When I was a young teenager, I couldn’t wait until my Mom would let me start shaving my legs–it seemed like such a grown-up thing to do, so exciting! Now, many years later, the excitement is gone and the drudgery has set in. I no longer look forward to this task–I mostly put it off as long as possible (and sometimes skip it entirely in the winter months…shhhh).
These last few years it seems as if there has been an explosion in the shaving industry–every few months or so another razor is introduced to the market. First there were the double-bladed razors–those were so ingenious! Not too long after everyone got used to those, though, along came the triple-bladed shavers. Three blades? Surely we would badly nick up our legs if we used those! But, no, they worked rather well.
Soon after came a really avant-garde shaving device–the Schick Intuition Razor. How was this razor so original? Well, with this razor, it wasn’t necessary to use any kind of lubricant–no shave gel, no shaving cream, nothing–because the razor itself had a moisturizing block surrounding its three blades. All you had to do was wet the razor and glide it across your legs, and the “skin conditioning solid” (as they call it) adds enough lubricant to safely, quickly, and easily shave your legs. It sounded too good to be true–until I tried it, that is. Once I tried it, I knew this was the razor for me. It enabled me to shave my legs in half the time that I had before, and it was (almost) fun!
So, I had been using the Schick Intuition razor for quite some time–and then along came another advancement in the shaving field. This time, razors with four blades were being marketed as the newest, best thing! If three blades worked well, four blades must work even better–I suppose that was the reasoning. I wasn’t convinced, but since one of these razors was from my trusted brand–Schick–I figured I should give it a try. Maybe, I figured, using the four-blade razor would shave more closely, enabling me to shave less often. So, I bought the Schick Quattro for Women razor and tried it out.
With the Schick Quattro, I had to go back to using shave gel, of course. This didn’t thrill me, as I was used to not having to do that step when I used the Schick Intuition, but I was willing to try. The Schick Quattro razor itself had a nice grip to the handle and was a nice bright pink color–no chance of losing that in the tub! The curve in the handle was positioned well–that and the pivoting head made it easy for me to curve around my legs to hit the difficult-to-shave spots. I was a little nervous shaving the first time with the four blades (I didn’t want to cut myself, of course), but everything went just fine–no nicks, no problems. I suppose the conditioning strips on each side of the blades help to avoid nicks. It did take me longer to shave with the Schick Quattro than it usually did with the Schick Intuition, but I had expected that. What I wanted to know was this–would the Schick Quattro’s four blades help me to be able to shave less often?
Well, I’m disappointed to say that it didn’t turn out that way. The Schick Quattro did give me a close, smooth shave, but it didn’t seem to be any closer of a shave than what I got with the Schick Intuition. I do have to say, though, that I am now not so sure which is my absolute favorite razor. The Schick Intuition does enable me to shave in half the time, and I don’t have to use any shave gel with it–but, the Schick Quattro has such a nice grip on its handle and the head of the razor pivots very nicely to reach the trouble spots. Hmmm…I suppose if I had to pick just one, I would go with the Schick Intuition just because of the time reason, but perhaps I’ll get lucky and sometime soon Schick will come out with some kind of Intuition-Quattro hybrid razor…something with four blades, a great grip and a pivoting head, and a skin conditioning block. Maybe I should send my idea to the marketing department at Schick?
