Braun 5895 Contour

The Braun 5895 Contour gives a reasonably good shave when it works! I have used electric shavers all my life but I think this is the worst Electric shaver I ever owned as far as reliability is concerned. The thin Metal Foil does not last more than 2-3 months and needs replacement. It seems one has to buy spares very regularly after buying an expensive shaver.

I was given this for Christmas and I hate it. It is the worst electric rasor I have ever used in my life.It looks nice and I was quite pleased when I opened my present, however, after using it a few times, I've now had to admit to my girlfriend that I hate her present, as even this is a better option than using the thing everyday to shave with (and I can assure you I don't do this lightly, I have a very bad jumper that I still wear rather than tell her I don't like it, but I cannot use the Braun 5895 to shave with, I'd rather have a beard and I hate beards).Let me begin as to why this is such a bad product. Now please bear in mind that I'm not a very hairy person with lots of stubble and can get away without having a shave for a couple of days.The shave is very poor and it takes ages even for me to remove the stubble and then on the occasions I have used it, I normally end up in the bathroom for a wet shave to do the job properly, which takes a fraction of the time of the Braun Contour 5895.The automatic cleaning mechanism. Every time you shave it cleans itself, which at first I thought this was a neat idea, it isn't. More often than not, before you have finished shaving, it cuts out, telling you to clean it again, so you have to put it back in the stand which has the cleaning unit. It does it about 3 times (don't put it anywhere near your TV or telephone as it's very noisy), but then it is all wet and covered in some alcohol cleaning fluid, so unless you wait a few hours, this then goes over your face, and even then you can smell it even if you've left it for 24 hours. i was getting high when I was shaving the mustache area under my nose, like shaving and sniffing a bottle of amyl nitrate.I've only used it a few times, and I see the cleaning solution is half empty, so it's obviously a scam by Braun to get people to buy more cleaning solution, though I cannot imagine that anyone who was unfortunate to own one of the would ever buy more cleaning solution and continue daily suffering by using this to shave every day, rather than save a lot of time and effort to use either a Gillette Mac3 or buy a different decent electric shaver.So unless you don't mind having a horrible alcohol cleaning solution smeared on your face to get a very very poor quality shave that leaves you smelling like you've put on the cheapest aftershave in the world ... DO NOT BUY THE BRAUN CONTOUR 5895 - OFFICIALLY THE WORST ELECTRIC RASOR IN THE WORLD!

I've had this shaver for about 3 weeks now. It's much better than my previous Braun. I like the cleaning station idea - it leaves the shaver cutters and foil very clean and smelling nice. I bought this shaver on offer for £43.99 from a highstreet retailer - not sure if I'd pay £109 for it though (that seems to be the standard price at the moment)

Having suffered from ingrowing hairs most of my shaving life I decided to try out the Braun Contour Series 5895. The product was selling at half price in my local Boots store. I was shocked by the closeness of the shave. I use the shaver every other day and find that this length of stubble is the most receptive to the foil action. I would recommend this product to all who have only experienced wet shaves. My ingrowing hair problem has improved especially around the neck area. Give it a go, with the price of blades at the moment it is worth the risk. This shaver only set me back £54.00

I have only had the Braun 5895 Contour shaver for a couple of weeks, and so far so good. I have been wet shaving for 20 years, and I had a go with one of those Philishave Nivea things - absolute rubbish! I went back to wet shaving.

I was wasting time on ebay 1 night and ended up looking at the top notch Braun shavers and reviews, and I thought it was worth giving it another go for ease.

The thing to realise and accept - which I did not with the Philishave - is that you are not going to get as close as a wet shave. Having said that, I was amazed with this middle range Braun! It does leave smooth skin, all be it not baby smooth. The cleaning device works well also. I might look into trying to use something else other than the Braun fluids though!

The shaver is half price at Boots at the moment.