Bob Cramer's Blog

My Cal Ripken-esque blogging streak came within a hair on my chinny-chin-chin of ending today, but earned a last minute reprieve as I studied my new weekend purchase: the six-bladed, battery-enabled, Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power razor.

Having foolishly left my old school Mach 3 razor on a sink countertop somewhere, I decided to splurge and purchase the most expensive blade shaving system I could find at my local CVS.  This new bad boy is a cutting machine like no other, a Disneyland-like device with chrome, multi-shades of blue, ingenious handling curves, an internal electric power plant, an on-off vibration controller and a blade ejection launcher.

Its hair-cutting features are the stuff of legend: five highly sharpened and thin blades designed by Gillette engineers to glide effortlessly through hair with less of the dreaded “tug and pull”;  a sixth blade, a Precision Trimmer, that can not only cut but can “shape” facial hair; a green Moisture Strip that adds color accents and also tells you when your blade is almost dull; and, my favorite, the new MicroComb, yes, the world’s smallest comb that can also be used to coif butterflies and spiders, is supposed to “help guide stubble to the blades”.   Poor stubble, to meet such a fate.  Of course, all of these guillotine-like tools are designed specifically to interact with various flavors of Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power shaving cream, a joint venture of hardware and software specifically formulated to produce one smooth shave.

I don’t know how I have survived my entire shaving life without one of these.  Yes, the eight blades cost $34, and the razor retailed for $13, but how can you put a cost on such an experience, one that you get to do every morning.  And once I get my hands on some Gillette Fusion ProGlide Power aftershave, I will be in nirvana.