The week before last I received a Gillette Fusion in the mail as did Lenslinger (that’s him to the left).  At first I thought, "Holy crap, how can they afford to send me and every other male in whatever demographic I’m in a free blade?", but then I remembered the old adage about Gillette making their money on the blades and not the razors and it made sense. 

I gave the Fusion a spin just to compare it to the Mach 3 that I received in the mail a year or two ago.  I liked the Mach 3 when I first tried it and held onto it figuring that the blades would go down in price once it had been around long enough for Gillette to develop their next-generation face scraper and for Target to start carrying generic versions of the blades.  Now that the Fusion is out and Target does indeed have generic Mach 3 blades my patience has been rewarded. Even better is the fact that I like the Mach 3 better and so I won’t have to clutter my medicine cabinet with the Fusion while I wait for its blades to come down in price.  For what it’s worth I think the Mach 3 is better for me than the Fusion because it has fewer blades spread farther apart.  Since my beard grows like a Chia pet on steroids, as does all the hair on my body besides the hair on my head, I think the six blades on the Fusion just don’t have enough space between them to get to my skin.