Earrings?

Aleesha, have you ever had any regrets about your nose piercing?
My daughter has been begging for 2 years to get hers done, and I'm thinking about letting her for her 16th bday. I'm open to any input on this subject!

16 is a great age to let one's child make a decision like this. I think that if they don't like their decision they are old enough to own up to it being a mistake.


Take a look at http://www.bodycandy.com for some great items. They are a quality company.

Also http://www.hottopic.com has a body peircing section that has a really good FAQ. Have her look at this before getting her nose pierced -- it'll let her know what she is getting into.

best wishes.

I actually chose when I was 16 to get my ear pierced. Luckily both my parents stood by it, and basically said if you have it a few weeks/months and don't like it pull the ring and it will heal. I still have it, and don't regret it one bit. At one point I wore 10 gauge plugs, but let it go back to a 16/18 gauge. I'm actually thinking about getting my other ear done and gauging to 4 or 6.

Just remember go slow! I have a buddy who jumped sizes too fast, didn't take care of his skin and his lobes busted.

-Jason

Sarah, my oldest daughter wanted her nose pierced and rather than have her go behind my back I took her to a really nice place and paid to have it done. It was a lovely small thing and she liked it (I got "cool mom" points too :) ). The nice thing was when later she was bored of it, it closed up and you'd never know it was ever there. The only guideline I've ever given my teens is that whatever they do piercing or tattoo wise should be discrete as there are a number of professions/employers that really frown on that sort of thing.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

The only guideline I've ever given my teens is that whatever they do piercing or tattoo wise should be discrete as there are a number of professions/employers that really frown on that sort of thing.

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Extreemly good advice! I tell this to my son all the time, and he has been responsible with his body.

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

Aleesha, have you ever had any regrets about your nose piercing?
My daughter has been begging for 2 years to get hers done, and I'm thinking about letting her for her 16th bday. I'm open to any input on this subject!

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I got my navel piercing when I was 16 with my mom in the room. It was a good experience for both of us, I think. She got to see me all proud of myself for making (at the time) a pretty big decision, and I had the confidence that my mom would allow me to negotiate with her on things, and that I could do something that was pretty scary to me when I got it.

It fell out about a year later and closed while I was asleep :( But that's okay, in my current job I don't want any kind of navel piercing around, since kid's heads are about belly height!

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Originally Posted by mousch

I got my navel piercing when I was 16 with my mom in the room. It was a good experience for both of us, I think. She got to see me all proud of myself for making (at the time) a pretty big decision, and I had the confidence that my mom would allow me to negotiate with her on things, and that I could do something that was pretty scary to me when I got it.

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I think you mom deserves some major "cool points" for that! :) (though as a mom I can bet somewhere inside her mom heart she was screaming "hey that's MY baby, don't you stick needles in MY baby" LOL...I know I was but then I'm the kind of mom that even though they need them...I hated to take them for their innoculations too...I'm a big softie!)

I don't have enough room in my posts to explain why my mom gets LOTS of cool points... but one of her major "events" she'd been waiting to experience with me since I was a little baby?

Watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show together for the first time. That's right, my mom claimed my RHPS virgin point from the day I was born. (she managed to wait til I was 17 :P)

Thanks for all the excellent advice! It sounds a lot less traumatic than I have been figuring, hearing all these good experiences. I'm all about tats, but piercings have always freaked me out a bit, so I wasn't sure where to go with this. I'll go ahead and let her have it done this year.

Mousch, I'm also waiting breathlessly to take my daughter to RHPS! She has the dvd, and dressed as Columbia for Halloween last year. The live action troupe in Dallas shut down a few years back, and the closest one to us now is in Ft. Worth. Their website says 18+ only, though :(
I should email them and see if they'll let me bring Courtney when she turns 16.

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

The live action troupe in Dallas shut down a few years back, and the closest one to us now is in Ft. Worth. Their website says 18+ only, though :(
I should email them and see if they'll let me bring Courtney when she turns 16.

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Most places will with parent concent. You have to sign wavers and all that junk but most will.