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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

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

Goin Bald with Dutch & The Beardsmith {Livestream}

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

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

Tricky Tricks for Barbers • Cowlicks & Patches {Video}

October 30, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a 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.

Big, full beards are great to work on, but what about a patchy beard that changes density, texture and direction all over the damn place? Alex, one of our barbers, has just such a beard. He’s never going to have the face of a mountain man, but we can keep it well-shaped, respectable, and keep it within its appointed bounds.

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

Treat Yo Self 2017 {Video}

October 9, 2017 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Three words for you. Treat. Yo. Self.

Apparel. Beardstuffs. Accessories. Pomades. Fine shaving goods. It’s the best day of the year, and Beardsgaard is here to help you treat yo self even harder.

You see, all of you who come to the shop and spend money here have, unbeknownst to most of you, been collecting reward points for the better part of the last three years. We just hadn’t figured out a non-boring way to roll out a rewards program. Until this time of year rolled around.

So, let us tell you about our new rewards dealie in the most Beardsgaard way possible. Head down to the bottom of the post for the full video).

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Filed Under: Blog, Channel Beardsgaard, Shop News Tagged With: Events, Holidays, Nerd, Present, Products, Shop News, Video

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4/10/21 • All full for the day! (Closed Sundays & Mondays. Call or book online )
For the safety of our staff and clients, we must refuse service to anyone with cold or flu-like symptoms.
Actually there’s a whole list of questions we’re gonna ask you at the door, brace yourself.
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While you’re here, peruse our sibling shop right next door or in the Webs of Inter, River Peak Apothecary!