Understanding Why Bad Jewelry Can Turn Your Skin Green

If you’ve ever had a piece of jewelry that makes your skin yellowish I’m sure you’ve been curious what the cause is. Basically <, there is a reaction caused by the metal in the jewelry to anyone who wears inexpensive jewelry.
Skin greening can happen to some people more quickly than others- though, because everyone’s composition is just a little bit different.

Even jewelry you pay more for can have the same effect~ because even the expensive stuff isnt pure<, regardless of gold or silver content. Platinum rarely reacts with skin so there should be no concern if you buy platinum jewelry. To keep gold jewelry making you look green make sure that you don't have made from cheap metal and then plated – it has only a very fine coating of gold over top of a base metal and that coating wears off very quickly. If you have solid gold jewelry opting for 18 karat will lower your chances of green skin.
Copper will react with skin and its hard to stop it.

Try to avoid sweating in your jewelry it can increase the green skin effect you can also get a special coating put on – to keep your skin from reacting. If you do this you can wear inexpensive jewelry whenever you want.
Just remember- the green effect won’t hurt you. It’s simply a reaction and not an allergy. Metal allergic reactions turn your skin red and also will make your skin inflamed and itchy. Which is nothing like the green skin that you see from jewelry.
so make sure if you notice an allergy developing that you stop wearing your jewelry right away. If all you have is green skin you are safe to keep wearing the jewelry you’ll just have to keep the area clean to avoid having it look bad.

Truth be told coating your jewelry is generally your best choice.