I'm with Jesse--I prefer body piercing places because they use a needle rather than a piercing gun, and because I like the captive bead hoops better than studs when it comes to keeping them clean for the month or two you have to leave them in.

I had most of my ear piercing at Claire's or their equivalent. I have one more ear piercing to get, and it's cartilage, so I definitely want to get it done with a needle. The previous two were with a gun--I was lucky with one, and not so lucky with the other. Definitely safer with a needle.

Someone in my previous meeting said that he wasn't able to do something because he didn't have the one ring that bound all the other rings. I was so stunned I wasn't able to call him out on his geekery. He's not even in IT! He's totally a normal person.

Wow ita, you lucky gal. So JAR thinks you're wonderful? I mean, you are of course, but still GAH!

Absolutely go to a body piercing place. Piercing guns are a bad idea.

Thanks, I will check out body piercing places near her. I'm sure I can find one that is relatively Mom-appropriate, there seem to be many to choose from.

Many tattoo artists have Moms, and will probably be happy to do something nice for one.

will probably be happy to do something nice for one

Up to and including getting the weirdos out of their store? Because I can think of a number of mothers (sadly) who are so dicey on the subject that would be an issue for them. Including mine own, probably, even though her ears are pierced four times.

The elderly lady that visited us on Christmas day was *outraged* at her niece's nose piercing. My sister is sitting there with a navel piercing--I've had two unsuccessful navel piercing and a successful-but-subsequently removed nipple piercing--and we're both nodding very understandingly. "Could have been even worse," said my sister. "Maybe she was pierced...you know...where you couldn't see..."

And then she waved at my tits, thereby dispelling the labial implications.

But she made sure to come back to that explicitly later.

Elderly lady was also in a translucent top (nice bra, grandmother) and almost-sheer leggings, so you know. She *knows*.

He's not even in IT!

Who knows what geekery lurks in the heart of men?

Thanks, everyone! I hope the baby appreciates the cheers. I realize that he will come *some day*, and i"m glad this isn't my first because I would be dying, but still, I'm ready to not be pregnant.

The elderly lady that visited us on Christmas day was *outraged* at her niece's nose piercing.

My brother the doctor has convinced my sister that almost any other kind of (non-genital) piercing is preferable to a nose piercing, from a medical safety perspective. I suspect my niece will have to wait until she's out of college and no longer getting any support from her mother before she gets one.