Australian Buyer's Guide · 2026
If you've gone bald (or decided to stop fighting it) and you shave your head at home, this one's for you. We put the five head shavers Australian blokes ask us about most through six weeks of real use, through the heat, the sweat and the sunscreen. One of them was clearly ahead of the rest.
Keeping a smooth head shouldn't take half your morning. Most of the blokes who write to us are over 40, have been shaving their heads for years, and are tired of razor nicks, sore spots behind the ears and shavers that need three goes to get the back of the head. So over six weeks we tested the five head shavers that come up most in Australia, dry, with gel and in the shower, and scored them on smoothness, comfort, how easy they are to clean and how long the battery lasts. All five do the job. One of them did it noticeably better.
Shaving your head here isn't quite the same as shaving it in London or Toronto. A few things we kept in mind for this test:
Each shaver was used every second day for six weeks under the same conditions: two days of stubble, one half of the head shaved dry and the other half with gel. We scored four things: how smooth the shave felt (no shadow, nothing rough when you run your hand over it), comfort and irritation, how easy it was to clean, and real-world battery life between charges.
Smoothness counted most, and smoothness comes down to how much of the head touches your scalp at once. The more floating blades in contact, the fewer passes you need and the more even the result. That gives a 7-blade head a built-in edge over 6, 5 or 4 blades, and it showed up again and again in our testing.
The Exoshave 7D was the only shaver in the test with 7 floating blades, and you feel the difference on the first pass: more of the head in contact with your scalp, fewer passes, and the smoothest, most even result of the lot, including behind the ears and down the back of the neck. The magnetic head clicks off in one go for a rinse under the tap, so cleaning takes seconds. The battery (up to 90 minutes) was the longest in the group; in our routine one charge a month over USB-C was plenty. Smoothest shave, easiest clean, longest battery: an easy first place.
The DomeBlade gave the Exoshave the hardest run and, to be fair, it's a very good shaver. The six magnetic blades glide nicely and the head is easy to clean. It came second for one reason: with 6 blades instead of 7 it covers less per pass, which meant an extra pass or two for the same result, especially around the neck. If you only shave a couple of times a week it's still a solid choice.
The FlexSeries is the Swiss Army knife of the list: along with the rotary shaver and its ScalpSafe technology, the kit includes a precision trimmer, a nose-and-ear trimmer, a scrub brush and a scalp massager. It shaves quickly and safely, and it lives up to its no-nicks promise. On smoothness, though, the 5 blades sat a notch below the top two, and the 8,500 RPM motor needs a bit more patience on a few days' growth.
The BaldiePro keeps things simple: SmoothShave technology, a 10,000 RPM motor, a fully waterproof IPX7 body and a MessFree system that catches nearly all the hair inside the head. If you're shaving your head for the first time, it's probably the easiest one here. The downside is that the blades need replacing about every 60 shaves, and the brand pushes hard towards a blade subscription, which adds up over a year.
Skull Shaver more or less invented this category, and the Pitbull Gold PRO is the name most Australians know. It's still a decent shaver, with a patented ergonomic grip and Japanese-steel blades. But the 4-blade design is showing its age: it had the smallest coverage of the test, so it took more passes to get an even result. The proprietary charging cable (no USB-C) is also a nuisance if you travel. Worth a look if you're a fan of that grip.
Hands-on Review
After six weeks of side-by-side testing, one shaver kept pulling ahead. So we bought an Exoshave 7D with our own money, put it through the same routine as every other shaver, and wrote down exactly what happened.
It turned up in a compact, well-made box: no bulky charging dock, no special cradle, just the shaver and a standard USB-C cable. It's noticeably lighter than the older dome-style shavers we tested, sits comfortably in the hand, and the magnetic head clicks on firmly. It feels like a 2026 design, not something from ten years ago.
We shaved two days' growth, dry, with no prep. The 7D head followed the curve of the skull and cleared it in about two minutes, including behind the ears and along the neckline, the two spots where the 4- and 5-blade shavers had us going back for extra passes. The result was smooth to the touch with no shadow, and just as important on a hot day, no razor burn or redness the next morning. Seven floating blades on the skin at once means fewer passes, and fewer passes is what keeps your scalp calm under a hat or a coat of sunscreen.
Every shaver on this list will shave a head. What set the Exoshave apart was everything it does at once:
If what matters most is how your head feels when you run your hand over it, the Exoshave 7D is in a different league. It gave us the smoothest, most even shave of the whole test, cleaned up in seconds and went weeks between charges, all with no subscription. It's the one we'd buy with our own money, and it was our team's unanimous pick for the best head shaver in Australia this year.
The Exoshave has had a lot of attention in the last few weeks and demand has outrun supply more than once. If the offer below is still live when you read this, stock is available, but during earlier promotions it sold out within days, so we wouldn't leave it too long.
Exoshave sells direct through its official website, not through marketplaces or the big retail chains. That's how they keep the price down and make sure you get a genuine unit with the warranty. Tap the button below to go straight to the current offer, which delivers right across Australia.
Because Exoshave sells factory-direct, there's no shop markup and no middleman taking a cut. That's why the price sits well under the big-name brands even though the hardware is a generation ahead. The saving goes to you instead of a chain of distributors.
They're running a launch event at 50% off to get the shaver into as many hands as possible and collect reviews. It's a limited-time offer tied to the current stock, and once this batch is gone the price goes back up.
Yes. It's sold direct from the official website and delivers right across Australia, metro and regional. You'll see the delivery details at checkout before you pay.
Yes. There's one button, no settings to fiddle with, and it charges on a standard USB-C cable. Most of our testers had the hang of it on the first shave.
Yes, it's fully waterproof. You can shave dry, with gel, or in the shower, then rinse the head under the tap.
Irritation mostly comes from going over the same patch again and again. With 7 floating blades you need fewer passes, which is why our testers had less redness than with the 4- and 5-blade shavers. Pop some sunscreen on afterwards if you're heading outside.
No. There's no subscription and nothing billed to your card every month.
All five shavers in this guide do what they say, and every one of them beats a disposable razor. But if what you care about is how your head feels when you run your hand over it, smooth and even with no shadow, the Exoshave's 7D head is in a different category. Add the seconds-long magnetic clean and a battery that lasts weeks, and it was our team's unanimous pick for the best head shaver in Australia for 2026. Worth grabbing while the 50% launch offer is still running.