around figuring out how many blades are on a guy's razor does kind of remind me of the boxer v. briefs commercials. Remeber those? With Michel Jordan? Now that does produce a snicker. :-)
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