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5th Anniversary Spirit Week

August 18, 2019 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

In August and early September of 2014, Natalie and Tyler Anderson were repeating a mantra: “If we can get the doors open, it’s going to work.” With two barbers, a 6-year-old and no additional staff, we knew good haircuts would be enough to sustain this little shop.

 

Then the wildling onslaught began, great hairy men in need of transformation, and by the first weekend we brought on Colin the OG Shopkeep. Before long, the hunt was on for barbers, support staff, and people to run the massive machinery behind this big old circus.

Now, closing in on year five, the child is entering middle school, and 14 people work here, 10 of them barbers. Also, 60,000 individual heads have been in our chairs. It has been the ride of our lives.

To thank you for the soon-to-be five years of good times and support we’re hosting a whole WEEK of fun shenanigans for you all to enjoy, and an abundance of daily raffles!

Here be all of the deets.

Saturday, September 7th

Coffee Shop Day


Spirit Week proper doesn’t kick off until the next week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get the rocket fuel brewing early. The fabulous coffee we have had in shop for years is roasted locally by our caffeinated friends over at FreshGround Roasting, and they are bringing the coffee cart on the road to keep us all peppy.

Come by, get a cup, and a bag of beans to take home, too, as this is the day we become a vendor of our favorite local roastery!

Monday, September 9th

Beardsgaard Day

Do: Wear and/or buy Beardsgaard Apparel
Get: 10% off all products & services + raffle ticket

Weird how our actual 5th anniversary decided to fall on a Monday this year! As such, we shall call it Beardsgaard Day.

Come on down to the shop adorned in your favorite Beardsgaard branded gear (even if you buy it once you get here) to get 10% off everything from services to retail to apparel. On top of that, you will get a raffle ticket to enter to win a free service of your choice, two if you pick up another piece of Beardsgaard merch.

Tuesday, September 10th

Fun Hair Day

Do: Ask for something radically different when you get in the barber chair for services
Get: 10% off your service + raffle ticket

Tuesday is where things start getting… hairy, literally, with Fun Hair Day. Because if a Barbershop is going to do a Spirit Week they HAVE to do a fun hair day. Them’s the rules.

If you’re in the chair that day and up for a big change in your style, you’ll not only get 10% off your service, but a raffle ticket to potentially win a free service of your choice AND the crispest of high fives from the shopkeep. One of those things is worth it and it’s definitely the high five.

Wednesday, September 11th

Apothecary Day

Do: Wear River Peak merch or buy RPA products
Get: 10% off RPA products + raffle ticket

Our softest shirt, and good for those of great beard

Wednesday we celebrate our other half, Beardsgaard’s mystical sibling and in-house product line, River Peak Apothecary. While Beardsgaard lays hands and sharp things upon you to make you gorgeous, The Apothecary travels with you to keep you looking your best.

On Apothecary Day, wear any River Peak Apothecary apparel and get 10% off merch and products, plus a raffle ticket for good measure.

Thursday, September 12th

The Ultimate Throwback Thursday

Do: Dress as your childhood self with photo receipts
Get: 10% off products, services & apparel + raffle ticket

In case you didn’t know, shop owner Natalie and Operations Gaardian Gwen go back a ways

Thursday we’re takin’ it back…in TIME. Welcome to The Ultimate Throwback Thursday *airhorn noises*.

As has been done on the internet to great hilarity, find an awesome childhood photo of yourself and dress to match – don’t forget to bring the picture with you. We will have a posterboard with all the awful, er, adorable pics of the Beardsgaard crew as kids and you can add your photo to be part of the most ultimate IRL Throwback Thursday post ever.

If you dress up and bring a photo for the board you’ll get 10% off and a raffle ticket to enter in and potentially win a free service.

Friday, September 13th

Beardsgaard Goes to Prom

Do: Fancy dress, prom-style
Get: 10% off products, services & apparel + raffle ticket

The Beardsgaards dating other people

Friday we’re getting fancy with Beardsgaard Goes to Prom. Dust off that old tux and/or prom dress, because if you dapper it up and come on by the shop you’ll get 10% off and a raffle ticket to enter to win a free service. If you have one of those old powder blue ruffle tuxes and wear it you’ll get two raffle tickets, because you deserve it.

Then join us later in the evening from 6-9 pm for our Second Friday art show where we have some talented local artists showing Barbershop themed work.

Saturday, September 14th

Bring Your Own Animal Day

Do: Bring an animal for us to pet
Get: 10% off products, services & apparel + raffle ticket

This is the day where we celebrate our favorite clients; the furry and scaly ones. All of the normal shop dogs belonging to the Beardsgaard crew will be taking the day off so that YOU can bring in all the little animal friends you have. Your creature will get you 10% off that day. We do request that the animal you bring in is cool with other animals so no tiny fights occur (as adorable as that sounds).

Bonus Event! Mini Painting Class

But wait what’s this? A bonus after hours event? Youbetcha! After the shop closes on Saturday we’ll have a small miniature painting class hosted by Eenie Minis. Tickets are limited at $22 a person and can be acquired here.

We built this place to feel like you’re entering the home of your weirdest old family friends, a place where you feel at home and leave in better shape and lighter in spirit than when you arrived. We also cut your hair and beard real good. This is the Beardsgaard way.

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About The Beardsgaards

The Beardsgaards are a pair of mom-and-pop barber nerds with a shared obsession with perfection. We built this old school barbershop to feel like home to everyone who enters beneath the Elvish script above our door. If we and the Gaardian army can give you a better handle on your grooming routine, all the better.

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We were deeply saddened by the news of Christopher We were deeply saddened by the news of Christopher Tolkien passing a year ago, and still are to this day. Our love of his father and Lord of the Rings is ever present here at Beardsgaard. So tonight we, and hopefully the rest of you, will take a moment to remember one of the greatest authors of all time, his son, and the impact the Tolkien family has had on our lives. 
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
While we appreciate all the self sufficient kids t While we appreciate all the self sufficient kids that come into the shop, we still need an adult with them to sign our liability waiver. We know it’s a bit of a pain but it’s really to appease Phydeoux the shop dragon. He has a hunger for children and waivers, and we’d rather feed him waivers.
You don’t have to wear it after your cut, but do You don’t have to wear it after your cut, but don’t forget your hat. It’s cold outside.
The product goblin (and the rest of us) think @soa The product goblin (and the rest of us) think @soapdistillery body oils smell good enough to drink. We promise the oils will make you feel much better if you put them on your outside instead of your inside though.
Well hello to those with wild beards who heard whi Well hello to those with wild beards who heard whispers of moving out of Tier 3 Mitigation! Please pause, we're not there yet. 

This does not apply to the entire state of Illinois, only certain regions. As of now, we are still in Tier 3. We will announce when we have moved to Tier 2 on all of our social media channels as well as our email list, so sit tight until then!

Because knowledge is power, you also can go to http://dph.illinois.gov/regionmetrics?regionID=8 at any time and look at Region 8, which contains Kane County. As of this posting, we are not meeting the metric on hospital bed availability. 

We promise, we want to get everything under your mask looking and feeling great, but we cannot do that until it's safe. Thank you for understanding, and please keep an eye out here, on Instagram or sign up for our email list at the bottom of www.beardsgaardbarbers.com to get updates.
And you? Do you like the barber shop? We like you. And you? Do you like the barber shop? We like you.
We may specialize in short, traditionally masculin We may specialize in short, traditionally masculine haircuts, but Beardsgaard has always been a place for everyone; girls, guys, gays, theys - all identities and orientations find acceptance and a barbershop home here. If, however, you are looking for the luscious salon locks that are far less in our barberly skill set, we are the lucky next door neighbors of the incredible @coasthairsalon
Between the two of us, we have heads of every sort covered in spectacular hair, and positive vibes.
While we would love to see more than half of your While we would love to see more than half of your faces, until Illinois is out of Tier 3 we are just not allowed to do any face services. That means all beard trims and face shaves are not a thing for the foreseeable future. We know that’s a bummer for most of you but think of how epic and wizardry your beards will be once we can do trims!
For beard updates we will be posting across social media and sending an email out to those of you that are on the email list as soon as we know anything. Hang tight Gaardians, your face gardens will be pruned again some day.
When this year started, we eternal optimists could When this year started, we eternal optimists couldn’t have imagined what dragons were coming. With the support of this amazing community, this little barbershop made it through lockdown, occupancy restrictions, six flipping months of construction including losing our whole front entrance for months, are still in the middle of not being able to perform our signature services, but we’re all starting to see light on the other side. We don’t know what this next year will hold, but we believe this shop and this community will keep on adapting and end up stronger for it. We just hope, so hard, that the dogs will be able to return in 2021. In the meantime, we have the dragon. And all of you.
Over the years here, no one has held quite as many Over the years here, no one has held quite as many positions at Beardsgaard as Joey. As (at the time girlfriend, now wife) Amanda worked here, Joey was keen to fill in on desk when a shopkeep got sick, and he didn’t even work here yet. Nor did he yet when he let us tie him to a tree during the making of a dumb movie. 

Eventually, he came to be a Shopkeep at Beardsgaard before, like Tyler, following his wife into the blade game and going to barber school, turning out to be really good at it. He progressed from intern to apprentice to a knighting to staff barber of Beardsgaard to beard model for our sibling shop’s most popular product, Deepwell. 

And now, as if the fondest wish for any Gaardian, business ownership, taking over for Amanda as the head chair of Fox & Stone Barbers in St Charles while she is off wrangling puppies for a living in the vet world. 

We wish him endless luck and happiness in his next steps, but we won’t miss him too much. As the dad of our dearly departed Mia, and the wiggly love sausage Mabel, he has agreed that Mabel should still work at Beardsgaard once we can have shop dogs again because she is so good at her job and misses all of you. So we’ll see him then! Huzzah!

Today is his last day, be sure to give him your love/hardcore trolling, whatever your relationship with him is. As you know, he’s a barber who can do both.
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Our Little Slice of Valhalla

In historic downtown Batavia on Route 31 between 1st and Main

117 S Batavia Ave, Batavia, IL 60510

PHONE: ( 630 ) 454 - 4820

EMAIL: shop@beardsgaardbarbers.com

Appointment & Walk-Ins Both!

Parking

Loads of free parking here, both on the street in front of the shop, with an even more substantial parking lot in back.

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