Advice with Teenage Daughters & Piercings

[shawnada]

BELLY BUTTON PIERCING OR TONGUE PIERCING? Hmmmm! BELLY BUTTON PIERCING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has good open communication with you and silver and hope she has good morals from her upbringing and is trying to express herself in a more conservative choice. My daughter at 16 asked for a tattoo. I said sure but I wanted to go and watch. shes 22 and unmarked.

[KnottedYet]

The nice thing about a piercing is that once it is healed you can be as outrageous (HUGE gaudy jewelry) or understated (simple titanium post) as you want. You can hide it with "placekeeper" jewelry (which ends up looking like a small flat scar or a zit) or just leave it jewelry-free as needed. If a youngster wants to do some body mods, I vote piercing over tattoo.

Aftercare is sooooo important. If Silverdaughter has trouble, even after following the directions from the piercer, don't hesitate to get to the doc. I had a piercing (NOT from a professional piercer) go bad, and it was ugly ugly ugly. I had to just let it heal over and deal with the infection after the damage was already done, as I didn't go to the doc soon enough.

BTW, *don't* google failed and infected piercings. Just don't. The vast majority of piercings turn out fine.

[rij73]

I'm late to the thread, but I think it's a good choice, Mr. Silver! I never did anything like that when I supposed be young and reckless. Got my navel pierced at age 26! I felt so happy about it... Like I was finally a "cool" person.

It took FOREVER to heal. Hope your daughter cares for it properly. I still have mine 8 years later, and I still really like it.