Body jewelry has been utilized from time immemorial by women who desired to make their beauty more pronounced. Body jewelry materials obviously varied. It is a tradition that traces its roots to the early stages of civilization for women to decorate their body with all kinds of beauty articles, including body decorations made of various body jewelry materials.
 
It has now become an established fact that the application of body jewelry as well as some certain body jewelry materials may produce a very positive impact on the overall body tone and even make certain body systems function much better. For example, there have been several reports from ophthalmologists universally claiming that ear piercing, using certain body jewelry materials like gold and silver, had a capability of improving eyesight.

Gold is a symbol of prosperity, and that means that a lot of people want gold jewelry to show their position or prosperity. They wear it for fashion earrings, fashion necklaces, and fashion bracelets, and now they are wearing it for their body jewelry – including nose, lip, eyebrow, and belly button piercings. But is what you're buying really gold? If it's not, it could make you sick. It's generally recommended that you get eighteen karat gold, too, because ten or fourteen karat gold has a lot of impurities that aren't good for you. They have more nickel in them along with other metals, such as silver jewelry and metal jewelry, and that means that you have a higher chance of being allergic to them. Eighteen karat gold is about seventy-five percent pure, so an allergy to it would be unlikely.

The only other gold that you can buy easily is twenty-four karat, but that's considered 'pure' gold, and it's very expensive. Most people don't want to, or can't, pay that kind of money, so eighteen karat is their best option. It's possible to have an allergic reaction to this jewelry, but it's very unlikely. When buying gold body jewelry, the best thing to do is buy from a reputable source so you know what you're getting.

Besides, regular wear of body  jewelry may even alter the shape of the human body. To illustrate the point above it may be useful to mention the ancient tribes living in Antigua. It was a time-honored tradition there for women to wear multiple metal rings on their necks, gradually increasing the number. Not surprisingly their spine was affected and the neck muscles were no longer able to support the weight of the head. But these extreme cases are nowadays rather few and making a choice in favor of body jewelry as well as certain body jewelry materials is no longer stipulated by tradition.

The scientists claim that investigating the types of body jewelry of people in a particular region it is also possible to get detailed information about the stage of their development and the predominant materials they operated with. The earliest type of body jewelry were those naturally made of organic materials, as people were not then able to process materials in order to make body jewelry.

The curious quality of early body jewelry is that if evaluated now by the most contemporary trendy jewelry, it would not be called stylish and sophisticated, let alone the body jewelry materials which have certainly undergone great changes in the modern body jewelry industry.