
The above mentioned events are believed to make millions of girls running to the piercing parlors and getting their belly buttons pierced. As time passed the belly piercing became as common as ear piercing and less and less people consider it to belong to other piercing categories like facial, tongue or surface piercings.

Girls get their navels pierced at earlier stage and the average age seems to be around 14 years. Many celebrities sport belly piercings and eventually the stigma making parents to forbid their daughters getting navel piercing disappears.
Belly button rings today for the most part are considered necessary accessory to many as the length of shirts and blouses go up and the hip line goes down. The belly for many will look bare if it does not have anything to show on it except the bare navel, and so the belly button ring found its route to popularity.