Opens a new windowIn which piercings can you wear straight barbells? Which piercings require captive bead rings? Can you wear plugs anywhere other than your earlobes? Can a daith heart be worn in anything other than a daith piercing? If you think you know the answers to these questions, challenge yourself by taking our Body Jewelry Match-up Quiz!

Body Jewelry Quiz Instructions

We've listed a variety of types of piercings and body jewelry below, followed by a series of questions regarding which styles of body jewelry are typically worn in which piercings. Use the types of piercings and body jewelry listed as many times as needed to answer the questions below. When you're done, scroll down to see our answers, and give yourself a point for each one you get right… and bonus points when you get the bonuses right! Your total score will put you into 1 of 4 categories:

• If your final score is less than 18, you're a Piercing Pupil and need to educate yourself by reading our body jewelryOpens a new window and piercing articlesOpens a new window.
• A score of 19-26 makes you a Piercing Apprentice—i.e. you're learning, but you should keep studying our Info Center articlesOpens a new window and body jewelry blog postsOpens a new window.
• A score of 27-32 earns you the title of Body Jewelry Genius.
• If you score 33+, you're an absolute Piercing Pro! (There are a total of 37 points possible with bonus points.)

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Body Jewelry Quiz Questions

1. Can you wear anything other than a belly ringOpens a new window in a navel piercing? If so, which types of jewelry can you use?
2. French hookOpens a new window and studOpens a new window are two styles of jewelry often worn in which type of piercing?
3. What two styles of body jewelry are most popular for eyebrow piercings?
4. Smiley piercings and frowney piercings are also known as which type of piercing from the list above?
5. A tongue ringOpens a new window isn't actually a ring at all. What is it?
6. In which piercing would you wear a fishtail?
7. Piercers typically offer one of two styles of starter jewelry for cartilage piercings (including helix, rook and daith piercings). What are the options?
8. Two columns of rings may be placed side-by-side in someone's back, neck, side, calf, and other locations on the body in preparation for which type of piercing?
9. What are the two most popular styles of jewelry to wear in stretched earlobes and other stretched piercings?
10. Can dermal topsOpens a new window be worn with any other types of jewelry besides dermal anchors? If so, which ones?
11. What style of body jewelry is considered an eyebrow ringOpens a new window even though it isn't actually a ring?
12. What types of jewelry can you wear in a nostril piercingOpens a new window?
13. What's the most popular style of jewelry worn in upper ear cartilage piercings when they're done as a pair, with two holes spaced an inch-and-a-half or so apart?
14. Which types of jewelry can you wear in nipple piercingsOpens a new window?
15. D-ringsOpens a new window are a popular style of jewelry for which two piercing types?
16. What type of jewelry is a piercer most likely to suggest for a hand web piercing?
17. Straight barbellsOpens a new window are often standard starter jewelry for which types of male genital piercings (e.g. frenum piercings and dydoe piercings)?
18. When a man gets a PA piercing, he's likely to get a ________ or a ________ as his starter jewelry, but once his piercing is healed, he can wear what third option?
19. What are your starter jewelry options when you get a septum piercingOpens a new window?
20. What types of jewelry can you wear once your septum piercing is fully healed?
21. Labret studsOpens a new window aren't just for labret piercings. What other piercings are labret studs often worn in?
22. Which style of jewelry is typically worn in HCH piercings?
23. What's the ideal jewelry to use for cheek piercingsOpens a new window?
24. Septum piercing retainers can also make great retainers for which other type of piercing?
25. When a lip ring isn't a ring, what type of jewelry is it?
26. What type of piercings might you wear a twisterOpens a new window in?
27. Captive ringsOpens a new window are a popular style of jewelry for which three types of male genital piercings, of the ones listed above?
28. Which two styles of body jewelry are often classified as captive rings even though they don't hold a bead captive?
29. In which type of facial piercing might a piercer insert either dermal anchors or a short surface barbellOpens a new window?
30. A bent barbellOpens a new window is the most common type of starter jewelry for which type of female genital piercing?
31. What option(s) make the best jewelry for bridge piercings?
32. If you wanted to stretch your outer labia piercings, which type of jewelry might you switch to once you get above size 8 gauge?
33. Christina piercing jewelryOpens a new window is actually what style of body jewelry?
34. Bonus Question (Give yourself 2 points if you get this one right!): Our Unbreakable Body JewelryOpens a new window line is making a third type of jewelry popular for daith and rook piercings (in addition to the 2 answers from #7). Do you know what that style of jewelry is (not the name of a specific product)? (Hint: Our daith hearts are technically this type of jewelry.)

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Body Jewelry Quiz Answers

1. Question: Can you wear anything other than a belly ring in a belly button piercing? If so, which types of jewelry can you use?
   Answer: You can wear bent barbellsOpens a new window, captive bead rings, segment ringsOpens a new window, seamless rings, and even small twistersOpens a new window in belly button piercings. Give yourself a point as long as you got 2 of those options. "Hoop" and "ring" are acceptable alternatives to the specific types of rings listed.
   
2. Question: French hook and stud are two styles of jewelry often worn in which type of piercing?
   Answer: French hook earringsOpens a new window and stud earringsOpens a new window are most often worn in earlobe piercings. Studs are sometimes worn in cartilage piercings, too, but labret studsOpens a new window are a better option.
   
3. Question: What two styles of body jewelry are most popular for eyebrow piercings?
   Answer: Bent barbells and captive bead ringsOpens a new window are the most popular styles of jewelry to wear as eyebrow rings.
   
4. Question: Smiley piercings and frowney piercings are also known as which type of piercing from the list above?
   Answer: Smiley piercings, frowney piercings, and tongue web piercings are all technically oral web piercings. Captive ringsOpens a new window are the most popular type of jewelry for oral web piercings.
   
5. Question: A tongue ring isn't actually a ring at all. What is it?
   Answer: Straight barbellsOpens a new window worn in tongue piercings are called tongue rings even though they aren't ring-shaped.
   
6. Question: In which piercing would you wear a fishtail?
   Answer: FishtailsOpens a new window are often bent and worn as nose screws in nostril piercings. If you want a custom-fit nose ring, this is likely what your piercer will use.
   
7. Question: Piercers typically offer one of two styles of starter jewelry for cartilage piercings (including helix, rook and daith piercings). What are the options?
   Answer: Captive rings and labret studs are the most popular options for all ear cartilage piercings except for industrial piercings, which typically call for industrial barbellsOpens a new window.
   
8. Question: Two columns of rings may be placed side-by-side in someone's back, neck, side, calf, and other locations on the body in preparation for which type of piercing?
   Answer: Corset piercings, which are typically temporary piercings, require inserting two columns of rings Opens a new windowside-by-side, with some space in between so that a piece of ribbon can be threaded through them in a crisscross pattern.
   
9. Question: What are the two most popular styles of jewelry to wear in stretched earlobes and other stretched piercings?
   Answer: Plugs and tunnelsOpens a new window are the two most popular styles of jewelry to wear in stretched piercings, including stretched earlobe piercings, lip piercings, nostril piercings, and others. Take a bonus point if you also listed ear weightsOpens a new window, which are not in the Types of Body Jewelry list above.
   
10. Question: Can dermal tops be worn with any other types of jewelry besides dermal anchors? If so, which ones?
    Answer: If your answer was that dermal topsOpens a new window can be used with surface barbellsOpens a new window in addition to dermal tops, give yourself a point. If you wrote down that dermal tops can typically be worn with any internally-threaded body jewelry in the same gauge (e.g. straight barbells, circular barbells and labret studs), give yourself a bonus point.
    
11. Question: What style of body jewelry is considered an eyebrow ring even though it isn't actually a ring?
    Answer: A mini bent barbell, also called a micro bent barbellOpens a new window, is a popular style of eyebrow piercing jewelry that many people call an eyebrow ringOpens a new window even though it isn't actually ring-shaped.
    
12. Question: What types of jewelry can you wear in a nostril piercing?
    Answer: Nose bones, nostril screws, fishtails (which are typically bent into custom-fit nostril screws), captive bead rings, seamless rings, segment rings, and labret studs can all be worn as nostril piercing jewelryOpens a new window. Give yourself a point as long as you got 3 of these right. ("Hoop" and "ring" are acceptable alternatives to any of the rings listed.)
    
13. Question: What's the most popular style of jewelry worn in upper ear cartilage piercings when they're done as a pair, with two holes spaced an inch-and-a-half or so apart?
    Answer: The description above is that of an industrial piercing, so you'd wear an industrial barbellOpens a new window in it. You could also wear a labret stud or a hoop of any variety in each hole.
    
14. Question: Which types of jewelry can you wear in nipple piercings?
    Answer: Nipple shieldsOpens a new window, D-rings, captive bead rings, straight barbells, bent barbells, segment rings, and seamless ringsOpens a new window can all be worn in nipple piercings. Septum retainers make good nipple piercing jewelry, too, but don't mark your answer as wrong if you didn't list that, bent barbells or D-rings, since these are less popular options for nipple piercing jewelry.
    
15. Question: D-rings are a popular style of jewelry for which two piercing types?
    Answer: D-ringsOpens a new window are sometimes worn in both nipple piercings and frenum piercings placed close to the head of the penis.
    
16. Question: What type of jewelry is a piercer most likely to suggest for a hand web piercing?
    Answer: A labret studOpens a new window would be the ideal jewelry for a hand web piercing, but a short straight barbell is also an option.
    
17. Question: Straight barbells are often standard starter jewelry for which types of male genital piercings (e.g. frenum piercings and dydoe piercings)?
    Answer: Straight barbellsOpens a new window in a variety of lengths are used in dydoe piercings, ampallang piercings, and frenum piercings (including all variations of frenum piercings, like dorsal frenums, lorum piercings, and Jacob's Ladders). Dydoes require a really short straight barbell compared to frenum piercings, which can require barbells up to an inch or longer in length.
    
18. Question: When a man gets a PA piercing, he's likely to get a ________ or a ________ as his starter jewelry, but once his piercing is healed, he can wear what third option?
    Answer: The most common two types of jewelry used for Prince Albert piercings are captive bead rings and circular barbellsOpens a new window. Once healed, a man may choose to wear a Prince Albert wandOpens a new window in his PA piercing. Other ring styles, like seamless rings and segment rings, are also options, but not as widely used as captive rings, circular barbells and PA wandsOpens a new window.
    
19. Question: What are your starter jewelry options when you get a septum piercing?
    Answer: Your piercer might offer you a septum retainerOpens a new window, a septum ringOpens a new window in a seamless ring style, a segment-style ring, or a captive bead ring (i.e. "bull ring") as your septum piercing starter jewelry.
    
20. Question: What types of jewelry can you wear once your septum piercing is fully healed?
    Answer: Once your septum piercing is fully healed, you can either begin stretching so you can wear a septum tuskOpens a new window later, or you can switch to one of our pretty hinged or seamless-style septum ringsOpens a new window.
    
21. Question: Labret studs aren't just for labret piercings. What other piercings are labret studs often worn in?
    Answer: Labret studsOpens a new window can be worn in a wide variety of piercings besides labret piercings, including helix piercings, anti-tragus piercings, tragus piercings, earlobe piercings, nostril piercings, other lip piercings like Monroe piercings, and hand web piercings.
    
22. Question: Which style of jewelry is typically worn in HCH piercings?
    Answer: Unlike a VCH piercing, in which you can wear either a bent barbell or a captive ring, you're mostly limited to a captive ringOpens a new window of some variety when it comes to horizontal clitoral hood piercings (a.k.a. HCH piercings).
    
23. Question: What's the ideal jewelry to use for cheek piercings?
    Answer: There's a special style of labret stud with a long shaft that makes the best cheek piercing starter jewelryOpens a new window. Short barbells may also be used. Once you heal, you can typically switch to a shorter labret stud, if desired.
    
24. Question: Septum piercing retainers can also make great retainers for which other type of piercing?
    Answer: Septum retainers also make good nipple piercing jewelryOpens a new window.
    
25. Question: When a lip ring isn't a ring, what type of jewelry is it?
    Answer: Lip "rings" that aren't actually rings are typically labret studs. If you have a stretched lip piercing, you might wear a plug instead of a stud or ring. Did you know that most of our plugsOpens a new window are sold individually, so you can buy one for a single streched facial piercing and a pair to match for your stretched lobes?
    
26. Question: What type of piercings might you wear a twister in?
    Answer: You can wear a simple single-loop twisterOpens a new window in a navel piercing, lip piercing, earlobe piercing or helix piercing. If you have double or triple cartilage piercings in a row, you can thread a multi-loop twister through and connect the holes.
    
27. Question: Captive rings are a popular style of jewelry for which two types of male genital piercings, of the ones listed above?
    Answer: PA piercings, or Prince Albert piercings, scrotum piercings and pubic piercings are the three male genital piercings in which a man can wear captive rings or other hoops like seamless and segment rings.
    
28. Question: Which two styles of body jewelry are often classified as captive rings even though they don't hold a bead captive?
    Answer: Segment ringsOpens a new window and seamless ringsOpens a new window are often classified as captive rings. A segment ring just holds a removable segment of ring captive instead of a bead, and a seamless ring is basically just a captive ring minus the bead. Give yourself an extra point if you mentioned daith rings, too, since many daith rings are actually a type of seamless ring.
    
29. Question: In which type of facial piercing might a piercer insert either dermal anchors or a short surface barbell?
    Answer: Anti-eyebrow piercings can be done using either dermalsOpens a new window or surface barbellsOpens a new window.
    
30. Question: A bent barbell is the most common type of starter jewelry for which type of female genital piercing?
    Answer: Bent barbellsOpens a new window are the most popular style of jewelry for vertical clitoral hood piercings (a.k.a. VCH piercings).
    
31. Question: What option(s) make the best jewelry for bridge piercings?
    Answer: Straight barbellsOpens a new window are the most popular option for bridge piercings, but depending on your anatomy, a bent barbell may actually work better for you.Opens a new window
    
32. Question: If you wanted to stretch your outer labia piercings, which type of jewelry might you switch to once you get above size 8 gauge?
    Answer: TunnelsOpens a new window are a popular alternative to rings for women who stretch their outer labia piercings to larger gauges.
    
33. Question: Christina piercing jewelry is actually what style of body jewelry?
    Answer: A Christina piercing barbellOpens a new window is actually just a type of surface barbell.
    
34. Bonus Question (Give yourself 2 points if you get this one right!): Our Unbreakable Body Jewelry line is making a third type of jewelry popular for daith and rook piercings (in addition to the 2 answers from #7). Do you know what that style of jewelry is (not the name of a specific product)? (Hint: Our daith hearts are technically this type of jewelry.)
    Answer: Daith heartsOpens a new window are seamless rings, or a type of captive ring. Our OrbsOpens a new window are another style of captive ring that are becoming particularly popular for rook piercings.