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AlluringBody gold and platinum do not tarnish. Usually warm water with a little antibacterial soap and a soft brush are all that you need to clean your body jewelry and restore sparkle. Here are some other tips for keeping your jewelry looking beautiful for years to come.

• If possible, keep your jewelry away from cleaning products, excessive sweat, salt water, and perfume. They can discolor or damage gold and gemstones.
• Dirt and oil prevent the real brilliance of diamonds from being seen. Always handle jewelry from the edges.
• Have your jewelry inspected by a jeweler annually to check for loosened prongs, and general wear and tear.
• Store jewelry in a soft pouch when it is not being worn.

The nose is an increasingly fashionable piercing site, and it’s as popular with those who work in an office as with people who favor a slightly more unconventional lifestyle. Worldwide, it’s the second most common piercing site (after the ear), and it has both social and religious significance in many cultures.

Healing Time: Allow at least 3 to 4 months for a traditional nostril piercing and at least 4 to 8 weeks for a septum piercing.

Location: The most common site is the nostril (traditionally placed where the nostril begins to flare), with the septum being second most popular. A high nostril piercing, done through the thin cartilage under the nose bone, is a distant third.

Suitable Types of Jewelry

Jewelry Styles for Nostril Piercings: Initial jewelry for a traditional nostril piercing includes rings, studs and screws. Rings should be at least 20 gauge with a diameter of 5/16 to 7/16 inch. For studs and screws, select one that’s 20 or 18 gauge. Make sure that the post length leaves enough room for the initial swelling.

Jewelry Styles for Septum Piercings: The septum piercing, which is placed within the tissue that divides the nostrils, requires a circular barbell, ring, or retainer as the initial jewelry. A 14 or 12 gauge is optimal, though 16 gauge is acceptable, and 10 gauge can be appropriate on those with large features. If you choose a ring, the diameter should be 3/8, or 7/16.

Suitable Materials: Initial jewelry, as well as the jewelry you wear after the piercing heals, should be nickel-free white or yellow gold, platinum, surgical stainless steel, or titanium.

Jewels: Jewels should be set rather than glued to assist with sterilization procedures and to ensure they won’t fall out.

Changing Jewelry: Many people feel more comfortable asking a professional piercer to help them change their jewelry the first time. This is especially true if your initial jewelry is a screw, as it requires a pulling-twisting motion to remove and a pushing-twisting motion to insert. Most septum piercings heal fully after a couple of months, and they are typically easier to change than nostril piercings. However, since removing and inserting the jewelry is done by feel, some people request assistance from their piercer until they can better locate the holes with their fingers.

Keep in Mind: It’s important to avoid using jewelry with press-on backings (typically worn as earrings) in your nostril piercing. Not only can the sharp end of the post cause damage to the septum, but the backing can contain infection-causing bacteria.

Of all the places on the body that can be pierced, the navel is second in popularity, coming in right behind the nose. Here’s a quick fact sheet on navel piercings:

Healing Time: 6-12 months

Suitable Positions: Vertical piercing entering inside the navel and exiting above it is most common, though some piercers favor a slightly angled piercing or exiting below the navel for aesthetic and other reasons related to healing.

Suitable Types of Jewelry

Jewelry Types: A curved barbell in 14 to 10 guage that is 3/8” to 1/2” in length is recommended for the initial piercing. If you prefer a ring, you can use a captive bead ring in the same gauge (14 to 10) that is 3/8” to 1/2” in diameter, with no more than 1/3 of the ring through the piercing. A curved barbell moves with the body and allows easier, quicker healing for a vertical piercing. A captive bead ring works well and looks beautiful with an angled piercing if it can lay flat against the torso.

Suitable Sizes: Only 14 gauge or heavier jewelry should be used. Smaller gauges will migrate out through the skin.

Suitable Materials: Solid 14k-18k nickel-free gold, surgical stainless steel, and titanium are the prefered metals by reputable piercing studios.

Jewels: Avoid jewelry with glued stones as it cannot be properly sterilized

Changing Jewelry: During the first year, it’s safest to have your navel jewelry changed by a professional.

When summer comes around, fun seems to follow – strappy sandals, sunny days at the beach, and butterflies flitting from flower to flower. Get into the spirit with a new belly ring from AlluringBody. Choose from a selection to suit your mood: be sassy with a white gold butterfly, go sweet with a pretty pink piece, or get funky with a gemstone butterfly design featuring purple amethyst and green-gold peridot. If flowers are more your style, we have a whole bouquet from which to choose: a playful cherry blossom design with pink sapphires, an elegant blue flower created from gorgeous deep azure sapphires, or an earthy design featuring light blue topaz with a splash of citrine.

How will you celebrate summer?

Traditionally, women have been taught to select white gold if they have cool skin tones (pink or blue undertones) and yellow gold if they have warm skin tones (yellowish undertones). This doesn’t take into account your individual taste or your wardrobe. White gold complements white, blue, pink, and true red clothing and yellow gold jewelry makes the most of warmer colors. But maybe you want to match your new heart-shaped navel ring to a yellow gold ring you wear. Or perhaps you think a white gold setting more perfectly shows off the brilliant clear diamond in your nose stud. There’s no right or wrong decision when it comes to the color of high-quality gold jewelry.

After many requests from body jewelry wearers around the globe, we’ve opened up our shipping destinations to 51 new countries. The most requests came from Australia and New Zealand, where the sun and surf is abundant so they have plenty of opportunities to show off their AlluringBody belly button rings. It’s exciting for me to think of our jewelry being worn around the world in places like Japan, Barbados, and French Polynesia. In researching the countries I came across a South Pacific island called New Caledonia. Never heard of it before, but it looks like paradise! Their emblem is a nautilus shell – which would make a really cool tattoo!

As always, we have free shipping on all orders within the US and Canada, but we’ve added the US territories. The other 49 countries we now ship to can get their orders in 4-10 days for just $12.

If you have a photograph or comments you would like to share, please send them to us.

Michelle, an AlluringBody customer, sent us this great photograph of herself and testimonial! Thanks Michelle! She’s wearing the 1.5mm Prong-Set Perfect Diamond Nose Stud, which we think looks perfect on her.

I just got my nose pierced after getting a job that allows it. I was sorely disappointed with the nose screw that they pierced me with and immediately went to your beautifully designed and informative Internet site to get what I really wanted! To say that I was giddy with anticipation at the arrival of my new beauties would be putting it lightly, especially after I read the other testimonials. Even though I was told not to change nose pieces for 2 months there was no way I was sticking with what I had. I took off early to get my purchase from the post office and ripped into it with reckless excitement. Beautiful packaging, wonderful design, AMAZING jewelery!!!! I cannot wait to order more and I point out my beautiful bling to everyone and tell them where I got it… left a review previously about my nose stud, which i love!!! i get compliments on it all of the time! now i have a picture… thanks again!

The way to a woman’s heart may very well be through her belly ring (or nose ring or earring). When you get a gift for a special woman in your life, you want it to be perfect. The question is, how can you be sure you’re picking out something she’s absolutely going to love? Once again, it’s AlluringBody to the rescue! You can now purchase e-gift cards, which let her pick out exactly what she wants. Perhaps a cuff with diamonds and pink sapphires? Or maybe she’d prefer a nose stud with a sunshine yellow diamond. The gift is yours, but the choice is hers. The e-gift cards come in denominations from $25 to $1,000, and because these fun cards are emailed to the recipient as soon as they’re purchased, they’re perfect for last-minute shoppers (you know who you are). For a birthday, the holidays, or whatever she’s celebrating, she’ll love the opportunity to select a dazzling, glamorous piece of body jewelry. Spend a minute at  www.alluringbody.com/e-gift-cards.html, and you can be confident that you’re giving her precisely what she wants: options!

It’s hard to believe, but the holidays are approaching at breakneck speed. The tricky part for a lot of people is finding gift ideas that break out of the same old, same old without breaking the bank. Solution: if someone on your gift list is a fan of outrageously gorgeous body jewelry, you’ve come to the right place. The great thing about online stores like AlluringBody.com is the selection. You can search for exactly what you want, whether it’s an elegant belly ring with pave diamonds for your uptown sister or a beautiful ocean blue diamond nose stud for your whimsical best friend. There’s enough stress during the holiday season, so don’t run all over town trying to hunt down the perfect gift for everyone. Click through AlluringBody.com for lots of great ideas, and then let us package the jewelry in a lovely gift box and ship it directly to your door (or someone else’s door) for free. Not even Santa offers service like that!

Your belly ring style is as unique as you are, and if you’re in the market for jewelry that says ”elegant,” try the new scalloped edge styles. As always, AlluringBody delivers high-quality metals and real diamonds and gemstones to create maximum brilliance, but the detailed edges of these delicate belly rings will draw even more attention to your gorgeous, unique jewelry.

Gorgeous .30ct Diamond Belly Ring
Make a chic choice for your next belly ring with our lavish .30 carat sparkling diamond set in gleaming 14k white gold. The intricate scalloped edges show off the perfection of the brilliant white diamond and add visual interest to the classic design.

Pear-Shaped Amethyst
The combination of intense, beautiful violet color and glossy pure white gold create a stunning splash of color in this belly ring. The genuine pear-shaped amethyst, contained within the piece’s striking scalloped edges, radiates fiery color and draws the eye to the gleaming jewel.

Beautiful Blue Topaz
Get swept away by the icy beauty of a real blue topaz, displayed to perfection in a luminous 14k white gold setting with unexpectedly sexy scalloped edges. The facets of the blue topaz radiate maximum fire thanks to the open back design. Blue topaz is also the December birth stone, so this piece is a fun way to tell the world a little about yourself.