razor blade life span?

[Dtopford]

Hey guys how long do your blades last? I shaving about every 2 days and it seems like each time I keep having more and more little stubbles. Is this due to my blade getting dull?

[PBurke]

i usually shave until the little blue stripe(mach 3) or the white pad(generic atra on HB sport) is messed up. 3-4 shaves sometimes it varies.

[Tyler]

I find that my second shave with a blade is usually better than my first.  I get about 1 week or 6 to 7 shaves per blade.

[PigPen]

I'm about the same ballpark as you T

[Dtopford]

Yea I am thinking it's time for a fresh blade

[Medic aka Rocko]

I find that my second shave with a blade is usually better than my first.  I get about 1 week or 6 to 7 shaves per blade.

Same here.  Occasionally I lose track of how long I've had one on, so I sometimes toss it early, sometimes late.

When I used generics on my Headblade, I would change them every three days (3 shaves).

[MR. CLEAN]

I find that my second shave with a blade is usually better than my first.  I get about 1 week or 6 to 7 shaves per blade.

I differ only in that the first shave is always the closest, smoothest shave.  But otherwise, Ya, with the HeadBlade Trips I run em' till either the shave starts getting narlier, or untill the moisture strip (Green/white Strip) gets Narly. About 6-7 Shaves out of a Blade.  4-5 if not using HeadSlick or HeadShed, since using those the blade lifespan has gone up drasticly.

[Cam]

Yeah, same for me. I use the Sensor Excel blades and I run them about a week or 6-7 shaves, whichever comes first.

[blondeguy]

I've been able to go up to two weeks because my hair is soft.  I start having to go over spots a few times, though.  I aim for a week.

[jusbnme]

Pretty much what everyone else has said.  I can usually squeeze a week out of my blades.  I'm using the HeadBlade with either the Atra blades, or generics.  That's another reason I have come to love the HeadBlade even more since I have given it another try is because of the life of the blades.  Before I tried it out again a few weeks ago I had gone back to my old Mach 3.  I noticed that I was only able to get about 2 good shaves out of the cartridges.  Maybe 3 if I was lucky.  That would have gotten very expensive.  That's why after re-evaluating the expenses of the HB every month compared with a regular razor it's actually not bad at all as I thought before.  The only thing I would ever need to order on line now is maybe a new adaptor.  Everything else for the HeadBlade line I can get from my local store except for the HeadShed.  But I use a different exfoliator to sub for that. 

[BaldRob]

I typically shave every other day and change the blades on Friday (gotta be extra smooth for the weekends!)  Even if I have to shave every day during the week, I still change the blades on Friday.  I do notice that near the end of the week, the stubble does come in pretty quick though...

[schro]

I've been SLY since New Year's. Wait, I'm supposed to change razor blades? 

[Beer Barron]

I'm an everyday shaver and typically pop a new blade on every Monday.  I'd say on average I go through one blade per week.

[Paul]

I shave every day with the HeadBlade trips and generally get 6-7 days per blade. 

[schro]

I've actually got pretty fine hair follicles, so I can usually get about 10 shaves out of each generic Atra blade I put on my HeadBlade.

Schro