Article: Prick up your ears; LARA BRADLEY discovers what life is like at the sharp end for Northern Ireland's growing body of skin-piercing fans.(News)

DAVID Bingham has enough metal appendages to keep an airport security machine beeping for hours, and a waiting room full of people queuing up to get perforated.

David, or Skull as he prefers to be called, owns Belfast City Skin Works in Wellington Place - one of Ulster's leading tattoo and body piercing salon.

He has been in the body-art business for almost 20 years and obviously knows his hoops from his studs. Three years ago he predicted tongue piercing was about take off in a big way and a star-studded list of names from Zara Phillips to Scary Spice have ...

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