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The Wheel of Beardsgaard Turns

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Over our five years in business, every barber that has ever worked here, even Natalie and Tyler, have been new to the majority of clients in our chair. Before you know it, they have a client list a mile long and are hard as heck to get in with.

So it was with Amanda years ago when she started with us as a nervous intern, and then Alex when he came to us an experienced barber in a brand new state. Now the two of them will become the third and fourth former Gaardians to go from Beardsgaard to business ownership!

Oh yes, all of these fools (plus Deena) = Business Owners

 

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Blademaiden Cuts a Pompadour {Livestream}

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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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Goin Bald with Dutch & The Beardsmith {Livestream}

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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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Managersaurus on the Loose {Video}

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We like to celebrate the successes around the shop.

Like this

We are a small business that kind of exploded into a much bigger thing. There are in fact two businesses now, Beardsgaard Barbers and River Peak Apothecary. Neither would have gotten started in the first place if Beardsmith and Blademaiden weren’t primarily the workers, because getting the doors open was priority #1, we had barely thought about hiring until we were well open and it became necessary.

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The Faces of Beardsgaard • Spiritbrook IRL {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.

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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Full Crew, Full Hearts

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Gaardians, the day has finally arrived. Tomorrow we begin June 2017, and with it, at long last, a full staff, both barbers and support staff. AND! We’re open Monday-Friday 9 am – 8 pm, with Saturdays 9 am – 5 pm. We know, we can hardly believe it either.

Total transparency here, when formulating our business plan prior to opening, we didn’t foresee this even in the five-year plan.

We may or may not completely know what we’re doing here

We had thought 4 barbers including The Beardsgaards, a front desker, that’s it by year 5. But here we sit with 6 barbers, 3 deskers, and 2 more members of the support staff, three months short of our three-year anniversary.

Brace yourselves. Everything from the services, to ease of getting in, to opening hours, to the content we bring you even when you’re away from the shop, it’s all getting even better. Right about…now.

Let’s meet the whole crew, and see what parts they play in The Great Embiggening.

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The Faces of Beardsgaard • Fjordmist IRL

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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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Feliz Birthmas {Video}

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Amanda is a dual-licensed barber of Beardsgaard who loves to make celebrations, especially employee birthdays, elaborate, whimsical and particularly trollish. Some time ago that earned her the title of Grandmaster of Pranks & Hazing.

But when her birthday, which happens to fall on Cinco de Mayo, rolls around, who is going to troll HER? Because she hates Christmas so very much, we had a very simple plan. Enjoy.

Like our brand of informative idiocy? We have both of those things in spades on our YouTube channel, so if you’re into it, go ahead and Subscribe.

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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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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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