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Cut of the Week • Trigun Elvis

October 29, 2014 By //  by Tyler the Beardsmith Leave a Comment

Every day there are all sorts of haircuts walking out of our doors, some simple everyday cuts, and some a bit more dapper, and some where our clients let us pull out all the stops. For those who want to know what we REALLY do here.


The Inspiration: Trigun Elvis

The Barber: Tyler
The Story:

One day this kid walks into the shop and we can tell immediately that he is in the right place. Just look at him. Nerd through and through.

It turns out he works at a sandwich shop nearby and made us delicious things one day while we were delirious with hunger and overwork during buildout. They were fantastic sandwiches.

And we were so glad to see him again, because as he was making said sandwiches, we were fighting over who would get to cut his hair if he ever happened into the shop. Because it is perfect. Just a barber’s dream.

He is super into anime, the good stuff too. This day, he wanted to look like Vash from Trigun. As you may know, we do not stock spiking gel (or gel of any kind),  so that particular style was not going to come out of the chair that day, but we could give him something very much in our wheelhouse – a loosey goosey Elvis-y pompadour with an anime flair.

Being quite the character himself, we think this turned out even better than the inspiration. And at home, he can still spike it to his heart’s content.

The Cut:

No matter if you are going Trigun or straight pomp, the basic cut is very similar. We added a bit of texture for those spiky days, but it lays smooth just as well.

Maintenance: Moderate

Being a longer cut, you can get away with every 4 to 6 weeks, depending on how fast your hair grows.

Styling Difficulty: A Bit Tricky

To keep the shape and height, we used some grooming tonic, a blowdryer and a vent brush to dry and shape the hair back along the sides of the head and up and back on top. In the front we dried it straight up and winged out over the corners of the forehead before slather in good old red Reuzel Pomade. Combed into place at first, with some additional finger combing makes it slick but not too slick.


A lot of fantastic cuts walk out of this shop, but most of the time we are on to the next client before we have a chance to take photos.

So, to actually capture these great styles (with decent lighting), we have started a roster of hair models. None are “models” for sure (although some have been a curiously Pavlovian effect on our lady followers), these Zoolanders are pulled from our existing clients.

Want to see the rest of our cut and beards? Check out our portfolio HERE.

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Filed Under: Blog, From the Chair, Hair & Cuts, Series Tagged With: Evergreen Terrace, Haircuts

About Tyler the Beardsmith

Professor Lumber Viking. Shepherd of bearddom. Broad spectrum geek. Friendly neighborhood bald guy. Also one half of the married pair of barber proprietors of Beardsgaard and River Peak Apothecary.

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