Custom Designed Affordable Silicone Wristbands are very simple in design. The most common bracelet is the one made of silicon. This kind of bracelet can be personalized in many ways for diverse purposes. Rings are they are about ½ inch wide and 202milimeters long. Some people use them as a way to remember special dates while others use them as simple fashion accessories. Many companies and businesses use them for advertising and promoting themselves. There are also many options of colors and patterns that can be applied to these personalized bracelets. These bracelets can be customized in different ways so that they can be created to reach a specific audience.

Here are some models available in many websites:

Debossed Custom Designed Affordable Silicone Wristbands
This kind of wristband display the messages carved or engraved on the silicone stripe. This is the kind of bracelet used by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Embossed Custom Designed Affordable Silicone Wristbands
In this type, the letters are raised on the silicone stripe the same way as the letters of a credit card or car plate.

Color-filled Custom Designed Affordable Silicone Wristbands
This is the same debossed bracelet but the letters are filled with a different color so that the message stands out from the whole bracelet. This bracelet is perfect to convey special messages because the lettering is easy to read.

Segmented and Swirled bracelets
These bracelets can have debossed or embossed messages. Here different colors are mixed on the band in different ways. The colors can be shown in segments and others may be shown in a twirled pattern. There are different colors to be mixed like white, black, red, green, fluorescent yellow, orange, in order to create marble-looking and camouflaged bracelets.

Glow wristbands
These bracelets glow in the dark and are mostly preferred by children and teenagers. This kind of bracelet is perfect for birthday parties and Halloween.

Silk-printed wristbands
This is a very economic type of silicone bracelet. The messages are printed directly on a basic stripe by the use of a template or silk-screen. This is quite the same process used to stamp t-shirts and mugs but very special dyes are used for printing the silicone bands.

What encouraged star cyclist Lance Armstrong to get to the idea of using silicone cancer wristbands to fund cancer research? No one knows. But the signature yellow silicone cancer wristbands worn by the seven-time Tour de Force champion and cancer survivor quickly became popular as a common fundraising means. And young people soon ended up wearing them -in all colors and with all kinds of messages printed on them- as a trend.

The silicone bracelets have been around for years as ‘baller bands’ worn by basketball players because of all restrictions against metal jewelry. But the trend really caught on with Armstrong’s cancer wristbands.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation says that more than 52 million ‘LiveStrong’ wristbands have been sold already! But millions of other silicone cancer wristbands have also been sold. And that is without counting the millions, maybe billions, of all other kinds of silicone wristbands that have been sold or are being sold around the world, silicone wristbands for tsunami relief, for showing support to American troops, for just about anything! In fact, they are now the coolest thing that anyone can sport on one’s wrists. Though called silicone wristbands, these are actually made of synthetic silicone, or silicone gel.
When you purchase a LiveStrong silicone cancer wristband, $1 from its proceeds is donated to the Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation! That is, $52 million have been raised for cancer research already! The

LiveStrong silicone cancer wristbands are made by sportswear leader Nike. Cancer is the second largest reason of death in the United States and one out of four deaths will come from cancer

Now you have a special color silicone cancer wristband for different types of cancers. In terms of popularity, after the yellow silicone cancer wristbands come the pink ones. The pink silicone cancer wristbands are worn as a show of support for breast cancer victims. There are still more colors of wristbands for colon cancers, prostrate cancers, and so on. But it is well almost impossible to do a color-coding chart for the silicone cancer wristbands and the types of cancers they represent. Simply because
so many of them are being brought out by different organizations all over the world.

There are people who take wearing their silicone cancer wristbands seriously, and there are those who hate even to see them. But it can’t be disputed that these silicone bracelets have brought charity into the life of the ordinary man. They have also succeeded in bringing some of the bitter realities of existence – as well as joys – into the level of society’s consciousness like never earlier.