BODY JEWLRY for Males and Females: tounge rings

Tongue piercing is most popularly done with straight barbell. Your first tongue ring should be at least ¾” long. When your tongue is healed completely, switch to a shorter tongue ring so it does not move around as much.

Straight barbell tongue ring style piercing body jewlry is made of a straight bar and with a bead on each end, one or both beads are un-screwable for removal and/or replacing of the beads. Often one of the beads is united, either via epoxy or welding, so that only one bead is used to fix or remove the body jewellery. Most straight barbell tongue rings have right-handed threads.

There are approximately about 5 types of straight barbell tongue rings. The internally threaded barbell tongue rings are little bit more expensive than outer threaded straight barbell tongue rings
as there will be additional tooling and work involved. It is also thought superior to the external straight barbell tounge rings, as it is less likely to cause loss an irritation especially at the time of piercing. The bead in an internal threaded tongue ring has a receiving tube machine into

The externally threaded straight barbell tounge rings has become less common as the popularity of the internally threaded increased. It is named so because shaft of the bar has threads at both ends to allow beads with receiving threads to be attached.

Curved barbell body jewlry is also famous, as a navel curve and are named because of their curvature. It is mechanically identical to straight barbell tongue rings, instead of that they are curved. Curvature on a curved barbell tongue ring can range from almost straight to circular, with some barbells basically being spiral, with the ends overlapping but separated to allow the insertion
of the body jewlry. Curved barbell tongue rings can either be internally or externally threaded.

Also famous as a navel curve or curve, so named because of their curvature. A curved barbell is mechanically identical to a straight barbell, instead for being curved. Curvature on a curved barbell can range from circular to almost straight, with some barbells actually being spiral, with the ends overlapping but separated to permit the insertion of the body jewlry. A variation on this design is a J-bar, a slightly curved barbell
banana barbell with a 90 degree bend near one end, used in vertical navel piercings to position the decorative end of the body jewelry more appropriately. They can be either internally threaded or externally threaded.

Circular barbells, also famous as horseshoe barbells are used in many types of piercings. They are named so due to their shape.

Surface piercings use surface bar tongue rings To use this tongue ring in a surface piercing, two 90 degree bends need to made in the same direction. Because of this design the pressure that would be
affected by other body jewlry designs that participate to rejection in healing surface piercings is minimized.

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