The barber

Gus.

Montana-licensed barber. 7 years behind a chair in Kalispell. You may know him already.

Gus, the barber behind Onyx & Aurum, in glasses and a black T-shirt, in black and white

Gus has spent the last 7 years cutting hair in Kalispell, most of it at one of the busiest chairs in town. Tapers, fades, beard work, straight-razor shaves. Precise, unhurried, and the same every time.

Around town he has gone by Montana’s Okayest Barber, a name that undersold the work on purpose. Onyx & Aurum is the shop he built to do that work his own way: by appointment, unhurried, with the finish nobody else has time for.

He holds a Montana barber license from the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists, and he keeps the license certificate on the wall where you can read it.


  • Montana Barber license COS-BNC-LIC-101364
  • 7 years behind the chair in Kalispell, since September 2019
  • Tapers, fades, scissor work, razor-finished beards, hot-towel steam shaves

The work

Recent cuts.