You can attach a lot of labels to Miley Cyrus, but anti-establishment is not one of them.

So when the 16-year-old “Hannah Montana” star showed off her new nose piercing recently, it said more about piercings than it did about Miley.

Remember the first time you saw pink camouflage?

“It’s become very, very mainstream,” says Bryan Thomas, chief piercer at The Alley in Chicago. “We get a lot of parents in here signing for their kids to do it.”

Miley’s dad, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, told CNN’s Larry King he accompanied his daughter on her piercing excursion.

“She said, ‘Daddy, would you take me to get my nose pierced?’ I said, ‘Did you ask your mamma?’ and she said, ‘Mamma said I can do it if you would take me.’ We went to a little place in Studio City.”

What does a kid have to do to get a rise out of her parents these days? It’s not easy — what with 4-year-olds sporting mohawks and Whole Foods handing out temporary tattoos to toddlers. Is it possible to shock your folks anymore?

“There’s always microdermal anchors,” Thomas, 26, offers. “That’s where you decorate different areas of your face or your chest or hip area. That’s a little more out there. And you’ve always got your genital piercing, inner ear, nipple, navel. But it’s not as controversial as it once was.”

Thomas has been piercing everything from tongues to navels professionally for seven years. He has piercings in both earlobes, both inner ears, his nostril and his septum.

He’s not the least bit shocked–or dismayed–at Miley’s entree into the hole-y crowd.

“Hopefully it will increase business,” he says.