How to Replace an Electric Shaver Battery

When you buy an electric shaver, it will come with a pre-installed battery. Once you take it home, you are typically required to fully charge the battery before using the shaver. A normal charging cycle will take about 60 minutes though this may vary depending on the manufacturer (best to read the manual).   The device should run for about 45 minutes.

Tips for Extended Shaver Battery Life

General tips to improve your battery life are;

– Fully recharge the shaver battery before the first use – Reading the user manual will help you understand how to fully recharge the battery.

– For Ni-Cd and Ni-MH batteries, wait until the battery is running low before recharging  – These batteries have what is known as a “memory effect” so recharging a battery that is partially charged may negatively affect the battery capacity. You also need to fully discharge these batteries at least once every 6 months to preserve their capacity.

– Never leave the shaver plugged in for longer than 24 hours – this may lower battery life.

– Avoid using the charger from the mains – even if the battery is empty, it is advisable to recharge and use it when unplugged. Mains switch operation can still be used but only in emergency cases.

– Don’t leave the shaver exposed to direct sunlight – overheating has been proven to steadily damage batteries.

– Don’t charge your batteries in extreme temperatures – charging in very hot or very cold environments also reduce battery life.

When and How to Replace Electric Shaver Batteries

Even though the above steps will help you to significantly prolong your battery life, the time might come when you finally need to replace the battery.

For example, you might find that you have to recharge more than once in order to complete one shaving cycle. If this is the case then the battery might be too weak necessitating replacement. Or you wake up one day and the shaver simply doesn’t work. The first thing that comes to mind is that the battery might be dead. In this case you may also want to replace.

Steps When Replacing Electric Shaver Batteries

1. Completely discharge the shaver – Turn on the shaver and allow it to run until it shuts down on its own. This only happens when the battery inside is completely discharged. This complete discharging is required because in order to replace the battery you need to open the shaver casing and will at some point touch the circuit board. Any little charge left in the old battery could shock and injure you.

2. Open the shaver casing – most electric shavers are held into place using old screws accessible from the back side of the shaver. Remove these screws one by one using a screw driver and place them on a small plate to avoid losing them. If your shaver won’t come apart easily, look around the edge of the appliance for little plastic clips. Pressing on these clips with a screwdriver should release them allowing you to pull the shaver casing apart.

3. Remove the old battery – most batteries are soldered onto the circuit board so you’ll need your wire cutters for this step. Carefully sever the solder at the top end of the battery connections then slowly pull the batteries out.

4. Install the new batteries – a number of new batteries come with small metal tabs at the top. Such batteries are said to be pre-tabbed. It is these tabs that connect to the circuit boar so you’ll only need to firmly press on the tabs to ensure that they come into contact with the board; you don’t have to solder. If the replacement batteries are not pre-tabbed, you can detach the tabs on the old batteries and solder them on the new ones.

5. Replace the shaver cover – use the screws to fix the back half of the shaver into place. Then plug in the charger and allow the new batteries to charge for about 30 minutes. Turn the shaver on to see if the installed batteries are working correctly.

Summary

Just as important as properly installing new batteries in your electric shaver is finding the right replacement batteries.  To find the correct replacement battery Groom+Style suggests you check on Amazon or contact the manufacturer directly.

For more detailed step by step instructions for you specific device you could check a website like https://www.ifixit.com.

If all this seems to difficult you can always just buy a new shaver based on our review of the Top 5 Best Electric Shavers on the market.

In order to lead a healthy life many people believe you need to eat right and do a lot of running or biking (cardio) to burn off calories and increase cardiovascular fitness. While both of these practices are key to a healthy lifestyle, there is one more that needs to be added to the mix: strength training.

Strength training will not only improve your health, it will eventually lead to a better looking body and better self-esteem.

One of the major areas you need to focus on when it comes to strength is your upper body and in order to be successful you need to know what to do.

To start off, you must know what muscle groups you will be working out because you want to be able to hit all of them so you can possess muscular balance.

The major groups you need to focus on when working out your upper body are your back, shoulders, and chest with secondary muscle groups being the triceps, biceps, and your abs. Some people may be confused as to why your abs are included, but the reason is simple: if your core is strong, then the rest of your muscles will be much easier to train.

Below are some exercises that will focus on the three primary upper body muscle groups as well as the secondary muscle groups. Remember to practice proper gym safety when performing these exercises to include wearing weight gloves and utilizing spotters when needed.

Also, these exercises should be difficult to complete but they should never hurt. If they hurt, stop immediately.

Chest Strength

There are countless exercises and gym equipment exercises one can do in order to improve their chest strength and in reality it all falls down to personal preference.

In order to ensure a proper balance of strength one should try to hit the middle, upper, lower, and outer portions of the chest which can be conducted in three to four exercises.

If you are looking for exercises you can do without weights, the old fashioned push-up is the best place to start. To hit the upper part of your chest do some incline push-ups.

The easiest way to do these is to get a coffee table (wood is better than glass) and put your hands shoulder width apart on the table and perform push-ups. You should feel the burn in the upper portions of your chest. To get the lower part of your chest do decline push-ups with your feet on the coffee table and your hands on the ground at shoulder width length. Doing just these three exercises at home are relatively easy and the strength gains not only in the chest but in the arms as well will be noticed quickly.

For the gym goers, the standard bench press, decline bench press, and incline bench press will do the same thing the push-ups do but with heavier weight; which has been shown to grow muscle and strength much quicker.

Other exercises to do are the dumbbell bench press, cable chest fly, the pec deck, and the countless variations of dumbbell chest flies. The fly exercises and the pec deck focus on the outer regions of the chest; an area often overlooked by many individuals attempting to boost their muscular strength.

Shoulders Strength

Working out the shoulders is probably the easiest or one of the easiest muscle groups to work out in terms of range of motion and amount of energy needed to accomplish the exercises.

Some of the most beneficial exercises for shoulders are the dumbbell shoulder shrug, the shoulder press (angled or vertical), and dumbbell raises. The thing with shoulders is that many of your back and chest exercises actually work the shoulders out at the same time. If you are doing the bench, incline bench, and decline bench for chest, then adding the shoulder press and shoulder shrugs will make sure your shoulders get a complete work out.

Back Strength

The thing with the back is that there are dozens of machines at the gym to work your back out but people often choose not to work their back out at all or more commonly, they work it out too hard and injure themselves.

You must remember that it is fairly easy for you to pull muscles in your back; especially if you are an individual not use to working labor-intensive jobs where you use your back muscles. Conduct proper research and practice all back exercises with lighter weights until you get the form down correctly or you will regret it later.

The list of back exercises is extensive and include a lot of your rowing exercises (cable, dumbbell, and machine rows), a lot of you cable pull down exercises, and the dreaded pull-ups.

The thing with pull-ups is, you need to have a strong core to assist in pulling your lower body weight up but the pull-up; if done properly; will hit a significant majority of the muscles in your back all at once.

You can knock out back exercises and cardio all at one time if you go on over to the rowing machine at your gym and knock out 30 minutes on it. Although it will only increase your strength slowly, it will get you use to using the rowing motion and train your body for increased weight to come.

Abs Strength

Like the back, there are countless ways to gain muscular strength in your abs; a.k.a your core; but like your back, you can injure your abs relatively easily if you don’t pay attention to what you are doing.

The things with your abdominal muscles is that there are more than just the muscles in the center of your stomach. Like your chest, you have the upper, center, lower, and outer (oblique) abdominal muscles and you need to hit all of them in order to maintain proper muscular balance and increase your overall muscular strength.

Remember that a strong core will make working everything else out much easier.

The classic sit-up or crunch is a good mainstay and starting point for working out your core. Include some oblique crunches to hit your oblique muscles and throw in some reverse crunches where you bring your knees into your chest to hit the lower muscles.

Other good exercises to try include the incline and decline sit-ups, cable crunches, flutter kicks, planks, and leg lifts. Of course as your abdominal muscles get stronger, you can start holding weights as you do these exercises to increase your workload.  A home ab machine could also be used if you prefer.

Triceps Strength

You will find that having strong triceps is an integral part of having an overall strong upper body. While you are doing your bench presses and shoulder work outs you will be working out your triceps in as a secondary benefit, but some primary focus on these muscles is key to overall strength.

The favorites of gym goers and body builders across the world include the triceps pull down, triceps push down, overhead dumbbell raise, and the interestingly named skull crusher. Make sure to not overwork your triceps and save these exercises toward the end of your workout program, because you need fresh triceps to perform your chest, shoulder, and back exercises.

Biceps Strength

Every man wants large arm muscles so they can “flex” and show off the “guns” and when you are looking for a strong upper body, you will gain these if you so choose; with training and time.

Hitting your biceps should be one of your final exercises in your workout program because like your triceps, you utilize your biceps throughout your workout. You must be carefully not to overexert your biceps though because if you do, bending your arms the next few days after your workout can be pretty tough.

The best exercises for your biceps that will increase your upper body strength are the common barbell curl or dumbbell curl.

Unfortunately these can become boring to people and many people don’t have the form down correctly so they aren’t getting the most gain from their efforts. If you are new at working out, stick with the cam or cable curls until you get the form down and then switch to the free weights. Other variations of the barbell curl to include the hammer curl, preacher curl, reverse curl, and concentration curl can be added into routine to liven it up a little.

In truth there are hundreds of variations of exercises one can do in order to increase their upper body strength and finding out which ones work best for you can take a little time.

The list above is just a few of those thousands but the key to take away from this article is that in order to achieve upper body strength, you need to make sure to hit your chest, back, shoulders, abs, triceps, and biceps. Whatever combination of exercises you choose to hit these muscle groups is up to you but hitting each of them is essential.

If you have been working out for a while and want to know how to improve you can read this article on how to increase your big 3 lifts by 30% safely.  Similarly, if you have been training for a while but are not seeing the gains you expect you might find some answers in 7 mistakes that sabotage your muscle gains.

For decades, artists have played off of each other’s creative genius. Musicians write songs based on a poem, poets write based on a painting, while a painter may be inspired by a piece of music. With all of this co-dependence and domino-effect inspiration within the field of art, it is not surprising that many fashion designers use fine art as the inspiration for their work.

While some art-inspired fashion pieces can be as basic as a printed image on a dress or shirt, many other designers take their tribute above and beyond so you find their influence on clothes you regularly see online. To see a few of the ways art and fashion play off of each other, look no further than these artists that inspired clothing lines. Included here are a few of the artists who affected the most change and impact in the fashion industry over the years.

Andy Warhol

Perhaps the most well-known artists for his work in the fashion industry, Andy Warhol developed a distinctive style recognizable on clothing and fashion pieces internationally. Known for his ability to transform everyday objects into things of beauty, Warhol was most famous for items like his Campbell’s soup dress, the yellow banana, and a tribute to Marilyn Monroe.

Warhol used his art as a means for social change as well when he did a series of pieces on the electric chair as he brought attention to the death penalty controversy in the 1960’s. Warhol’s style is distinctively cartoony and colorful, perhaps the reason it lent itself so well to expression in fashion.

Salvador Dali

Perhaps most famously regarded for his surrealism painting The Persistence of Memory, which blends melting clocks with symbols of decay, Dali’s surrealism style of the 1930’s was ahead of its time, and did a great deal to influence the movement of haute couture. His lobster hat, and later designed lobster dresses, were incredibly striking and popular, and were even donned by the Duchess of Windsor.

Kazimir Malevich

Geometric abstract art made its way into the artistic scene of the 1920’s, due primarily to Malevich. His avant-garde, boldly colorful, and starkly geometric shapes did a great deal to influence, not only the artistic groups, but also the fashion of the time. Malevich’s style can still be seen in boldly geometric shapes arranged rhythmically on fabric; the cut and style of these clothing pieces was equally important for the impact.

Piet Mondrian

The distinctive painting style of Mondrian is instantly recognizable in his black and white blocked art checkered with yellow, red, and blue. This layout of paintings caught the eye of many designers and was particularly influential for Hermes, who designed bags and suitcases with the pattern. Since then, Nike, Topshop, Vivienne Westwood, Moschino, and many others have referenced his influential style.

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For convenience, there’s no better way to shave than with an electric shaver, but you still want the best results, and the equipment you choose plays an important role.

Here’s a quick run-down of the various types of electric shavers, what they do and what their advantages and disadvantages are. We’ve also included links to some of Groom+Style’s favorite shavers in the rotary, foil and clipper categories.

Electric Rotary Shavers

Rotary shavers usually have either three or four rotating heads. They’re particularly good for guys with thick or fast-growing hair, which tends to grow in lots of different directions.  Rotary shavers also have a slight advantage if you don’t intend to shave every day.

They work by lifting the hair away from the face and cutting it inside one of the rotating components. Ideally, you’ll want to look for one with a flexible head, so that you can reach all of the nooks and crannies on your face.

When shaving with a rotary shaver you move it in a circular motion on your face.

Electric Foil Shavers

Foil shavers feature a thin layer of foil which covers the oscillating blades — this has two purposes. The first is to help lift the hair away from the skin to that it can be cut neatly and closely. The second is to limit blade-on-skin contact, making foil shavers somewhat kinder to your face than rotary shavers.

Foil shavers usually come in either three or four-blade varieties. A four-blade foil shaver will shave you faster and closer than a three-blade shaver.

When shaving with a foil shaver you move it in straight lines on your face.

Clipper Shaver, Beard Trimmers or Hair Clippers

A clipper or beard trimmer is a great choice as long as you’re not looking for a smooth finish. If you’re looking for all over stubble, and want something which will work on your head as well as your face, then clippers like the ones a hairdresser or barber uses are great.

They work by sending a series of serrated blades buzzing side-to-side, which cuts the hair in a sideways motion. Best used in one direction – straight lines.

Read our full review of the Top 5 Best Beard Trimmers.

Conclusion

Hopefully, you now have a clearer picture of whether a rotary or foil shaver or trimmer, is right for you.  For more shaving and styling tips, visit the Groom+Style Art of Shaving section; and if you want some more information on how to get the most out of your electric shaver you can read our article How to Use an Electric Shaver.

Continue reading to find the top 5 best electric shavers review by Groom+Style.