Belly Button Jewelry

Belly Button Jewelry: Most kinds of ring or bar belly button jewelry can be worn in a navel piercing. Although navels are most often pierced with a barbell, which is recommended to be worn until the belly button piercing has fully healed. A wide variety of decorative belly button jewelry is available for the navel. Simple navel barbells, navel barbells with dangling pendants, and navel barbells with attached belly chains are a few of the options.

When it comes to belly button piercing, if you look around, you'll find that there has been a special standard established for navel barbells (also called bananabells or bananabars, because of  their curved shape). The standard bananabell is 1.6 mm (1/16") thick and 9.5 mm (3/8") or 11.1 mm (7/16") long, most commonly referred to as a 14-gauge post. The silver caps on either side of the simple barbell post usually measure 5mm in diameter for the upper and 8mm in diameter for the lower.

Although bananabells are different from full rings, like captive bead rings that also can be worn in navel, there is tendency by jewelry retailers and wholesalers to refer to these barbells as belly button jewelry. A new version of belly button jewelry with a clasp that slides through the piercing and snaps closed is now on the market.