have it pierced but take out the stud or whatever when you are at school?

But, what the hell does the school care if your lip is pierced? Dumb shit, it sounds like to me.

Bam, kapow!

I’m not sure how you could get around it, but I thought i’d share here a case of someone being suspended from a school in my country because they turned up at school one day with dreads. There was a lot of protest about that.

Have every student, (even faculty supporters) sign the petition in the school sign it, Bring it up to the next School Board meeting and state your request for allowing lip piercings and any other piercing that would not distract the students. Get the support of the student body Presidents. Check out other HS in your state and see what HS allow lip piercings, if you can find a 1/2 dozen or more that’s good information to collect. While having the petition circulated invite local newspaper or even TV coverage to film and publicize this event. WHy does the school allow ear piercings and not lip piercings? Is the principal discriminatory of people with lip piercings? Is he afraid your going to get your lip caught in the water bubbler? (scratch that comment I was trying to be funny)

You could also have a “Student Protest Walk Out” and march to City HAll and visit the School Comissioner and have your say. However, you need 1)almost 80% or more signatures of the students; 2) names of other HS that allow lip piercings
3) pressure from the media to film and document your petition complaint and 4) support from your own student government and 5) threat of a student walk out if after all of this information you collect doens’t work.

Principals and School Commisioners don’t like it when students prove them wrong, it’s bad for the town and potential new home buyers. TV and newspapers can also put pressure on re-election of School Commisioners.

The town Mayor becomes involved, School Commitee members have power on what is allowed and not allowed in schools. Maybe many parents agree with you line of thinking, recruit these parents. Visit nearby schools and have them start similar protests, hey, that’s what text messages are for, right? Mass communication in devloping petitions against shcool rules that make no sense at all. Let me know how it goes and when your lost for more ideas. Kudos.

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Love,

George :)

Might do a goggle search for similar cases from other states and overseas. Good luck I admire your courage.

wanna check out those transparent labret jewels:
http://www.bodyjewellerydirect.co.uk/transparentlabretretainer-p-35.html

As for advice…
Make sure you know NOW if you’ll be using rings, or if you’ll keep it to studs. The angle isn’t the same, and it will take so much longer to heal (and will be so much more prone to infections even long after) if you say you want it suitable for rings but use a stud.
I did that. Got it 4 years ago, have not bought a ring yet, so I only use studs, and I’m still dealing with the occasional infection. A real pain in the neck!

Good luck with it! :D

I don’t know where you live, but here they only pierce with stainless steel or titanium piercings, because of the healing process and the body rejection. I don’t know what these transparent piercings are made of, so ask the body piercer if there’s no problem piercing with those. if there is, you’ll have to pierce with the stainless steel/titanium one and then when it’s healed change to the transparent one. after they heal – no problem changing it.

The only problem that i can foresee you might have with the clear Labret Retainer is that in the early stages of a piercing you should touch it as little as possible, and if you are going to be changing it day to day for a clear retainer you will impede the healing period to say the least, not to mention put yourself through unnecessary pain.

Lip & Labret piercings usually take between 6-8 weeks to fully heal. You will experience swelling usually 2-3 days after the piercing, this swelling can last 7-10 days. A longer Labret stud must be worn till the initial swelling has gone down; it can then be replaced by a shorter one. With this in mind try to do the piercing over school holidays. Giving the piercing time to heal with the bar it was pierced with. You will not be able to do this on a Saturday and go in school on the Monday wearing a retainer. Not unless you want to go to the hospital and have the retainer pulled out of your face anyway. ;)

Also, In the healing period the piercing has a tendency to move position on the inside of the lip, this process is called nesting. Rings have a greater tendency to do this than labrets because they tend to move around more, which puts stress on the wound. IMO i would go for a bar rather than a ring. I’ve had both and i had the least trouble and faster healing with the bar.

Good luck :)

My school accepts gold and silver spherical studs in the earlobe only. No piercings of any sort. Hair colour is just as bad. “Jet black” is not a hair colour… Um… What about our international students from Japan or China? shrugs Silly school. Perhaps get a stud rather than a ring (to avoid the hooked fish look) and make sure it’s very small or has a small clear head. My friend gets away with two piercings in her ear because she wears clear headed studs in her ears and keeps her hair down to cover the backs – sneaky. This is probably too late but I just wanted to help.