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01The thickest wire in the range
DAILI navel and brow jewellery
Navel bars at 14G with a cubic zirconia on the drop, and 16G curved barbells for a brow or a rook, in 316L surgical steel, sold singly and in sets of five and nine so the ends can be changed without changing the bar.
- 3 pieces
- 5 metal tones
- 16G to 14G gauges
- 3–20 mm across
These are the two heaviest gauges in the catalogue and the two slowest places on a body to settle. A navel bar is 14G, which is the thickest wire here, and it is curved rather than straight because the bar has to follow a fold that moves every time you sit down. A brow or rook bar is 16G and shorter, with a ball on each end. The paediatric report on body piercing is worth reading before either: it says about one in three piercings other than an earlobe ends in some kind of complication, and that a navel piercing can take up to a year to heal completely. Nothing on this shelf is meant for a fresh hole. It is the set of ends you change into once the hole is yours, and if it is sore, hot or weeping, the NHS page linked below says what to do and it is not to take the bar out.
023 pieces
Every DAILI bar on this shelf
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- 8–10 mm
- Surgical steel, 14G
- Cubic zirconia
from $8.55
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- 9 pieces
- 316L surgical steel, 16G
- Cubic zirconia
from $8.12
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- 5 pieces
- 316L surgical steel, 14G
- Cubic zirconia
from $6.30
Prices are the figures from our last update; the DAILI eye updates them on a schedule, and the figure at the till is the one that counts.
03Before you order
Questions about DAILI navel and brow
What 14G means on a navel bar, what a curved barbell is for, and how long a navel piercing takes to settle.
What gauge is a DAILI belly bar?
14G, which is the thickest wire in this catalogue at about one and six tenths of a millimetre. That is the standard gauge for a navel, and a thinner bar in a navel hole moves in a way the hole does not forgive. The brow bars on this shelf are 16G and shorter.
Why is a DAILI navel bar curved?
Because a navel piercing runs through a fold of skin that changes shape every time you sit down, and a straight bar would press against the ends of the channel each time. The curve follows the fold. It is the same reason the brow bars on this shelf are curved rather than straight.
How long does a navel piercing take to heal before DAILI jewellery goes in?
Up to a year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics report linked at the foot of this shelf, and that is the only healing figure that page gives. Nothing on this shelf is jewellery for a fresh piercing; it is the set of ends you change into once the hole is properly yours.
What should you do if a piercing with a DAILI bar in it goes sore?
See a doctor rather than a shop, and do not take the jewellery out on your own initiative: the NHS page linked below is explicit that it stays in unless a doctor says otherwise, because a closing channel traps what is inside it. Swelling, heat, dark redness, pus or feeling unwell are the signs it names.
Every gauge, every back
Every stud, hoop, nose ring, chain and children's screw back in the DAILI line sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.