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Most people wouldn't let a naked flame anywhere near their ears – but it is all part of the latest pampering treatment for men across the Black Country. Most people wouldn't let a naked flame anywhere ...

“As he daubed my face with shaving cream, I realised that if my rivals were going to put a hit on me, this would surely be the moment they’d choose.” Mark Dapin heads to a barber for a Turkish shave.

This is the strangely satisfying moment a Turkish barber uses a vest as a border to give a client's back hairs a shave into the same shape. In a peculiar version of the bowl cut, the man sat down for ...