What does Titanium mean to Body Jewelry?

Titanium Curved BarbellTitanium is one of the best metals to uses in your body piercing, if you have allergies to metals. It has virtually no alloys in it, therefore causing no reaction with you body and less rejection and infection from your piercing. Titanium is used in many implant surgeries that doctors perform daily for these very same reasons. It also is very light weight, at about 45% of the weight of Surgical Steel. So if you have large Gauges piercings you and want to lighten up some, you can do so with Titanium body jewelry because of it being so light.

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To Wear or not to Wear Gold Body Jewelry

Many people still have misconceptions about gold body jewelry. Many people still even purchase cheap plated gold body jewelry which can be found at just about any mall and in stores like Spencers. Plated Jewelry can cause major infections due to the plating wearing off and the high nickel content in the Jewelry. Some people feel that the true solid gold body jewelry should be stamped 14k or 18k gold. However having this stamp does not mean a whole lot anymore since first of all, anyone can purchase the hammer stamps and put it on plated crap, and secondly having your body jewelry stamped just makes for a great place for bacteria to breed causing an infection. Usually this will only be done by the overseas companies and then it is very questionable what you are getting anymore based on … read more