This is hands down (or nozzle up) the best trimmer I’ve used. I’ve bought two of them. As an experiment I used this one, then ran the more traditionally nozzled kind after it, and that one didn’t catch a thing—there was nothing to catch after the ConAir. It’s on the noisy side, but that may not be a bad trade for performance. The designers and engineers of this unique trimmer are to be applauded. Sadly, not the marketing people. Although strictly speaking there’s no false advertising here, there’s plenty that’s misleading. From the options you get the impression that these are all different trimmers. Really, they’re all the same, whether the men’s, the women’s, the men’s lithium, the metal, the professional metal … They just come with some different colors, some metal with the plastic, different battery options or none at all, different accessories or none. The “lithium-powered” trimmer just comes with a disposable lithium AA 1.5 volt battery; you could use alkaline in it, or the lithium in any of the others. The metalcraft trimmer really does have metal casing over plastic on the handle and bottom, and it has a nice heft to it, but the top (nozzle piece) and cap are all plastic. I don’t have the most expensive one offered here, and imagine it’s nicely constructed (they all are in their way), but its innards are certainly the same as all the others, as a careful reading of the description will reveal. But with each of them it is implied that it is something unique, and maybe higher performance than other of the offered models. So I recommend the trimmer, but urge careful reading of the specs. Because of that pain I rate it four stars instead of five. Pick your option based on the accessories you want, metal or plastic, cap or no, and current price. You’ll get the same basic trim from each. Meanwhile, I hope ConAir takes the slither out of their marketing of this worthy product.
