Hello gentleman, and welcome to another episode
of The Gentleman’s Club.
I’m your host Marc Antomattei.
Here we go with a world’s first shaving
YouTube video.
I’m going to call this series the Versus
Series.
In this series I’m going to pit razor against
razor and see which one comes out on top end.
If you ever saw the BBC renowned car show
Top Gear, it will be very much like that.
In Top Gear they had the Power Laps ranking
in which they pitted super cars against one
another on their test track to find out which
was the best.
I’ll be making my own ranking of sorts for
razors hoping to find the Holy Grail of shaving.
Getting started with the first ever Versus
Series video, two Gillette razors will go
head to head with one another to find out
who is the boss of the Gillette cartridge
razor world.
In this episode it is the Gillette Mach3 vs
the Gillette Proglide Fusion Power.
Being very experimental in this video I needed
some type of control to make sure each razor
had a fair and equal chance of winning.
As silly as it seems, I used one razor for
one side of the face and the other for the
other side.
I did the same amount of passes down and in
the same area with both razors.
I’ve always had a hunch of which one I thought
performed better for me, and unbiasedly I
really wanted to know if my notion was true.
My winner I found.
So the first thing I noticed contrary to what
you may believe.
You’d think the Proglide Fusion Power would
be the better, faster, smoother shave because
it has 5 blades as opposed to the Mach3’s
three.
This proved not to be the case.
The Proglide, with a brand new razor head
on by the way, continually kept tugging the
hairs on my face and kept slowing down and
getting caught.
Whereas the Mach3 was so much smoother.
I put the razors through their paces no holds
barred and used them to their full potential.
Meaning, my Proglide is battery powered and
vibrates.
I used it the whole duration of the shave
with the vibration function set on.
The vibration function proved to not make
any difference in shaving ability whatsoever,
and I do believe it feels very gimmicky while
adding no efficiency to the shave.
Just when I thought I was done with the shave
I decided to go above and beyond with the
test.
I think my audience here don’t just want
to see me shave my sideburns and neck and
say that’s it.
My goatee which is usually one of my facial
trademarks I decided to cut it off.
My goatee is long people, and it should be
cut my hair clippers first before shaving.
This time though I went straight in with both
razors hacking it up to see which could cut
off the most amount of hair.
It proved to be a difficult task for both
but there was a clear winner with this as
well.
The hair got stuck in the Mach3 a lot less
because there is more space in the cartridge
head between blades.
The Proglide Fusion Power had little room
for the hairs to maneuver through in the cartridge
head meaning I had to clean it a lot more
often with water to get the hair out.
Once I got down to bare chin and finished.
I noticed the small dark patches were a lot
more on the Proglide Fusion side than the
Mach3 side.
In the end when it came time to put the alcohol
on my face.
Although I had no cuts from either razor,
my face stung twice as much and twice as hard
on the Proglide Fusion slide than on the Mach3
side, proving it was a rougher shave.
Although there is a clear winner at this point,
there is one more test.
The comparison of cartridge head prices.
In the United States 8 Gillette Fusion Proglide
Power razor blades are $33.34, 15 Mach3 Razor
blades are $28.47.
So not only in the shave department but in
price as well, the Mach3 beat up on the Proglide
Fusion Power all day.
So by unanimous decision.
The new heavyweight champion of the world.
The Gillette Mach3!
And the crowd goes wild.
