Ken Duddly: Head piercer
(Don't worry, he pierces other parts too!)
KEN DUDDLY
Age: 34
From: Parts unknown, now living in Swansea.
Time piercing: About nine years.
Time at the shop: Six years, two months.
Favorite tattoo/piercing: Tattoo: My chest/ribs/stomach piece done by Paul ... the Captain Marvel star to be more exact. Piercing: Bridge.
Interests: Star Wars, Star Trek, Misfits, Chuck Palahniuk, XBox 360 (Gamer tag: Kenduddly) ... I wear New Rock boots ... the best. "Other than bod mod I'm pretty much your average geek. I'm into anything sci-fi, comic book or video game related. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs at all. Well, I enjoy a cigar every now and again."
Favorite color: Green
Random fact: "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts."
"I'm here to help people with what they want," Ken Duddly, XBody's resident piercer said recently, but when Duddly first got interested in body modification, he wasn't wasn't thinking about other people, he was actually thinking about himself ...
"I started by piercing myself, but when I began to get into things I couldn't do myself, I noticed that I was having a ton of trouble actually finding someone to do what I wanted done.," Duddly said.
That's when the now state-licensed EMT and self-professed geek's focus changed.
"At that point, I decided I would learn how to pierce so when others like me wanted certain things done, I would be able to help them," he said.
Duddly started at XBody in Oct. 2003 and hasn't looked back.
These days, there isn't much Kenny, who lives in Swansea with his soon-to-be wife Laura and their dog Bella, dislikes about his job.
"I enjoy piercing. There isn't really one (procedure) I dislike doing or shy away from."
There is one thing Duddly could do without though.
"I don't like when people's friends pressure them into getting something done, or along the same lines, when people will tell their friends they think something they want to get is 'ugly.' Shit like that is the only real downside to what I do."
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