Via RSS feed.August 28th, 2010
Tragus Rings – Yay or Nay?
Body piercing can be a pretty controversial topic amongst more conservative Christians (such as our family.) Personally, I did have my ears pierced as a child, and after they grew in a few other times besides! Now the holes won’t grow in, and I’m stuck with them, but I don’t wear jewelry in them.
We won’t be getting our girls pierced – that’s something they’ll need to do themselves once they are out on their own – it’s incredibly painful dealing with infections/maintenance etc. and I don’t want the struggle. Still piercings that involve eye brow rings, tragus rings, and monroe rings (upper lip, off to one side like a beauty mark) are becoming fairly popular.
Where you once would never see unusual piercing, now even employees in highly visible customer service/service industry positions sport them. What do you think? I think it’s possible to do tastefully, and there is some cute jewelry, but I still think a HUGE number of piercings can look far too overdone and ‘off’.
Interesting topic! My ears were pierced when I was young. I do still wear the original studs that were used to pierce them, but I rarely ever change them. I have considered NOT wearing the studs any more, but I am not (yet) particularly convicted that I should not wear them, so I continue to do so.
My 16-year old daughter has pierced ears too. They were pierced on her 12th birthday. It was a gift from my mother and that’s fine with me. If she ever chooses not to wear earrings, that’s fine too.
As for piercings in other places, I cannot imagine ever doing that. I generally find them distracting. I have seen a few people, including conservative Christians, with tiny studs in the side of the nose and those are not bad. But, like I said, they are SMALL and not very obvious. I don’t care for them, but at least the small ones aren’t so distracting. LOL!
Blessings,
Cara (aka Temberton)
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