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Livestream 4/1 @3 • Spring Sample Party

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We don’t know much about livestreaming stuff, but wouldn’t you know it, Beardsgaard has some pros among our clientele who do. Who also happen to be a lot younger than us. Go figure.

But we’ll be doing just that next weekend! We will have on hand some of our biggest product junkie clients to try out all the new potential products we have on hand, and vote on what will be the newest product to hit our shelves this spring. Best of all, you get to vote at home too!

Tune in on Saturday, April 1st at 3 PM to our Facebook Livestream or our YouTube Livestream and tell us exactly what you want. Maybe watch Blademaiden trip over her own feet. Always seems to happen when she’s on live video. Either way, it’s going to be fun. See you then, Gaard!

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How To Get In-The Easy Way

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Beardsgaard has long been known for our frankly ridiculous waits to get in the chairs.

If you’re booking months out with our Long Range Barbers (currently Tyler and Amanda open three months out from the beginning of each new month), yes that still tends to be the case, because here in the burbs, the people with stable schedules like to book out pretty far. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have spots available!

Check wait times any time by hovering over the left image there on the Beardsgaard homepage

We also have our walk-in barber Vince, long-experienced not only with barbering, but turning a good walk-in clip as well. He has been excellent at keeping the wait times down, especially on our traditionally more chill Tuesdays and Thursdays (*wink wink nudge nudge*). You can check current walk-in wait times RIGHT HERE.

But you might have forgotten that we have a Short Order Barber (Scott, open one month out from the beginning of each new week) for those of you who don’t know what the heck your schedule looks like more than a month in advance.

And in addition to all of that, we also have our fake barber, The Sorting Hat, open SIX whole months out from the beginning of each new month. Remember, if you book with The Sorting Hat, you can request a specific barber and you will be placed with them if they are free that day/time, but we can’t make any guarantees.

We’re also adding two more barbers, one in May and one in June to keep up with the summer craziness.

So if you have been listening to the rumors that we don’t have any spots available, that’s old news. We’re always working to make it better/easier around here for you, and we’re not stopping now. Come see us today.

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A New Dawn in the Apothecary

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We opened Beardsgaard in September of 2014 with but a few product lines on our shelves. We grew our offerings organically, ordering up at every opportunity, but from the early days, we had a burning desire to create products that fit our exact specifications.

And so, in September of 2015, River Peak Apothecary was born, with a litter of five beard oils. Now, what was a good-smelling lump of raw ore has been polished until it shines.

See the new face of the Apothecary.

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Spring Sample Party

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One of our proudest elements in this shop has always been our offerings of hair, beard and shave products that are rare, unique, heritage, small batch, handmade and/or local. If you can hardly find it anywhere else and it’s a great product, that’s the stuff that we want to offer. Products that fill needs, solve problems, perform perfectly, and look beautiful all at the same time.

But we have a sneaky reason that the products we stock are so popular. It is because for the most part, WE are not the ones deciding what comes to our shelves. Our clients are.

Let us tell you how you can be part of what comes next.

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Big Ch-ch-ch-Changes

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Remember last November when we were so excited about all these new barbers coming in from out of state to fill the ranks of the Gaard? Turns out the logistics of moving and getting set up professionally half way across the country took a bit, but we are now on the verge of some big changes and big expansions.

But now our reputation for being endlessly booked out is blessedly going to take a bit of a hit, because once summer arrives, we’re going to be able to accommodate almost double the number of clients we can now. We know, we can hardly believe it either!

Here’s the plan, friends.

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New Shave Pricing • A Sharp Upgrade

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We have a confession to make.

When we first began this barbershop, we messed up a bit on pricing our shave services. Beardsmith and Blademaiden were the only two barbers here in the beginning, and perhaps it was our enthusiasm for shaving that led us to price shaves to move, as it were. Back in 2014 we were charging a mere $20 for a full 45-minute straight razor shave. After a year of being booked solid we bumped it to $25.

Now on March 1st, 2017, we move on to a new era of pampering and service.

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Parking Lot III: Evil Is Brewing ~ Movie Screening

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They Came from the Parking Lot sprung from a post-Halloween musing that in lieu of a simple disposal of now-smushy seasonal decorative produce, we should be “smashing pumpkins” instead. Then we made some napalm, gathered the horror movie nerds on the block, and the rest is history.

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This now-yearly zombie pumpkin destructathon tradition gives us an excuse to pull out all the stops and regress to being children with adult resources to make astonishingly terrible short films.

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Holiday Shopping… It Begins

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Beardsgaard Barbers and River Peak Apothecary stock not only our house brand, but an entire world of fine men’s grooming products. And we never do sales. We’re barbers. It is what it is.

But this weekend is different.

Before the holiday season arrives in earnest, we have bundled some of our favorite products into covetable packs at great savings. Like an early present or something.

In shop, you can get all of the deals all day Friday and Saturday (because we’re closed Sundays and Mondays). On the webshoppe, each day of this holiday weekend will have a different set of deals, and we’re here to give you the low down on who you can knock off your holiday shopping list this weekend.

If you get all the way to the bottom of this post, you’ll find the code that will score you free shipping on everything (in the continental US).

All because we like you. A bunch. We promise not to make it weird.

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Man Up for Men’s Health with the Beard Pack

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Thursday, November 3rd at 5:30, we’re bringing a pack of bearded dudes (like this big fella, who joined us for this last year) to be “celebrity beards” at the Man Up for Men’s Health event, put on by Advocate Sherman Hospital at Porter’s Pub at Bowes Creek in Elgin.

We have a selection of bearded fellas in the pack already, but who ELSE wants to roll with this crew? You’ll eat and drink for free, feel all handsome and special, and do it all to raise awareness for the rad cause of men’s heath. If you want in, email us right this minute! Read on for all the details.

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