Barbell Piercing

Barbell Piercings

The barbell is one of the most common types of Piercings jewellery. This body jewellery looks like a barbell. The versatile barbell is a Straight Barbell Piercing bar that is decorated at both ends. The ends of the barbell can be shaped differently. The end pieces in our shop range, for example, from simple balls, flowers and stars to more unusual designs such as eyeballs, cubes or fish scales. Filigree barbells with shiny Zirconia Piercing and Opal Piercing stones create a glamorous look. Our barbell sets are available in different sizes, shapes and materials. A set usually contains different colours and designs. This means you can change the Jewelry or the barbell as the mood takes you and bring variety into your piercing routine.

Depending on the type of barbell, either only one or both balls can be screwed on. In addition, depending on the body part, barbells often have an end piece that is larger and more distinctive in design.

Barbell Piercing Materials

The popular barbell bars are available in many different materials. Titanium Barbell Piercing and 14 carat Gold Barbell Piercing are high-quality materials that are most in demand for piercing jewellery. Both are especially suitable for allergy sufferers or people with sensitive skin. Inexpensive Surgical Steel Piercing also offers many advantages, which is why barbells made of surgical steel are similarly popular. Barbells made of Bioflex and PTFE are very flexible and adapt perfectly to the movement of the stitch channel. This makes them particularly comfortable to wear.

Barbell Piercing Sizes

Barbells can be used for many piercing locations. Basically, the straight piercing bar can be used in almost every piercing canal that has not been pierced through a curved part of the body. This includes Ear Piercing, Tongue Piercing, Nipple Piercing and many types of Intimate Piercing. Barbells are most often used as jewellery for tongue and nipple piercings.

In these different parts of the body, the barbell is used in different sizes. Normal ear piercings such as the Helix Piercing are often decorated with barbells with a bar length of 6 - 8 mm. The barbell is particularly popular as a first insert after piercing. The somewhat more special Industrial Barbell Piercing is pierced through two piercing points in the ear and connected with a particularly long barbell bar from 30 mm. Barbell bars from 16 mm are common for tongue piercings, while barbells with a length of about 12 - 14 mm are usually used for nipple piercings.

Piercing / size

Ear piercing 6-8mm

Industrial piercing from 30 mm

Tongue piercing from 16 mm

Nipple piercing 12-14mm

Barbell Piercing Closure

The two ends of the barbell jewellery can be attached to the barbell bar with different types of closures. The internal and external thread are the best known thread types for this body Jewelry. But also the innovative Push-In Piercing is an increasingly popular closure for the barbell.

The Internally Thread Piercing and the Push-In system offer a special advantage. Both types of closure cause little irritation to the piercing site, as only the smooth piercing bar is inserted into the piercing canal. With the internal thread, the grooves, with which the decorative closure ball is screwed on, are on the attachment and thus do not disturb the piercing canal. The ball of the Push-In has no grooves to be screwed on, but is held in the piercing bar by pressure alone. This makes the Push-In piercing particularly gentle.