What age is appropriate for a girl to get the top of her ear pierced?

Question

I want to get my ears pierced at the top of my cartilege and a 2nd and 3rd time on my lobe...my mom is ok with it but i dont know how to convince my dad ( hes a very proper persn and a heavy christian)...so
What is an appropriate age for those types of piercings?
How to convince my dad Im old enough?
P.S. Im 13

p.s. do you think it will look ok since I have small ears.

Answer 1

i think 15 or 16 is reasonable for anything other than one lobe piercing. It may not seem like a big deal but it is. Sure if you don't like it, you let it close, but it scars and is never the same. Plus piercings give off a certain persona in which you have to consider, you may not live up to this sterotype but its a reality. If you really think you want this just explain to your dad intellegently why. Don't say "my friends have one" or "its not a big deal" etc, give real reasons why like "expressing my individuality, in a very small way". good luck

Answer 2

I don't see what "heavy Christian" has to do with it. I am, and I have 7 piercings. Three on the bottom of each ear and one in the cartilage of my left ear. One day, I'd like to get my tongue and bellybutton pierced. It's all in the doctrine, I think.

Until your dad agrees, you probably have no option but to wait. I don't see a problem with you doing it now.

Well, one small problem, but nothing to do with maturity. Until you are done with your puberty growth spurt, different areas of your body will grow at different times, different rates, everything. That's why so many teens look gangly, clumsy, unfinished. They are. There's a chance that if you get your cartilage pierced now, before your ears are done growing, that they will grow in a way that's different than you anticipate. Your cartilage piercing could end up in a different place than it started. Not drastically, but if you are set on a particular spot, you could be upset with the end result by the time you're 17 or so.

The growth spurts make the most difference for babies. So many girl babies get their ears pierced by their moms because it looks pretty, only for their ears to grow in a direction their moms didn't think of. Some girls end up having the earrings too high on their earlobes, and I heard of one girl who's ear just dumped the earring out after so many years. Her lobes grew above the hole and receded below it until you could never tell there was a hole there. Fantastic, I know.

Your dad isn't a terrible person for feeling the way he does. It's true that piercings used to define a slave, and that is still a shadow today, though it doesn't bother the people that remember. It's also true that Jesus told us to treat our bodies as temples of the Lord, to not defile them, and some people think that includes piercings. I really think it's a personal decision, what they think it means and how it should apply. Your dad isn't rejecting you out of hand; he does have his reasons. Talk to him and see if he'll tell you what his are. Ask for a compromise; you never know what will happen.

Answer 3

strong... i do not evaluate getting a new child's ears pierced because the of the unfavorable aspects. though, see you later as you're attentive to those negative aspects and take precautions they are minimum, and the possibilities of a scar are low. For representation, do not get them pierced on the mall. Have the health practitioner pierce them. Your pediatrician. you could also look at a piercing parlor (someone who does authentic piercings) besides the undeniable fact that the health practitioner is the first-type. they are going to use a needle and some even be conscious somewhat affliction killer so the youngster does no longer trust it in any respect. they ought to under no circumstances use a gun on a new child. Scars on the total come from infections, and contained in the shape you get it performed by utilizing utilizing a health care service the prospect of an infection are low (and they could inform you what to do to make it scale down.) Be very vigilant because the your youngster won't be able to inform you in the adventure that they are having an hypersensitive reaction to the metallic (surgical metallic should be used for the earrings, now no longer gold, silver, or some element else...) and that could want to also flow away a scar. also if it could be finished on the health care specialist the possibilities of her being uncovered to a blood-born ailment is way scale back. the different danger comes from utilising jewellery without lock on backings, or from the earrings installation embedded. If she messes inclusive of her earrings, then i'd take them out on condition that eventually she will be able to get them free and if she swallowed area of it, then it could be unfavorable. And embedding you in person-friendly words pay attention of and take them to the health care service once you seeing the skin strengthen over the earring. All of those negative aspects are lengthy lengthy gone once you wait until eventually your daughter is historic adequate to take care of the earrings herself (that's what the AAP recommends doing.) yet once you're determined then be attentive to the disadvantages so that you may want to do it extra appropriately.

Answer 4

15

Answer 5

Hello

Hmmm.. 13 is actually OK. But if your dad will NOT let you... I would wait until 18 so you are on your own... A good way to convince him is to have your mom and you team up on him.. Or... you can explain that you think you are old enough to start making decisions.

Note: those arent allowed at most schools. And also, a lot of people think they look bad o_O

Good luck

Answer 6

Oh for God's sake people! Get out of the stone ages! If I had a daughter and she wanted to get the top of her ear pierced, I'd take her to do it. It's better than those big old ear stretchers the guys are wearing where you can see straight through their earlobe because it's stretched to the size of a quarter. Gag. I got mine done at 16. I'm 33 and still have it. I wear a tiny silver hoop in it and it looks fine. Here's one for ya ...I have my belly button pierced, too.

Answer 7

I'm 14 and I got my first hole when i was 10, and my second when i was 11, since then I got a 3rd hole and the top pierced. I only asked my dad about the first ones, either he's never noticed the others, or he just dosen't care, good luck

Answer 8

To me any age. I had my ears pierced before I was a year old. I'm 15 now. so I had the piercings all my life but I haven't worn earings in a year

Answer 9

Tell him everyone has belly rings and you would like to be more classy and appropriate so you think getting your ear done is better. Dad's are hard to convince! Be careful if you ever get it done that they miss those teeny veins on the back of your ear or it will NEVER heal!

Answer 10

i let my 19 year old do hers at age 14.... ask him if he would be OK with the second piercing on the lobe first and see how it goes and then talk to him about the cartilage later... but 14 is a good age.. Good Luck..but remember always ask your parents first they are only looking out for you....