Sterling Silver Rings and Charms for Everyone

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Posted on 21st June 2011 by GuestPoster in Belly Button Rings |Charms for Bracelets |Sterling Silver Rings

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The use of sterling silver –which is 92.5 percent pure–, has been common in gift rings and other items such as charms and showpieces. Jewelry items available from a vast range of brands, make sure that no one finds it difficult when searching affordable silver items for $20-100 . Most varieties of sterling silver rings within your means can feature excellent artwork. Sterling silver charms are popular for their vast variation in themes as well.

If you are looking for suitable sterling silver rings, you may have chanced upon designs featuring colored patterns. While that may be a possible hindrance to the silver shine, items are often intelligently crafted to using colors that will contrast with the silver sparkles in certain exposed portions. Heart-shaped designs, floral patterns, ridged mounts and butterfly patterns are available amongst the colored silver rings at many reputed American stores online. The silver rings are also available in combination with white gold and steel gray shades.

Among the sterling silver charms, heart-shaped pieces, chains and pills feature amongst the frequently sold items. While teenagers and the young folk would find them affordable, they can also rely on procuring high quality silver products, which may have been a distant dream. Sterling silver belly button rings will make a very affordable and appreciated present for a young teenage girl in your family.

Finding charms within your budget is easy once you stick your choice to trendy design writings such as ‘Hope’, ‘Peace’, heart-shaped lockets, disc washers and abstract shapes. Charms amongst the most favorite lineups also include roped name-plates. While they can be used around the neck, many prefer using them on belt-loops and other parts of the attire.

Buying what you need can be easy once  you know about the many reliable sources selling quality jewelry items for less than 50 dollars and so on. While fashionable stones can make the items pricey, colored diamonds and sterling silver can be perfect choices for finding value for money.

What if Your Daughter Uses Belly Button Rings?

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Posted on 14th February 2011 by obadias in Belly Button Rings

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What can you do if your daughter went ahead and pierced her navel to be able to wear fancy, trendy, belly button rings?  You had already warned her of all the awful possible allergic and secondary effects such body piercing could bring, without mentioning the possible infections, tearing, etc.

You don’t believe it is nice to pierce; it gives you a savage mental picture of jungle dwellers and their funny jewellery on noses, ears, necks, etc.   Well, there is nothing you can do now. She already pierced her navel.  Just hope that the tattoo worker was a clean, honest and professional one, and that no consequences will follow.

Why do young people crave piercings like this? Is it another rebellious trend? For us baby boomers, who tried to go all natural and organic, piercing was not an option.  We didn’t even pierce our daughter’s ears at birth, like our mothers did.  We thought this should be a personal choice and not one imposed by the parents or society. Well, maybe this is one of the answers. We didn’t pierce their ears and now they crave piercings. This is always the paradox of human eternal discontentment.

For centuries, women of many Asian and African communities flaunted beautiful nose jewellery, multiple earrings in their ears, etc.  But piercing other parts of the body was not part of any specific culture or common like it is today.  Some western fringe demographics –like punks, bikers, sadomasochist’s minorities, etc.—were seen or known of wearing these piercings in other body parts, but it was not until the late 90s that belly button rings went mainstream.

Where did this belly button ring fashion came from? On one hand, it was most likely from the insatiable search for new trends in order to sell new products and make new money for the jewelry niche corporations.

Some say, (Wikipedia) that a famous model named Christy Turlington –during a fashion show in London—showed publicly her navel piercing for the first time. Then the Aerosmith music video song “Cryin”, popularized Alicia Silverstone’s navel piercing to the youths of the world.  Easy to be concealed by the clothing, many young teenagers managed to pierce their navels without being “discovered” by their parents.

There is a huge belly button rings industry that has recently developed, and countless beauty shops, magazines and online shops sell unique designs and fancy belly button rings jewellery made of all kinds of metals, sizes and designs.  There is something for every budget, from simple studs to complicated dangling –earring looking—belly button rings.

Gold (yellow and white gold), titanium, stainless steel, and sterling silver are the favourite metals for belly button rings.  Many people are allergic to even small amounts of nickel in alloys with other metals –which is very frequent in earrings and other jewellery–, which makes your skin red, itchy and painful and can lead to infection if scratched.

True, those beautifully designed belly button rings look beautiful on a young, lean and tanned female body. It is not difficult to figure out when to wear fancy belly button rings. The perfect place to show off their navel jewellery is definitely in the beach.  Some of these belly button rings even glow in the dark and are perfectly suited for disco nights.

If your daughter has a belly button ring, don’t panic or freak out. Just go along with it the best you can –there is not much else you can do anyway–, and try to compliment the beauty of it:  “Wow, that looks so nice on you!”.  Maybe a casual, simple reminder of the hygiene and safety measures you know are needed could also be mentioned,  and leave it at that. She will be shocked that you don’t make a big scene, or order her to take it off immediately like many parents do.

It is my personal experience –after many years of parenting teenagers—that if  there is not much opposition from parental authority, generally the trend fades and the youth disposes of their belly button rings and/or other piercings by their own will, as they grow up or take on more responsibility.  “If mom likes it, maybe I should take it off.”