All about body piercing jewelry

Jan 17
09:03

2012

LiuJiajia

LiuJiajia

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The use of tattoo and the body piercing jewelry is not only a way to decorate your body but it is also a way to express your inner self and shows the other people who you are. By wearing this type of jewelry you can express yourself in front of the other people.

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The trend of wearing the body piercing jewelry is there since the earlier days. Near about 2000 years have passed since when his type of jewelry are popular among the people. There is also some specific purpose based on which this type of jewelry is worn by the people. This type of jewelry when worn in a specific location and the material that is used for making it signifies some importance of it. In the earlier days this type of jewelries was worn only by the women. The metal that is used for making their jewelry was shell,All about body piercing jewelry Articles wood, bones and claws. Along with this some other material that is used is the iron, gold, silver and stainless steel. In those days also gold was very expensive and because of this it was not preferred by the women.

This type of jewelry was worn by them in their nose and ear only. Some of the women used to wear the body piercing jewelry which used to come in the form of circular plates or ring that they used to wear in their lip and sometimes in the earlobes. But now also among some tribes in Africa and South Asia the trend of wearing the circular steel ring on their neck is still prevalent. Now a day this type of jewelry is made up of material like gold, silver, titanium, and platinum, acrylic, steel and some anodized metal. The anodized metal is the one which is coated with a layer of some other metal. When this is done a shine comes to the coated metal and it looks like an expensive metal.

But the cost of this type of metal is not so high. But if gold is used for coating then only the price of the body piercing jewelry is high. The location where this type of jewelry is worn also varies. There are different places like nipple, lips, tongue, eye brow, belly button, toe heel etc where this type of jewelry is worn by the people. There are some really unorthodox places where also people like to wear the body piercing jewelry. After a specific part of the body is pierced a steel ring is inserted in the area of the hole and a ribbon or string is used for connecting the pierced area and a bow is tied at the end of it. The body piercing jewelry can be done by the people of any age group.