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Body Jewelry
Random body piercing, loading down the body with enough body jewelry
to set of airport metal detectors and annoy homeland security
officers, is no longer a clear part of any recent fashion trend.
However, in would be innacurate and even false to say that jewelry
has completely lost or given up its place in the fashion industry.
Body jewelry--and in this category we would include ear piercings,
although we would certainly not focus on them--remains as much a
part of fashion today as it has been, although in a slightly more
toned down and understated way.
Certainly, covering every pierceable square inch of your body with
body jewelry is not desirable, or even fashionable, any more.
However, in at least one way, body jewelry is *more* a part of our
fashion mind than ever before; pierced ears, noses, navels, and
eyebrows are less frowned upon and more accepted, in the general
fashion industry, than ever before. Excess is frowned upon, and may
we never see those metal detector alarming days again. But it would
be false to deduce from that that body piercing--again, not
excluding earrings, but thinking of them as a minor part of
jewelry--is no longer acceptable in fashion circles. This simply is
not true.
In fact, as jewelry becomes more toned down and tasteful, it is
possible that we will see an ever-greater acceptance of piercings in
areas other than the ears. Certain piercings will probably never be
really acceptable--it is to be hoped not, at any rate--but
especially jewelry for the nose, tongue, eyebrows, chin, and navel
will most likely become almost as common as pierced ears, especially
as this jewelry becomes more understated, and less ostentatious. It
will probably still be considered unusual and perhaps even vulgar to
have all of these locations pierced, to have many piercings in each
location, or to wear exceptionally large or flashy body jewelry. But
even those may become more acceptable as the fashion industry
becomes accustomed to the idea that body jewelry is most likely here
to stay.
Wholesale Body Jewelry
Small businesses looking to offer costume jewelry to their customers
have to love the internet. More and more, it has made it possible
for almost anyone in the world to access sources for wholesale
costume jewelry, like any other product, without having to make
expensive stock acquisitions trips or travel to various warehouses
across the country. From the comfort of your home, even a small
business owner just starting out can find dozens if not hundreds of
sources of wholesale costume jewelry on the internet, and can order
it with the click of a button.
Buying wholesale costume jewelry on the web does, however, require a
*thorough* knowledge of the subject, since wholesale costume jewelry
is not as simple as purchasing plastic jewelry from companies in
China or Taiwan. Costume jewelry is its own brand of elegance, and
while it may sometimes employ plastic--more often bakelite or other
similar materials--rhinestones can sometimes cost more than
emeralds, and austrian crystals can sometimes cost more than
diamonds. When we think of costume jewelry, it's easy to think
'cheap and tawdry', but, in fact, it is not, and those who are using
the internet to purchase wholesale costume jewelry must know what
they are looking for to begin with. It is essential.
A quick and simple Google search will turn up many resources for
purchasing wholesale costume jewelry, and from there, the normal
rules for Internet purchasing apply; know what you want before you
buy; ask questions if you're not sure about something; don't order
from a company if you can't find an easy way to contact them with
questions; pay attention to the little voice in your head that warns
you when something doesn't sound right; if it sounds too good to be
true, it probably is. Contrary to popular belief, the internet is
*not* one big scamfest; there are responsible vendors out there who
want to do honest, above-board business with you. The trick is
simply knowing how to find them. And once you get that knack down,
there is no better place than the internet for finding wholesale
jewelry.
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