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Belly Button Rings
 Most belly button rings require piercing in order to wear them. For those of you who don't know piercing the belly button is not always the best option. If you don't have enough overhanging skin the piercer will need to make it a surface piercing, similar to eyebrow piercing. A surface piercing is when the needle travel's under the surface of the skin rather than through one side of the skin to the other, as with an ear piercing. Surface piercings require a lot of after care and take a while to heal, and they are notorious for being rejected by the body. Even if the skin heals around it the piercing may only last a couple of years at most before the new skin growth underneath actually pushes the piercing and it's jewelry out of the body. The belly button is most often pierced with a captive bead ring, which is simply a partial ring made of steel, niobium, or titanium with a small 'captured' bead which connects the open end of the ring. The bead can be made of metal, wood, glass, semi-precious stone, or ceramic. It's very popular because the bead can simply be removed to allow the wearer to remove the ring. Other types of belly button rings are the ball and socket, bar enclosure, coil captive, fixed bead, screw-on ball, seamless, segment, and teardrop. Besides the Captive bead style or ring there is also the Navel shield, which are pieces about the size of a half dollar and come in designs like a sun with solar flares spreading out. Dangles are another and perhaps the most popular style of jewelry, which is kind of like having an earring with dangling stones for your belly button. And the Acrylic Balls, which come at the end of a straight, bent or twisted steel bar that looks best in a surface piercing. 
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