Anonymous wrote:Also, why is looking "low income" a bad thing?

Here's why. Sometimes people are low income because of a slew of bad luck all at once: car wreck, job loss, health issues all at the same time. But sometimes people are low income because the only job they can get with their neck tattooed is working as a cashier at McDonalds. The reality is nobody will hire you as a lawyer at a law firm if your face is tattooed because their clients won't want to work with you. Sometimes you're low income because of bad decisions. Yes, my elementary school aged DD's Indian friend has her nose pierced. But everyone can look at that and think "Oh, she's Indian, so of course." But if someone shows up for an interview with an eyebrow and labret piercing, there's no good reason for putting holes in your face like that. Except that you're ... somebody who would make decisions like that. It's a personal decision that you're choosing to take out in public, which means strangers will judge it, and I think it's a stupid decision. It's not the person I would want helping to mold my child.

As an adult, I would never allow my parents to make this sort of decision for me. That is your problem; don't make it anybody else's.

Anonymous wrote:I was unaware that anybody over 18 had to ask their parents for permission. My dad hates my nosering but can deal with it.

I can't imagine making any decision let alone a face altering one without asking my parents permission. If they say yes then I would try and get up the nerve to ask my employers their opinion. Of course I personally would never get a nose ring or even cut my hair short or dye it.

I was unaware that anybody over 18 had to ask their parents for permission. My dad hates my nosering but can deal with it.

Are your parents okay with this op?

Anonymous wrote:Also, why is looking "low income" a bad thing?

LOL

Anonymous wrote:I have a nose piercing (yin/yang stud) and I've never had a problem. I've been a nanny for 15+ years.
I don't take it out during interviews.

I would not ask anyone's permission to pierce my nose.

+1

I have a nose piercing (yin/yang stud) and I've never had a problem. I've been a nanny for 15+ years.
I don't take it out during interviews.

I would not ask anyone's permission to pierce my nose.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a nose ring (a ring, not a stud), and none of my employers have ever said anything about it.

I also have other piercings that my employers do not know about, because I keep healthy boundaries in our relationships.[/quote]

+1

Between my armpits and upper thighs I have multiple tattoos and piercings that my employers have no idea about. I also have multiple ear piercings and a few tattoos they have seen, and have no issue with. As they are neither uptight nor ignorant, I'm confident that it wouldn't be an issue if I got a facial piercing.

"It looks trashy" and "the baby might grab it" are incorrect and ignorant arguments against facial piercings. [/quote]

To think a baby wouldn't try to pull on a piercing at some point is ignorant. [/quote]

Not knowing how to keep a baby from hurting you/wrecking things they try to grab (be it piercings, jewelry, hair, clothing, glasses, etc.) is straight up stupid. If you can't figure out how to avoid a baby pulling on a small piece of metal, you probably shouldn't be around babies. Have you heard anyone yet mention that a baby pulled out their piercing?[/quote]

I know people who won't wear anytype of hoops or dangly earrings because baby grabbed them. I guess you only have to feel that sort of pain once not to do it again.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a nose ring (a ring, not a stud), and none of my employers have ever said anything about it.

I also have other piercings that my employers do not know about, because I keep healthy boundaries in our relationships.[/quote]

+1

Between my armpits and upper thighs I have multiple tattoos and piercings that my employers have no idea about. I also have multiple ear piercings and a few tattoos they have seen, and have no issue with. As they are neither uptight nor ignorant, I'm confident that it wouldn't be an issue if I got a facial piercing.

"It looks trashy" and "the baby might grab it" are incorrect and ignorant arguments against facial piercings. [/quote]

To think a baby wouldn't try to pull on a piercing at some point is ignorant. [/quote]

Not knowing how to keep a baby from hurting you/wrecking things they try to grab (be it piercings, jewelry, hair, clothing, glasses, etc.) is straight up stupid. If you can't figure out how to avoid a baby pulling on a small piece of metal, you probably shouldn't be around babies. Have you heard anyone yet mention that a baby pulled out their piercing?

It isn't an issue because I would not hire anyone with visible piercings in the first place.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a nose ring (a ring, not a stud), and none of my employers have ever said anything about it.

I also have other piercings that my employers do not know about, because I keep healthy boundaries in our relationships.

+1

Between my armpits and upper thighs I have multiple tattoos and piercings that my employers have no idea about. I also have multiple ear piercings and a few tattoos they have seen, and have no issue with. As they are neither uptight nor ignorant, I'm confident that it wouldn't be an issue if I got a facial piercing.

"It looks trashy" and "the baby might grab it" are incorrect and ignorant arguments against facial piercings.

To think a baby wouldn't try to pull on a piercing at some point is ignorant.

They can try of course. The fact remains that they won't be able to. Its too small. Unless your nanny has some obscenely large hoop in her nose, its really not a big deal. Has your baby ripped out your eyelashes yet? No? You're fast enough to swat them away? I'm a nanny with a nose stud and not once, not ONCE has a child pulled on it. There's nothing to pull on. They occasionally touch it, and it doesn't hurt. My glasses are a bigger hazard and no one has suggested that they wouldn't hire a nanny with glasses. People without piercings don't understand piercings. If you are concerned ask your candidate about it and she will inform you that it is a non issue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a nose ring (a ring, not a stud), and none of my employers have ever said anything about it.

I also have other piercings that my employers do not know about, because I keep healthy boundaries in our relationships.

+1

Between my armpits and upper thighs I have multiple tattoos and piercings that my employers have no idea about. I also have multiple ear piercings and a few tattoos they have seen, and have no issue with. As they are neither uptight nor ignorant, I'm confident that it wouldn't be an issue if I got a facial piercing.

"It looks trashy" and "the baby might grab it" are incorrect and ignorant arguments against facial piercings.

To think a baby wouldn't try to pull on a piercing at some point is ignorant.

Anonymous wrote:I have a nose ring (a ring, not a stud), and none of my employers have ever said anything about it.

I also have other piercings that my employers do not know about, because I keep healthy boundaries in our relationships.

+1

Between my armpits and upper thighs I have multiple tattoos and piercings that my employers have no idea about. I also have multiple ear piercings and a few tattoos they have seen, and have no issue with. As they are neither uptight nor ignorant, I'm confident that it wouldn't be an issue if I got a facial piercing.

"It looks trashy" and "the baby might grab it" are incorrect and ignorant arguments against facial piercings.

Also, why is looking "low income" a bad thing?