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February 1, 2014 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

Beardsgaard High-006Hello friends, and welcome to Beardsgaard.

Welcome to the first steps this little family takes toward our dream of working in our own barbershop and doing what we love for the rest of our lives. This blog is that first step.

But this site isn’t really about us. It’s about you. A man’s relationship with his barber, whether that barber be a man or a woman, is a special one. You trust us to make your hair, the one accessory you wear each and every day, the best it can be. You trust us to shave your throat with a lightning sharp piece of metal. You tell us things you don’t tell your shrink, clergy, wife or bartender.

That trust means the world to us, and that is why we created Beardsgaard Barbers blog now, and our shop in late summer 2014 – to give you even more.

What you will find on the Beardsgaard Barbers blog is a wealth of information. You will find all of the professional hair, beard and shaving education we give you in our chairs every day, video tutorials and The Gaard, our community of beard and barbershop aficionados (sign up already, would ya?).

But why should you care about any of this? It’s just hair and grooming, you figured this stuff out when you were in high school.

Adulthood: Nailed It
Adulthood: Nailed It

Except most of us didn’t, not really, because no one ever showed us how to do it right.

Just like house upkeep, grocery shopping, or basic car maintenance, you could always figure out the basics by yourself, but with a little instruction, practice, and patience, you found out how to do more than just get by, you found out how to do it right, and do it well.

You no longer leave the house a disaster area for weeks before spending an entire day off getting it back in relative shape. You no longer are embarrassed by a cart full of Hot Pockets and Bud Light, you can stride proudly up to the checkout with a cart full of respectable adult food (and good beer). You no longer have the mechanic change your oil, wiper blades, and air filter, you can do that, and much more, all by yourself thankyouverymuch.

Yep, that's better.
Yep, that’s better.

All of these tasks took a little effort to master at first, but now you take care of these things with hardly a second thought. The thing is, taking care of your hair and putting yourself together is quicker and easier than house, food and cars, but it’s something you do every day. Except for panstless Tuesdays. Nobody is required to do shit on pantsless Tuesdays, much less make themselves appear human.

If you still consider grooming to be an obnoxious chore instead of the manly ritual of our grandfather’s day, we are here to help you get your bearings. You certainly don’t need to follow every piece of advice we give on this site, we don’t dictate the terms of masculinity. We provide help for those who want it.

Dressed to the nines, or keeping it simple in a T-shirt and jeans, knowing how to look your best changes everything. It changes how others see you, of course, and that matters, but no one should live for how others see you. But it also changes how people react to you. That’s some powerful stuff. Could say it’s kind of like a superpower.

Even more powerful is how it affects you. You know you approach the world differently when you’re comfortable in your skin, and being confident in your ability to groom yourself like the gentlemen of old gives you that. You just have to care, and you have to practice, and then it happens. You grow up, you grow into yourself, and you find yourself one day a happier person, and a better person for that.

Much better.
Much better.

We clean you up in the shop, you feel great, you get compliments all over town. You follow the blog and get expert advice on hair, beards, grooming and shaving, then you put it into practice. That morning routine, nay, ritual, gets easy, because now you have the tools to take it on.

We are barbers. We cut hair. It’s uncomplicated. It’s superficial. But in a way, it’s the start of everything. And we have the best fucking job in the world.


Join the Gaard today (right below this post here), and let’s do this together.

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

About The Beardsgaards

The Beardsgaards are a pair of mom-and-pop barber nerds with a shared obsession with perfection. We built this old school barbershop to feel like home to everyone who enters beneath the Elvish script above our door. If we and the Gaardian army can give you a better handle on your grooming routine, all the better.

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Parking

On the general 2020 theme, there is currently no parking out front due to construction, and no front shop entrance either! Enter the back parking lot by First Street and come on in the back door with the beard on it (like a restaurant, wait at the sign inside for the Shopkeep to greet you)

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We were deeply saddened by the news of Christopher We were deeply saddened by the news of Christopher Tolkien passing a year ago, and still are to this day. Our love of his father and Lord of the Rings is ever present here at Beardsgaard. So tonight we, and hopefully the rest of you, will take a moment to remember one of the greatest authors of all time, his son, and the impact the Tolkien family has had on our lives. 
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
While we appreciate all the self sufficient kids t While we appreciate all the self sufficient kids that come into the shop, we still need an adult with them to sign our liability waiver. We know it’s a bit of a pain but it’s really to appease Phydeoux the shop dragon. He has a hunger for children and waivers, and we’d rather feed him waivers.
You don’t have to wear it after your cut, but do You don’t have to wear it after your cut, but don’t forget your hat. It’s cold outside.
The product goblin (and the rest of us) think @soa The product goblin (and the rest of us) think @soapdistillery body oils smell good enough to drink. We promise the oils will make you feel much better if you put them on your outside instead of your inside though.
Well hello to those with wild beards who heard whi Well hello to those with wild beards who heard whispers of moving out of Tier 3 Mitigation! Please pause, we're not there yet. 

This does not apply to the entire state of Illinois, only certain regions. As of now, we are still in Tier 3. We will announce when we have moved to Tier 2 on all of our social media channels as well as our email list, so sit tight until then!

Because knowledge is power, you also can go to http://dph.illinois.gov/regionmetrics?regionID=8 at any time and look at Region 8, which contains Kane County. As of this posting, we are not meeting the metric on hospital bed availability. 

We promise, we want to get everything under your mask looking and feeling great, but we cannot do that until it's safe. Thank you for understanding, and please keep an eye out here, on Instagram or sign up for our email list at the bottom of www.beardsgaardbarbers.com to get updates.
And you? Do you like the barber shop? We like you. And you? Do you like the barber shop? We like you.
We may specialize in short, traditionally masculin We may specialize in short, traditionally masculine haircuts, but Beardsgaard has always been a place for everyone; girls, guys, gays, theys - all identities and orientations find acceptance and a barbershop home here. If, however, you are looking for the luscious salon locks that are far less in our barberly skill set, we are the lucky next door neighbors of the incredible @coasthairsalon
Between the two of us, we have heads of every sort covered in spectacular hair, and positive vibes.
While we would love to see more than half of your While we would love to see more than half of your faces, until Illinois is out of Tier 3 we are just not allowed to do any face services. That means all beard trims and face shaves are not a thing for the foreseeable future. We know that’s a bummer for most of you but think of how epic and wizardry your beards will be once we can do trims!
For beard updates we will be posting across social media and sending an email out to those of you that are on the email list as soon as we know anything. Hang tight Gaardians, your face gardens will be pruned again some day.
When this year started, we eternal optimists could When this year started, we eternal optimists couldn’t have imagined what dragons were coming. With the support of this amazing community, this little barbershop made it through lockdown, occupancy restrictions, six flipping months of construction including losing our whole front entrance for months, are still in the middle of not being able to perform our signature services, but we’re all starting to see light on the other side. We don’t know what this next year will hold, but we believe this shop and this community will keep on adapting and end up stronger for it. We just hope, so hard, that the dogs will be able to return in 2021. In the meantime, we have the dragon. And all of you.
Over the years here, no one has held quite as many Over the years here, no one has held quite as many positions at Beardsgaard as Joey. As (at the time girlfriend, now wife) Amanda worked here, Joey was keen to fill in on desk when a shopkeep got sick, and he didn’t even work here yet. Nor did he yet when he let us tie him to a tree during the making of a dumb movie. 

Eventually, he came to be a Shopkeep at Beardsgaard before, like Tyler, following his wife into the blade game and going to barber school, turning out to be really good at it. He progressed from intern to apprentice to a knighting to staff barber of Beardsgaard to beard model for our sibling shop’s most popular product, Deepwell. 

And now, as if the fondest wish for any Gaardian, business ownership, taking over for Amanda as the head chair of Fox & Stone Barbers in St Charles while she is off wrangling puppies for a living in the vet world. 

We wish him endless luck and happiness in his next steps, but we won’t miss him too much. As the dad of our dearly departed Mia, and the wiggly love sausage Mabel, he has agreed that Mabel should still work at Beardsgaard once we can have shop dogs again because she is so good at her job and misses all of you. So we’ll see him then! Huzzah!

Today is his last day, be sure to give him your love/hardcore trolling, whatever your relationship with him is. As you know, he’s a barber who can do both.
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Our Little Slice of Valhalla

In historic downtown Batavia on Route 31 between 1st and Main

117 S Batavia Ave, Batavia, IL 60510

PHONE: ( 630 ) 454 - 4820

EMAIL: shop@beardsgaardbarbers.com

Appointment & Walk-Ins Both!

Parking

On the general 2020 theme, there is currently no parking out front due to construction, and no front shop entrance either! Enter the back parking lot by First Street and come on in the back door with the beard on it (like a restaurant, wait at the sign inside for the Shopkeep to greet you)

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