Ha, that’s funny! Well, the OP was active a few days ago, so we’ll get to find out what happened.
She turned 18 about 7 years ago…
Hah! I was thinking, ‘who pierces their bellybutton any more?’ and then I looked at the dates.
I was in high school in the early 00s and a whole bunch of my female friends my age had theirs done, with or without parent’s permission. Some of them still have them in. But it was a huge trend that died off pretty quickly.
First off. If it gets infected, you just take it out and it heals in a few days. Not a big deal.
Probably not wise to judge your daughter from one singular post, but it does seem to me that she holds a higher degree of responsibility than most kids her age. This for me, as a parent, is a biggie.
This is the deal I have with my sons. They can dye there hair purple and pierce whatever they want to pierce as long as they don’t act like fuck ups. In other words: Make good grades and get their chores done.
My oldest has a job. He isn’t expected to keep that job but if he does want to quit; he needs to do so properly. Also, if he isn’t going to quit, he needs to be there when scheduled.
Thankfully, I don’t have a problem with any of that stuff. So in return he gets to have his crazy hair, (It’s not purple, just crazy looking. Like, I just got out of bed and can’t be bothered to comb it.) BOTH his ears pierced and one crazy ass wardrobe.,
Yep, I’m sure the now-25-year-old-daughter of the OP has either pierced her bellybutton or not, regardless of what all the new posts in the last 24 hours have advised…
I would say yes for many of the reasons above. Especially since it is one of the more classy “nonstandard” piercings a girl can get. I’d prefer my hypothetical daughter to get her belly button pierced than her eyebrow or lip or any other stupid place on her face.
Why is it an unhealthy attitude to think that a belly button ring wouldn’t be best displayed on someone who is overweight?
She’s got the rest of her life to feel ashamed of her body and her sex life (rumored or real). If it doesn’t bother her, let her do it. Yes, it may very well get infected and pain her and leave a scar (on top of what is, itself, a scar). Not the end of the world.
I agree, though, that depending on the camp it may be more sanitary and safer to have it heal at home.
Give clothahump a break, when you’re 200 years old I’m sure your cognitive abilities will no longer be up to par either.
Is it just me or has the SDMB been zombie-ridden these past few months?
It’s the Google-indexing.
snerk I love how people think a piercing or tattoo makes a girl look slutty. I have a tattoo (username very relevant) and I’m pretty damn sure everyone in this thread is more, as the OP says, ‘fast’ than me.
My niece went through all of this for a naval piercing a few years ago. Her parents put their collective foot down and said no, not until you’re 18. Period. It’s what I would have done if she’d been my daughter.
For the record, I have a tattoo and three piercings in my left ear. All of my ‘bodywork’ began long after I turned 21, the tattoo not being done until I was 40!
So, faced with the parental ultimatim, she waited. Not only that, but they made her research piercing places in the Muncie area (Ball state) at my suggestion. I did the same thing when I decided to get my one and only tattoo in Indianapolis.
Tat parlors are a dime a dozen around here, but I wasn’t about to walk into just anywhere so just anybody could start sticking me with needles. Granted it’s only an inch by two on my left ankle, but that wasn’t the point. I wanted to make sure where I was going was licensed and playing by the hygiene rules.
I visited several places and watched their artists at work, taking note of whether or not they wore gloves, how well and how long stuff was sterilized - and did they use prepackaged sterilized needles (some places don’t! :eek: ) and took a good long look at the inks being used and what they were poured into. Not to mention finding out if these were any good at drawing!
She did the same, and eventually got her naval piercing once she turned 18, then added multiple piercings to her left ear over time.
Fast forward six months, and – you guess it – bye-bye naval piercing. It wouldn’t heal properly and kept getting caught on clothing so she gave up on it as more trouble than it was worth.
It was interesting to note that she also quit wearing the multiple earrings about the same time, and is now down to the standard two per ear. All part of growing up, I guess.
Navel piercings take a long time to heal – usually up to a year, so that’s not unusual. Getting it caught on one’s clothing though that would be the real bitch.
The only problem I had with my nose ring was that I took it out too soon to clean it and then it wouldn’t stop bleeding. So I went back to where I had it done, he told me to put aspirin paste on it, and it fixed it right up.
I’d like to get some different nose-screws, though. I only have the one.
When I eventually get the money and I’m in a position to do so, I’d like to get a cat tattoo on my calf. Being that my name is Kat.
(And my aunt is in her fifties and has multiple piercings in her ears.)
Are you zombie-ridden?
Is it possible to implant magnets under the skin? Then they cold just stick these things on!
I like the magnet idea. 
I also think that kids should wait until they’re 18. In that way, they can also prove they really want it, by waiting…I waited three years for my nose piercing (and still wear it at 35).
I do believe you can, actually. Although if you ever needed an MRI, you’d be screwed.
