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The folks on YouTube have been asking for more haircut videos, and that gets tough when you’re open 6 days a week. There’s Sunday, but that’s the day everything ELSE gets scheduled into. So when Blademaiden realized she had one of her favorite heads in the chair, we did a livestream!
It was a bit impromptu, forgive the sound quality. We’ll get better at this “live” thing.
Click that Read More link below for the full video, and check out the rest of the YouTube channel right here.
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Dutch was yearning for the mountains again, so he moved back out to the west coast to do those things he do. But before he went, he wanted to make a big change. A head shave big change. And he didn’t want to do it alone. So Beardsmith took the plunge with him.
Click that Read More link below for the full video, and check out the rest of the YouTube channel right here.
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The faces of Beardsgaard series takes you inside the story and the world of each of our products ~ our real live regular clients, cut by the Beardsgaard barbers, groomed by River Peak Apothecary, and on location, often just off the beaten path. Journey to our realm, nerds.
Photos: Left: Natalie Anderson / Right: Jim Richards
We often say that Beardsgaard is the D&D game to River Peak’s LARP tournament, and that is demonstrated nowhere as fully as these fantastical photo shoots we do sometimes.
So while everything is magical and polished over at River Peak Apothecary, at Beardsgaard we get down and, in many cases, pretty dirty. Or at least Blademaiden did this time, skittering up trees and tossing herself in the dirt at every opportunity to get the good angles with the camera.
Photos: Lindsey Roussel
Let us tell you the rest of the story, and get to the bottom of the post for the full video.
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The faces of Beardsgaard series takes you inside the story and the world of each of our products ~ our real live regular clients, cut by the Beardsgaard barbers, groomed by River Peak Apothecary, and on location, often just off the beaten path. Journey to our realm, nerds.
We often say that Beardsgaard is the D&D game to River Peak’s LARP tournament, and that is demonstrated nowhere as fully as these fantastical photo shoots we do sometimes.
So while everything is magical and polished over at River Peak Apothecary, at Beardsgaard we get down and, in this case, literally really dirty, tromping around the woods before the sun was even all the way up, because we’re crazy people, we guess.
Let us tell you the rest of the story, and get to the bottom of the post for the full video.
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Running two businesses, it is rare that the Beardsgaards get to actually GO anywhere. And they still didn’t.
This time it was just Blademaiden off on her first long-distance Scumbassador training run to southern Illinois, where there are lots of large, unpeopled stretches. And Shawnee National Forest. And Garden of the Gods. And a cabin in the woods. By herself. For two days. Come along on a very dorky adventure. There’s a hot tub.
And a whole video of the expedition at the bottom of this post. Read on!
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Blademaiden Gets All Up In Shawnee National Forest {Video}Read More
When we set out to bring the inspiration behind Hearthstone to life, (our autumn beard oil from the house-made line of Beardsgaard) we knew we were setting off on an adventure the likes we have never undertaken before.
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Hey, remember a while back when we mentioned that Blademaiden was going to be out of the shop for training? Yep, so that totally happened, and it was fucking epic.
And as far as the population of Chicago now knows (in certain pockets), this group of trainees were not a bunch of hopeful Reuzel Pomade educators, they were a band that happened to be called the #Scumbassadors.
They also sorta stole a limo. Sorta. You’re really going to need to keep reading, because there’s a sizable photo gallery…
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As our barbers will tell you, we go HARD with training. This past weekend we traveled all the way down to Chicago on Sunday for a shave demo at Joe’s Barber Shop, and Monday the crew spent 8 hours training with Professional Salon Concepts in Joliet, learning more about Davines and Naturaltech.
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Barbering is our occupation, and as such, we have accumulated a career full of knowledge about the subject. But we are also business owners, and now have a number of successes and failures under our belt in that arena as well.
These are those stories, written from Blademaiden’s hermit hideout in the back room of Beardsgaard, affectionately known as “The Data Cave.”
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The people that work here are a family, so when they leave us, especially for a worldwide adventure living their dream of being a professional touring musician, we’re a solid mix of happy and sad. Which we express in planning-intensive, messy ways that are all-day affairs.
Click that Read More link below for the full videos (of the start AND end of his day), and check out the rest of the YouTube channel right here.
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