"No, no, not too flashy," he assured softly, shaking his head. "I just haven't seen a lot of people wearing those in their ears, except when they're bigger. Uh, the thicker rings."

"Gauged," Mo, who'd done his tattoo and was handling their piercings, supplied, coming around from where she'd been preparing the piercing area for them. She smiled and nodded her head a little to gesture them back. "We normally start with studs for ears, because the backs can be taken off when you're cleaning. But we can do a ring instead if you want. The problem with capture beads is that those beads like to go missing sometimes."