Mario Hvala, a barber in Serbia, is offering fans a “hair tattoo”, shaving the likeness of players including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo into the backs of their heads.

But the barber’s prowess doesn’t stop at footballers. He’s previously shaved the likes of Novak Djokovic, and even Kim Jong Un into people’s hair. He said the craze started nine years ago, when someone asked him to do “something different” with his hair, and he ended up sculpting a tarantula into his mane with a cut-throat razor. Mr Hvala said: “The portraits are the most complex when doing the ‘hair tattoos’. “It takes five to seven hours.