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Shower Routines: Blademaiden

April 1, 2020 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Some folks go with the same shower routine every day, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of us, however, have grooming needs that are a bit more advanced.

Blademaiden, for example, is growing her hair out, has psoriasis on her skin and scalp, and her skin in general reacts poorly to, like, so many things. Because of all of those things, not every shower she takes is the same. In this video, we take you to our shower and show you around.

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Filed Under: Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, From the Chair, Products & Grooming, Series Tagged With: From the Chair, Pillar, Products, Shower Routines

Beardsgaard at the 2019 National Beard & Moustache Championships

November 5, 2019 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

A few times in our 5 years of business, we have been contacted out of the blue by some giant of the industry to do something huge.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is one of those times.
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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, From the Chair, Shop News Tagged With: Events, Industry, Pillar, The Life of Beardsgaard

The Great Rebuilding

March 25, 2019 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

We wanted to do a grand reopening post for you, we really did. And we’re open! We aren’t quite done, but we thought we would show you what’s done so far. With loads of pictures!

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Filed Under: Blog, Shop News Tagged With: Barbershop, Pillar, Present, Shop News

New Glarus Oktoberfest

October 4, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

It has been less than a year since River Peak first brought the show on the road and set up a vendor booth at an event.

We have had the opportunity to get a few of these under our belts now (hardly forgetting anything important these days), but New Glarus (Wisconsin) Oktoberfest may be the richest in food and beer we have ever taken part in. Weirdly, 75% of the folks we met were actually from northern Illinois.

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

Blademaiden Cuts a Pompadour {Livestream}

May 18, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

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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Filed Under: Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Hair & Cuts Tagged With: A Cut Above, Barbers, Behind the Scenes, Education, From the Chair, Haircuts, How To, Pillar, Scumbassadors, Video

The Mythology of Beardsgaard • Part I • Beardsgaard Origins {Video}

February 17, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

We are barbers that make grooming goods. But when we created the world of Beardsgaard and River Peak Apothecary, we literally (if not physically) created a world, because we’re big old nerds who grew up steeped in Tolkien. Each product we make becomes a location on the map, and gets its own story. This is one of those stories.

In this chapter, the world is created and filled with the beings that make the world turn.

Read the rest of the neverending story here, and check out the rest of the YouTube channel here.

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard Tagged With: From the Apothecary, Nerd, Pillar, Video

Beardsmith Cuts a Flat Top {Video}

February 1, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

While both of the Beardsgaards trained under some flat top masters, Beardsmith doesn’t have to get up on his toes to get all the right angles. Watch him square things up.

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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Filed Under: Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Hair & Cuts Tagged With: A Cut Above, Barbers, From the Chair, Haircuts, Pillar, Video

Shawnee National Forest • River Peak Apothecary {Video}

January 12, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

For New Year’s the Beardsgaards got out of town for a hot minute, back to one of their favorite places in this flat, flat state we live in. Their were rocks and hot tubs. Come along, won’t you? Stories, video and photo galleries included.

A Song of Ice & Hot Tubs

Shawnee Forest Cabins • Herod, Illinois

If you aren’t following along on the out-of-the-shop adventures of Beardsgaard, journey to our realm. River Peak Apothecary, that is.

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Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard Tagged With: Evergreen Terrace, Pillar, The Life of Beardsgaard, Video

Tricky Tricks for Barbers • Pointy Mustaches {Video}

January 5, 2018 By //  by The Beardsgaards 1 Comment

Barber demo videos are great, but what about when you encounter some hair that doesn’t fit the mold? In this series, the barbers of Beardsgaard are going to show you some tricky tricks for barbers to make your life behind the chair a little easier.

Mustaches come in all shapes and sizes, but most are pretty easy to shape up. But what about those pointy ones that grow STRAIGHT OUT? Those types are pretty pokey to be on the other end of (just ask our shop manager/model’s wife).

But for barbers, cut it too long and it gets awkwardly pointy again real quick, but take off the slightest bit too much in the wrong place, and this crazy unforgiving mustache hair is going to look like it’s missing a chunk. So let’s make Vinc’s lovely wife a happy lady.

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Filed Under: Beards & Facial Hair, Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Series Tagged With: Education, Evergreen Terrace, From the Chair, How To, Mustaches, Pillar, 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

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