Belly Button Rings – The Hottest Body Jewelry!
There are quite a few body jewelry retailers on the internet and the market is teeming with small online shops among the market leaders. After looking at just a few of them, it is becoming very clear that much of their assortment is made up of belly button rings. The question may arise: what has caused the belly button piercing to gain such massive popularity?
Supposedly, belly piercing surfaced in society in the early ’90s when top models like Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell appeared on stage sporting belly button rings. Around that time, the scene of a navel piercing was shown in the by aerosmith video crying where Alicia Silverstone was getting drilled. The events mentioned above are believed to cause millions of girls to rush to piercing parlors and get their belly buttons pierced.
As time has passed, belly piercing has become as common as ear piercing and fewer and fewer people consider it to belong to other categories of piercing, such as facial, tongue or surface piercings. Girls get their belly button pierced at an earlier stage and the average age seems to be around 14 years old. Many celebrities sport belly button piercings and the stigma that makes parents forbid their daughters from getting their belly buttons is finally gone.
In the early days, the standard piece of body jewelry worn to insert into girls’ navels was a ball clasp ring, or BCR. However, lately the market demand has changed and bananabells or navel barbells have secured their position as the industry standard.
The most interesting part about this is that banana bells are often called belly button rings, obviously because generally everyone calls all belly button jewelry belly button rings. As a consequence, when one buys body jewelry online, one cannot tell only after the description whether the belly button jewelry of the corresponding category is banana bells or ball clasp rings. However, a large portion of the body jewelry sold on the internet is banana bells for the belly button and when shoppers search for belly button rings they can be pretty sure they will end up looking at barbells.
There are also some medical advantages to belly button bars compared to ball closure rings. They do not project too far outward and the drill hole is subject to less tearing. Bananabells are also easier to change as no special pliers are required to remove the piercing and considering the very reasonable price of body jewelry online, any girl can afford to rock a new belly ring! Every day of the week!
Probably at some point we will see prestigious online jewelry stores selling belly button rings along with high quality gold and platinum earrings and wedding rings. We have to admit that the concept of a belly button ring blends perfectly with the range of accessories that every woman should have!