I have been wanting a navel piercing for ages now — pretty much ever since I developed a passion for body art. I did intensive research on the subject over the years and I decided that Amman was not the place to do it.

There are no professional body piercing studios in Amman, and I have met girls who went and got pierced in accessory shops on the hands of unlicensed and inexperienced people who used piercing guns on them and later stretched the navel hole with gradual increase of jewellery gauge. They also recommend alcohol to clean the wounds!

I mean the amount of pain and suffering! The health risks — infections and scars and horrible complications! That is just so not right.

So I decided that if I will do this, I will do it the right way. I went today and got my belly button pierced at Big Joe & Sons studio. I admit I was really nervous and kept wondering if I will get a scar eventually and so on, but the artist there (Brian DeMaio) was ultra friendly and he said it wouldn’t hurt any more than my nose ring or 14 earrings. I asked him a couple of questions that I had and he answered professionally so I knew I was in good hands.

It hurt, but not as much as I expected, which was a good thing of course. I was so happy when I looked at it in the mirror in the studio! It is a dream come true to some extent because now I won’t be getting any more piercings. Probably not a tattoo either, I do not want my parents to disown me.

I will write about this in more detail later on under Body Art, the category. I am just super excited now and I so love my new body jewellery — it’s a vision.

P.S: If I don’t post anything in two or three days, know that I am dead and throw me a nice cyber funeral. There is a very good chance my mother will kill me.