[NoTargeT]

I have very thick beardhairs, so first I do a once over with a beardtrimmer, and then I shave with an electric shaver. If I don't use the trimmer first I actually had a few times that the electric shaver choked on the hairs and got stuck to my face, where I had to ask my wife to disassemble it to get the knifes unstuck from my cheek.
I had my first beard at 15 (and im talking 1 inch beard all around, not peachhair on the chin), and it grows straight upto my lower eyelids and down to meet my chesthair. I'm lucky it's mostly blond hair though.
I started detesting shaving when I was in the military, because I always had to shave 3 times a day, because at noon and afternoon inspection I always got accused of not shaving, eventhough I just shaved 4 hours before that.
Wet shaving just doesn't work for me because my thick beardhair just gets stuck sticking out between the blades and I literally scratch my skin open with my own cut off hair. Next to that it's too expensive because I often already need to change blades before I've finished shaving once. I even had blades fold over when shaving.
For years I used the trimmer only because of the lousy shaving experiences I've had.