Nose Rings for Teens?

[DVCLiz]

DD16 has one piercing in each ear - and, as of 3pm today, a tiny stud in her right nostril. Honestly, I think it is tiny and unobtrusive and I relented pretty quickly after my automatic mother "NO!" came out first.

Do your teens have any piercings? I was surprisingly not bothered by this one but would definitely say no to anything else or to any tattoos.

Do your teens have this? Any issues she should be aware of? Of course my only question to our friend who is a college student and has one was, "Can you still pick your nose?" The answer was yes...

I just realized I used the word "tiny" twice in this post - maybe I am trying to talk myself into thinking it is smaller than it really is...

 

[brenalexacamp]

I don't know what to tell you- I always told my kids-not your face- you can pierce anything else! My dd has belly button, and about 3 holes in each ear and upper cartilage. She can hide with her hair if she needed to or take it out and no one would know. Also the plugs in the ears- a no no

She pierced her own nose one day at a friend's- we made her take it out and she couldn't go anywhere for weeks! You never know what type of job you will have later- you cannot close those holes(although I am pretty sure a plastic surgeon could) shhh..............
ds-20
ds-17
dd16

 

[MrsPete]

I don't know what to tell you- I always told my kids-not your face- you can pierce anything else!

I'd say that the ears are part of "the face" too. Those gages (or is it gauges?) that some kids wear will last forever -- or, rather, the holes in the ears will last forever. It's not like a little unobtrusive hole in the earlobe.

 

[sstanaford]

you cannot close those holes

I pierced my nose when I was 29 and the hole is so tiny when my nose ring isn't it that you would not notice it at all. And they do close because my friend had hers done for 9 years and took it out, after a couple months you barely knew where it was.

It is so common now that most places don't notice it. If they did it can easily be taken out during the day and put back in at night.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I always wondered how you get one of those things in and out of your nose. But I don't really want to know.

I don't have a problem with nose rings, but I probably personally would not have said yes until 18. I guess that's easy for me to say now because my youngest (DS) is 17, and it just never came up for any of the kids. My DD, now 19, went with a friend who was getting a tattoo and swore she wouldn't get one (very fearful of needles) and sure enough came home with one. We were surprised, but think it's a nice tattoo. She got her belly button pierced too. I kind of on that one, but don't think it's a big deal either. If I had her skinny little figure, I'd be adorning it too. (I want to get a tattoo, but someplace on my body least likely to ever sag...bottom of my foot? LOL)

BTW, my DDs both have one hole in each ear...I've got 3 in one, and 5 in the other.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

DD16 has one piercing in each ear - and, as of 3pm today, a tiny stud in her right nostril. Honestly, I think it is tiny and unobtrusive and I relented pretty quickly after my automatic mother "NO!" came out first.

Do your teens have any piercings? I was surprisingly not bothered by this one but would definitely say no to anything else or to any tattoos.

Do your teens have this? Any issues she should be aware of? Of course my only question to our friend who is a college student and has one was, "Can you still pick your nose?" The answer was yes...

I just realized I used the word "tiny" twice in this post - maybe I am trying to talk myself into thinking it is smaller than it really is...

Just quoting, cuz no one else followed the rule.

 

[SpecialK]

I'm not fond of nose piercings. I've always wondered how big a post the nose studs have, and how do you blow your nose with a piercing in?

 

[WhateverLolaWants]

I'm not fond of nose piercings. I've always wondered how big a post the nose studs have, and how do you blow your nose with a piercing in?

The same way you do Nose piercings are typically 18g or 20g (20g being smaller than 18g) which is a millimeter or less.

I've had my nose pierced since I was 18. I've had no problems getting jobs - I've even worked at Disney. Once it heals, you can take it in and out and change the jewelry (bodyartforms.com is my favorite place to buy from). And as a PP mentioned, it can close up fairly easily. I've been pierced for 7 years and this past winter it started to close up a tad. No other advice except make sure she takes care of it during healing. Oh and never use a nose bone, screws are way better.

Also, I want to point out that my mother cried when I came home and she knew I was going to get it done because I made sure she wouldn't disown me afterward. She doesn't even notice it anymore, so you will get used it!

 

[RitaE]

My oldest son wanted his ears pierced which sent his Dad into hyperventilation.
I had a feeling I would lose the battle one way or another ... let him do it or he'd just take a needle and do it himself. So I decided to get something out of it and made a deal "One set of holes and you promise me no more and no tattoos."

Now he's 20 and he has stuck by that. I'm glad. I'm really okay with the earrings (his Dad tries not to think about it) and I really wouldn't have liked tattoos.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

I had mine peiced at 18. I did it myself and it was just fine. I did get very sick at one point and it was very hard to keep boogers from sticking to my nose ring. my hole closed up within 3 months of me poping it out.

 

[Pigeon]

No, and they won't be getting them until they are self-supporting.

 

[luvmy3]

I had mine peiced at 18. I did it myself and it was just fine. I did get very sick at one point and it was very hard to keep boogers from sticking to my nose ring. my hole closed up within 3 months of me poping it out.

I'm going to show this post to dd in case she gets any ideas

 

[mhsjax]

No, and they won't be getting them until they are self-supporting.

This. And not only this, but when they come to see me, don't come with a nose ring or anything else on your face.

I can see the most beautiful girl or woman, or the most good looking guy and as soon as I see a nose ring, they become very unatractive, JMHO

 

[Planogirl]

I decided long ago that anything small and not permanent is no big deal to me. In other words no tatoos or guage earrings. What DS does once he is on his own is his own decision.

DS has shown no interest in any of it so far though.

 

[Art 1]

I would not have let either of my daughters to that, they would no have been allowed in the school with a pierced nose.

 

[luvsJack]

As long as they can stay within the school dress code, I don't have an issue. Both my sons and one of my dil had tongue rings. Now only one son has one. The other went to work offshore and had to let his grow up. Dd is only 11 and hasn't asked for any other piercings but I am sure its coming. We'll take it on a case by case basis.

Most of both my sons' friends have eyebrow piercings, nose piercings, etc. They all have jobs and lead normal lives. Just not that big of a deal.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

I'm going to show this post to dd in case she gets any ideas

BUT it didnt hurt! If I did it agian I would use a actual nose stud insted of my diy verison (a long needle).

 

[DVCLiz]

Just quoting, cuz no one else followed the rule.

When I hear "nose ring" I think of that thing you lead a bull around by. This is not that thing - it's through the side of her nostril. The ones they showed me looked like a very small straight pin that was bent at the end - there is no "back" to stick on the post, like a stud earring I am used to - just slide it in and the bend keeps it in place. I'm glad to hear some of you say it can close up and be fairly unnoticable - that's what I was told by a friend and I want to believe it!!

I think those gauge things are hideous and I don't even really like the belly button or more than one piercing in an ear - that's why I was so surprised to find I really didn't have such strong feelings about this nose thing. Generally I am pretty conservative about all that stuff.

What grossed me out the most was the place was playing the movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" when we got there, and while DD16 was trying not to be nervous (and failing - she broke out in a literal cold sweat as he was doing it) I was listening to a chainsaw and a girl screaming in the background - and I HATE anything scary on TV or in a movie and can't even watch a commercial. So there I was trying to keep her calm and trying not to listen to the movie soundtrack blaring throughout the building. Fun!!

 

[luvmy3]

BUT it didnt hurt! If I did it agian I would use a actual nose stud insted of my diy verison (a long needle).

She would have an issue with the ick factor of the boogies

In reality I wouldn't have a problem with a nose piercing as long as it was a tasteful nosering and not some huge gawdy thing. My niece has one, its a very small diamond and I think it looks cute.

 

[bluesaturn]

I really regret never getting my nose pierced while I was in college. Now I'm working and I don't think I could get one because of my job.