A general insight about body jewelry

A piercing is a hole in different parts of the body where you put an earring. It is said that this piercing is done from the year 709 BC. You can get to know general characteristics.

Materials

The recommended materials are:

ü  Surgical Steel

ü  Titanium (faster healing, less weight, more variety of colors and is biocompatible with the human being)

ü  Gold

ü  Platinum

ü  Silicone plastic (for piercing in the mouth)

For indigenous people, body jewelry piercing is a regulator of energy, is responsible for distributing the energy throughout the body to be more active and to delay aging. While power is, the better it keeps the skin cooler. For today's culture, a single piercing is a form of beauty and social rebellion.

Types of piercing

The types of piercing vary. You can opt for:

Ø  Tongue: increased sensitivity in oral sex

Ø  Ear: It is the most common site of perforation

Ø  Eyebrow: a bad procedure may affect the nerve or the frontal nerve lacrimal

Ø  Lip piercing is very feminine, sensual

Ø  Nose: very common in punk culture

Ø  Genital sexual satisfaction increases

Ø  Nipple: delicate healing, provides a stimulus for pleasure

Ø  Navel piercing is the most requested

Ø  Bridge: drilling parallel between eyebrows

Ø  Surface: drilling in different parts (face, back, arms and neck)

Ø  Nail the latest trends in piercing (opens a hole in the nail and put a ring around it)

Tattoo and piercing

Some people opt to combine body jewelry and a tattoo. Like the piercing, tattooing is also part of the rituals in different prehistoric cultures, and is used as an art, to mark criminals or as a therapeutic purpose, some cultures gave him the tattoo and magical protective functions, American Indians used the tattooing as a rite of passage into puberty or as memorial to the fallen in battle and form of worship of the gods.

The expeditions of the Western sailors had contact with Indians who taught them the art of "tattoo". On his return, the sailors opened their own tattoo studios and popularized the discipline among the most popular. In 1870 opens in New York which apparently was the first tattoo studio.

Styles

The styles vary, too. You can find small body jewelry and huge models. Some are based on biomechanics. While it is true that contemporary society the piercing and tattooing have been used as adornment and fashion today, is a habit that comes almost as long as man exists and has passed from generation to generation, from our communities to the culture today, it is a fad that never happens.