Quote Originally Posted by mparker762
An electric doesn't cut the hair, it tears it. It splits and frays the end of the hair so instead of a thick hair, you've got little shredded strands which are relatively soft so you don't really feel them. I think this is related to the phenomenon where stubble is much more noticeable 20 minutes after shaving than right away when you still have a razor and lather at hand -- once the stubble dries out it's stiffer so you notice it more. This is only a hypothesis, though.
I notice that phenomenon with all wet shaving.

By experimenting I found that it seems to be caused by hot preparation. You heat up the skin and it swells. That limits how close you can shave. Later, when you cool your face down the skin shrinks back, and then you feel short stubble.

I've been able to deal with this by doing a final touch up after cooling down my skin. The stubble you remove that way doesn't show up again.