At Dare 2 Wear you can find all sorts of jewelry and accessories.

Dare 2 wear has been the proud importer and distributor of Tawapa jewelry in all of Europe.

This beautiful collection consists of horn, bone, wood,  natural stone and silver materials. Waterbuffalo horn and bone are a by-product of the Indonesian diet that would otherwise be wasted!

Our view on being a modern jewelry store means that we should offer different kinds of jewelry, suitable for every age. Because for some jewelry you need a piercing (also modern piercingjewelry in earlobes are more comfortable to wear and even more elegant or beautiful), we are proud to be a professional piercingshop and at the same time try to create a tasteful scenery of overall bodydecoration.

We are planning to travel abroad to get the nicest jewelry from the places where they originally come from. This includes all kinds of jewelry like high quality silver and gold-rings, necklaces, pendants and so on. So not only do we sell piercingjewelry, we have also of other things to decorate yourself with.

Accessories are mostly from Tokyo, USA and Amsterdam. Most of it is unique in Amsterdam and sometimes will only be made once.

Have a look at the photos..

Piercingjewelry:

Sizes of jewelry:
You can get almost any size of piercingjewelry. There`s a difference in the thickness, shape and length of what you need for healing and what you can wear after healing.
For every person, a specific size is needed. There are no general sizes to start with, only minimum sizes of thickness and diameter, to prevent growing out or swelling from jewelry that`s too small.

Jewelry to start with: (to be worn during the whole healingtime)
Since July 2001 it`s been determined in Europe that there`s different materials of jewelry allowed for healed piercings and fresh piercings. This has to do with the amount of nickel present in the material. And the material should be hypoallergenic and should not be affected in any way by bodyliquids- and tissue. Metals need to be shiny polished and cannot be poreus to fight growing micro-organisms.
Piercings should be started with titanium jewelry. Or, if desired, with 18 k. gold or a new, skin-friendly and flexible plastic material called PTFE. The shape and/or material is usually not the piece you had in mind. A piercing takes patience before you can actually do what you want with it (changing jewelry, playing, stretching)

Jewelry you can wear after healing:
This list has a little more variety. These materials should be hypoallergenic as well and should not be affected in any way by bodyliquids- and tissue. Metals need te be shiny polished and cannot be poreus.
Fortunately this collection is made in more different shapes and materials.
You can wear surgical steel (316LVMF), wood (ebony, rosewood, bloodwood), glass, horn, bone, natural stone, perspex, titanium, 14+18k. gold and PTFE.

Where to buy:
If you want to change your piercingjewelry it`s always best to come back to the shop first. In this way we can have a look if it has healed and what kind of jewelry you can get. There`s so much available that you could easily pick something too small or too thick. If you have seen something you like to get for your piercing, ask the piercer if it is possible for you to wear. Fortunately we can get almost anything you like, so please ask if there`s something you have in mind!

Nowadays, piercing jewelry is being offered by many different businesses. Most of the non-piercingshops that do sell piercingjewelry, do not have enough knowledge of what they are selling. They offer a low-quality metal which can create an allergy to metal! Do not go to clothingstores, drugstores, fleamarkets, smartshops, beautysalons, nailstudios.. a jewelrystore without piercing usually sells gold piercings, but since they don`t pierce, the jewelry they offer is usually not suited for wearing (goldstamps, rough edges, wrong curve) Be aware of different qualities of materials. Ask for highly polished, non-toxic material.
So, always try to get your jewelry in a real piercingshop, where there`s a piercer who can look and decide what you need. So you can keep your piercing as long as you like, without having problems with it.

Jewelry:

We work with different jewelers known for their craftmenship, creativity and flexibility. This means that many things can be made, exactly the material, size and shape wanted. We are planning to buy more jewelry from all over the world, to find the nicest stuff from where it`s really been made. So that our choice of jewelry stays special. Made of high quality gold, silver, steel, wood, jade and other materials. Offering different things, like rings, necklaces and pendants and so on. Especially gold jewelry will be focused on.

Accessories:

Our accessories are mainly from Amsterdam, Tokyo and the USA. Most of it is very special to find in Amsterdam and some is made only once. We sell very special sillicone neck-accessories hand-made by a Dutch artist and other neck-adornments made by various artists/designers. We also sell caps and girlie shirts from Get Pierced by Sid Tech.
More designers will be approached to expand our collection.

Have a look at the photos, for more tawapa photos click visuals - tawapa