virginia: I want to go through an apprenticeship and stuff but I'm only 16 right now. I looked all over the internet and nothing says anything about the age to be a piercer in VIRGINIA. Thanks.|||Go to a local shop and ask about it. It was really hard for me to find an apprenticeship at that age, but I finally got one when I turned 17. A lot of places might not want to take on an apprentice though. If you mess up you could ruin their reputation.|||im 16 in ohio and i work as a body piercer at my shop, all i had to do was take a bloodborn pathogens class which cost me $20 and lasted fairly long, and apprentice the piercer for 2 months, and they hired me Report Abuse