Why Waist Beads Break And Tips To Avoid It

Here at She So Confident, we source and research to find the best tools and rules to avoid giving our waist bead family the popping experience. Throughout our studies, trials, and errors, we gathered 3 important tips to help you avoid experiencing your waist beads popping, dropping, and rolling.

These waist bead tips were organized from using and testing the quality ourselves. Using these 3 tips can help you enjoy your waist beads much longer.

Tip # 1- Avoid excessive exposure to earth elements. These 2 elements include heat, and on the contrary, water. 

Heat- Like anything else, direct heat from the sun over a long period of time can cause fading. The sun’s UV rays can also cause damage to the fibers of the thread. Some may think the thread is covered by the bead but remember that waist beads are also made using transparent beads, allowing light to pass through.

Water- If your waist beads are made with quality beads, you can swim and bathe with them without issues. However, too much water can cause damage to your beads. Waist beads are traditionally made to tie on which means you will be taking showers with them. Any bead whether it's solid colors, matted, or even lustered will eventually wear off over time once they come in contact with harsh chemicals. This includes chlorine that you may find in water and the soaps you use to take your showers.

However, it all depends on the quality of the beads that determines how long they will last. If you are purchasing waist beads that are not made with high-quality materials, your waist bead will not last very long if showering with them. Even the highest quality jewelry beads prove no match to consistent exposure to water. For this reason, the next 2 tips are very important. 

Tip # 2- Pat dry your waist beads after showering/swimming. Doing this removes any excess water from the surface of your beads. Besides, it only takes a few seconds. While you are drying your skin, gently pat dry your waist bead. You can also increase the drying time by standing in front of a fan for a minute. Once your thread has dried completely, it bounces back to its normal state of durability. 

Tip # 3- Avoid pulling on your waist beads while wet. This is one of the most important tips of them all, and probably the main reason for the breaking of most waist beads. When a thread or any type of rope gets wet, it loses its dynamic properties decreasing the overall strength by 30%. When your waist beads get wet, water stretches out your thread. For this reason, we source the best waterproof thread we can find. If you must pull on it to dry it, do this very gently.

Your Beading Friend,

Leticia