Why does titanium jewelry look darker?

If your titanium piece looks a little darker or softer than your other jewelry, don’t worry. That’s exactly how real implant-grade titanium is supposed to look.

All of our titanium jewelry is made from ASTM F136 certified implant-grade titanium. It’s the same premium material that professional piercing studios use and recommend around the world. Titanium naturally has a soft, warm grey tone. Sterling silver, surgical steel and gold-plated brass are all brighter and shinier, but that doesn’t make them better. It’s simply what those metals look like.

Titanium vs. plated or solid gold jewelry

Most fashion jewelry is plated: a thin, shiny coating over a base metal. That coating gives a bright finish, but it can wear off, tarnish or turn your skin green over time. Titanium has no coating to wear away. What you see is the metal itself, so its softer look stays the same day after day.

So if your titanium piece looks different from the plated or solid gold jewelry you already own, that’s a good sign. It means you’re wearing the real thing.

Why we choose titanium

• Hypoallergenic and nickel-free, so it’s gentle on sensitive skin
• Safe for fresh and healed piercings
• Waterproof and tarnish-free: shower, swim and sleep in it
• Won’t turn your skin green
• Strong, lightweight and built to last

That’s why more and more of our customers are switching to titanium.

Softer in colour. Stronger in every other way. 💎