Body Jewelry’s Sexiest Fad, Tongue Rings
Tongue piercing is most popularly done with straight barbell. 14 Ga is the most common gauge used for tongue ring piercing. In order to give room to the swelling, the initial length of the pierced barbell should be at least 3/4". When the tongue rings piercing has become well, it can be replaced to a smaller barbell of 9/16", or 14 mm, which is the most usual size of tongue rings. It is recommended to wear a shorter barbell after the tongue piercing is healed.
Barbell tongue ring fashion of body jewelry is composed of a straight bar and with a bead on each end, one or both beads unscrewable for removal and/or replacing of the beads. Either through epoxy or welding, often one of the beads is fixed, so that only one bead is used to install or remove the jewelry. Usually, there are only right-handed barbell threads.
There are roughly about 5 kinds of barbells for body jewelry. The insided threaded barbells are slightly more costly than externally threaded barbells as there will be additional machining and labor involved. It is also considered superior to the external barbells as it is less likely to cause damage or irritation especially at the time of piercing. An internally threaded barbell has a bead with a receiving tube machine into it which connects with a threaded post extending from the center.
Although the externally threaded barbells have become less common, the internally threaded barbells have increased in popularity. It is named so because shaft of the bar has threads at both ends to allow beads with receiving threads to be attached.
Curved barbells are also known as a navel curve and are named because of their curvature. It is mechanically same to straight barbells except that they are curved. Curvature on a curved barbell tongue rings can range from almost straight to circular, with some barbells basically being spiral, with the ends overlapping but departed to allow the insertion of the body jewelry. A variation on the curved barbell tongue ring design is a slightly curved barbell with a 90 degree bend near one end which is used in vertical navel piercings so the decorative end of the body jewelry is positioned more appropriately is called a J-bar. They can be either internally threaded or externally
threaded.
Circular barbell tongue rings, also known as horseshoe barbell tongue rings are used in many types of piercings. Their shape is what gives them their name.
In all surface piercings, surface bars are used. Barbells for surface piercing have a pair of 90 degree bends in the same direction, so they can be used for surface piercing. Because of this design the pressure that would be affected by other body jewelry designs that interfere with the healing is minimized.
