[Fangz]

I totally agree about the little kids with earrings, tiny toddlers with holes in their bodies just look wrong to me...
I got my ears pierced when I was eleven, with my mum and dad's consent, and when I was fourteen, my mum came with me to get my nose pierced.
She wasn't particularly happy about it (especially as she had to watch), but her reasoning was that if she came with me and signed all the forms, at least she could make sure the place was hygeinic and that the piercer was competent, rather than than risk me getting it done by myself in a really scummy establishment.