Don't graze your pubes! (Gillette Venus)

Name: kimgraham

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Product:	Gillette Venus
Date:	21/11/02 (2468 review reads)
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Advantages: Leaves you very smooth

Disadvantages: Cost of the blades

I bet most of us remember our first experience of hair removal quite clearly. I wonder how many of us had our first illicit affair with our father's precious razor? I am talking about the ladies here, chaps!

I distictly remember, aged about 12, surveying the downy fair hairs on my legs and thinking I wonder what shaving feels like?
I hid myself in the bathroom whilst my parents were out, and had great fun with my Dad's razor. I lived to regret it as I seemed to make myself a job for life, as the fair downy hair was replaced by a veritable forest of dark, coarse twigs! Oh dear!

A lifetime of trying assorted hair removal techniques followed, as did the desire to remove hair from other areas of the body. I gave up on depilatory creams as I couldn't bear the burning of my poor delicate skin. I have an electric epilator which pulls hair out by the roots. Super for the legs, but oh boy, have you ever used one of these on your bikini line? Never, ever again! It brought tears to my eyes and was equally agonising on the underarm pits.

Sugaring has never appealed and waxing hurts! That leaves shaving. Like a lot of women I returned to the razor some years ago. I didn't like the inevitable nicks and cuts, but it seemed to be the price we had to pay for smooth shins!

Then a couple of years ago I discovered the Gillette Venus. This has to be the best razor I have ever used.There are 4 females in my house, and we each have one and refuse to be parted from them.

The Venus comes in one of those difficult to open solid plastic bubbles. You are at far more risk of injury from opening the wretched thing than your pins will ever be from the razor! In desperation I attacked our latest one with the scissors in a stabbing motion and then peeled back the hard plastic, cutting myself as I did so. This is my only complaint. Once you access the razor it is a very different story.

The Venus comes in two colours, a transl
ucent pale blue or a see through pearlised shade. In the pack you will find your razor, a wall mountable holder and a couple of spare blades.

The razor itself looks very sleek. It has a long, ergonomic handle with a finger rest on the top. Personally my shaving technique doesn't suit the finger rest, but I am sure it might be helpful for some.
It works on the three blade system and gives the closest shave I have ever had. Each blade is positioned at different heights in order to cut at different levels along the hair shaft. It certainly cuts through the hairs like a knife through butter. I have never been nicked or cut since I started using this excellent little toy.

Gillette seem to have thought it out very carefully; there is a pivoting head so that it is easy to access the more awkward areas, such as knees and underarm pits and you don't get left with stragglers. I really cant bear it when you are out somewhere nice and you discover a stray hair poking out somewhere!

I shave in the shower since my unpleasant experience of shaving my bikini line in the bath. There I was, in our very wide corner bath shaving my bikini line, one leg on each side of the bath, displaying everything and the window cleaners head appeared through the open window! Somehow this really put me off shaving in the bath!

Gillette have made the handle of the Venus non-slip so that it is safe to use in the shower. It is also slightly ridged to assist grip.

The blades are easy to change and just clip in and out. Gillette call it " single point docking"- sounds like a space shuttle, doesn't it!
On the blade is a blue stripe which fades as the blades lose their efficacy. Replacement blades are relatively easy to obtain in any supermarket or chemist, but they don't come cheap! A pack of four averages at £5.99. They last a reasonable time on legs and underarms, but if you shave your bikini line, or even remove all your pube
s you will find it blunts very quickly indeed.

The razor feels comfortable in use. It doesn't have the dragging, scratchy sensation of some cheaper models. If you use a decent shaving gel the result will be even better. Gillette recommend their own make ( well they would, wouldn't they!), Gillette Satin Care. I have tried it and it really gives a good result and leaves your skin like silk. I can't bear stubbly skin, and a stubbly bikini line is a real no-no! Oh dear!

The Venus is nice and easy to clean and you are not left with a foul razor head full of matted hair. Eughhh!
You are provided with a wallmountable bracket, in which to store your razor. The suction pad is pretty useless, so mine attaches to a hook and this seems to work quite well. It also has a place to store the spare blades.

The Gillette Venus retails at £5.99 in most shops although you can sometimes pick them up cheaper on special offer.

There is even a website if you are feeling bored:
www.gillettevenus.com/home.asp

Here you can waste a bit of time taking their beauty IQ quiz and expunging several myths about hair removal.You can also play a game which reveals your Goddess name.
Honestly, who thinks up this rubbish?! The website also tells you all about the razor- but you don't need to know now, do you?

I just told you!!

I cannot recommend this razor highly enough. I never use anything else now, and there are very many converts out there who say the same.

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