>>Well, I wouldn't exactly call it "youth" <bg>. Mine is fading pretty rapidly, but amazingly enough it all starts out dark enough.
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>You're youth or your beard?< vbg >

Both!!! And both are fading much more rapidly than I would like. There's alway this that I try to live by: (from a radio statio here in Phoenix) "Growing older is inevitable. Immaturity can last a life time!" or something like that. IE: Everybody has to grow older, but nobody *has to* grow up!

>>Turns lighter with length, not so much age.
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>OIC. < s >
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>>Seems to turn white over night! And you're right, an electric (Braun) is so much faster than a blade (less dangerous, too!).
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>I got one of those new Gillette Mach 3s as a freebie in the mail (I had been using disposables). So I tried it and liked it pretty good. Much less irration than with the Bic's or whatever. When my wife saw the cost of the blades, however...let's just say that she bought the electric for me.:-)

Yeah, I got a great *deal* on the Braun. Sears had it mis-marked on the shelf ($35 instead of the $95) it was supposed to be. When it came up with the huge difference at the register, the manager looked at the shelf pricing, and then told them to ring it up as marked, it was their mistake, not mine. The price was soon changed on the shelf. I think I was the only person to have gotten that "bargain". <g>

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>It's real nice (the electric). However, when I clean out the blade area from the cuttings, it looks like there's been a small snow storm in the razor (either that or a very tiny guy with terrible dandruff!< g >).

If I shave every other day or so, mine's still black. If I go much longer than that, I feel your pain! <eg>