My dad getting a haircut at Felipe & Sons

It’s fun when I get to bring my parents to events I attend as a blogger and member of online media, but I must admit my dad rarely benefits from this because, well, most of the product launches I’m invited to are geared for women. So when Gillette recently invited me to the Barber Shop event they co-hosted with Esquire Philippines to launch the Fusion ProGlide with FlexBall Technology (click here to buy it on Lazada for P569 only), their latest product and technological breakthrough, I took the opportunity to bring my dad.

It has a stabilizer to maintain optimal spacing between the blades, and enhanced Lubrastrip to enable effortless movement over skin and maximize comfort and performance.

Held at Makati’s Felipe & Sons Barberdashery, the event was a casual and straightforward guys’ night, where they treated the men to various grooming services and old-fashioned barber’s massages, concluded with a shave using the Fusion ProGlide with FlexBall Technology to demonstrate its effective “no missed hair” capability.

It has re-engineered, low-cutting force blades with thinner, finer edges.

I asked Dad for his “review” of the razor, and he said, “It’s a clean shave. Malinis! With my regular razor, I can already feel the stubble the next day. But with this one, it took two days for me to feel the hair growing back. Okay ‘to. But it’s quite an investment.”

My dad trying the new Gillette Fusion ProGlide with FlexBall Technology

As I was not able to try this shaving technology for myself, I’ll just share here how Procter and Gamble Philippines’ Chief Marketing Officer Ramachandra Golikere described it: “For years, the shaving experience has been dogged with what men have referred to as ‘shave face’—the typical scrunching and squeezing of one’s face to reach every surface and every last bit of stubble. But now, gone are the days of shave face with FlexBall Technology. This latest innovation is Gillette’s best razor to date, a groundbreaking development in the market. Thanks to FlexBall, you can achieve a ‘no missed hair’ shave—like getting a professional shave from a barber, but at home, any day. With FlexBall, men no longer have to contort their faces to get that thorough shave. Now, it’s the razor that swerves and contorts to the contours of a guy’s face to reach virtually every hair.”

It has a four-way flex for superior contact. See the motions?

While Gillette’s signature ultra-thin blade cartridges offer a slick shave, FlexBall allows the ProGlide Razor’s head to swerve and pivot to promote optimal contact with the skin’s surface. The FlexBall’s ability to move fluidly in any direction, glide over curves, and hug every contour gives it maximum contact to pull off the no missed hair shave. This achieves the smoothest, closest, cleanest shave yet.

It has a more ergonomic grip for precise control.

Gillette Fusion ProGlide FlexBall products:
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Gillette Fusion Proglide Flexball Manual Blade – Cartridge 2s, P499 (get it cheaper on Lazada here)
Gillette Fusion Proglide Flexball Power Blade – Cartridge 2s, P625
Gillette Fusion Proglide Flexball Manual Blade – Cartridge 4s, P899 (get it cheaper on Lazada here)
Gillette Fusion Proglide Flexball Power Blade – Cartridge 4s, P1,065 (get it cheaper on Lazada here)

The new Gillette Fusion ProGlide with FlexBall Technology is available nationwide at Watsons, Shopwise, Rustan’s, Landmark, Robinsons, Mercury Drug, South Star Drug, and Puregold. You may also get the Gillette Fusion ProGlide FlexBall Power Razor online on Lazada for P569 only (click here).

Photos by Trixie Reyna and courtesy of Gillette