Miguel sticks surgical needles through his face for fun and says the experience is a pleasurable one. ARMENIA, COLOMBIA: MEET THE man who sticks up to THIRTY surgical needles at a time through his face and arms for FUN - leaving him covered in blood. Professional piercer Miguel Andres (28) from Armenia, Colombia, grew up in a normal Catholic family. For as long as he can remember, Miguel was fascinated by people with piercings on television and in public and knew that he wanted piercings for himself. By the age of 11, Miguel had pierced his lobes using a sewing needle and just one year later, aged 12, he got his tongue pierced at a professional studio. Since then, Miguel has 15 plug piercings across his ears, lips, nose and nipples. Plug piercings are a type of modification in which a pierced hole is gradually stretched using larger and larger earrings in order to make a wider tunnel in the flesh. Due to Miguel?s work as a piercer, he is fortunate to be able to trade his services with his piercer friends, getting the vast majority of his modifications for free. Miguel also has a ?Prince Albert? piercing through his penis, a split tongue that looks like that of a snake and over 50 tattoos across his face and body. More recently, Miguel has become involved in ?play piercing?. As the name suggests, this involves piercing himself for fun, often sticking up to 30 surgical needles through the skin on his arms and face at once. Whilst most people would faint at the mere thought of this, Miguel says that he has a much higher tolerance to pain than the average person and finds being a human pin cushion a pleasant and even pleasurable experience. When Miguel is out and about, strangers often do not react fondly towards him, often whispering about his unique look and saying he looks disgusting and asking why he would disfigure himself. Miguel doesn?t mind too much as he jokes that he always manages to get a seat to himself on the bus. Whilst a face full of needles certainly is