What age did your DD get a second piercing?

[Anonymous]

Well, we didn’t let her get her first piercing until her 13th birthday. It has been 8 months and she has asked about a second piercing. I told her 18, but there is a reasonable likelihood we will relent for her 16th birthday if she has been consistently wanting this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not a fan of more than one pair of piercings, but then I'm very traditional when it comes to body modification. My 15 year old expects to get her ears pierced at some point, but not right now. I got my ears pierced in my early 20s.

Good luck. My mom was like this. I got my septum, belly, and clit Freshman year.

So? You think your mom should have let you do that at 12?

No, but I think a more relaxed attitude towards things like a second hole at 12 and in parenting generally wouldn't have had me rushing out the gate like a cooped up racehorse ready to do any and everything I had been told "no" to.

[Anonymous]

11. I also got my 2nd at 11.

[Anonymous]

Is she good with taking care of them now? A second ear piercing now is not at all a big deal

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a fan of more than one pair of piercings, but then I'm very traditional when it comes to body modification. My 15 year old expects to get her ears pierced at some point, but not right now. I got my ears pierced in my early 20s.

Good luck. My mom was like this. I got my septum, belly, and clit Freshman year.

So? You think your mom should have let you do that at 12?

No, but I think a more relaxed attitude towards things like a second hole at 12 and in parenting generally wouldn't have had me rushing out the gate like a cooped up racehorse ready to do any and everything I had been told "no" to.

Assuming you are now a fully grown adult, I can’t believe that you aren’t taking responsibility for your own choices. Your parents didn’t “make” you rush out at 18 to get piercings. Sounds like you were still young and impulsive (totally normal) and you made some choices that made sense to you at the time.

My parents were insanely strict and I didn’t rebel or go wild in college - I did start making choices they wouldn’t have let me do if I had been living with them, but that were things I wanted. But I don’t have an impulsive personality, so I didn’t get more piercings until I was in my early 20s. I never got a tattoo because I couldn’t decide on anything I wanted to have on my skin forever.

[Anonymous]

It is hysterical to me how much DCUM clutches their pearls over EAR PIERCINGS which are extremely popular to the point where I work in a very conservative industry and even the most senior women in the office have multiple lobe piercings and piercings in other parts of the ear besides the lobe.

I got my second hole done when I was 10. I went with my mom, who was 40 at the time, and she got her second holes in her lobe as well.

[Anonymous]

My DD was around 11. 6th grade? I thought it was a very low-risk simple request to grant. She had a cool sense of style and I didn’t mind her getting a piercing.

I’m not sure why people say 16 or 18. A second piercing isn’t difficult to take care of and clean for a middle schooler. My kid is pretty wholesome and now has three piercings - she is 15.

[Anonymous]

My 16yo got a second set over the summer, it looks great and actually has me considering doing the same.

When she got her first ear piercings she was young enough that I couldn't find a piercer to do it (like a piercer in a tattoo/piercing studio) so I had it done by a pediatrician's office. This time around was with a "real" piercer and I was shocked at how much better she healed with it. If you can find a piercer who will work with children your age then that would be more important to me than waiting for other reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was around 11. 6th grade? I thought it was a very low-risk simple request to grant. She had a cool sense of style and I didn’t mind her getting a piercing.

I’m not sure why people say 16 or 18. A second piercing isn’t difficult to take care of and clean for a middle schooler. My kid is pretty wholesome and now has three piercings - she is 15.

I mean, there is a not-insignificant number of people here who think any nail polish other than clear is only for wanton Jezebels.

[Anonymous]

I have a ds, but about half of the (wealthy, somewhat conservative) teen girls I see have multiple piercings. The current style is for multiple tiny, "dainty" earrings: this is such a mainstream look! These are not going to be the kinds of girls who give themselves "stick and poke" tattoos as one crazed poster here predicted.

OP, I had double lobe piercings in high school, and the second holes closed up without a trace when I stopped wearing earrings there after college. This is really not a big deal.

You can get your daughter some pretty, high quality gold/diamond studs that are popular on Catbird, which seems to be where the teen girls I know like to get their delicate little earrings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a ds, but about half of the (wealthy, somewhat conservative) teen girls I see have multiple piercings. The current style is for multiple tiny, "dainty" earrings: this is such a mainstream look! These are not going to be the kinds of girls who give themselves "stick and poke" tattoos as one crazed poster here predicted.

OP, I had double lobe piercings in high school, and the second holes closed up without a trace when I stopped wearing earrings there after college. This is really not a big deal.

You can get your daughter some pretty, high quality gold/diamond studs that are popular on Catbird, which seems to be where the teen girls I know like to get their delicate little earrings.

Step one: double piercing
Step two: complete transformation to Aileen Wuornos

[Anonymous]

Just allowed my daughter to get her second piercing at age 14 (first piercing was at age 10). We did tell her that this was the last piercing before she turns 18!

[Anonymous]

I told my daughter 16.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is hysterical to me how much DCUM clutches their pearls over EAR PIERCINGS which are extremely popular to the point where I work in a very conservative industry and even the most senior women in the office have multiple lobe piercings and piercings in other parts of the ear besides the lobe.

I got my second hole done when I was 10. I went with my mom, who was 40 at the time, and she got her second holes in her lobe as well.

Right? I am genuinely curious - why? Really why does ear jewelry bother people? Why is it different than other jewelry? Because you have to make a hole? So? Do it safely.

[Anonymous]

Double pierced ears are basic mainstream. There are some that have 20 ear piercings. More common are 4 or 5 per ear.

I don’t see a problem with two.