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How Body Jewellery Is Made: From Raw Bar to Finished Piece

The short answer

Professional body jewellery starts as certified raw material — most often implant-grade titanium — and is machined into shape, polished in stages, inspected piece by piece, and only then packaged for sterile delivery to the studio. Every stage exists to protect the skin that will wear it.

From a certified titanium bar to a polished, inspected earring: the manufacturing journey of professional body jewellery.

It begins with the material

A piece of body jewellery is only as trustworthy as the metal it starts as. Professional manufacturing begins with certified material — implant-grade titanium being the standard for first piercings — supplied with documentation that proves what it is. Learn why in why implant-grade titanium.

The journey through the workshop

  • Cutting and machining. The raw bar is cut and shaped on precision machines — the post, the setting, the backing each formed to exact dimensions.
  • Polishing in stages. The piece passes through progressively finer polishing steps until the surface is smooth and mirror-like. See polish and inspection.
  • Inspection. Every finished piece is examined — dimensions, surface, threads if it has them — before it can move on. See quality control.
  • Clean packaging. Passed pieces are cleaned and packaged so they arrive at the studio ready for final sterilization.

Why the long road matters

Costume jewellery skips most of this road — unknown alloys, rough surfaces, no inspection records. The difference is not decoration: a smoother, verified piece gives healing skin less to react to and fewer places for bacteria to hide. Explore the full jewellery guidance in the jewellery and materials guide.

See what first earrings should be made from

Written by Keith · Reviewed by Keith · Reviewed September 10, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026

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This guide shares general knowledge, not specific medical advice — your studio and your family doctor know your child best.