[RedDevil]

Okay, this was all way before my time here.

I cannot shave manually - I've tried, I've bled - as my skin is not flat enough. Even foam and cartridge shavers don't work; I've seen the foam go pink, then red...
Electric ever since.

Problem is, I'm not too happy with that either.
There is only two brands you can buy over here, and they both have problems.
Brawn cuts both beard and skin.
Furlips cuts neither. They go blunt within weeks and get horrible in a year or two.
I can replace the heads of my Furlips at the price of a new shaver!

Seventeen years ago my grandfather died. I inherited his old Philips (*) shaver that he had used for 5 years or so, and put a lot of years on that, with the original heads.
One day the heads got damaged because the protective cap had dislodged itself (a common problem with Furlips) in my luggage roll on the back of my bike. One out of three heads was destroyed, the other two just had some dimples.
((*) they deserve one correct reference for making a decent shaver back then)

I replaced the damaged head with a new one. That head went completely blunt after a year or two, but the old dimpled heads kept on shaving well so I kept using it.

Finally the battery died, and the trimmer was broke, and it was falling apart anyway.
Got me a new Furlips, heads went blunt. But the old heads did fit, more or less. Kept shaving with the two dimpled old heads and swapping the least blunt of all the new heads till two years ago. Batteries dieing again, had to buy new.

My wife had some kind of bonus buy plan; got me a free new Furlips with her points. It does not fit the old heads, and by now the new ones are, you guessed it.

So, I'm done with Furlips and reluctant to go back to Brawn.
I know there are other brands like Panasonic and Remington, but cannot find them in the shops so have to rely on reviews and other people's experiences.

Any advice on them? Do they stay sharp for more than a season or have reasonably priced head replacements? And do they shave agreeably well?

(I've had a small beard as a student, but my wife prefers me shaven)