If you’ve ever had a piece of jewelry that leaves a yellowish spot on your skin you’ve probably wondered why it does that. Basically - your skin is reacting to the metal in the jewelry to anyone who buys cheap jewelry.
It happens to some people more quickly than others<, though, because everyone's skin is different.
Even jewelry you pay more for can have the same effect; reason being the expensive metals aren’t completely pure; regardless of gold or silver content. Platinum rarely reacts with skin so there should be no concern if you buy platinum jewelry. If you have gold jewelry and want to stop it from making your skin green make sure that you don’t have gold plated or gold rinsed jewelry – the base metal might be cheap and then covered with gold that can rub off. If you have solid gold jewelry switching to eighteen karat options will lower your chances of green skin.
Copper will almost always turn your skin green and its hard to stop it.
Avoid wearing jewelry when you’re sweating a lot because that can speed up the reaction between your skin and the metal you can also get a special coating put on – in order to try to stop the reaction or minimize it. If you can find something to keep the reaction to a minimum you can keep wearing your base metal jewelry without worry. Keep in mind; the green discoloration isn’t harmful. It’s a chemical skin reaction and not allergies.
Allergies (such as those to nickel) will make you red plus it could also make your skin feel itchy and inflamed. It’s not anything 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 it’s only turning your skin green you can certainly continue wearing it as long as you like just be sure to keep the skin clean to avoid having it look bad.
Truth be told coating your jewelry is generally your best choice.