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Temporarily Closed For Ye Olde Pandemic

March 17, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Welp, we figured it was coming, but the news to cancel all gatherings of over 10 people due to CoVid-19 precautions is going to be the bell ringer for our nearly always full 5-chair barbershop’s operations during ye olde pandemic. Making the decision to close means making the decision to put the livelihoods of 12 families at risk, and it is not a decision we take or make lightly.

We don’t know what the next few weeks will bring, but we do have a pretty good idea how we’re going to handle it.

We have done our best to contact all clients scheduled between now and our tentative reopening date of March 30th. We have noted all those appointment details to contact affected clients as soon as the world is pulling out of this thing (hopefully a few days prior to the 30th).

After that, this team is going to pull together digitally to entertain you, fill your brains with barberly knowledge, and tell you about all our absolute favorite Beardsgaard grooming products we keep in our bathrooms at home that you can buy online while we’re closed.

It may be mostly just the OG Anderson crew behind the scenes during closure, but the commissions of every online sale will be split amongst the barbers and shopkeeps of Beardsgaard, because as we mentioned, a lot of families depend on this place. We’re going to do everything in our power to come back from this with shop and crew in good health and good shape.

Batavia is the best town we could have hoped to put down roots in, and not just because of alliteration. We are so thankful for the staff family that has grown here, the clients who are also friends, and neighbors who are so nice they all sit at four way stop signs waving each other through. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thank you for being with us, Realm. See you tomorrow, then see you soon.

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Filed Under: Blog, Shop News Tagged With: Local, Present, Shop News

A Theatrical Cut

May 10, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Most of the time, a client’s requests of a barber are simple. “Just, shorter” is a direction we hear a lot. But in Bob’s case, he emailed us in advance about something a bit more…dramatic.

Not that the cut was dramatic – it was clean, easy and rather simple, but with an eye toward the specifics of a role in the play The Explorer’s Club.

“The Explorers Club is a wacky farce, replete with overwrought English accents, topcoats, mustaches and a setting that has one foot in the gentleman’s club and another in the outer jungles of Borneo” – The Chicago Tribune

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, From the Chair, Hair & Cuts Tagged With: Hair, Haircuts, Local, Present, Video

They Came From the Parking Lot Part IV: Seeds of Evil {Video}

December 24, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Everybody loves pumpkins. That is, until they…TURN. Featuring the crews of Beardsgaard and Poke Your Eye Out Games, with endless thanks to our brave hosts, Sugar Grove Pumpkin farm. Beardsgaard Barbers is proud to present, a D-movie horror movie disasterpiece: “They Came From The Parking Lot Part IV: Seeds of Evil.”

We feel we should explain how all this came about.

It all started in 2014 with some pumpkins given to us by Batavia Main Street, carved epically by our OG shop neighbors at Fallen Star Tattoo. After Halloween weekend in the front windows, we returned to find pumpkins that looked like Walking Dead extras.

Someone made a joke about how we should “smash some pumpkins.” It all kind of spiraled from there, now for four years in a row. We even made T-shirts.

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Series Tagged With: Astonishingly Terrible Short Films, Evergreen Terrace, Holidays, Local, Pillar, They Came from the Parking Lot, Video

Fermilab 50th {Video}

September 30, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

We would like to again apologize to Fermilab for all that we have put them through since we come to town. They’re smart. They’re nerds. They ooze sexual magnetism. Wait, that might be the bison. Because they have a herd of bison. What’s not to love?

Maybe the heat on the 92 degree fall day on which their 50th Anniversary Open House fell, but we won’t hold that against them. We will say, they should count themselves fortunate that the Moistmaker didn’t decide to reenact the sexy shirtless Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park scene on their front steps.

Get on down to the bottom of this post to see the entire video, in which Moistmaker (also known as Joey, Joe when he’s feeling cool) interviews both a scientist, and a herd of bison. One of them responded by urinating in our general direction. You’ll have to watch to find out which.

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard Tagged With: Events, Evergreen Terrace, Local, Nerd, On Location, Pillar, The Life of Beardsgaard, Video

Beard & Mustache Competitions with the Captain

September 29, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Legendary Captain Fawcett founder Richie Finney will be on hand for the pre-launch signing of their new book, “The Gentleman’s Guide to Grooming: The Quintessential Handbook for the Modern Man” on Wednesday, October 4th from 7-9 PM. There will also be competitions and prizes aplenty. Join us.

October 4th is going to be an evening of fun and delights, but there will also be a rousing competition. Two, in fact!

Beardsgaard is known for the legendary beards and mustaches we get the pleasure of attending, and Captain Fawcett is known for keeping them looking tip-top and smelling like tales of far flung adventures. When you bring the founders of both together at the nerdiest barbershop this side of Midgard, something like a beard (and mustache) competition is bound to happen.

Keep reading for all the finer points of the happenings, as well as what the winners will be taking home, and see the full event post here.

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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Products & Grooming, Shop News Tagged With: Beards, Events, Industry, Local, Mustaches, Present, Products, Shop News, The Life of Beardsgaard

The Captain of the Gaard Book Signing

September 21, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Legendary Captain Fawcett founder Richie Finney will be on hand for the pre-launch signing of their new book, “The Gentleman’s Guide to Grooming: The Quintessential Handbook for the Modern Man” on Wednesday, October 4th from 7-9 PM. Join us.

Captain Fawcett, the man and the grooming brand, are legend. As is the man who calls himself The Captain’s Right Hand man, Richie Finney. It’s all quite tongue-in-cheek, you see, as the actual historical Lieutenant Colonel Fawcett (no relation) disappeared without a trace in the Amazon in 1925. They even made a movie about it.

While no one knows for sure what happened to Percy Fawcett the man, the brand Captain Fawcett is the realm of Mr. Finney, and renowned the world over, from the average gloriously hirsute fellow to the sets of movie and TV productions as fantastical as Lord of the Rings.

And he’s coming to Beardsgaard for a once-in-a-lifetime event, a pre-launch signing of his new book (US release 11/7). That Blademaiden happens to be in. You will not want to miss this. Read on for all the particulars.

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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Products & Grooming, Shop News Tagged With: Beards, Events, Industry, Local, Mustaches, Present, Products, Shop News, The Life of Beardsgaard

2017 Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards: Young Entrepreneurs

September 15, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Both thanks and congratulations are in order! We were honored to be a recipient of a 2017 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award in the category of Young Entrepreneurs for the Chicago Suburban region, but man were we in good company – Batavia took home 6 out of the 18 awards! Fuck Yeah Batavia indeed (#FYB)

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Shop News Tagged With: Events, Local, Present, The Life of Beardsgaard

The Faces of Beardsgaard • Spiritbrook IRL {Video}

July 23, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Hair & Cuts, Products & Grooming, Series Tagged With: Behind the Scenes, Evergreen Terrace, From the Apothecary, Haircuts, Local, On Location, Photo Shoots, Pillar, Shop News, Video

The Faces of Beardsgaard • Fjordmist IRL

May 20, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Hair & Cuts, Products & Grooming, Series Tagged With: Behind the Scenes, Evergreen Terrace, From the Apothecary, Haircuts, Local, On Location, Photo Shoots, Pillar, Shop News, Video

Livestream 4/1 @3 • Spring Sample Party

March 30, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Products & Grooming, Shop News Tagged With: Behind the Scenes, Events, From the Apothecary, Local, Products, Shop News

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