It’s been nearly a month since I got my belly button pierced. Although all of my friends told me it was going to hurt a lot, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected. It didn’t feel good, but it definitely wasn’t anything that I couldn’t tolerate. Even though I have to keep in the original piece of body piercing jewelry that they put in, I have already bought several new pieces of body piercing jewelry that I’m going to start wearing in a couple of weeks.

Although it has been close to a month since I went and got my piercing done, it was only last week when I worked up the courage to show my parents. Even though I am eighteen, I am still in high school, so I live at home. Because of this, I thought my parents were going to freak out about my piercing. However, I knew I couldn’t hide it forever, so I decided it would be best to be honest.

Amazingly, neither of them freaked out. They said they would have been upset if I would have gotten a tattoo without talking to them, but since this wasn’t a permanent decision, they said they were okay with it. However, they did emphasize that piercings in other areas would upset them quite a bit!