Update: Several months of use. Still works great. Wet shaving is best. Very happy with my purchase. :) I used the Pitbull Gold Pro Skull Shaver for three years and went through several of them. It gave me a reasonably close head shave in the shower, had convenient base finger grooves for easy holding, and a digital battery display to alert me when to re-charge. But the product wasn’t well made and the battery would cut out or run continuously with no shut off until it was drained. Sometimes the blade head would spontaneously fall apart and send parts everywhere. Several weeks ago I ordered this Remington product when my Pitbull battery died again and a replacement didn’t arrive as expected. I was skeptical, because the $80 Pitbull seemed to get the job done with four rotary blades and Remington has five - but only cost about $54. I figured it would be a cheap replacement that I could use as a backup until I got a new Pitbull. But I must say I have been very pleasantly surprised. Although this Remington model has no digital battery display (a red light tells you when its time to recharge), it gives a *noticeably* closer head shave in the shower with less pressure and effort. (I can’t vouch for dry shaving but I assume the results would be similar.) The fifth blade on the Remington really does make a difference! I actually look forward to shaving again. Unless there are durability issues, this is my new go-to shaver for my spectacularly bald head. Read more
I've been shaving my own head for 8 years and its been great to not have to go to the Barber Shop and waste $20-30 on a haircut, or deal with waiting to get a head shave and sit still in somebody chair for an hour. I like keeping my head bald and my face shaved clean, so shaving myself was the perfect option since I don't worry about getting linings and stuff like that as well. I used some clippers that were made more for face shaving than hair shaving, so about a year after I started shaving I bought the Oster clippers device and it's the only thing that I've been using the last 7 years. They've been good for a long-time, but overtime the process of shaving with them sucks. They've slowly started to breakdown on me and they're not good for my skin as I've created so many ingrown hair bumps on my head and just a few on my face. My bumps bleed a lot, and so when I shave over them with the clippers it's a nightmare. It's really tough to shave on the back of my head because that's where a majority of my bumps lie. Then the clean up process of the hairs all over the sink is a nightmare to cleanup as well. It's just time consuming and I needed a different solution. I watch a lot of late night TV and one of the informercials that keeps showing up is this Remington head shaver and the first few times I was rather amazed, shock, but very cautious as well. I've probably seen this commercial for a good year or two now and stayed on the fence of getting them. Then one day, I decided enough is enough and it's time for a change, so I started to do extensive research on them and finally decided to try them out myself. Boy oh boy was I glad I finally made the switch. This shaver is great and is as advertised, it shaved my face and head so fast. It cuts close too like I wanted, so it feels like my face and head are completely shaved off. It doesn't hurt either as you don't got to worry about stabbing yourself or nicking yourself. It feels like a massager as it cuts very gentle on your face. It cuts rather fast too and for someone who has bumps, when I shaved over them it didn't hurt at all. This is really needed for people with bump problems like myself because when you shave with clippers they will hurt and make them bleed. I no longer have to deal with that now as I can cut any area and not worry. They cut pretty fast too as I usually spend around an hour shaving my face and hair together. It literally took maybe 10 minutes tops, if that long. I don't take any chances, so I still put peroxide over it since it shaves close. I was so thrilled with the results as I hadn't felt like I had a shave cut that close since the last time I visited the Barber Shop, 8 years ago. My old clippers never cut this close before. The cleaning process was easy too, I love how the hair is kept inside of the shaver and you can easily dump it afterwards. That's the best part to me is that it doesn't create a mess when you shave, you might still shed a few hairs and that's it. Hair doesn't fly everywhere, I've yet to use it for manscaping my privates or underarms, but that's gonna be great too. It's 100% waterproof so you can rinse it with water. I still use my Oster cleaner to spray just because of the bumps being contagious. If you're having problems cleaning, you're doing it wrong. Make sure you charge it whenever you can as well. It's portable so you can carry it wherever you go and don't got to worry about it being plugged in. Be sure to wash your hair after every shave. Guys this is device is perfect, don't hesitate if you have the money to purchase, the price is beyond cheap for something this great. There's actually a new one out that I plan on getting within the next year at some point. I'm going to get my moneys worth out of this sucker first. Read more
So I had reservations when ordering this due to the large number of negative reviews and pictures broken. Ordered April 2024, and using it every week since, I can say that if take great care of this delicate device, it works very well as advertised. Here are some tips: - instructions say you must use every day or every 2 days: no more than 1mm. well, I've waited over a week with hairs over 6mm long and used it. I don't recommend this, as it hurts with all the pulling and also it is quite difficult to cut, wearing down the motor and battery on a single cut. I have settled on once every 3 days. - it says not to use for face. but since my face razor broke, I started using it and it does work. however, it does leave a lot of redness behind. - the battery lasts about 3 cuts of 2 to 3 day spacing. if i wait longer to cut, it uses a lot more battery and i only get 2 before the red starts. I also do NOT charge when the red light first comes on. I try to get 1 more cut out of it on the red light before charging. IMO, this has made the battery last as long as possible. - I tend to sanitize the head part with 97% isopropyl alcohol, after it's dried out. Recalling from decades past, you want to kill anything that could breed in the head well before it starts. MAINTENANCE: here's where I have a ritual that has keep the system going quite well... 1) open and empty by knocking upside down several times, making the move by holding only one of the 4 tips. i then rotate to another one of the 4 tips and repeat, working my way around all 4 corners (I do this a lot in other steps too). 2) use the brush, or a much larger nylon brush or even a spare toothbrush, and scrub all spare hairs after the knocking. 3) make sure to clean the base you removed the head from as well with that same brush. Then rotate 90 degrees and do it again. 4) now the "water cleaning" process starts, which tells me if there is going to be a problem or not. start with the head and hold it upside down, by one of the tips. shake vigorously, making the head flex. now for the important part: reach in and rotate each blade assembly while under water: IF YOU FEEL ANY RESISTANCE AT ALL, ANY ROUGH PART, KEEP WATER PRESSURE AND KEEP SHAKING! That rough or jamming you may feel is a piece of hair stuck in the blades: GET IT OUT! Do not stop until you can rotate that blade perfectly freely. 5) Now that you did 1 blade, do the same thing for each of the other 4 blades!! Yeah, this is the most time consuming part, but you know what: it cuts perfectly and has lasted 8 months of continuous use. 6) finally, water rinse the base thoroughly. i use my fingers to clean the crevasses. 7) place on an angle and allow to dry all day. As mentioned above, i'll hit it with isopropyl alcohol the next day to further kill any growth of anything, well before it starts. Read more
