If you’ve ever had a piece of jewelry that turns your skin yellow you’ve probably wondered what the cause is. Basically <, it's a reaction to basic metals to anyone who wears cheap jewelry. Skin greening can happen to some people more quickly than others; though, because our bodies are all unique.

Truth be told expensive jewelry can turn people’s skin green<, reason being it's not totally pure- regardless of gold or silver content. Platinum is a safe choice as it almost never reacts with skin so not to fear if you own platinum jewelry. To keep gold jewelry making your skin green make sure that you don't have plated gold – it has only a very fine coating of gold over top of a base metal and that coating wears off very quickly. For jewelry made from solid gold spending the extra on 18 karat gold will lower your chances of green skin.
Jewelry made from copper will almost always turn your skin green and theres really nothing to be done.

Avoid wearing jewelry when you’re sweating a lot it can increase the green skin effect 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.
Remember; the green effect won’t hurt you. It’s a chemical skin reaction and not allergies.
Allergies will turn your skin red plus it could also make your skin feel itchy and inflamed. It’s not anything like a green skin reaction. 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 so it doesn’t look bad.

At the end of the day coating your jewelry is generally your best choice.