I was given a braun 8995 for christmas. I love it to peices, and its actually suprisingly fun to listen to the cleaning cycle, but maybe thats because i don't get out enough
Problems i've had so far are with my skin getting used to the dry shave. The manual says to wait 3 weeks for any irritation to settle down, which it is doing nicely. I won't lie, the first few days were hell, my skin was absolotuly FUBARd even with loads of moisturiser, but that went after less than a week.
After that, i've noticed a couple of problems with picking up odd lose hairs. Once they get past the stubble length, its hard to catch them properly in the foils without a bit of persausion.
Other than that, no other issues, the cleaning function works great, the base may be a little bulky to have lying around on the sink though. Mine lives on the window sill until i have to plug it in to clean.
The cleaning is pretty nifty, just slap it in the dock, push a button and it decides what i wants to do, and gets on with it. Sorted.
It has these little fluid filled plastic containers which you slot in the dock (it springs up and you just slide it in and close the top), cleaning everyday will most likely use through them pretty quickly, but i'd imagine using it every few days will prolong the life.
Theres a trimming function to, if you had side burns or something and wanted to keep them close. Just slide up the front and these little teeth whir into action to cut any long hairs. Havn't tried it because my side burns are still on a coffee break, but it does look interesting.
The amount of time i shave is immense. I've gone from a 5-10 minute wet shave to a 1.09 min shave (damn thing tells you your shave time, thats cool
). Can't cut yourself either, pretty handy.
I'd still defer to a wet shave when i have to go out on the town e.t.c, but for everyday use, it's my pride and joy.
Not that i feel like reviewing stuff today
