Shaving apparatus, a cutting unit and a shaving head

A shaving apparatus having at least one cutting unit, the cutting unit comprising an external cutting member and an internal cutting member movably arranged with respect to the external cutting member for making rotations around an axis with respect to the external cutting member, wherein the external cutting member is provided with a shaving section having two lateral borders connected to each other by a plurality of radially extending interconnection portions that interconnect the two borders and thereby define hair entry apertures, at least a number of said hair entry apertures being further defined by laterally open recesses each extending between two substantially flat lamellae of the external cutting member, the two lamellae defining cutting edges with at least one of the two lamellae having a free end, wherein the two lamellae have a first surface that faces away from the internal cutting member and have an opposing second surface that faces the internal cutting member, wherein the free end, when seen in a direction parallel to the axis, is positioned between the lateral borders of the shaving section, wherein at least one of the lateral borders is located inward away from the second surface towards a portion of the internal cutting member, and wherein the internal cutting member is provided with a cutting element having a cutting edge for cooperation with the cutting edges of the two lamellae.