How to Make Your Own Beaded Belly Button Jewelry

Make belly button jewelry that is uniquely yours.

Making your own unique belly button jewelry means you get to choose the perfect beads and findings to suit your taste and wallet. You can also make unique jewelry for special friends. Select your ideal beads and findings from jewelry or craft supply stores. Findings are the bars and rings that you will use to create your jewelry as well as metal fillers and clasps utilized in jewelry creation.

Things You'll Need

• Belly ring or bar
• Beads and jewelry findings
• Hot glue gun and glue if using a belly ring bar
• Tissue

Instructions

1. Select the beads or findings you will use in your belly ring creation. If you are using a belly ring, you can slip several beads and findings onto the ring. Belly jewelry bars only have space for one pendant or finding.

2. Pry the ring open with your fingers if you are making a beaded belly button ring. Slip the beads on and hold it up to ensure that you have not added too many beads and that the beads are not too big. If the beads fit comfortably, you can insert the ring into your belly hole and press closed.

3. Place a tiny dot of glue from your hot glue gun onto the top of your belly jewelry bar. Gently press the jewelry finding onto the top of the bar.

4. Clean excess glue from the top of the jewelry bar with tissue and leave the glue to cure. When dry, you can wear your new belly bar.

Tips & Warnings

• Some belly bars have hoops from which you can hang pendants. In this instance, use a pair of pliers to pry the ring on the top of the pendant open, slide it through the hoop on the bar and squeeze shut.

• Always keep your belly ring clean. Use swabbing alcohol to disinfect new belly rings before use. Do not remove new belly rings until they have completely healed, as this may lead to infection.

References

• Jewelry Info for You: Making Beaded Jewelry Part 1
• Jewelry Info for You: Making Beaded Jewelry Part 2