In my family, we had to wait until we were 12. I'm pretty sure my mom wanted to make sure we were old enough to take care of it ourselves.
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ChiKat - Mar 26, 2010 7:03:43 am PDT #18787 of 30001
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§ ita § - Mar 26, 2010 7:03:54 am PDT #18788 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had my ears pierced kinda late, because I had them done at the same time as my sister--so I was probably four or five. There were lots of things we weren't old enough to take care of ourselves. Earrings didn't seem that different. I went through a no-adornment phase at 11 or so, and they closed up. Repierced them shortly afterwards. So the daughter getting her ears pierced on dad's watch didn't ping me until it was explained.
Sparky1 - Mar 26, 2010 7:06:52 am PDT #18789 of 30001
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Ear piercing is one of my mother's squicks, so my sisters and I had to wait until we went to college and no longer lived at home.
flea - Mar 26, 2010 7:09:57 am PDT #18790 of 30001
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I have an adult friend my age (mid 30s) without pierced ears, but I think only the one. And my grandmother's (b. 1913) were never pierced - I always found those screw-back earring so strange and evocative. That and the smell of old-fashioned lipstick.
Dana - Mar 26, 2010 7:10:56 am PDT #18791 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
My ears are not pierced.
Amy - Mar 26, 2010 7:13:32 am PDT #18792 of 30001
Because books.
My mom's aren't pierced. It's a bitch to find earrings for her.
I got Sara's ears pierced, but even though I was the one taking care of them, they both got infected. Not until after the initial studs came out and we went to the cheaper novelty earrings, though. Now she's a little gunshy about doing it again, but whatever. When she wants to, I'll let her.
meara - Mar 26, 2010 7:14:32 am PDT #18793 of 30001
I had to wait until 13, "old enough to take care of them myself" was I believe the plan. My birthday is right when school starts, so I convinced my mom to let me get them done six weeks before my birthday so I could CHANGE the earrings by the time school started/my birthday (of course, I promptly went to girl scout camp and they got infected...I forget if I eventually kept them or not. I did have to get them repierced at some point. I've had up to three, in the lobe, but am down to one, these days)
SuziQ - Mar 26, 2010 7:16:25 am PDT #18794 of 30001
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We had to work K-Bug's piercings around her softball schedule. Can't wear jewelry on the field. Though, I think that was when she got her second set.
Barb - Mar 26, 2010 7:17:56 am PDT #18795 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
We avoided all by the most minimal infection, but I was absolutely militant about only keeping in good metal earrings once the initial studs came out. So Abby's only had either yellow or white gold earrings.
Luckily, she's also as lazy as I am about switching earrings out, so she has no real impulse to go switching them out every day as of yet.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2010 7:21:02 am PDT #18796 of 30001
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I had to wait until 13 as well, although I believe 16 was also a common age for the first piercing for more "traditional" parents.
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