Belly Piercing and Belly Piercing Jewelry

A Belly Button Piercing Jewelry or as know as Navel Piercing Jewelry and Belly Bottom Ring. This piercing is known to be one of the most common and popular body piercings today. The belly piercing first hit the mainstream when model "Christy Turlington" showed her belly piercing at a fashion show in London in 1993. The popularization of the piercing, however, is accredited to the 1993 Aerosmith music video for their song "Cryin'", weareing "Alicia Silverstone" has her belly pierced. After that the belly piercing is become the fashion until today.

Even though the belly piercing become popular, but not every one can pierce his belly. The most important thing to consider when you want to pierce your belly is the skin over the navel and check if you have enough space to pierce or not. Normally, the navel piercing doesn't pierce through the true navel, but it pierce on the upper rim of navel. The piercing on the true navel can make only for the person who have an "outie" navel.

The belly piercing does not have only tone shape, it can come as a banana bar or as an "o" ring and also as a fashionable design on the banana bar. Besides that the new version of belly piercing is on the market, fake belly piercing jewelry which is based on the idea of clip-on earrings. This piercing jewelry suit for anyone who don't want to pierce his belly. The standard size of belly piercing jewelry is 0.064 inches or 14 gauge (gauge is the thickness of the wire the jewelry). The most frequent size jewelry for a healed navel is 3/8" or 7/16". The next size up is 1/2" if you prefer something larger, and 5/16" is shorter.

Every where you look these days celebrities on magazine, top models on the cat walk, teenagers on the street, the belly piercing appear there. Cannot deny that jewelries are attractiveness. It may not worse if one time in your life just try to pierce your belly.

Reference :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_piercing

http://community.tribalectic.com/articles/common-body-piercing-sizing-information

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-belly-button-rings.htm

Picture Credit

http://g1wallz.com/belly-piercing-g1-wallpapers/

Type of Body Piercing Jewelry

Body Piercing Jewelry is the other one type of jewelry that we also offer to the customer. Many people may are not familiar with body piercing jewelry. So today we will talk about this.

Body piercing jewelery is jewelery manufactured specifically for use in body piercing. When talking about body piercing jewelry, some people are think that's only means to belly jewelry, but actually body jewelry means to every jewelry that piercing on the body such as belly piercing, ear piercing,  nipple piercing, lip piercing, and etc. Originally, body piercing jewelry is hardly any other jewelery than circular earrings were used in modern Western body piercing. Body piercing jewelry is quite popular today. It has become the newest fad in the fashion industry. For some it's like expressing their own personality this way but to others it's just going with what is most popular trend in fashion today. Today the body piercing are manufactured in many types and many style. So let us check on the different types of jewelry.

Banana Barbells - As know as curved barbell or bent barbells. Normally they use for belly piercing and eyebrow piercing, but sometime it is used for nipple piercing or others private part. There are many different types of  banana barbells such as acrylic, black line, zircon gold, surgical steel, titanium, bioplast, gemstone navel banana barbells, and PTFE. The most popular material is always surgical steel and acrylic.

Captive Bead Ring (CBR) - This also know as CBR or BCR from ball closure rings. This is one of the most popular kinds of body jewelry because it can be used in so many ways. It''s not easy to come up with a piercing where captive ring cannot be worn. People buy captive rings (BCR, CBR) as: nipple piercing jewelry, lip piercings, eyebrow body jewelry, nose piercing, and so on, including the private parts piercing. But CBR is most suitable with navel, ear and lip piercing.

Body Spirals - A spiral barbell are twisted in shape and have ball or cone ends. It also called "Twister Body Jewelry". There are not only spiral barbell, but also ear piercing.

Circular Barbells - Also known as horseshoe barbells due to their shape, they are used in any number of piercings, including earrings, tragus rings, nasal septum piercings, madisons, or even horizontal clitoral hood piercings, although the latter is less common, as the clitoris is deprived of the stimulation gained from a properly positioned captive bead ring.

In this text, we didn't say about the simple barbell, because everyone should know about this already. Now we give you an idea how different with each type of body piercing. So you can should what you want or what you like.

Reference :

http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Type-of-Jewelry-is-Best-For-Body-Piercing?&id=3867361

http://www.titaniumonly.com/cbr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_%28piercing%29#Circular_barbells

http://body-piercing.jumora.net/curved-barbells/

The Hill Tribes with Handmade Silver Jewelry

While the number of our items are increased, we also upgrade the materials for the best quality of goods. Even though the price of silver is more expensive, many new items that we try to use it instead of metal bead. Most of silver beads that we use are from the north of Thailand, the products from the Hill Tribe.

The Hill Tribes have been highly respected silversmiths for hundreds of years old. They handcraft detailed jewelry components and beads from fine silver. Fine silver is soft 99.9% pure silver as compared to harder sterling silver which is 92.5% pure silver alloyed with 7.5% copper. Silver ingots are flattened into a sheet by pounding with hammers and made into wire by pulling it through ancient draw dies. Thin silver sheets are hammered into black tar molds to make shapes, then soldered and engraved. Because the silver from Hill Tribes are handmade, so the silversmiths cannot make it fast like making by machine and the products are no 2 pieces exactly alike.

The jewelry create by the Hill tribes are objects of classic beauty and symbolic significance. Historically, the Hill tribe people have used silver instead of paper money because they don’t trust in the paper. Even today some of them prefer silver coins, jewelry, silver ingots, and silver pipes and boxes, because they feel that even the time passed by, the silver always retain their value (This thinking become true, seeing from the silver price that increased everyday like gold.). In addition to the value of money, wearing silver jewelry signifies wealth, status and spirituality. It also help to protect the suitors to young women and it adds color and excitement to many rather routine lives.

Because of today's world use the paper money for trade, some Hill Tribes are make silver and beads for trade with the outside world, but some Hill Tribes are still make the silver and beads for their consumption. Selling the products from their skill are helping them to have the income for support their family and their tribes. The Tribal elders fear that they are slowly losing their skills and cultures. Purchasing jewelry made with hill tribe crafted silver can help them to support their silversmith traditions and allow their tribal culture to continue to survive.

Reference :

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art20392.asp

http://www.silverjewelryinfo.com/0604_Thai_Hilltribe.html

Picture Credit :

http://www.thisnext.com/tag/karen-hill-tribe-fine-silver-flower/

http://www.starsterlingsilver.com/thai-karen-sterling-silver-pendants-p-13.html