piercings and teens.

[kid a]

My 15-yr-old HS sophomore daughter wants her eyebrow pierced before school starts.

Big deal?

Is it time for dad to let go of the cute kid face and let her show her individuality?
My opinion in this ongoing domestic squabble is wait until your 16 - at least.

Mom is still undecided, but leaning toward an OK.

20-yr-old sister is a big NO.

It's our own personal "town hall" dinner time discussion.

:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. let her get it. she can take it out later and the world will hardly end.

though tell her a fashionista you know in nyc, wants her to know that eyebrow piercings are SO OVER. SO OVER.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Agreed on both couts, haha.

I used to have my eyebrow pierced, now I hate that piercing, haha, but if it's what the kid wants, so be it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. lisa, took hers out as well. we live in hipsterville so we cant be too out of fashion

or atleast lisa cant. i can get by on account of being exotic. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

2. I pierced my eyebrow when I was 16.

If she does, make sure she goes to a reputable piercer running a clean shop. Also make sure she takes good care of it. Don't use anything like polysporin on it, just wash it with anti-bacterial soap and rinse it with salt water. Also, make sure she knows not to play with it while it is healing, surface piercings like the eyebrow are a little more prone to infection and rejection than some other piercings, so you want to make sure it's clean while it's healing.

[rcrush]

3. At least thats all she wants to do

She could be one of those kids who wants to make one of those giant ass holes in their ear lobe. Thats so fucking gross.

[Deja Q]

5. Let people do what they want to do.

If everyone else, including a vast majority, say it's wrong, then tough.

Mind you, I no longer care if people don't have any standards of any sort... let "society" collapse. I don't care anymore.

[Orsino]

7. The tree of fashion must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of adolescents.

I'm not sure I see any harm in it, though by now it seems a pretty damned tired way of expressing "individuality."

Is there an important dress code it would violate? Is the teen fulfilling all her responsibilities?

[Taverner]

8. Let her get it, make sure the place is clean however

Although most tat and piercing places are clean and will show you the sterilized equip if you want

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Exactly.

The first thing you see when you get into the shop that I go to is their autoclave.

[snooper2]

10. 18 and she can do what she wants

at least that's what we decided on our daughter who will turn 18 in 18 years and 3 months :)

[jmowreader]

11. Eyebrow piercing is fairly innocuous, I say let her do it

[Obama2012]

12. What ghostofgiants said

[JPZenger]

13. Tell her you want one too ... and she'll lose interest

I think it is fair to make a teen wait until 18.

[auntAgonist]

14. a piercing is no big thing if done right, by the right people

in a clean environment. It beats a tattoo at her age.

go for it.

aA
kesha

[Orrex]

15. Tell her to wait until later in the day

"Before school starts" is much too early in the morning to get a piercing.

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I always told my kids that something like that would have to wait until they were old enough

to have it done without my permission. I didn't want to be complicit in making a decision that they might regret later.

[Obama2012]

18. If they don't like it, they can take it out

It's not a tattoo. Piercings close up.

[SteppingRazor]

17. Why not? As long as it's done right, she can just take it out if she gets sick of it...

and it'll heal up, no problem.

[MissMillie]

19. If you make her wait until she's 18, she'll never be able to say

"Why did you let me do that?"

[XemaSab]

20. If you let her do it now

and she later decides it's stupid, she will have learned the lesson about body mods BEFORE she's 18 and able to walk into a tat shop and walk out 2 hours later with something she'll regret.

I say let her do it.

[Bucky]

21. Tell her she can have both eyebrows pierced, but only with one continuous piercing

She'll look like a freak, but with all the physics and algebra she'll have used to figure out how to do this, she's bound to earn a college scholarship.