Body piercing jewelry is jewelry manufactured specifically for use in body piercing. Originally hardly any other jewelry than circular earrings were used in modern Western body piercing, as the body piercing became more of a fashion a vast amount of specially crafted jewelry became available.

 

The familiar body piercing jewelry mainly includes: Navel ring, belly ring, belly button ring, piercing needle, tattoo needle, nostril screw, UV ball, breast ring, tongue nail and etc.

 

Materials used for production have grown from traditional gold and silver to most widespread surgical steel as well as titanium, glass, several kinds of plastic, wood, horn, amber, stone, bamboo, silicone, fossilized ivories, tusks and other bones, etc.

• The 20th International Jewellery Tokyo (IJT 2009)[2008-12-28]