Body piercing jewelery is jewelery manufactured specifically for use in body piercing. When talking about body piercing jewelry, some people are think that's only means to belly jewelry, but actually body jewelry means to every jewelry that piercing on the body such as belly piercing, ear piercing, nipple piercing, lip piercing, and etc. Originally, body piercing jewelry is hardly any other jewelery than circular earrings were used in modern Western body piercing. Body piercing jewelry is quite popular today. It has become the newest fad in the fashion industry. For some it's like expressing their own personality this way but to others it's just going with what is most popular trend in fashion today. Today the body piercing are manufactured in many types and many style. So let us check on the different types of jewelry.
Banana Barbells - As know as curved barbell or bent barbells. Normally they use for belly piercing and eyebrow piercing, but sometime it is used for nipple piercing or others private part. There are many different types of banana barbells such as acrylic, black line, zircon gold, surgical steel, titanium, bioplast, gemstone navel banana barbells, and PTFE. The most popular material is always surgical steel and acrylic.
Captive Bead Ring (CBR) - This also know as CBR or BCR from ball closure rings. This is one of the most popular kinds of body jewelry because it can be used in so many ways. It''s not easy to come up with a piercing where captive ring cannot be worn. People buy captive rings (BCR, CBR) as: nipple piercing jewelry, lip piercings, eyebrow body jewelry, nose piercing, and so on, including the private parts piercing. But CBR is most suitable with navel, ear and lip piercing.
Body Spirals - A spiral barbell are twisted in shape and have ball or cone ends. It also called "Twister Body Jewelry". There are not only spiral barbell, but also ear piercing.
Circular Barbells - Also known as horseshoe barbells due to their shape, they are used in any number of piercings, including earrings, tragus rings, nasal septum piercings, madisons, or even horizontal clitoral hood piercings, although the latter is less common, as the clitoris is deprived of the stimulation gained from a properly positioned captive bead ring.
In this text, we didn't say about the simple barbell, because everyone should know about this already. Now we give you an idea how different with each type of body piercing. So you can should what you want or what you like.
Reference :
http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Type-of-Jewelry-is-Best-For-Body-Piercing?&id=3867361
http://www.titaniumonly.com/cbr/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_%28piercing%29#Circular_barbells
http://body-piercing.jumora.net/curved-barbells/