Representing: Body Jewelry, Another Word For Pirate Treasure
I’d like to talk about body jewelry. Yes, I am aware that piercing body parts has gone from risque to cliche since style-makers traded in their rainbows for black and white stripes a few years back. But when you’ve been living with something for over 10 years, in this case a navel ring, it becomes a part of you. You feel naked and weird without it.
A few weeks back I was shopping for inexpensive workout tanks at this little thrift shop where they sell them 10 for $10! As a true child of the eighties, I could not hide my inner eight year old upon noticing that right next to the cash register were several Strawberry Shortcake dangle navel ring charms. How gaudy, how cheaply made, how "berry" necessary.
But it got me thinking, what is a girl who is no longer seventeen but not a celebrity rock-star supposed to do when it comes to lingering holes in the midriff? Is there a way to make body jewelry classy, sophisticated or more acceptable or classier? Now that you can buy three navel rings for $12 at your basic mall store, I wanted something that was a little snarky, a little sexy and a little more grown up (quality = more expensive). So I went to old faithful – ye olde Internet. My first thought: wow is there a lot of ugly body jewelry – my favorite being a mushroom topper that does not look quite like a mushroom, but I digress. So after a bit of searching and checking in with my girlfriends to see if they still have their navel rings (the answer was yes and let’s stop talking about it, thanks), I found GoldBodyJewelry.com. Next paycheck, the 14k gold skull is mine. And yes, in my life, that is grown up. I think the Chemical Brothers would be proud.
