The following examples of jewelry are merely the basics and those that are typically seen. There are other jewelry obtions, such as tunnels for ears and many custom pieces as well. Most jewelry can come in any color (though not all colored metal is good for you...), as well as the balls, etc. are detachable and you can switch in other colors or even buy them in just about any color or graphic sort of design on the ball(s) that you could think of. It's all a matter of looking around and finding the right gauge!
CBR:Captive Bead Ring, it's a ring with a ball in the center to keep the ring from falling off. The are also known as BCR, ball closure ring.
Barbell: Barbell jewelry, is literally, a bar with two balls on either end, both which can come off and are usually seen in tongue piercings.
Horseshoes/Circulars: look like horse shoes with balls on either end of the circular jewelry.
Circular barbells: Are bent barbells, seen often in eyebrows and other piercings that require a circular form of jewelry (like eyebrows).
Spikes: can be circular barbells, barbells, horse shoes, etc where instead of balls there's spikes.
Most people have shopped at Claire's and such places getting those cute little earrings that cost us five dollars or more and after a few months they have small blackish spots on them. That is by NO MEANS safe jewelry to continue to wear. Sterling Silver, or most silver, isn't good for your ears because it can tarnish (gets black spots on them) these can cause serious problems such as permenant discoloring of the hole the jewelry is in. Would you place a rusty nail in your body for jewelry? I would hope not, and that's basically what you're doing when using sterling silver or low grade steel jewelry. Good Jewelry options:
.: Surgerical Steel metal
.: Arylic
.: Titanium
.: Any "implant grade" steel (the kind of steel that you'd see doctor's use to implant into people such as metal plates in one's head or bolts in a bone of some sort)
Pictures taken from Tonguestud, click here to go there
| Picture: | Example: |
 | CBR |
 | Barbell |
 | Curved/Circular Barbell |
 | Horseshoe |
 | Spiked Horseshoe |
