Navel rings – the most popular body jewelry!

There are quite a number of body jewelry retailers on the internet and the market is packed with small online stores among the market leaders. After seeing just a few of them, it is becoming very clear that a large part of their assortment is made up of belly button rings. The question may arise: what has caused navel 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 navel 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 run to piercing salons and get their navels pierced.

As time has gone on, belly piercing has become as common as ear piercing and fewer and fewer people consider it to fall under other categories of piercing such as facial, tongue or surface piercings. Girls get their navel pierced at an earlier stage and the average age seems to be around 14 years old. Many celebrities sport navel piercings and the stigma that makes parents forbid their daughters to pierce their navel is finally gone.

In the early days, the standard piece of body jewelry used to insert into girls’ navels was a ball clasp ring or BCR. However, lately the market demand has changed and the bananabells or navel barbells have secured their position as the industry standard.

The most interesting part about this is that belly button bananabells are often referred to as belly button rings, obviously because, in general, everyone calls all belly button jewelry belly button rings. As a consequence, when one buys body jewelry online, one cannot know only after the description whether the navel jewelry of the corresponding category is bananabells or rings with ball closures. However, a large portion of the body jewelry sold on the internet is belly button bananabells and when shoppers look for belly button rings they can be pretty sure they will end up seeing barbells.

There are also some medical advantages to belly button bars compared to ball closure rings. They do not project too far outwards and the drill hole is subject to fewer tears. 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 on the internet any girl can afford to sport 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 wedding rings and earrings. We have to admit that the concept of a navel ring goes perfectly with the range of accessories that every woman should have!