Why Do you have to wait 6 months to put hanging earrings in?

Answer 1

if you put a hanging earing in to soon it can damage the peircing because it is an open wond until it is compleatly heal. you could interfear with the healing prosess bcause of how heavy the earing is.

Answer 2

Because when the piercing is new, the skin is still reforming and healing itself. If you wear large, heavy, dangling earrings before the skin has had a chance to reform and strengthen itself, multiple things can happen: you could get what's called a "cheesecutter effect", which is when the earring cuts through the ear lobe, similar to how a wire cheesecutter would slice through cheese, or the earrings will stretch out the piercing, causing them to look like slits rather than holes, and make it harder to wear normal 18g/20g jewelry. The second one is very common in people with older ear piercings who have been wearing dangling or heavy earrings for many years.