Piercing Age Limit

garthv

Ok,
I was in celestial ring the other day and taking a browse through the price list when something caught my eye. According to their price list the age at which you can get piercings differs to the piercing you want to get
For Example :

• Eyebrow :
  16 with ID and 15 with parent present
• Tongue :
  16 with ID and parent present
• Transdermal (Surface Bar ) :
  18 with ID or parent present

I understand if a kid went home with a nape piercing at 16 the mother and father wouldnt be none too pleased but then again they wont be too happy with an eyebrow piercing either....
What I wanna know is why there is different age groups for different piercings? In the end you're just gonna end up with a bit of metal through your body either way....

eth0_

Hang on....18 with ID and a parent present? What? Are you sure that's right? They can f*ck right off asking a LEGAL ADULT to get their mum to give permission for them to get their nape pierced....


That can't be right!

garthv

whoops my fault
changed it

Piste

Apparently a Labret is 17 with ID....says nothing 'bout parental consent though.

eth0_

GaRtH_V wrote:

whoops my fault
changed it

heheh
I thought it sounded odd!

lizanne

GaRtH_V wrote:

Ok,
I was in celestial ring the other day and taking a browse through the price list when something caught my eye. According to their price list the age at which you can get piercings differs to the piercing you want to get
For Example :

• Eyebrow :
  16 with ID and 15 with parent present
• Tongue :
  16 with ID and parent present
• Transdermal (Surface Bar ) :
  18 with ID or parent present

I understand if a kid went home with a nape piercing at 16 the mother and father wouldnt be none too pleased but then again they wont be too happy with an eyebrow piercing either....
What I wanna know is why there is different age groups for different piercings? In the end you're just gonna end up with a bit of metal through your body either way....

I got my 1st tattoo at 15 and i was not even asked for an i.d to confirm my age and i did not need to have a parent with me.
Then my 2nd tattoo i got in england when i was on holidays there at 16 years old,once again no i.d or parental supervision required.
At 17 I got my tounge peirced and no id either(the weird part was my 10 year old sister came with me,and she asked what age she had to be to get her tounge done and he said he would do it when she was 14)
Im 19 now and in janurary just gone i got my 3rd tattoo done and they had the CHEEK to ask me for two forms of i.d. The stupid thing was this was the same place i got my tounge done,and the same man who said he would peirce a 14 year olds tounge.WHATS THAT ALL ABOUT??? i dont think that the ages really matter in some places anymore

edibility

I have to be honest here.....at the tender age of sixteen last summer I walked into celestial ring and asked to get my nipple pierced. I look, and looked then, about 19, even 20, I rarely get IDed in pubs or off licenses or so on, so when they asked me for ID I did the standard thing of looking and then saying I must have forgot it, and after getting me to sign a consent form they did it no bother. I acted mature, I looked old, and I didn't come in with a bunch of giggling mates, just my boyfriend of the time to hold my hand. I wanted it, I still love it, I looked after it properly and still do. Tbh, it's all relative I think.

snappieT

Metal Morphisis, me 17, eyebrow, say i'm 18, done. No ID etc.

And i look about 12

Bottle_of_Smoke

GaRtH_V wrote:

I understand if a kid went home with a nape piercing at 16 the mother and father wouldnt be none too pleased but then again they wont be too happy with an eyebrow piercing either....
What I wanna know is why there is different age groups for different piercings? In the end you're just gonna end up with a bit of metal through your body either way....

*I'd* say its due to the nature of the piercing, basically anyone can look after a lobe piercing, but a nape it it would take someone mature enough to insist on cleaning it every day regardless of how much hassle it was.

*Page*

its a new thing they are bringing in to lessen the younger people getting done. too much sh!t with parents. and the different age thing is due to your body growth rate. there are parts that take longer to develop and that could be scared by getting done too young

I am MAN

lizanne wrote:

I got my 1st tattoo at 15 and i was not even asked for an i.d to confirm my age and i did not need to have a parent with me.
Then my 2nd tattoo i got in england when i was on holidays there at 16 years old,once again no i.d or parental supervision required.
At 17 I got my tounge peirced and no id either(the weird part was my 10 year old sister came with me,and she asked what age she had to be to get her tounge done and he said he would do it when she was 14)
Im 19 now and in janurary just gone i got my 3rd tattoo done and they had the CHEEK to ask me for two forms of i.d. The stupid thing was this was the same place i got my tounge done,and the same man who said he would peirce a 14 year olds tounge.WHATS THAT ALL ABOUT??? i dont think that the ages really matter in some places anymore

They had the cheek to ask you for ID?
Dont you think they where right in doing so?

garthv

snapscan1212p wrote:

Metal Morphisis, me 17, eyebrow, say i'm 18, done. No ID etc.

And i look about 12

Its not about whether you can get away with lookin over the age they want you to be. Anybody can do that. Its the fact that they have tiered age limits for different piercings. I just found that a bit odd

snappieT

But I'm a textbook case of how these different ages are far from rigid.

lizanne

I am MAN wrote:

They had the cheek to ask you for ID?
Dont you think they where right in doing so?

no they were not right considering that all the times ii was under the age limit i was never asked,i doubt i look younger now than i did when i was 16

garthv

snapscan1212p wrote:

But I'm a textbook case of how these different ages are far from rigid.

Age limits are'nt rigid because Piercing Parlour Law is not heavily enforced. I havent heard of a piercing parlour being busted.ever. Heck, GSA is still going and i saw a queue of 12 yr olds outside it over the weekend.

qz

I got my cartilage pierced when I was 15 in GSA. There was a sign saying no piercings (in general, as far as I can remember) under the age of 17 without parental consent. So I just rang my dad and put him onto the guy behind the counter, and bingo, piercing done.
What I'm trying to get at is that the person on the other end of the phone could have been anybody. Strange piercing system. But I supopse, as long as they get paid. :rolleyes:

Matthewthebig

snapscan1212p wrote:

Metal Morphisis, me 17, eyebrow, say i'm 18, done. No ID etc.

And i look about 12

The age in Metal Morphasis is 17 Snapscan. That why you didn't need id

Mimikyu

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garthv

There is no set law so it is any age ( needle or no) but most places set guidelines to cover their own ass in case of an emergency.

Mimikyu

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sorry to drag this up but i've done a search and couldn't find anything.. Whats the age for tattoo's?

redredzer

hey,
im going on the 26th to get my tongue done it celestial ring.
im 17, do use think they wil do it?
my sister is coming in with me?

qz

redredzer wrote:

hey,
im going on the 26th to get my tongue done it celestial ring.
im 17, do use think they wil do it?
my sister is coming in with me?

Did you happen to read the very first post of this thread? No? Give it a try.

redredzer

oh we hav a smart one!!
YES I DID READ IT.
but... my cuz got her tongue done it there bout 3yrs ago and they said that she had to be 18 but she was lucky and didnt ask her for id.

qz

redredzer wrote:

oh we hav a smart one!!
YES I DID READ IT.
but... my cuz got her tongue done it there bout 3yrs ago and they said that she had to be 18 but she was lucky and didnt ask her for id.

Your cousin pierced her tongue 3 years ago, the first post on this page was made in March this year. Which do you think would be more accurate?

redredzer

right u need to take a few happy pills or something. god some ppl can be so touchy and like they know it all on here.
just CHILL.
ya ok i see wat yr saying....they prob will do it for me.
(sorry for asking)

porn_star

um...I've been getting pierced since I was 13 and I' still not 18 and I have 24 piercings.
And yeah the different age limits are due to both problems with parents kicking off, and that if people are too young, they mightn't be fully developed so piercings will just reject, that and you can't be sure that a 13 year old will look after the piercing...
I started getting pierced 'cos I looked over 16, when i wanted my belly button done when i was 13, he asked me for my date of birth, so i changed the year, then he asked me for my star sign, he's a smart one, but i was smarter!!Then i just kept getting pierced by him and he always thought i was 16/17, so he'd never do any oral/facial piercings on me..I got to be good friends with him and i told him 2 years later that i was 15 and he just laughed, said he didn't mind now, cos i took care of them and my body seems to take well to them aswell....no he's gone!so i have a new piercer!she'll do anything, except surface piercings on me, just cos she doens't...but i find anywhere i go now will pierce me without asking for id, even the stricter places....
ok...end of story!!
got my first tattoo about3 months ago at the age of 17..!

redredzer

porn_star, i'd say u know a fair few places if u hav gotten 24 piercings! where would u recommend for me getting my tongue done?im only 17 so im hopeing that wherever i go they wont ask me for id!

porn_star

where are you from?? I tend to go to the same studio allthe time, i've gotten pierced a couple of time by other studios though!can't promise i'll be of help...
i wouldn't know for sure who asks for ids...like the studio i go to are quite strict about ids and the like, even though they've been piercing me since i've been 13..thats just luck!depends where your from?and just cos somewhere pierces without asking for id, dosn't mean they're that good!

redredzer

im frm dublin porn_star. i was thinking of celestial ring but my cuz got done there and they said that she had to be 18, but didnt ask her for id, but according to whoever started this thread u only hav to be 16 with id and parent present(for celestial ring).

porn_star

honestly, i wouldn't know anywhere in dublin, cos i'm from cork, I've gotten pierced by paddy in bodyshock a couple of times and in snakebite, but both are quite strict, i just tend to be lucky, cos i have so many piercings already, they just don't mind piercing me!!!
you might just have to wait, if you want a decent job done on it, if you're ever down in cork, there's a studio called raven who pierces ANYONE who'll do it for you...I know a lot of people who get pierced by him, cos they're underage, and they've had no major probelms, but i'm very against him ,i've seen him pierce and i wasn't impressed...no gloves, no nothing...when i enquired about getting my tongue web pierced, he didn't even know what it was!!****e!