Gillette Fusion 5 Proshield Power coming up!
What's up, Guys? Paul D'Onofrio back
with you from GroomReviews where we're
getting you comfortable, confident and
clean in grooming. So, I'm here back in my
childhood home and I wanted to come back
here to see if I have any my old stuff
in the drawers in my bathroom because my
parents like to keep everything that I
had from 15 years ago. I wanted to see what
was in there and see if there's anything
I could compare to what I'm using and
believe it or not this is not a setup or
anything I just found this Schick
Quattro Power in the box from 2005 and
what I've brought with me was this
Gillette Fusion 5 Proshield Power which says 2016
on it. This is out in the stores, this I
don't know if it even is out in the stores.
I'm sure it's on Amazon but who knows
who's even selling this. You know, now that I
got both here and they're both power
units you know why not compare them? Why
not see what's happened over the span of
you know 10 plus years. I mean this one's
got four blades on it, this one's got
five. I don't know if that's a marketing
technique, I mean how many times you got
to really go over the same spot. You know
they both got the battery in it so it
can vibrate and they say that extra
vibration gets the hair to stand up. We're
gonna see what it does. Every so often
they'll come out with these fancy
attachments, you know, this one's got the
flexball on it, you know, to help you
move side-to-side. I've heard mixed
reviews on that, they can move this way
that way. You know if you're shaving,
shave down, you shave down. You don't have
to go all over the place unless your
hair is growing all over the place. They
both have a guard on there that you know
for sensitive skin or give you extra
lubrication. It's all marketing. We don't
really know until we try it in her face,
see how it feels,
are we getting cut, we getting nicked does it
feel smooth. So, we're just gonna try it
out. For pricing I went to Walmart to check
this out. It was only $9.97. I picked up
some of this Gillette Fusion ProGlide
Shaving Gel. It's 2-in-1. It's got the
Alpine clean scent to it. It's for
sensitive skin and this was about $4.50.
For these two, under $15. Not bad but
we're gonna see what it can do. You
know they only give you one blade in
this box. There's a little precision
trimmer they tell you about in the back.
It says lubrication before and after the blades. We got this. I'm gonna do both of these,
test them out and I'm gonna see which one
feels smoother. Right side, we're gonna go
with the Gillette Fusion Five Proshield Power. Left side, we're gonna go with
the Schick Quattro Power. My left, my
right. You might be looking at it and saying
why are you testing these two? This one's
not even out, this one is. I'm seeing how
much the technology has really changed. I
want to see if this is giving you any
added value over these years. All right
guys so I'm just gonna pop this thing out.
There it is.
Let's open up the other one.
Power button. 
Let's see if this one actually has a battery in it
Nope.
Yes! Let's get the shaving cream. Some people put too much on they go
crazy. When you put too much of the
shaving cream on there it just kind of
like loads, you know, loads up these
blades really quickly. You get a lot of
gunk on there. You've go to rinse it off
constantly. My recommendation would be to
use just a light layer on there. You see some
people would be out to here but
there's no reason to do that. If you find
you need more you can always add a
little bit more on there. Press the little
button on top, squirt a little bit in
your hand and watch. You just take
this, start rubbing it in until it's all
foamy. You just bring it to your face
See that's all I used. I just did that one
little squirt and I covered the whole
thing in a thin layer. Got good coverage.
We're gonna start with the Schick and then
we'll give the Gillette Fusion 5 Proshield Power a chance
to prove itself at the end. So I got the
Schick.  I'm gonna turn it on... ready to go
Now I'm gonna check how much is building
up. Got quite a lot of
buildup in there, so I'm just gonna
rinse that off. These power units you can
put in the water. And my hair, it's, I don't
know if you could see it before but it's
actually you know growing in a little
bit thicker than maybe most people would
have. They might have like finer stubble
on there that's not as thick as what I have
See now, now you can really see it. So I'm gonna rinse this off, keep going.
Again, I gotta keep rinsing this one cause
it keeps building up.
All right, so there you go, that's the
Schick Quattro Power. Give it a feel for the
first time. Yep, that's smooth. I gotta say I do like this Gillette Fusion Proglide Alpine Clean shaving gel.
Leaves the skin feeling nice like cool
sensation to it - it's got a nice smell.
Problem with this one you can just see
it it just builds up the hair really
fast on there. Now, I know I have a lot of
hair that I'm trying to take off of
there so it's normal because you have
these blades that are so tight together
that's gonna build up. You gotta keep
rinsing it but we're gonna see how this
now compares to the Gillette Fusion 5
Proshield Power. Turn it on.
Let's check the build up. So I can
already feel as I'm going right now
like it's going smooth because it's just
riding along the hair that's sitting on
there. It's not cutting anything more you gotta rinse it off. I do have to say that first clean off
with with the Fusion 5, it actually came
off a lot easier than that Schick one. I
guess that's maybe an improvement in the
technology over the years
Again, gotta stop. Got that buildup.
So I'm gonna go in and add a little tiny
bit more cream underneath because it's
taking a few more passes than needed
just cuz the hair was so thick in there.
Just a tiny bit, tiny, it's like nothing. Put it on there.
So there you go on that side. Let me feel it.
It's pretty smooth. Unless you go and
start shaving up you're always gonna
feel a little bit going that way. I just
put some more shaving gel on here
because I want to show you guys that you
can go up with it. For people who aren't
very comfortable with shaving with a
razor
I wouldn't recommend doing it because it
feels like it's about to cut into your, probably
 your face or your cheek or take
something off but I'm gonna show you
because if you do go against it you will
get that super you know really smooth
both ways feel. But, I personally don't
need to do that. I'm fine going down
feeling it smooth going down but I'm
gonna show you guys right now so. You can
probably hear it so like right in here
you know you start to feel it tugging at
it and you're like, is it gonna cut my
skin what's the deal so
This is how it used to be. Go down it
feels smooth, go up, I don't know if you can hear it.
See go over here and you can feel that there's
a difference it's it's more smooth both
ways, going down and going up. It's
not comfortable shaming that way because
it really feels like it's tugging at you,
you know you're lifting up these
hairs and it's tugging at the skin and
you can feel it just like you know it's
pulling in away that's not that
comfortable. I recommend going in, shave
it down first see, how you like that. If
it feels fine, if you don't have a
problem with it,
okay. But if you're sitting there and you're
like yeah I don't I don't want it to
feel that way going up okay
at that point go in put on some more gel
and go up. You're getting that same look
it's not like I can't still see you know
some of this stubble. I'm seeing the
stubble on here you know
It's under the skin but you can see that
darkness still see darkness over here, so
you know, we're not getting like you know
like the color of my skin up here where the
beard is. You're still gonna see stuff. As far
as this technology you know that the, with the
flexible head where it moves back and forth like
this you know, I mean, it's fine. Where
those original razors were kind of just
like fixed in position and you had to
kind of like move it all around this one
has more flexibility up and down. But
this one, you know it's got the up and
down and it's got the side-to-side. If
you need it, you need it, if you don't, you
don't. It's not it's not that big of a
deal to me because the Schick didn't have
it and I think the Schick worked just as
good as the Gillette Fusion 5 Proshield Power. They both have the
power feature so that's nothing new.
You know there's five blades on this. It
did it did have a better time rinsing
off so I think the hairs are getting
through there easier than the Schick was
so they must have separated the blades a
little bit. As far as the shave goes, um,
you know they both feel exactly the same.
So, four blades, five blades, I don't think
it really made any difference it's just
that the technology today, this is what
people are going with. These little
lubrication guards that on there,
those are fine. They help I can feel it
right now if I have nothing on here. You
know it's keeping it smooth not going
nuts cutting into my skin so. Another
thing on this unit is this little
precision trimmer I guess it's on the back.
I guess if I had something over here I'd be able
to come into it like this. It's a good option
if you need that little more precision.
You don't want to use, you know cuz this
thing's big, so if you come in here you
got five of these things going at it, I
guess that's what they're saying you're
coming, you're cutting with five. You go on
the other side you just got that one
little blade in there, you can find the
spot, you just try and you know go right
after it. This is the first time I used it so
I'm not sure how quickly these blades
are gonna run out, how quickly you're
gonna have to replenish them because
that's always where they get you. They
get you, buy the unit you get the first
one or two for free maybe when you start.
If you want to cut down on having to get
them too often, what you can do is make
sure when you're done with this clean it
off good and then you dry it really well.
You want to make sure you get all the
water and moisture out of there. The unit
won't rust up you know won't get corroded.
So you can get it a little bit longer
life out of this. For $10 you know
I'd definitely try it out. You can find it on
Amazon. I'll give you guys a link, help me out going
through there if you want to purchase
one of these. But as I said, you know, try
it out. I wouldn't go nuts with getting
replacement blades yet. You know, see what
it's like for you. I'm gonna be testing
out more of these as we go along in the
future. Different models, different brands
so this is kind of the first time I'm
moving away from the Philips Norelco, now
I'm trying a Gillette product. You know
it's a decent product but as I said
it's been probably 10 plus years since
I've used one and comparing it to this
which was you know 2005 there wasn't
much of a difference I'm sure you're
gonna see other things that come out in
the future maybe six blade, eight blades,
sixteen blades, who knows. I think it
might be overkill eventually I mean this,
5 could be overkill right now
because this one has four. So when there
was a Mach 3 that was out people loved the
Mach 3. I had the Mach 3. I remember using
that. I didn't have a problem with that
either. It's personal preference. Test it
out. See what you think. This is my
personal review of what I think of this
product. If you haven't already I
recommend you go into my previous video
especially those who have maybe thicker
beards or trying to get like a shave in
here going with the stubble. I use the
Philips Norelco OneBlade in two
different videos. The first one I left my
beard thicker and just kind of trimmed
it down. The second one I go and I take
off basically with every attachment I go
down until
I have this goatee. So that's where I'm
at now. That's why I'm able to come in
here now and show you what a razor can
do. So, that's it. I hope you enjoyed this
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