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Contours

Classic hair, epic beards, perfect shaves, and an all-consuming passion for the craft

Our specialty is finding out what your hair and beard want to do, and cutting them that way with an eye toward the classic looks of yesteryear. This is what we do, and these are our real clients we get to make look this good. Find out how to get in the chair right HERE.


We must start with some terminology on this one. Contours are your basic (usually) side parted men’s haircuts with some level of tapering, and with the blend area following the contour of the head.

An Executive Contour is classic haircut that Schorem coined the name of, although you may hear this cut referred to in various places as a business cut, a side part, or the term we are trying to help kill, a “combover” (if you aren’t really bald on top and combing hair over to hide it, it is a side part, not a comb over. The difference between a Pompadour and an Executive Contour is mostly in the top. With a Pompadour you can part it, comb it back standard pomp style, or just wear it loose. With an Executive Contour you can only do the second two of those.

The reason for this is that while a Pompadour is cut evenly from one side of the top section to the other, with an Executive Contour it is parted to one side, and the top is only cut where it connects to the opposite side. What we’re saying is, an Executive Contour that is finger length, or even a couple of inches on top, is not an actual thing. That gets more into a sub genre sometimes called the College Contour, or our spin on that popular look, The Gaard.


Do the Creep

Do the Creep

The Style: Now the only creepy thing about him is his shirt. And that look he keeps giving us... / A big donation of some ~ Read Moar!
Peaky Lewis

Peaky Lewis

The Style: Rocked out and ready for the dance / Pomp shaped with a ton of texture on top, a neat blend on the ~ Read Moar!
Beary Handsome

Beary Handsome

The Style: Generally bear-like all over / Just look what we can do for your head when you become a regular and nail down ~ Read Moar!
Dwarfhartt

Dwarfhartt

The Style: That guy in the waiting room who is so furry and you really hope he's your next and then he is / ~ Read Moar!
Contour Unleashed

Contour Unleashed

The Style: Cool, but, like, the effortless type / A rather specific natural parting is allowed to dictate all the other parts of this day-off ~ Read Moar!
Less Hairy Ant

Less Hairy Ant

The Style: Sometimes it's as simple as simply reining in a fella's werewolf tendencies / A super smooth bald fade with a part, and a ~ Read Moar!
Silver Bear

Silver Bear

The Style: Business, casual, wrangling a herd of cubs, you look fly af no matter what you're up to / Short, polished, side parted, this ~ Read Moar!
Side Part Perfection

Side Part Perfection

The Style: Just because it's technically the most standard, regular cut we do doesn't mean it isn't absolute perfection / Perfectly shaped, perfectly blended, precisely parted ~ Read Moar!
Hello Moto

Hello Moto

The Style: Hair that is meant to blow in the breeze like it ain't no thing / An effortless cut to wear and style, the ~ Read Moar!
The Standard

The Standard

The Style: Flawless at and in any age / While we do plenty of elaborate hair and beards, the good old Executive Contour and neat ~ Read Moar!
Squared But Not Square

Squared But Not Square

The Style: Short, long, square, smooth, a head that has a bit of everything / A haircut is a constructed of hair, but it's all ~ Read Moar!
Mountain Fella

Mountain Fella

The Style: That good old Oregonian homesteader vibe / A short and clean contour on top with a lumberjack on the bottom Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Colonel Burnside

Colonel Burnside

The Style: A young, clean cut Civil War commander / A real proper Executive Contour paired with some clean cut chops Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Don't Fail

Don’t Fail

The Style: A little superhero, a little supervillain / Gil has a thick, beautiful head of hair that will freak the hell out if you ~ Read Moar!
Mad Cow

Mad Cow

The Style: He may not look Pablo Schreiber, but there's a whole lot of DGAF Mad Sweeney vibe going on here / Parted, but without ~ Read Moar!
Tru Greaser

Tru Greaser

The Style: While perfectly suitable in the boardroom, Reuzel haircuts are really worn best with these sorts of work clothes / Having been accustomed to ~ Read Moar!
Lost in Time

Lost in Time

The Style: The best thing about a look like this is that you look at home in literally any era / Well kempt, parted, but ~ Read Moar!
Hardcore Huggable

Hardcore Huggable

The Style: When you have this many head tattoos, a barber just wants to scratch them off like a lottery ticket / Aggressively short and ~ Read Moar!
Old Gaard

Old Gaard

The Style: Nice and easy, a continual cleaning up on one of our oldest (ehrm, longest running) clients / A very burly beard kept shapely ~ Read Moar!
Primary Colors

Primary Colors

The Style: Sharp, tight, clean, but with the curls still allowed to show their true colors / Scumbag Boogies are always better with some waves ~ Read Moar!
Austin Plaza

Austin Plaza

The Style: Sharp and savvy enough to know March 31st exists, still looks like a Ludgate sibling / A sarcastically sharp Executive Contour Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
High Contrast

High Contrast

The Style: A perfect blend on very light skin with very dark hair from master fader Alex / When your natural part is high/on ~ Read Moar!
Redwaves

Redwaves

The Style: Super straight hair can still make all the right moves / When you ask for a haircut with a part but give no ~ Read Moar!
Never Say Die

Never Say Die

The Style: Appropriate for the office, LARPing, AND treasure hunting / A neat College Contour with a beard that belongs in a fantasy epic Suggested ~ Read Moar!
What Just Happened

What Just Happened

The Style: A whirlwind of sharp things leaves one tousled and feeling like you're missing something / An Executive Contour is a haircut so versatile ~ Read Moar!
Hawkeye

Hawkeye

The Style: The kind of hair that makes one want to dump all the hair dye into a landfill / A nice and easy Executive Contour ~ Read Moar!
Face Forest

Face Forest

The Style: One part tight, one part huge, might as well emphasize your best features / Scumbag Boogie on top with a lush thicket below ~ Read Moar!
Mini Ditka

Mini Ditka

The Style: If this kid doesn't grow up to be a football coach, we'll eat our hats / A properly grown-up Executive Contour haircut, sized ~ Read Moar!
Beardless Blue Steel

Beardless Blue Steel

The Style: With a face carved from marble and eyes like gemstones, clean cuts put the focus where it belongs / An extra tight College ~ Read Moar!
Dual Wield

Dual Wield

The Style: With an endless supply of quick-growing hair, taming the beast takes all the weapons / An Executive Contour lets the waves on ~ Read Moar!
Victorian to Victorious

Victorian to Victorious

The Style: When it's been this long between barber visits, sometimes what a fella needs is a zero-maintenance cut - this is that cut / ~ Read Moar!
Contour Squared

Contour Squared

The Style: When you're such an upright citizen, might as well apply it to your haircut / Squared sides are the gutter bumpers to the ~ Read Moar!
Ginger Lincoln

Ginger Lincoln

The Style: Modern barbering the old-timey way / An Executive Contour on a ton of soft and slippery hair, and beard with a heaping ~ Read Moar!
Mr. Hearthstone

Mr. Hearthstone

The Style: This outdoorsman usually doesn't do it up so hard, but for on-stage education purposes, might as well go all out / A very ~ Read Moar!
Brother Scott

Brother Scott

The Style: Just a bit of wish fulfillment from a barber who looks weirdly similar to you, but bald / A longer Executive Contour and ~ Read Moar!
Prohibition Contour

Prohibition Contour

The Style: The kind of fella who looks out of place outside the 20s / A neat Executive Contour where the waves are allowed ~ Read Moar!
Shag to Swag

Shag to Swag

The Style: A big change on some seriously silky, stick-straight hair / A sharp and structured Executive Contour with simple styling that isn't trying too ~ Read Moar!
Kerri Lee Lewis

Kerri Lee Lewis

The Style: Let that curl floop in a way that looks just right headbanging at a piano / Just a simple, curly, unstyled Executive Contour Suggested ~ Read Moar!
Camp Contour

Camp Contour

The Style: The counselor who takes zero shit / Clean, close-cropped and perfectly parted Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Dangerous Wave

Dangerous Wave

The Style: Goes to show you can still make things move even on the straightest of hair / A simple Executive Contour Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Prohibition Curls

Prohibition Curls

The Style: Straight out of the 20s / A classic style, slightly modified to let those perfect curls pile on top of each other Suggested ~ Read Moar!
Cartoon Contour

Cartoon Contour

The Style: Straight out of Silicon Valley / Perfectly groomed professional on top, refuses to fully adult on the bottom - it's the Beardsgaard way ~ Read Moar!
Mr Hearthstone

Mr Hearthstone

The Style: Ruggedly outdoorsy working type, but you wouldn't know it from the hair / A clean but not too short Executive Contour with a ~ Read Moar!
Executive Hagrid Part II

Executive Hagrid Part II

The Style: Hagrid all business proper / Just a nice, clean Executive Contour and an absolutely massive beard from one of Blademaiden's Reuzel classes Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Ser Sasse

Ser Sasse

The Style: So handsome and Gala(va)nt you might just break out in cheeky song / Clean and close on the hair, a bit of ruggedness on ~ Read Moar!
Fuckin' Rob

Fuckin’ Rob

The Style: A look far too respectable for that guy that's always lovingly trolling us on Facebook / A parted pomp and stylized beard with ~ Read Moar!
Ollie's Contour

Ollie’s Contour

The Style: College town fella with a grownup lifestyle /A before and after simple pomp from one of Blademaiden's Reuzel classes Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
The Moistmaker

The Moistmaker

The Style: Like Star Lord himself, full on dweeb on the inside, all cleaned up on the outside / Very stiff and tricky hair playing to ~ Read Moar!
Carved Contour

Carved Contour

The Style: Straight up fox, no matter the occasion / Simple and structured side part that makes the most of fantastic bone structure Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Billy Business

Billy Business

The Style: Finance jock prep with a bit of outdoorsman / Clean and neat on the sides, slicked on the top with the beard kept ~ Read Moar!
Parted Perfection

Parted Perfection

The Style: Business werewolf / Buttery smooth and effortless for a head with so many tricky bits Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Contoured Cleanup

Contoured Cleanup

The Style: Curves so curvy they look like a sculpture / A cleanup that takes a proper art teacher look and goes full school board ~ Read Moar!
Beardsmith Mini-Me

Beardsmith Mini-Me

The Style: When you're some overachieving little smartass who only gets a haircut every 5 months and doesn't pay for it because your brother ~ Read Moar!
Curvy Contour

Curvy Contour

The Style: Surfer dude turned business mogul / A common sculptural endeavor in which we take absolutely nothing off the front hairline, and shape the rest into ~ Read Moar!
Business Beard

Business Beard

The Style: Beefy mountain man goes to the office / A short contour that works with considerable front cowlicks, and a beard that's full ~ Read Moar!
Animal Style-The New Class

Animal Style-The New Class

The Style: A look so on-point you would look right at home as an Animal House villain / A well-pomaded Executive Contour Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Pee-Wee Wave Riding

Pee-Wee Wave Riding

The Style: Hair that stays put when you're roaring by on a skateboard near the breakers / Tall and proud parted mini-pompadour Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Parted & Painted

Parted & Painted

The Style: A decorated canvas with an otherwise minimalist air / Understated and neat to let the rest of the look shine Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Throwback Valley

Throwback Valley

The Style: With the glasses of all dads (and heck, a few serial killers) in the 80s, this is nerd cool to the max / ~ Read Moar!
Hawk-ish

Hawk-ish

The Style: The look that says you have it together, but you're not trying too hard / Simple, clean and classic, never fussy Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Little Scumbro

Little Scumbro

The Style: When you know you're not going to be seeing your barber for many months /A cut short and aggressive enough to make it ~ Read Moar!
Slim Scumbag Contour

Slim Scumbag Contour

The Style: Clean and classic / A classic contoured Scumbag Boogie-type thing / Blademaiden's first cut of the marathon 5-day interview to be a Reuzel Scumbassador ~ Read Moar!
Fuzzy Wuzzy Got Faded

Fuzzy Wuzzy Got Faded

The Style: A cut so clean it almost looks fake but that's just your head / A neat, tight, square fade with a little ~ Read Moar!
Clean Cut Cleanup

Clean Cut Cleanup

The Style: So clean cut no one will ever suspect what you're really up to / A cut where you can just get the sides ~ Read Moar!
That's Mister Executive Contour to You

That’s Mister Executive Contour to You

The Style: The most classic of classic haircuts / A parted, tapered business cut with a little something extra on top Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Princeton Charming

Princeton Charming

The Style: The most classic of classic haircuts / A parted, tapered business cut with a little something extra on top Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Chuck!

Chuck!

The Style: A guy named Chuck, smart and nerdy, looking purdy / Schorem’s signature haircut turns every guy into a badass Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Sword or Walking Stick

Sword or Walking Stick

The Style: The most classic of classic haircuts, ready for adventuring, battle or business / A parted, tapered business cut with a little something extra ~ Read Moar!
Executive Trinity

Executive Trinity

The Style: A bit of Trinity's hair from the Matrix mixed with an Executive Contour with a soft and easy style / Short and clean on ~ Read Moar!
Executive Hagrid

Executive Hagrid

The Style: Business on the top, literal giant on the bottom / A well-groomed, parted, tapered business cut is an excellent way to keep a ~ Read Moar!
Basterd Hunter

Basterd Hunter

The Style: A little Basterds era Brad Pitt action / Came in all shaggy, just cleaned up the sides...magic Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Professor LumbrBasterd

Professor LumbrBasterd

The Style: A little Basterds era Brad Pitt action / Square, masculine and well-proportioned all around Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Silver Surfer

Silver Surfer

The Style: Silver waves of wow / An aggressively strong natural parting dictated all the details on the hair, with a beard of matching proportions ~ Read Moar!
Dastardly Dapper

Dastardly Dapper

The Style: A straight up old timey villain / A floppy, delightfully foppish haircut with a Machiavellian facial dalliance Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Animal Style

Animal Style

The Style: So clean you look like an Animal House villain / The classic with all the details just right Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Basterd Prospector

Basterd Prospector

The Style: A little Basterds era Brad Pitt action on top with a mid-1800s gold rush miner on the bottom / A rough and wild ~ Read Moar!
Mr. Butterfinger

Mr. Butterfinger

The Style: Professional character / A slim Executive contour and a short, well-detailed beard Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Sweatervest Fisticuffs

Sweatervest Fisticuffs

The Style: "Don't fuck with me" nerd / Slick and destroy dapper Executive Contour with an excellent handlebar Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Sigmund Tweed

Sigmund Tweed

The Style: Neat and professional with an air of wisdom / A simple tapered business cut and a full yet neat beard Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
American Werefox

American Werefox

The Style: A very furry fella, reined in in all the right places / Very lean cheeks and sides of the head pair nicely with ~ Read Moar!
Trigun Elvis

Trigun Elvis

The Style: Taking cues from the King's iconic loosey goosey pomp / A long-trim pompadour with some very special combing action Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Short Stuff Means Business

Short Stuff Means Business

The Style: A miniature version of Jon Hamm's impeccable classic side part style / A neat, tapered Executive Contour, sized down Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Dad Draper

Dad Draper

The Style: Blademaiden's dad, looking dapper af / A neatly tapered business cut with a part Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Deep Wave Basterd

Deep Wave Basterd

The Style: Brad Pitt's alternatingly rough and smooth Inglorious Basterds style / A rough blended Executive Contour Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
The Engineer

The Engineer

The Style: Ruler straight and perfectly square as this Industrial Designer likes it / A bit Executive Contour, a bit Scumbag Boogie, all crisp as ~ Read Moar!
Executive Prep

Executive Prep

The Style: Incredibly stiff, thick, straight hair, tamed / An Executive Contour works on damn near everybody Suggested Products: ~ Read Moar!
Hard Edge Prep

Hard Edge Prep

The Style: When you need to male a smooth transition from the classroom to the mosh pit / An aggressively short Executive Contour, sometimes called ~ Read Moar!
Scumbag Boy Scout

Scumbag Boy Scout

The Style: Hip young teacher that could totally be mistaken for a student / A Scumbag Boogie with a bit of curl on top, ~ Read Moar!
Executive Lumberjack

Executive Lumberjack

The Style: Boardroom on the top, lumberjack on the bottom / Even on hair far finer than it looks here, an Executive Contour works on ~ Read Moar!

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