[geerlingguy]

Same thing here. And if you buy a new head every 6 months to a year, the quality/closeness of the cut is still as good as the day you bought it.

I've had the same electric razor for about 6 years now, the battery still goes a couple weeks between charges, and shave quality is as good as I ever could get with a manual razor. I just don't get why most people prefer the more expensive, more labor-intense option of razors + shaving cream... I guess for some, it's nostalgia?

[veidr]

I too find it mind-boggling that men choose to shave their faces with mass-market manual razors.

However, the conventional wisdom -- and my own experience -- is that even a typical drug store manual razor, if it is fairly new, will give you a closer shave than any electric razor. It's just a function of having a thin metal foil between the blade and your skin, or not having one. And a poorly-made electric razor will give a much worse shave than a blade.

I still shave with an electric razor, though. The hassle of dealing with a manual razor massively outweighs the tiny fraction of a millimeter closer shave a manual razor gives me, especially since by lunchtime the difference is already unnoticeable.

[Retra]

My experience with electric razors is that they take forever to actually cut every hair, and if you've got some stragglers, you have to go back and forth 30 times to get them cut. It's a waste of time. Maybe you got a good one, but I've used 3 or 4 different brands, and it is all the same.

I do use an electric trimmer when I don't want a close cut, but I use a safety razor otherwise.