DIY Enthusiasm

At A Glance Author Stan Contact Stan@bme.anon Artist Me Studio On my bed Location London

Hi,

This story's about my ampallang, but I would also like to tell how I got to the stage of having an ampallang.

I'll begin at 14 years old, punk had just hit the world and it seemed the thing to get one's ear pierced, and I liked the idea. I looked at how the hairdressers in town were doing the piercings, and to be quite honest I was a little bit freaked. The studs weren't sharp and that gun thing was about as personal as a building brick and an anvil. So I decided a bit of DIY was in order, so off I went and got a silver stud, sharpened it up with a nail file and pushed it through my left lobe..... I got hooked on piercing there and then. The sensation of pushing the stud through my lobe was really nice, and I felt a wonderful sense of achievement at having accomplished this feat without any real pain or bleeding. I was now in the world of pierced people.

My mother went mad, and I spent most of my time taking it out and putting it back in so that she didn't see it. It took a while to heal due to this never ending in and out business, but heal it did and I was very happy. So happy that over the next few years I built my left ear up to 11 piercings around the edge plus one in the little bit at the front, and 2 more in the right lobe, I liked the lop-sided look. All these piercings were done by me with the by now ubiquitous, sharpened silver stud.

Eventually body piercing came on the scene, and I was interested, I just had to get my nipple pierced. So out came that silver stud again and through it went, and I must admit this did hurt. But the increase in pain gave me an equal increase in my sense of achievement. I was more hooked than ever.

Next came the prince albert, then my right nipple, my navel, my tongue, my left nostril twice, my right one once, my eyebrow, then my lip, which I ended up having to do 3 times as I could never seem to get it straight, I then did my right nipple vertically, and last but not least I did my frenum. Like I said I got hooked. I had also got a little bit more sensible with myself by buying all the proper sugical steel piercing stuff and the silver stud had been laid to rest.

Now I'm about to do an ampallang on myself. I have done this once before a few months ago but I didn't get it in straight, so I decided to let it heal and try again, and today's the day. Now I admit that when I last did this it hurt greater then hell, which was a very painful place last time I was there. So this time I bought a load of codiene tablets and a tube of ibuprofen cream to use as general and local respectively. I also stocked up all my food so I don't have to go out for at least a week or two.

On to the piercing....

I went and lay on my bed and worked lots of ibruprofen cream into the lad and swallowed 6 paracodol capsules and decided that I would do the piercing in exactly an hour to give the codiene time to do it's thing. I then smoked a good bowl full of hash and proceeded to remove my PA and to mark out the item concerned. As the hour approached I was getting very apprehensive and I nearly backed out a few times, but this is something I've wanted for ages and I was determined to go through with it.

And then the minute was upon me. I clamped the head making sure everything was in allignment and waited a few more minutes and then I just went for it. It took at least 30 seconds to get the needle through, pushing slowly but firmly and continously, I felt it all the way. The codiene and ibruprofen did the trick, it was quite an acceptable level of pain which allowed me to fully experience the piercing itself, which for me is what it's all about. I fed the barbell through, and then I became extremely light headed and so I just laid back for half an hour and let it pass.

I'm extremely happy with the result, and it looks great with the PA and frenum, I feel a bit more complete now, and it's hardly bled at all. I realise now that I've got a few weeks of pain and hobbling around but from everything that I've read about this piercing I'm sure it'll be worth it. I don't have a girlfriend at the moment which should make the healing easier to deal with, but I'm really looking forward to some good loving in the future, and cannot wait to try it out.

I realise that DIY isn't everyone's cup of tea, but for some of us it's the only way to go. To allow someone else to pierce me would destroy the experience, as the thing with DIY is that I can control the speed and pressure and therefore the level of pain that I experience during the piercing process.

My next adventure is a PA on the left side just to make the lad a bit more balanced looking, and then to find some nice kind lady to enjoy the fruits of my labour with me.

Finally I would just like to add that piercing for me as well as being a wonderful experience, is also a statement telling others that this is mine, it is an expression of my freedom and of a my right to govern myself in any way I choose.

Bye and thanks for a great site.