What's the best age to pierce ears?

I’m glad my parents waited until I was begging for them at 5 years old lol ❤️

I did my 1st at 4months ideal tbh, did my 2nd at 2yrs and it was a nightmare as she kept tugging on them, she loves them now but still😮‍💨 sooner the better

My ears were pierced when i was 1 year old. Turned out I didn’t cry or anything. I guess younger the better .

I pierced my baby ears at 3 months she cried for a quick sec. Just show them your love and affection but for rest of the day
She slept. Now if you feel like she in pain just give her Tylenol.

My mom did mine at 3 months! She said I barely cried except for the initial piercing. 100000% recommend getting it done at a professional place like a tattoo shop where they will use needles and not piercing guns. Easier healing process and less trauma to the skin

Thank you all for your input! Now, people say don't do Claire's but would a typical tattoo/piercing shop pierce baby's ears?

yes, you would just have to call around and see if they do it and what the requirements are. The one I plan to go to requests to bring your own jewelry they only do the piercing.

Personally I would wait till the child can say they want their ears pierced, my mum got mine done when I was 4 months old and I hate wearing earrings x

I thought about birth age, then covid closed everything down. And actually it worked out to wait until she was old enough to talk and showed more interest in it. She also pretend to wear earrings from stickers around the house she found and I saw how happy it made her so then I took her. (She’s 4 years old and didn’t cry she was so brave !)

My daughters won’t be getting there ears pierced until they are begging me to get them done and will be in the summer school holidays for heel time xx

any age that a licensed professional will do it, NEVER get them done with a piercing gun!! especially from someone at Claire's or Walmart lmao

I am going to wait till she can say she wants them.

I got my ears pierced when I was 9 after begging my mum to get them done. I said to my child that if they wanted to get them done, they'd have to wait till 9 years old at least, in the end my child ended up decided about wanting them at aged 10 when I was going in to get my second lobes pierced so we got them done at same time (sadly though, mine got infected and I never got them redone so I've just got the one lobe piercing but hopefully some time I'll get them redone) xx

im doing my babygirls when she turn 3 months ❤️ well im going to do it next weekend … she turn 3 months this weekend

I did my daughters at 4 months. Some babies don’t even cry. It’s quick too. Didn’t have an issue w the earrings coming out until she was older and messing w them. She’s on her third pair now lol.

I’d wait until they can fully communicate so they can tell you if there’s pain and you can treat infection before it’s full blown. Ideally I’d wait until they ask to have them pierced

I'm holding off until she's old enough and says she wants them.

the best time to get their ears pierced is when they ask for it. when they can understand the process and understand the aftercare. there’s a reason many professional piercers won’t pierce babies, and there’s a reason why awful places like claire’s do - because they’re not trained enough, the fact that they only use guns shows that, and they just want the money. guns are absoloutely awful, they cannot be sterilised, and they force the jewellery through the skin causing major trauma, unlike a needle which glides through the skin and creates an opening.

TBH I'm going to encourage everyone to wait until you kid is consistently wearing other jewelry of the same composition that you plan on putting in their ears. I'm the first in my family to have metal allergies and I permanently have scars from my ears being pierced and I hate the look of it. I've considered buying the smallest flattest studs I can that will cover them but frankly I am not willing to shell out funds to have the gold content I need to wear them.

Waiting until she can ask. I had mine done at about 10.
I'd want her to be able to tell me if it hurt or burned. I have a metal allergy so any piercing I have had has burned me. I didn't know that was possible for ages, so kept trying. Rings burned me, earrings burned me, piercing bars burned me. My ears will never heal so I stretched them and wear wooden plugs. They were done with a gun, and one had the horrible scar ball in the middle, so took longer to heal, always got infected/weeped and was harder to stretch compared to the other. So always go to a piercer and have it done with a needle. My belly buttons awful, it's gross, sooo scarred and 'healed' awfully! I have holes and scars on my nipple too, LO wouldn't take to that boob. Not worth the risk with a baby that can't tell you imo.

Between 4-6 months.