Gold is a very precious, soft metal and for piercing jewellery it should only be used from 18 carat (750er gold).

For initial jewellery gold is extremely unsuitable, because due to it often uneven surface it gets to incompatibility with the skin and these can inflames intense.

If the piercing is healed completely you admittedly can applied jewellery made of gold, but nevertheless you should take care, how the body is tollerated the jewellery.