From traditional, custom and ritual body piercing, today boys and girls are trying to glide with the latest fashion trends, by piercing different unlikely parts of the body and wearing body part jewelries. Another reason, which has urged these people to wear body piercing jewelries, lies with the celebrities, models, sportsman, film and rock stars, who sports these body piercing jewelries and average onlookers also tries to match them by wearing similar jewelries.
Even, Internet and media has a hand in popularizing these jewelries, as once new design and product is launched, it is immediately flashed out worldwide through these channels. The manufactures, designers and craftsman also cash in with the popularity trend and make innovative and creative pieces of body part jewelries for the international customers.
Previously gold, silver, gem and jewel were mostly used for making these jewelries but, today numerous types of materials such as, Gold, Silver, Gold Plated, White Metal, Surgical Steel, Titanium Anodized, Titanium, Acrylic UV, PTFE, Bio Flex, Gem, Jeweled, Stones and other various materials are utilized for designing and manufacturing beautiful body part jewelry pieces.
The most popular body piercing jewelries wore by the style crazy boys and girls, can be summed up as follows:
Barbells
Barbells are straight bar, where both ends have beads of interchangeable or fixed colorful beads, made from Acrylic UV, SG steel, Gold, Titanium Anodized, PTFE, Bio Flex or other materials. Barbells are mostly wore for tongue piercing and comes in different designs, types, styles and varieties, such as logo, gem, acrylic ball, sign, skull, butterfly, heart and so.
Belly Button Rings
Belly Button rings are wore on open Navel space and comes in shapes as dangle, non dangle, reverse and spiral. These Belly rings have numerous shapes and designs and are made from Acrylic UV, SG steel, Gold, Silver Titanium Anodized, PTFE and Bio Flex, and laden with gem, stone and jewel.
Curved Eye Brow Rings
Curved Eye Brow Rings are also made like barbells, but they are curved instead of straight. Both ends have spike or UV balls, which are made from numerous materials such as Bio-Plast, SG Steel, Gold, and so on. They are also known as Banana Barbells, due to their curving for piercing on the eyebrow. They are also used as Navel piercing rings.
Nipple Rings
Nipple Rings and shields are worn on Nipples and are made from gold plated, surgical steels, Rhodium plated, Acrylic UV and so on. They come in numerous shapes and design as, dangling, chains, chandeliers and interchangeable UV balls, figures, gems and jeweled.
Labrets, Monroes, and Lippy Loops
• Labrets have flat base and a threaded or plain stem protrudes from there for piercing and, other end has removable threaded or plain ball or stud. Labrets are worn on the lips or tongues.
• Monroe is worn on the off center of the upper lip, to give it beauty mark.
• Loops are similar to chin labrets and hang on lip or on ear piercing.
Captive Bead Rings and Hoops
Captive Bead Rings and Hoops are circular in shape, where one end of the wire is slightly curved to hook at the tiny loop at the other end. Other designs includes, single bead in one end to hide the joining or double beads on both end to spring pressure catch on the ears. The beads are interchangeable and can be changed as per wearers wish.