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Hirsute Historium: A Brief History of Bloodletting & Barbers

March 24, 2022 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

The spinning red white and blue of a barber pole is as American as apple pie, or the melody of the national anthem, or hot dogs, or denim. By which we mean absolutely none of those things began on these shores.

In fact, that iconic image of the craft of barbering started on the other side of the pond, hundreds of years before even the Vikings found their way to these western shores, and is pretty gory. As is this dive into the history of bloodletting and barbers.

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New Service Prices Beginning November 2021

October 1, 2021 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Good news first, haircut prices remain the same! You know what else has remained the same, not just through the pandemic, but since the day we opened our doors? Raised our prices on beard services. About that…

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Mask Update: They’re Back

August 3, 2021 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

It’s been nice seeing all of your faces again, but per CDC recommendations, we must once again require masks to enter Beardsgaard, regardless of vaccination status.

As a shop that serves clients of all ages, including immunocompromised clients and those too young to be vaccinated, protecting all who enter our doors is our top priority. Our mask policy will remain firm until guidance changes again.

Face services are still on, but masks must remain on until we get to that part of your service and your barber instructs you to remove your mask. If you forgot one, don’t fret, we are stocked for life.

Let’s all help prevent another shutdown and keep small businesses open!

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Captain Fawcett Parfum News

July 20, 2021 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

We have some tip top news! A series of events has unfolded that has put us in the position to be a direct importer of all of the Captain Fawcett products we carry, now including fragrance.

That means we are able to skip a bunch of middleman costs, and the price of all the Captain Fawcett fragrances are now…lower? Yes indeed, lower! Huzzah!

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Beards. Are. Back. ALL RIGHT!

January 20, 2021 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

January 20th, 2021 is proving to be a flippin’ AWESOME day. And only part of it is because beards are back.

There hasn’t been a ton of clarity on what’s allowed in our industry for the various Phases and Tiers, but we shot our grabby grabby tentacles out to all the official people we could think of until we got a definitive answer (and that answer was YES!). Then we polled the barbers to make sure they were comfy with briefly bared faces (while they take extravagant personal protection measures), and boom, the books are open.

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New Year, New Hours

January 13, 2021 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

We made it through 2020! And while 2021 does not look to be shaping up to be less intense, we’re all old hats at this by now.

After 6 years in business, we have learned to stay nimble through all the growth and trials, and the pandemic has tested every skill set we have. The most valuable of those has proved to be the ability to keep one eye on the macro (how the business works as a whole, and one on the micro (the day to day operations).

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A Very Apocalyptic Beardsgaard Holiday Gift Guide

November 2, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

What to gift the bearded wildman in your life this holiday season when that wildman will presumably be staying inside an awful lot again in the next few months?

How about a curated gift pack, starting with a barber-formulated, Batavia-made all natural beard oil, and filled with other well-crafted treasures to make the long night ahead a little brighter?

Here at Beardsgaard, it is holiday tradition for us to build “character profiles,” if you will, with gift guide collections to help you find magical gifts to delight the bearded characters in your life.

Maybe it’s the abundance of Netflix this year, but if you have ever casually wondered how your crew would fare in your favorite dystopian genre flick, then this quiz is the PERFECT way to find the bearded section of that crew the perfect gift this holiday season.

Note: While we cut all sorts of folks around these parts, this year’s boxes are built around beards (gift packs for all, and a whole different quiz, can be found at our sibling shop, River Peak Apothecary). That does not mean, however, you should not take this quiz for the non-bearded children of any gender in your life, we have a character and gift pack just for them too.
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Apocalyptic Beardsgaard Gift Guide: The Wanderer

November 2, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

He stalks the fjord-like waterworld of what was once the Great Lakes, fishing the shallows, foraging for the new spring greens, and always in search of high ground with no lights…other people are the greatest threat.

Or that might be him in another timeline. For the next few months he’ll more likely be stalking the trails of the local sparsely populated forest preserves and state parks, looking, despite all odds, for a trail he hasn’t been down before.

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Apocalyptic Beardsgaard Gift Guide: The Barbarian

November 2, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

He stalks through the tall dry grasses of what used to be a forest preserve, before the walkers came. He hears a rusting in the treeline and in half a heartbeat his thrown hatchet stops it. Just a squirrel. Another meal, another hide for the winter coat he’s been working on.

Or that might be him in another timeline. For the next few months he’ll more likely be alternating between video games and working out, keeping on top of his grooming in a casual way, and making up for the lack of bonfires with friends with a whiskey scented candle.

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Apocalyptic Beardsgaard Gift Guide: The Collector

November 2, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

The Eldritch horrors may have laid waste to the major cities, but in this little corner of the world, he flies under the radar. Workshop shelves stacked high with treasures eminently useful and completely useless, one would never know the true hoard is housed down in the bunker.

Or that might be him in another timeline. For the next few months he’ll more likely be failing to stop himself from acquiring an obscene amount of Funko Pops or Magic cards or whatever his deal is, and while bingeing documentaries and horror movies, combing his beard consideringly all the while.

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