Gillette is spending a reported $200 million marketing the latest weapon in its razor war with Schick. Fast Company writer Chris Gayomali takes it for a test shave--and the results aren't entirely pretty.
It is only recently that I have come to accept that, despite my deepest wishes, I will never be able to grow a dope lumberjack beard. Whenever I try--and I have tried!--my facial hairs sprout in an asymmetrical patchwork, my left jawline as bare and innocent as one of Michelangelo's cherubs. It's as if puberty forgot about 25% of my face.