Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Skull Shaver Pitbull Silver Electric Razor -for a Perfect Bald Look Wet/Dry 5 Head 4d Cordless USB Rechargeable Rotary Shaver

I am not a fan of razors as I usually cut myself and they leave my skull skin super sensitive. I bought it a Sunday

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2018

First I was a little hesitant to buy this due the price. I have been trimming my hair with a regular trimmer at least once a week for the past 10 years, and the process would take a long time and was always messy. But now that spring / summer is here I need to do it more often. I am not a fan of razors as I usually cut myself and they leave my skull skin super sensitive. I bought it a Sunday, got it next Monday. Got the Pitbull shaver out of the box, gave a quick look to the instructions and proceeded to use it. I was done in less than 4 minutes. And the results were simply AMAZING. The closest to a razor shave thing you can imagine! I was honestly shocked. I read a few bad reviews about the product, so I didn't know what to expect. Though most of reviews were positive, the bad ones kept me worried. Let me tell you something, there is nothing to worry about. This has been the best investment I have made. And I haven't even used it with shaving cream yet. It is really easy to use, super fast, and results are awesome. Highly recommend this. Will save you so much time and you will be satisfied with the results.

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Richard Ranft

A very close shave without the nicks and cuts.

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2017

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Caveat:
I have used electric razors on my face, but not on my scalp, so I can't make direct comparisons to like products.

Now, I have used electric razors on my face. I have used a standard hand razor (Gillette triple blade) to shave my scalp as well as my face. Just as you don't usually get quite as close with an electric when shaving your face, you don't quite get that "razor slick" close with this product on your scalp. It is, however, pretty close to it and I think this does a better job on the scalp than a similarly priced face unit does on my chin. The real clincher for me is this - it's 90% of the shave you get with a blade without the chance for nicks. We all know that a scalp cut can bleed like nothing else and you won't be dealing with that if you use one of these. Cuts made me decide to use a Norelco Multigroom trimmer to buzz my hair down, but for an extra $15 bucks you get a reasonably smooth shave with the Pitbull.

Another bonus is that the broad, five-headed face (about 2.25 inches square) helps to ensure you don't miss spots - which can be fairly easy if you're using a trimmer and can still happen occasionally even with a razor.

I just bought it and this is the first time I've used it so I can't speak to its durability yet. It feels very light, but the motor seemed to handle driving the heads without bogging down much at all. Given that, I get the feeling it'll last a while - but that's just my opinion.

To summarize, I guess I'd say "a painless, quick, thorough, reasonably close shave."

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Most unreliable razor I've ever purchased!

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2020

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I thought this was going to be a great razor. The first couple times i used it, it was great. Then after about 3 weeks, the razor would not turn on unless you bumped it against your hand. Within just a few days, the blades would barely spin when I turned it on then would just quit in the middle of shaving. I contacted Skull Shaver for the warranty and they sent me a RMA right away. It only took a couple days to get a replacement (I live about 15 miles away). The replacement worked great, for about a month. It went downhill real fast, the second razor started to stop in the middle of shaving and had no power to turn the blades. I had even bought a brand new set of blades to make sure it was the motor. I contacted Skull Shaver once again and they sent another RMA. I sent it back and again, within a couple days received a replacement. I shaved with it a few times, charged it back up, shaved a few more times and then this morning, no power to it at all. I plugged it in to charge it and it will not even charge. So I have once again contacted Skull Shaver to receive a replacement, It is outside of my return window through Amazon, so now I am strictly at the mercy of Skull Shaver at this point. I have about 7 months left on the factory warranty and will continue to play there game until I am eventually forced to buy a new razor. I can guarantee it will not be a Skull Shaver!

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JE77

Product Performs Well, But Had Issue With Heads Rusting

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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This product works very well. Shaves quickly and evenly. It will not take hair all the way to skin, so if you are looking for a super close razor quality shave this is not for you. I am okay with very fine stubble. I use my shaver wet in the shower and after 5 week of use I noticed rust forming on the blade heads.

I contacted Pitbull customer service and they responded quickly. After a few emails back forth for purchase information and pictures of blade heads they said they would send me a new blade head as a "one time courtesy." I will update this review after I see how the new blade heads do. Just doesn't seem like quality stainless steel should rust.

UPDATE: The new blades seem to be doing well. No signs of rust. But I did have an issue with the motor, it stopped working after I plugged it in for a charge shortly after I wrote the original review. Contacted customer service and they sent a new one out right away.

Overall this is a very good product and the company customer service was good.

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Will

First impressions disappointing, later impressions glowing

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2019

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I hadn't planned on leaving a review. I pretty rarely do, but the way my experience has improved with this device since I bought it 4 or 5 months ago has made me think I should.

So, a few things to know outright:

- No, this won't shave your head perfectly smooth. At it's best it will be something like the fuzz about 24 hours after a razor shave. Yes, it's good enough and no one will be the wiser.
- No, it's not going to be dramatically faster than a razor shave. With practice, it's maybe 10-20% faster.
- Dry shaving with this thing sucks; well, if you have thicker hair like I do at least. You'll want to use this with shaving foam and lots of regular rinsing.

My initial experience with this device was disappointing because I watched their video of a guy shaving his head real fast and I tried to do it that way and... it really didn't work. At least not for me, and not very well; took me about 40 minutes to get it even. So, after a lot of trial and error, and almost giving up and just going back to relying on the razor, I figured out how this ought to work.

If you run this thing in a circular pattern around your head, it will eventually cut everything, but it will be patchy and challenging to get it even in any reasonably amount of time. And, if you have thick or dark hair, yes, that patchiness *is definitely* noticeable.

So, instead, you'll want to move this device in the same pattern over your head as you would a razor. In other words, with a razor, if you go diagonally along the sides, and front to back on the top, and bottom to top around the back, do that same pattern of motions with the shaver, but do them more quickly and repeatedly until you can feel the shaver is no longer dragging on stubble. While it's never perfectly smooth, you can feel when it's no longer cutting anything. If you follow your normal razor pattern, and move the device in a rubbing motion, you'll cut almost all the hair in the first pass or two and you won't deal with any patchiness, just a few quick little touch up spots before you're done.

Finally, this thing is more or less useless close around the ears and edges. You'll want to plan to have a simple razor on hand for a little clean up at the end.

While I was disappointed at first, I've really grown to love this thing now that I know how to use it effectively. It's definitely a little faster than razor shaving (though not by much), and it's gentle enough to use as frequently as necessary. With a razor, I couldn't really shave more than about once every 5 or 6 days without creating a lot of skin irritation, which meant that I was spending about half my time looking unkept. Now with this shaver though, my shave is able to look fresh pretty much all the time, and I'm never worried about picking and choosing what is most important for me to be freshly shaven for.

If you shave your head regularly, this is going to be a good purchase.

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Earl W. Wagner

Good in theory but doesn't save as much time or utility as hoped.

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2018

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My hair grows pretty fast. I got tired of taking roughly 30 min to get a good shave with a razor every other day to remain clean cut and wanted to reduce the time and cuts from the razor.

Originally I got another one of this companies products over a year ago. I had one use with it and even with carefully following the instructions on cleaning it, it died. I thought that maybe the hair just overloaded it so it couldn't turn on so I set it aside. After a period of time I tried cleaning it again but it the heads didn't budge to rotate and start the cleaning process. I then let it soak. No luck. I then took apart the blades and cleaned it out. Still didn't turn on leading me to believe it was defective. Before attempting to return, I seen that I voided the warranty by opening the blades so I didn't bother trying to process it.

Later down the line I had a few bad razor blades and decided to give this version of their product a shot. This time it worked well and successfully cleaned! I was happy with the initial experience. I quickly found out though that it didn't necessarily fix my problems that I got it for.

Time:
Because it isn't as smooth as a razor, you can feel the hair but since it isn't strongly visible, I didn't care initially. But it turns out that since my hair grows fast, I would have to use it daily to keep the clean look. It takes nearly 10 minutes to cut my hair compared to the roughly 30 with the razor every other day. Sounds good but then you have to factor in cleaning and charging. I have to warm up water, place it in a container, place the heads of the blades in, dump out the container full of hair, wipe the bottom of the blades, and then do that a second time. After that I dry off the blades and container to put them up and charge it every few days. The additional cleaning takes an additional 5-7 min roughly. Now we are talking around 15-17 min a day which puts me past the around or over the 30 min every other day for the razor only. But... it doesn't work well at all on my neck or edging so I have to pull back out the razor to edge up and cut all the remaining hair on my neck.

Cuts:
So much for time saved. I would mainly only get cuts and razor bumps on my neck and the small hairs on the lower part of the back of my head and since I still need to use a razor on those, it doesn't really help with that. Another fail.

Cost:
So how is this compared to buying razors. Given that some razors within the same package seem to vary in quality and usage (Mach 3 generally), assuming that this last 6 months, it may come out at roughly the same cost. Depending on the price of buying a new blade and assuming the new blade last 6 months, I might come out ahead on direct cost. What about indirect cost of the extra time it takes? Not that big of a deal.

Other:
Could I take this alone for traveling or last minute on the road touchups? No. You still need a razor for edging and places it fails to cut.

Alternative:
Before I had something similar to the Panasonic Arc that I got on sale. It cut nearly as fast, cut better on my neck, was easier to touch up with, and had a self cleaning base/charging station. The new heads weren't very expensive but I did have to buy the special cleaning solution which combined cost wise might make it slightly more expensive yearly than this. This also has a wider surface area than the arc but since the arc cut fast it didn't make much of a difference.

Verdict:
If you want it to save time and have fast growing hair, don't buy for that reason if you factor in the additional frequency and cleaning time. If you want to save cost over razors, depending on the price you get bladed for you need to factor that in before assuming this will save in cost. Want to reduce razor burn and cuts? It will partially help out in the areas it works well on but other areas like the neck and edging not so much. Do I still prefer this over a razor only? Actually yes but very marginally. Do I think another product might be better? I think something like the arc might be but I need to give it another go to decide.

I would say 5 stars for the idea but minus at least 2 for the false hopes.

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Augie

Cool Head Shaver

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019

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I've been shaving my head for years, nearly twenty. For the past 4 or 5, been using safety razors. Great shave, don't get me wrong, but a bit deliberate and time consuming. So, instead of twice per week, I'd shave once per week when my routine was off kilter. Heard good things about the pitbull shaver, gave a shot. Really good. It's not the same safety razor three direction shave, but it's damn close. They claim 90 seconds to shave your head...I'm a bit methodical, so it takes me a little longer, maybe 3 or 4 minutes, but even with allowing it to clean for 2 to 3 minutes...I've drastically brought down my shave time. If you shave your head and want to go with an electric razor, this is a great one. Oh, and for reference, I had used a more traditional electric razor in the past...I used the one with the gel that dispensed right from the unit itself...not ideal for the head, this one is way, way better.

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Big Chief

Beer Bellied & Bald with T-Rex Arms

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018

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Buy this. Ok...so I've got patchy baldness going on. I knew I needed to do something different so I shaved my head - straight razor style. I like the fresh shaved, smooth from a razor feel - but it's incredibly time consuming. But not anymore - not with the Pitbull Shaver. (In my mind I sound like some late night infomercial).

This thing rocks. Took it out of the box. Throw away all instructions (i'm a man - we don't need that), plugged it in, ate two tacos, came back and it was ready to go. From previous reviews I knew I could wet or dry shave - so I lathered up some canned shaving cream and got to work.

First off - it glides across your head - eating up the hairs as it goes. Kinda makes me feel like I'm mowing grass - but on my head! It makes an audible sound when it hits the hair(s) just like every other electric shaver/razor does - so it's easy to tell where you need to go.

Second - it makes it super easy to reach the hard to shave places. (Keep your mind out of the gutter folks). I'm shaped like a short, beer bellied, T-Rex. I don't know about the rest of the world - but it's tough for me (with a traditional razor) to shave the back of my head. Sure I can do it - but when I get done it looks like a drunk, blind man mowed my yard. But NOT with the Pitbull Shaving system - you can reach all over your head - and like I said before - LISTEN to the tiny hairs being eaten by this bad ass shaver (can you say bad ass on Amazon?).

Third - buy it - I'm hardly ever wrong. Of course I've only had this for a few days. And like a lot of you Amazoners - I might come back and edit my review after a few days/weeks/months.

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big mike

Nice close shave

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2019

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First of, this shaver is for men who want a bald head. This is not for short hair or a layered cut. This shaver is for the cue ball look. And it does that job admirably. I have large hands (normally I wear 2XL gloves) and I still feel comfortable using this shaver. I am also using it on my face now. I have never used an electric shaver and I love it. You can use it dry or wet. I prefer wet, sometimes with a little bit of shaving cream. I get a nice close shave. This shaver is designed for daily use or at most going two days between use. So why am I giving it only a 4-star rating? Reason 1 - the zippered travel bag is an extra $10. Really? I bet you it costs a buck to make. Cheap. Reason 2 - the cleaning and drying stand is also an extra $10. Again - really? Really?! Reason 3 - the size of the type in the manual is smaller than a telephone book (OK sorry I know some millennials won't understand that) and POORLY written. It very poorly describes the cleaning process. It even has mixed up the diagram labels for the charging port and the on/off switch. How am I cleaning it? Place an inch or so of hot water in the sink, just enough to cover the shaver heads, and then turn on the shaver and let it run for a minute. The manual says 10 minutes. Excuse me? Who has 10 minutes in the morning for this?! Rinse and repeat. You will be able to tell its clear when there are no more tiny hair pieces floating in the water. You would think they would make an official YouTube video. Check on YouTube though as there are several of users giving tips. Reason 4 - it is not a solid product. I am glad it is light but I would be deathly afraid to drop it. I don't think it would survive the fall. Reason 5 - you can buy replacement shaver heads but I found this out by chance. This review is for the Pitbull Silver Shaver, I didn't think the extra electronic display to show battery life, etc. was worth an extra $10. Anyone see the pattern here? OK so I've been critical but overall, I like the product. Can i give it 4.3 stars?

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Midwest mom

Takes time to get used to, but works well once you do.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2018

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Husband’s review: Bought this on a whim when my old wahl electric clippers were no longer doing the job. At first, I felt a little disappointed because I didn’t feel like it was trimming my hair evenly or as close as I expected. I decided to keep using it for a few weeks to give it a fair shot. I definitely saw improvement the longer I used it, and now I’m overall pretty pleased with my results. A couple things I learned: 1. I had to apply a slight pressure to get it to trim more evenly and closely. This is especially true around my sideburns, which I still can’t seem to get a close shave in all areas of, so I end up using my beard trimmer to touch up. 2. Wet shaving seemed to provide the closest shave but takes the most time. 3. The more you get used to using it, the faster you will get with shaving your head. After the first week, my time reduced significantly. 4. I can’t go more than 3 days without shaving before my hair really needs to be trimmed with clippers before using the pitbull.

Other than that, battery life seems great. I charge mine once per week. Overall quaility seems fine. It’s very easy to clean by just running it in water for 30 seconds or so. I hope the blades last a long time, but I’m not really sure what to expect there. I’m glad I went with the Silver model, as I don’t really expect the more expensive models to trim much differently, and probably wouldn’t have been as patient with it, if I would have opted for one of those.

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