A Commonly Used Style Of Piercing Jewelry Is The Curved Barbells
Posted by 3 Curved Barbells Girl on 13 Jan 2008 at 08:15 pm | Tagged as: Barbells
If you are looking at getting a new type of style of piercing jewelry you may want to think about getting curved barbells. They get this name because they looked much like the weightlifting barbells that people use while working out. These curved pieces of jewelry are composed of a bar with a single bead on each end. Both sides of the bead are easy to remove which allows you to take the jewelry off and on at your own free will. However, sometimes one of the beads is fixed so that only one can come off. It just depends on the manufacturer and what style they choose to make.
There are almost an endless amount of different types of piercing jewelry you can buy. However, there is one that works in almost all types of piercings, and that is the curved barbells. Even so, these do not work in surface piercings. You will see this style used a lot in navel or eyebrow piercings. There are also a hand full of people that use them in vertical hood piercings. Of course, what ever you choose to use it in, you should know what they are and what they are made out of. These pieces of jewelry are curved ( you could problem tell by the name). Now they can be made out of just about anything, but because they are curved they are almost always made out of stainless steel. If you have a lot of money to spend on it you can also get them in titanium, which are a lot nicer.
The price of these pieces of jewelry can range from being just one dollar to being over forty dollars. This depends on the manufacturer that makes them. There are some very up class manufacturers that make these, and they charge a lot more. However, another factor that depends the price would have to be how large the gauge is. A larger gauge size is going to cost you more money. In fact, the larger they get, the more dramatic the price is going to go up. The size of the gauge pretty much tells you how thick the metal bar is going to be that you are going to stick in your piercing. If you are looking to get a bigger gauge it is usually a good idea to go up slowly to avoid taring the skin. I have noticed that the best pieces of this type of jewelry usually cost about ten to twenty dollars. Anything more and you are over paying, and anything less and you might being getting a cheap piece of jewelry.
The curved barbells are a great way to change up your look. You are going to see that these are getting more and more popular by the day. I guess this is because they work in so many different types of piercings. Whenever you go out to get one, just make sure you have a set amount of money that you are willing to spend. If you have a lot of money to spend on these you may want to go for the titanium ones. These are almost gaunted never to break. After all, that is what they make a lot of golf clubs out of. Also, keep in mind that they can have either internal or external threading. The external ones have a better quality, so keep that in mind. You do not want to get ripped off.