Did you know the average British bloke spends more than 3,000 hours of his life shaving? That's the equivalent of 125 days and nights down the pub. Now, if you're like me, you regard extracting hairs ...

"You have done this before, right?" I ask slightly nervously. Sulayman Sulayman, my barber for the afternoon, has just picked a lethally sharp cutthroat razor and is inching it closer to my face.