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Date Added: Jan 17, 2009;
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Wearing body jewelry is a perfect way to enhance the beauty of your body. It not only decorates your body but also helps you to bring certain parts of your body into focus by augmenting the beauty of those parts. There are chains, lockets, earrings, nose rings, nipple rings, and so on available as body jewelry. Most of the manufacturers take care that this jewelry is skin friendly and unique.
Types of Body Jewelry
Body jewelries are available in two types - piercing body jewelries and non-piercing body jewelries.
Body piercing jewelries are exclusively used in body piercing. The art of creating an opening, by punching or cutting, in which jewelry may be worn, is known as body piercing. It has been practiced almost in every culture all over the world for hundreds of years. It is becoming more and more popular with both men and women in recent times. Ears, nostrils, eyebrows, lips, tongue, neck, nipples, belly buttons, even the genital areas are common places for wearing piercing jewelry.
Non-piercing body jewelries are similar to piercing body jewelry, but do not require any type of hole in the skin. Magnets are used in non-piercing jewelries to hold them in place. Non-piercing jewelries are available in a variety of metals such as gold, silver, platinum, and titanium to non-expensive metals like plastic, glass, and ivory.
You can wear any type of jewelry. If you want to wear piercing body jewelry, take the help of an expert to pierce your body in a sterilized and antiseptic environment.
Body Jewelry Wearing Places
Human body has particular places to wear body jewelry. Nose, eyebrow, nipple, ear lobes, naval and some other sophisticated places are the places where one can wear body jewelry.
Metals and Styles of body jewelry
Body jewelries are also available in various metals: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Surgical Stainless Steel, Niobium, Titanium and Nickel. Some inexpensive metals like plastic, glass, nylon, teflon, rubber, silicone, wood, bone, horn and ivory are also used.
Styles of body jewelries change with the passage of time. Barbells, rings and studs are the most common style. Now butterflies, ladybugs and gemstones are used as decorative accents to make them interesting and awesome. A wearer today can design his own unique style.
Things to Remember for Buying Body Jewelry
- Quality of body jewelry needs to be high. Buy from a well known jeweler who can ensure you the high quality.
- Metal selecting for the jewelry is very important. Avoid metals which are allergic to your skin. Select one that is not allergic to your skin.
- Choose a style which goes with your personality and life style.
Buying place
You can shop from jewelry store. But it’s also possible to shop from an online store. They make sure that their potential customers are able to see the jewelry products properly with price tags. If budget is concerned, you can shop from a wholesaler.
