Titanium Coating in Piercing Jewelry: Colors, Durability, and Usage

Piercing jewelry can be coated with different types of materials, one of them being titanium. Often, is made of surgical steel and then coated.

Note that coatings are never permanent - not even the titanium ones. However, it is one of the more durable coatings and does not disappear easily.

Why is piercing jewelry coated?

These are the advantages of titanium coating:

• Primarily, titanium coating gives surgical steel pieces a different color - generally black or gold, but other colors as well.
• Pieces that have been coated with titanium become more resistant.
• It prevents the skin from being in contact with surgical steel.

How can titanium coating last longer?

Keep in mind that any coating can disappear over time. You can do the following to keep the coating as long as possible:

• Don't fiddle too much with the jewelry.
• Avoid chlorinated and saltwater.
• Prevent your jewelry from impacts, like hits and bumps.
• Avoid foreign body fluids, alcohol, and other abrasive liquids.

Where can jewelry with a titanium coating be used?

You can use coated jewelry in any piercing that is 100% healed. If you use the jewelry in a piercing that has not yet fully healed, your body fluids may break down the coating