Your white gold bracelet is indeed in all likelihood gold. It is not "Fake" as asserted above.

What you are suffering from is a very common metal allergy--an allergy to nickel.

Pure Gold is yellow, and only yellow. To get other types of gold, other metals are mixed with the gold to change the color from yellow.

To get white gold, the yellow of the gold is "bleached" by adding gray metals. In North America the most common metals used to get white gold are Nickel and Palladium, nickel being the most common and most economical of the two.

It's estimated that as many as 15% of the population have an allergy to nickel.

If money is a real issue and you want to wear the bracelet, get a clear spray lacquer from the hardware store and spray the bracelet. You will have to do this relatively often because it will begin to wear off. However, it will probably allow you to wear the bracelet some and not cost much money. I personally could not bring myself to spray gold with lacquer.

If you take the bracelet to a jeweler they could plate the bracelet with rhodium. Rhodium is a beautiful, very reflective metal of the platinum family and would also prevent your allergy problems. Because it is being plated on, you will have to have it redone periodically because the rhodium plate will begin to wear off. Any jeweler should be able to do this for you.

You are probably best off not wearing any base metal jewelry. I'd also stick with yellow-gold or platinum earring posts. Sometimes (not always) someone with a nickel allergy can eventually develop allergies to other metals, so I wouldn't wear my jewelry 24-hours a day and would not wear pierced earrings to bed. Also, avoid silver/sterling silver from Mexico--it is often plated with nickel to help prevent tarnishing.

Good luck.