A captive bead ring (CBR) is a ball closure ring or captive ball ring. It is like any circle made up of a wire. A bead, which looks like a ball, is fitted into the circular wire. The wire is slightly less in diameter were the bead fits so that it is not movable within the wire and though the circle is open, the bead doesn't fall off. But also the bead can be fit in such a way that it looks like being clamped by the wire.



Science of CBR

The tensile strength of a metal wire is used to hold the bead in place. The wire is made up of surgival stainless steel, niobium or titanium. The bead is made up of colored glass or ceramic or some semi precious stone.

Popularity of CBR

This body jewelry is very popular. When the bead is removed, the jewelry is removed. So the person who wears it has to simply remove the bead. Still the bead will not fall off the ring. Because of the nature of manufacture it does not hold on clothing, hair or furniture, making them a popular choice for piercings, which are still healing. These are closed in shape and have rounded edges.

A Captive Bead Ring or Ball Closure Ring may be is the most popular kind of body piercing jewelry because one can wear it many ways and style it according to one's own choice. It can be worn on the nose apart from being placed at the navel, lips, nipple etc.

Reports suggest that customers go for buying it as nipple jewelry, lip jewelry, nose jewelry, eyebrow jewelry and also for a clit, genital piercing without miding the pain it may cause during sexual interactions.

Different identities

Captive bead ring is called in another name as well. Sometimes it's called BCR (Ball Closure Ring). CBR can be used as a jewelry an as an instrument. It fascinates with its shape. Sometimes it makes terrible appearance to people who are yet to be comfortable with the idea that it may be a piercing jewelry.

Piercing instrument

CBR can be used as a piercing instrument except tongue piercing. Sometimes people like the navel jewelry to be designed in such a way that they prefer to have it pierced by a CBR. CBR piercing makes faster healing.

The gauge size of the bead ring depends on the piercing type and your preferences of a particular design. A small or large ring opener is required to open the bead. For closing the ring, one needs pliers. But these tools are not needed in case of acrylic rings, which have other arrangements, which are, can easily be opened and closed by hands.

Acrylic Captive Bead Rings

One designer who designs Acrylic Captive Bead Rings makes them from 316L Surgical Stainless Steel. Each Captive Ring is precisioned with machine, are hand polished, has round ends and is 100% guaranteed with quality assured.

CBR designs

Any standard shop should have the following jewelry with numerous designs:

18 gauge body jewelry (gauge for nipple piercing)

20 gauge nose rings

Captive bell non-piercing

14k gold captive bead ring

Double captive ring body jewelry

Bead ring

Fixed bead ring navel jewelry

Nipple ring sizing guide

Eeyore belly rings

cartlidge earings

Nipple piercing female photo

Vaginal piercing jewelry

male genital piercing CBR

The design houses provide different information including infections, crooked naval piercings. They use the highest quality materials like non-alergenic anodized titanium, UV reactive acrylic, 316L Surgical Steel, silver, 14k gold and organic materials.

Caring the piercing

It has to be cared like any other body puncture. The crusts are to be wiped regularly with warm water that is saturated inside a cotton ball. One has to be careful about the wound getting aggravated.