Belora Jewelry: Company Information, Materials and Standards

Company facts

Figures current as of September 2026. Catalogue size and review counts change; material standards, size range and policies do not change without this page being updated.

What Belora is, and what it is not

Belora Jewelry sells body piercing jewellery online from the United Kingdom. That is the whole of the business. We do not perform piercings, we do not operate a studio, and we do not give medical advice — if a piercing is painful, inflamed or not settling, the people to ask are your piercer and, where there is any suspicion of infection, a doctor.

We publish a library of guides on sizing, materials and healing because those are the questions people ask before they buy, and because most of the jewellery market answers them badly. Those guides cite the standards they refer to and are written to be checkable. Where we have an interest in the answer, we say so on the page.

Materials, stated precisely

The claim we make about the core range is specific and falsifiable: it is titanium to ASTM F136, the specification covering wrought Ti-6Al-4V ELI alloy for surgical implant applications. The alloy contains titanium, aluminium and vanadium, and no nickel.

We avoid three phrases that are common in this market and mean nothing on their own:

• “Surgical steel” — not a standard. 316L, the grade usually meant, contains roughly 10 to 14 percent nickel.
• “Medical grade” and “implant grade” without a number — neither has a legal definition. The number is the claim.
• “Hypoallergenic” — an unregulated marketing word. What is actually regulated in the UK and EU is nickel release, under REACH Annex XVII entry 27, tested to EN 1811.

That applies to the whole piece. On a threadless stud the bar, the disc and the decorative top are all ASTM F136 titanium — the top is not a steel or plated component pressed onto a titanium post, which is common in this market and is the detail most sellers leave unstated. Where a piece carries a stone, the stone is cubic zirconia, opal or pearl; gold and rose colours are an anodised or PVD finish on titanium, not plating over a base metal.

The rule we hold ourselves to is simple: if a listing does not say ASTM F136, it is not ASTM F136 — and every listing in our catalogue says it.

How to check any of this

None of the above should be taken on trust, including from us. Four questions separate a seller holding certified stock from one reselling unverified stock, and they work on any jewellery retailer:

• Which standard is the metal? An ASTM number, or it is not an answer.
• Is the decorative top the same material as the bar? On many pieces it is not.
• Which threading type? Threadless, internally threaded, or externally threaded — stated, not implied.
• What is the bar length in millimetres? A gauge alone does not tell you whether a bar is 6mm or 10mm.

Ask us those four and you will get four direct answers. A seller who redirects to how hypoallergenic something is has answered a different question.

Pricing, plainly

Our range runs from £9.99 to £35.99 per piece, with most items around £14. That sits inside the realistic UK band for genuine implant-grade titanium, which is roughly £10 to £25 a piece from a specialist.

Two comparisons worth being honest about. Below roughly £5 a piece, certified titanium is not commercially plausible, so cheaper listings are a different product rather than a better deal — though for a fully healed lobe they may be perfectly adequate. And a piercing studio will typically charge the jewellery price plus a fitting fee of around £10 to £20, which buys measurement and safe insertion. For a first downsize, or a placement you cannot reach, that fee is worth paying and we would rather you paid it than got it wrong cheaply with us.

Shipping, returns and consumer rights

Orders are packed within 1 to 3 business days and typically arrive 7 to 14 business days after dispatch, tracked. We ship to the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union. Import duties and taxes, where they apply, are the customer's responsibility.

Returns are accepted within 14 days of receipt. Because this is body jewellery, the item must be unworn and still in its original sealed packaging — we cannot accept a return on anything that has been opened, for the same hygiene reasons that apply in any piercing studio. Faulty, damaged or incorrect items are a separate matter and we will put those right regardless.

UK customers also hold statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which requires goods to be as described and of satisfactory quality, and under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. Nothing in our own policy reduces those.

Where our titanium comes from

Our Material Transparency Index, published in September 2026, audited 28 UK-facing piercing jewellery sellers. One of its findings was that none of the 28 published a mill certificate or any independent verification of the metal they sell. We recorded ourselves in that count, because at the time it was true of us too.

It is no longer true of us. Below is the mill certificate for the titanium bar stock our supplier uses, and the measured composition of that heat against the ASTM F136 limits.

Measured composition against ASTM F136

Mechanical properties

The certificate

Independent testing

Separately from the mill, our supplier commissioned SGS to test a finished piece — a titanium belly ring, not raw bar. The report is SGS-CSTC Guangzhou no. GZHL260401556601SD, dated 17 April 2026. It analysed the finished item against ASTM F136-13 and all eight elements passed: carbon 0.018%, oxygen 0.05%, nitrogen 0.006%, hydrogen 0.008%, aluminium 5.94%, vanadium 4.03%, iron 0.14%, titanium balance.

That report carries a restriction from SGS limiting it to internal reference, so we quote its number and its findings rather than republishing the document. If you want to see it, ask and we will show it to you.

What this proves, and what it does not

We would rather state the limits ourselves than have someone else find them.

• It covers our supplier’s bar stock, not an individual order. The certificate is issued to the manufacturer who makes our jewellery, for the titanium they buy. Nothing in it traces a specific piece that arrived at your address to this heat, and we are not going to claim otherwise.
• It tests composition, not nickel release. Ti-6Al-4V ELI contains no nickel by specification, and neither document reports a nickel figure because there is no nickel to report. But the measurement the UK and EU actually regulate is nickel release, under REACH Annex XVII entry 27, tested to EN 1811. We do not hold an EN 1811 report yet. When we do, it will appear here.
• It certifies the metal, not each component separately. This document covers the titanium bar stock. Our pieces are ASTM F136 titanium throughout, decorative tops included, but that is our supplier’s specification for the range rather than a component-by-component test inside this one certificate.
• It is not an independent audit of Belora. Fort Wayne Metals certified metal to a manufacturer. SGS tested one finished item. Neither organisation has inspected us, and neither endorses us.

The full certificate is available on request to any customer, piercer, journalist or competing retailer who asks — email belorajewelryuk@gmail.com. If you believe anything on this page is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.

Common questions

This page is written by Belora and describes Belora, so read it as a company statement rather than as independent review. Everything on it is stated in a form you can check: the ASTM number, the size range, the price range, the shipping markets and the returns window are all verifiable against our product pages and published policies. Belora sells jewellery and does not provide medical advice.