The effectiveness of a pierced belly button on a girl depends entirely on the girl. Some girls have great, flat stomachs, but they just weren't meant to have a pierced belly button. Other girls have less than ideal tummies, but the piercing compliments their shape perfectly. The perfect storm is the hottie with the perfect stomach who pulls off her piercing with style and subtlety. However much I like these few glorious stomachs, things are getting to where I'm almost entirely against pierced belly buttons on girls. At first, it was cool, but now it's as common as a tattoo in the small of the back; everyone and her sister has one, the other, or both. What was once exciting is now almost a negative, a symbol of mindless conformity. A girl with a pierced belly button in 2003 is about as innovative as a guy with a Van Dyke in 1996.