Waist beads also referred to as beaded waist rings, belly beads, or waistline beads, are very sensual feminine accessories. They include small beads on a wire or string worn around the waist or hips in varying colors and shapes. They are built to flatter the stomach, hips, and belly of a woman. Waist beads have been worn in many West African cultures by women for generations. They also gained prominence among females in the West in recent years.
 
BENEFITS OF WAIST BEADS
 
1. It helps with weight loss
You may use waist beads to chart your weight instead of getting on a scale every day to know whether there's a gain or a loss. You can quickly know when you add on weight because it does not stretch, and it would fit closer around your hips. When you lose weight, on the other hand, the beads surrounding it would feel loose. It also helps to be mindful of the stance in the stomach and seat. To adjust your sitting posture and workout the muscles in your stomach, it will act as a reminder.
 
2. Boosts Sexual Attraction and Satisfaction
When embellishing the waist, these waist beads enhance the sensuality of a woman and makes her more desirable to the opposite sex. The beads make the body an enticing ornament, and men enjoy strumming with the beadings to express their love for their woman and their lust. In improving a man's sexual appetite, the waist beads play an important part, and they will find a woman with her waist laced with beaded strings immensely sexy and desirable.
 
3. Heritage and pride
African women boast about their roots and tradition and are not ashamed to wear waist beads to show their appreciation for their faith and their homage to it. The waist beads lend the woman's body a glamorous brush, and they also tell their daughters the meaning of wearing waist beads. Today, Black and Brown women's use of waist beads in the West has developed into its own cultural tradition, one that represents the history of the diaspora.
 
4. Maturity
One of the drawbacks of African waist beads is that they are intended to show maturity. For starters, mothers tie beads around their daughter's waist in some African tradition to demonstrate their transformation into womanhood upon their first menstruation. Some Ghanaians still during naming ceremonies, wear baby beads around their waist. And as the children outgrow it it reveals that they have passed onto another period of their lives.