Childs ear piercing!!

[Dragonfly Fi]

I think there is a huge difference between putting none invasive jewellery on a child (which is totally subjective) and putting HOLES IN A BABY for purely asthetic reasons. A baby couldnt care less if it has its ears pierced which to me suggests its far more about the parent than the child, so it is a carer putting an innocent baby with no way of helping itself, in pain for their own gains

i fell very strongly it should be banned.

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

Oh can i just add, i went to school with a girl who had her ears pierced at a very young age, at 3 years old she was playing on a long pile rug, playfighting with a friend and her stud got caught in the pile. It ripped her earlobe clean in half and she still remembers the pain and all the blood

her earlobe go infected and never grew back again so now (and forever) she will have one deformed, double ear lobe on one side.

 

[netty]

thats awful fi, exactly why there should be an age limit on it. If you do genital piercings or nipple piercings you have to be 18 otherwise it is considered abuse! any other peircing though no limits are applied, when i was a piercer i had to be so careful

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

So could you (effectively) get a childs nose or eyebrow pierced lynette? - not that i would of course i am just gobsmacked, i thought it was only earlobes that were allowed until age of consent (wasnt sure if it was 16 or 18 though x)

 

[inky]

My piercer won't pierce anything (not even lobes) unless they can show proof that they are 18 or over. He says it's just not worth any problems that might come up later on. I believe the law says that anyone (whatever age) can have any piercing as long as they consent, other than genital piercings and nipple piercings for girls, for which they must be at least 16. So theoretically yes, it would be legal to get a child's eyebrow pierced so long as they consent, but I would like to think that no reputable piercer would even dream of it, let alone actually do it!

 

[AugustMum]

I didn't like the pictures in that article

I think for lobe peircings it should be something like 12/13 years old and any other peircing 16 apart from genital and nipples which should be 18. Saying that though...I got my lobes done at 11 and nipples at 16 :/ But I think things need to be stricter imho. The studio I went to they just say 'whats your age' and you just say 16 and theyre like 'yeah fine'. Its rediculous!

 

[netty]

So could you (effectively) get a childs nose or eyebrow pierced lynette? - not that i would of course i am just gobsmacked, i thought it was only earlobes that were allowed until age of consent (wasnt sure if it was 16 or 18 though x)

yes fi i could have done as there is actually no legalisation as far as I am aware to say otherwise, i was a piercer a good 7 years or so ago but i dont think this has chnaged, i used to be strict as it was my ass on the line. I once pierced a girls toungue as she had an adult with her who said he was her mum ( what can you do??!! ) next day her real mum marched her in and nearly took my head off for doing it. there is a girl who goes to school with my brother she is 13 and she has had her toungue and lip pierced its stupid, the body is still growing att this point and so the chances of your body rejecting the peircing are much higher, this leaves children scarred!!

 

[LuW]

where my friends had all hers done thats exactly what they're like! Even with tattoos - they just go - how old? you say whatever you want, the bloke gives you a funny look then shouts for the girl who does the piercings=/

It's sen like 14 year olds with microdermals in their cheeks recently, not even well placed ones either. And I've seen people with them in the bit between the thumb and the rest of the hand even though that clearly isnt a safe place for something thats just inside your skin (I've know friends have 'real' piercings there and they would pull them and never really healed.) I think a lot of the people doing the piercings don't know what they're doing (not all because I know some are EXTREMELY responcible, just quiet a few- 'spesh with 'new' piercings styles)

 

[Amyrose]

My sons friend has his lobes stretched he's 10!!!! I'm horrified that his mum would allow him to do that

 

[LuW]

^^ wtf!!!!

 

[AugustMum]

I did that at 14 and my mum said if I didn't take them out she'd pin me down and do it herself! 10 is crazy.

 

[Amyrose]

I know what I would. Tell my child if he asked for that. I think they have more money then sense tbh

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

that doesnt say much about how much money they have Amy... they clearly have NO sense!

 

[Amyrose]

I know hun it was just a way of saying they are silly ( Tis an Irish saying lol) x

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

yeah i know i have heard it before

 

[tinytoes]

My sons friend has his lobes stretched he's 10!!!! I'm horrified that his mum would allow him to do that

That is a disgrace !

 

[Amyrose]

Total disgrace I actually feel quiet sad for the boy as he is a lovely kid and can't help but think given a little guidance he would never have done it. I can't imagine who did it for him

 

[hopefulmummy]

I think those stretched ear lobes look disgusting no matter what age or gender. Why on earth would you want to do that? Yuck!

 

[Dragonfly Fi]

Liam had his lobe stretched, was horrible! and smelt AWFUL!

to be fair though, he took the damn thing out (Finally) and its gone back to nothing now

 

[AugustMum]

Oh I love stretchers but only the smaller ones. I had pretty purple and pink ones