Every man's scare: a beard trimmer who decides he wants to be an epilator! The local residents in Loenen regularly sit up in bed at 7:00 am when my Remington MB7000 violently plucks one or more hairs from my upper lip, instead of pleasantly cutting them off. Swear words escape from my mouth that the DikkeVanDale does not yet know and that are observed far into Eerbeek. We now call this phenomenon at home "Gillette de la Tourette" (loosely translated: swearing by shaving), and unfortunately it happens more often than we would like. And that while my Remington started out so promising.
The Remington is a fine trimmer, good shave, good battery life, and ditto performance. It fits nicely in the hand, is small but sturdy and comes complete with travel bag and various attachments. Most pieces have a fixed size, and one is adjustable from 1 to 5 mm hair length with a rotary knob. That attachment is brilliant, gives flexibility to go a millimeter shorter one day than the other, and a close, consistent and painless shave. Or better, shaved. Because after setting up and removing it about 20 times (you sometimes also want to clean the device), it became clear to me where the word attachment 'piece' comes from.
Piece, so. The build quality is unfortunately mediocre for a trimmer of 60 euros. Two small plastic lugs ensure that the comb stays straight on the shaving head, and one of them has given up the ghost despite caution (see photos). This means that the comb attachment can only be mounted at an angle on the head. Symmetry has been out of the design world for a while now, and thanks to Corona, my colleagues in Teams may also be less aware that my shirt is unstarched, but I still prefer to have my beard geometrically tight. Vanity.
Fortunately, there is a fixed attachment that is exactly the same size as the one I always set: 1.5 mm. And that is the second problem. I can't explain why it happens, but it happens: since I've been using the fixed comb, the Remington regularly pulls my hair out of my chin with the root and trunk, and people no longer sleep in in Loenen. So Remington, also at the request of my neighbors: improve your accessories! Your razor is great, your attachments are not!
I see several positive reviews and mind you, mine would have been too if the accessories weren't so disappointing. Maybe I have a Monday morning sample, maybe other reviewers posted their reviews before the plastic fatigue kicked in. Make your own judgment, but if you go for this device, be extra careful with the combs! Then it's great.
