im 19, and still live with my parents, just stating that

i personally love tattoos and piercings and i love expressing myself it makes me more confident. i have prettyy low self esteem and suffered with depression, and i still dont love the way i look but i love how i look a lot more when i dye my hair and dress kind of alternatively

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now, i dont look like a cringey emo kid, i only have 2 piercings per ear and one nose piercing. no visible tattoos (yet). so honestly, i dont look like every parents nightmare, i look pretty "normal", nothing extreme. but my parents, theyre pretty old school so they dont like any of that stuff. i got a nose piercing after YEARS of wanting it, and i finally changed the stud to a hoop. every time i get some sort of modification my dad tells me im ruining myself. that no one "normal" likes this kind of stuff, people are going to look at me different, that its ugly, i should just stay natural. he seems quite stressed about it and begs me to just take it out

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i tell him every time, i dont care about what strangers think about the way i look. why would i? tbh if i like how i look, i dont care about anyone elses opinions, i dont care if your my dad or my brother or my best friend, its none of ur business on how i look. i dont tell ANYONE my unwanted opinion on how they look. it makes me happier, getting a tattoo or a piercing or colouring my hair. and if i took it all out, id feel like not myself, i value expressing myself. but at my dads expense.

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am i the asshole for disregarding how he feels about my looks to keep myself happier?