Wizard barber cuts hair in record time while holding 15 pairs of scissors

What's better than a haircut with 14 pairs of scissors?
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Yvette Tan
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Wizard barber cuts hair in record time while holding 15 pairs of scissors
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Meet Edward Scissorhands IRL.

A Pakistani barber who somehow manages to wield 15 pairs of scissors simultaneously is making waves online.

33-year-old Sadiq Ali takes about 20 minutes for each haircut and charges only $2 for the complete experience, according to a report by news outlet CGTN.

But it might not be so easy to get a spot on Ali's exclusive haircutting list.

He serves only 20 people a day, and counts the Pakistani national cricket team among his elite clientele.

Ali, who has been a hairdresser for 15 years, took some five years to perfect his technique, which he calls "the spicy haircut."

"It took me at least five years to hone my skills. [The scissors] were heavy and it was difficult to make them work all at one time," he told The Daily Mail.

"Slowly, however, I got used to holding them and using them successfully for haircuts."

According to the report, Ali set out to learn the technique after he was inspired by Zedong Wang, a Chinese hairdresser who set a Guinness world record for using ten scissors all at once in 2007.

Ali's goal?

To set a Guinness world record for using 16 scissors for a haircut.

We have a feeling it won't take him too much longer to get there.

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Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.

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