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Hello! me again XD you were very helpful last time and i thought you may have a bit more insite for me. I want to get my belly button peirced. On your advice column you said that you know to get your parents to know that you're responsible and trust you. Now, i am 14, so i can understand their not wanting me to do it, but i'd rather have it proffessionally done. (everyone seems to be doing it themselves these days... ouch x.x)
lol any tips?
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Kudos to you for striving to get a body piercing done by a proffessional. Pain is the least important thing you should be worrying about when anyone thinks about doing it themselves. People don't seem to realize that there are PROFFESSIONALS for a reason. Any idiot 13 year old can't just come off the street and know how to properly pierce any part of their own body that they feel should be pierced that particular week. So, please, if my advice doesn't work, don't decide to pierce it yourself. I could tell you a horror story of what happened to me when I was stupid and younge enough to get a friend to try to pierce my eyebrow, but that would be too long.
Now that I'm done with my little mini-lecture, on to the advice.
The key to getting your parents to understand that your responsible enough to get a piercing, is to research all about them. Not every website online is reliable, but I've looked up a few sites that could be helpful to you.
Here's a site from the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois.
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Here's a site from a piercing-friendly physician at the Duke University Student Health Service in Durham, NC
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There are tons more reliable web sites about piercings, just make sure you get some that are from proffessionals, hopefully people in the health field.
Now, what you need to know about:
You need to know everything there is about cleaning your piercing. You should know what could possibly go wrong, and what to do about everything, if it does go wrong. With belly button piercings, you need to know that you can't wear tight pants, and will have to be careful about certain shirts for 2-4 weeks at least. It will not heal completely for 6 months either.
It's a very big commitment, and takes a lot of care.
One of the most important things to research is the different piercing salons in your area. The first web site I sent you has some questions that you should ask about each salon.
You need to know everything about a navel piercing before you go to your parents. I'm assuming you haven't brought the subject up to them yet? If you already have, everything shouldn't be lost. Just go to these, and more sites. Read through everything so you can get all the information in your mind, and explain to your parents that you know how to take care of it, you've already found the perfect and cleanest piercing salon, and you are not doing it just because your friends are.
Using the plea of "but my friends parents let them do it, why can't I?" Will not work, and will mostly likely only hurt your argument. You need to make your parents understand that your doing this for yourself and that your not going to simply regret it in a year or so.
It would also help if you call it a navel piercing, instead of a belly button piercing. I just think that sounds a bit more professional. And you should save up the money for it yourself. And make sure you get the proper cleaning solutions. Perhaps get the cleaning solutions before hand, just to show your parents that your serious about it and know what your doing.
Now, there may be a big problem with all of the advice I've given you. I know in my state, even with a parents permission, a professional piercer is not legally allowed to pierce you until you turn 16. That may not be the case where you live. That should just be another thing that you should look up. If you start to get yourself knowledgable with piercings now, I'm sure your parents would be more than willing to let you do it once you turn 16 anyway.
Ehh.... I guess that's all my advice. If you have any more questions or need me to clarify any of this, just ask me another one. It's finals week at my college, so I'll just get to the questions as soon as I have time. Good Luck.
Another very good person to go to for piercing help is Smiling_Noobery:
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She is a professional piercer. I haven't noticed her on the site lately, but if you send her a question in her inbox, she might get it in her email and answer you.
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