The Before:
The Story: A few weeks ago–actually the last weekend before school was out–I took Andrea to get her ears pierced. She choose a pair of pink earrings and, smiling, climbed up on the stool to await the actual piercing.
Why is it we never notice how asymmetrical our faces are until we A) get a haircut or B) get ears pierced? My dad once took a picture of me, cut it in half, and made two pictures with the mirror image filling in the other half of my face. I looked like two different people. I’ve also read that classic beauty is recognized across cultural lines as a symmetric face. Oh, well…at least I never claim to be gorgeous!
So, back to Andrea. She sat there with a smile as they marked the location of the holes, loaded the earring gun, and grasped her lobe. Thunk. Her smile didn’t falter. Thunk. She never even blinked.
There you have it. My beautiful–but I’m just her mom–brave girl.
The After:
Notice that the earrings are NOT pink. That’s right. They pierced her with the wrong earrings! Since there was nothing we could do about it, we just kept smiling.
Your daughter’s so cute. And at least she doesn’t have to worry about matching the pink! I was about her age when I got my ears pierced too.