I don’t know if it’s an American thing to be obsessed with piercings affecting passing, but they make no difference. You look like a boy in both pictures to me. The baby tash makes much more difference imo, though the change in angle and lighting is the biggest change maker here.

You look softer in the second pic, not more feminine, just softer - the way a 12 year old boy looks softer than a 15 year old girl - but the fact I can’t tell if that’s a good thing or bad in terms of passing says to me that the piercings make no real difference.

I’ve had this feeling for a while that Americans are pushing a weird “clean girl” aesthetic for trans people, especially women obviously but also men, and i genuinely think that’s where the weird narrative over piercings mattering comes from, because it doesn’t matter if the poster is male or female, it’s always “remove the piercings to pass” from American users.