Pulsonic washable

I had my first shave with the Braun Series 7 (790 cc Type 5671) and it was good.

It was the clos­est shave I’ve had since my Army motor­cy­cle skid­ded and crashed into the path of an oncom­ing Armoured Fight­ing Vehi­cle (M113) whose dri­ver and vehi­cle com­man­der were both look­ing out of my line of sight and who were only alerted when my Com­bat Team Sergeant Major threw a rock and hit the vehi­cle com­man­der on the hel­met with it, caus­ing him to shout into the inter­com to tell the dri­ver to stop. (It was a good thing too that the driver’s sur­name was “Au”).

Thank you Encik. The pud­dle around the bike was petrol, I swear.

So any­way, with the shaver fully charged, I went to the bath­room mir­ror and turned the thing on. My heart beat was still louder than the whirr of the shaver, and I put the thing to my face.

You have to under­stand my fear of elec­tric shavers. The last time I used one, it was a cheap, bor­rowed pla­s­ticky one from an uncle, who passed it to me think­ing I’d be smart enough to check if it was work­ing prop­erly and that it had some juice left in it’s batteries.

I wasn’t and it didn’t, and the thing died while in mid-shave, clamp­ing a por­tion of my chin hair good while I used a free hand to look fran­ti­cally around the house for a pair of scissors.

No such prob­lems this time. This baby’s LCD “bat­tery” indi­ca­tor tells me how much power it’s got left, as well as how hygienic I am.

I was how­ever, a lit­tle per­turbed when I saw the word “Pul­sonic” on the top of the shaver. It took a while before I worked out that it was prob­a­bly derived from the words “pulse” and “sonic”, and not “pull” and “sonic”.

So, a few min­utes and a lot of other preen­ing in front of the mir­ror later, I was done, and very happy with the results.

Before:

After:

A check on the LCD panel told me that in shav­ing my face, I had used up none out of six bat­tery bars, as well as two out of six hygiene bars. This meant it was time for a clean and recharge.

Clean­ing and recharg­ing is sim­ple, you just chuck the shaver head down into the cleaner-charger and it tells you if it needs a eco, nor­mal or inten­sive clean, and then you just press the “start clean­ing” but­ton and Bob’s your uncle.

The can­is­ter of flam­ma­ble clean­ing liq­uid lasts up to 30 washes depend­ing on how hairy each shave is, but you can also wash the shaver man­u­ally if you so wish, so that you won’t have to keep going out to buy replace­ment can­is­ters of flam­ma­ble clean­ing liquid.

Pretty neat if you ask me. My face so smoot now.