In my family earrings were never very popular. My mom does not have pierced ears and my dad really doesn't care for them. In fact, he wouldn't let me get my ears pierced until my grandma (his mother) took me for my 12th birthday.
My sisters wanted to get their ears pierced too, but I guess they lost interest as they had to wait until they got older. All that has recently changed. Melissa went off to college and got her ears pierced on her own. Kaylyn was the last one left until now.
BEFORE

Notice the nervous smile. She was quite worked up that it was going to be very painful.
AFTER

Here she is with cute Mariana. Mariana was quite unimpressed with the whole event and slept through everything until the very end. Anyway, I love the earrings Kaylyn chose and in the end she was surprised how simple and painless it really was.