Head

There aren’t so many pieces of jewellery to be worn about the head if we count earrings as a whole little genre of their own. One of the earliest and common pieces of jewellery to be worn, while not strictly being jewelry per se, they are still a form of personal decoration.

Hair Sticks

A hair stick (also called a hairstick) is a straight, length of material, tapered at one end so that is might slide through the hair with some ease, and decorated at the other. It’s is usually between 13-34cm long and used to hold a person’s hair in place in a bun or similar hairstyle.
Unlike hairpins, which are usually small and their main purpose is just to hold a hairstyle together, hair sticks are are often elaborate and decorative, and can feature jewelled or carved designs that make them stand out as pieces of luxury jewellery.
The prices of hair sticks can vary quite a lot, from the cheap plastic pairs, to a single hair stick hand-crafted by an artists can cost over two hundred dollars.

Crowns

Crowns are a good example of status jewellery, worn as an absolute status symbol, by a monarch or deity, and can mean;

  • power,
  • legitimacy,
  • immortality,
  • righteousness,
  • victory,
  • triumph,
  • resurrection,
  • honour and
  • glory of life after death.

In art, the crown can be seen as gifts from angels, perhaps adding to the image of power and the blessing of the deity.
Apart from the traditional forms of crowns they can also be made of, for example, flowers, stars, oak leaves or thorns and be worn as a symbol of what the person in power wants symbolised by their right to said power.

Mouth Jewellery

Mouth grills (In my opinion a horribly, totally tragic waste of resources that could be put to better use as other jewellery) or front is a type of bling jewelry that fit over the teeth and are sometimes inlaid with precious stones. They are generally removable, though some may be permanently attached to the teeth. Grills can cost anywhere from fifty to a thousand dollars, depending on the materials used and the number of teeth covered.

Dental braces are sometimes affectionately referred to as “Mouth Jewellery”. This term was popularised by the military robot ‘Number 5″ in the 1980s film “Short Circuit” when No.5 encountered a teen wearing braces. Modern dental braces have come a long way from the ugly contraptions of days of old. You can even choose the colour of your braces. (check out TV show “Ugly Betty” on the abc network).

Nose Jewellery

Nose jewels were only mentioned in the bible in Isiah 3:21, but they were referred to in Genesis 24:47, Proverbs 11:22 and Hosea 2:13. They were apparently the most valued of ancient female ornaments. They were ” made of ivory or metal, and occasionally jeweled. They were more than an inch in diameter, and hung upon the mouth. Eliezer gave one to Rebekah which was of gold and weighed half a shekel…

At the present day the women in the country and in the desert wear these ornaments in one of the sides of the nostrils, which droop like the ears in consequence.

In western society nose jewellery is a little more discreet in the form of studs and sleeper type rings, and are worn by both males and females.