12-07-2018, 10:01 AM
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Re: Earrings
Originally Posted by tarantula
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I think it should be illegal to have a child's ears pierced until they are of an age to understand what is going on and to know they have to be careful not to get the piercing infected.12-07-2018, 10:30 AM
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Re: Earrings
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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It was certainly against school rules when I was young. Anyone who turned up wearing jewellery of any kind received 10 bad conduct marks and the items were confiscated until the end of term.
12-07-2018, 10:38 AM
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Re: Earrings
Originally Posted by tarantula
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When I was young I don't ever remember seeing a child with pierced ears, it just wasn't done.
12-07-2018, 10:49 AM
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I had my ears pierced when I was sixteen and always wear earrings when I go out, dont feel dressed without them. My daughter had her ears pierced when she was about thirteen. I told her that she could not them done whilst she was still at school, but unbeknown to me she had saved her pocket money and came home one day with them done. There was nothing I could say or do about it. She too always wears earrings12-07-2018, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by CeeCee
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I had my ears pierced when I was sixteen and always wear earrings when I go out, dont feel dressed without them. My daughter had her ears pierced when she was about thirteen. I told her that she could not them done whilst she was still at school, but unbeknown to me she had saved her pocket money and came home one day with them done. There was nothing I could say or do about it. She too always wears earrings
Most reputable places would not pierce a child’s ears if they were under the age requirement.
12-07-2018, 01:34 PM
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My goodness, I would feel naked without my gold stud earrings. Always wore different shapes and size earrings when younger but as grew older and hair shorter with ears showing, Studs look smarter.I will never forget how nervous I felt when I first went to have my ears pierced at the local jewellers at the age of 16. I had been looking forward to having lovely pierced earrings after having to wear clip -ons, which were usually so cheap that they always seemed to end up pinching my earlobes and making them red and sore when removed.
I was so scared I took my friend with me and held onto her hand tightly as the girl rubbed some antiseptic solution onto my earlobe. I must have crushed my poor friends hand so much as the machine punched a hole in my left earlobe and inserted the compulsory gold pierced ring earring that anyone who had their ears pierced, had to wear for the first six weeks before being allowed to wear ordinary pierced earrings. Anyway, the first pierced ear wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be so when she went to do the other earlobe, and just when I was beginning to relax a little bit more, she did the deed and then couldn't get the gold ring earring to go in and fasten. She told me it was because " I had gristle in my ear" Charming!. I felt so weird when I stood up, I don't even recall paying her. I just remember walking down the street to our local haunt, The National Milk Bar, and downing three cups of Expresso Coffee.
I do remember that I had to rub this antiseptic solution to my ears and keep moving the rings for six long weeks. It was a lovely feeling when I was finally able to take them out and wear whatever pierced earrings I wanted. At the time it was usually those really large ring ones that everyone like me, who had the Farrah Fawcett Hairstyle, seemed to wear. Happy days!
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