Millennials are now piercing their fingers with diamonds instead of wearing diamond engagement rings. The trend started in New York but has now leaped the pond the Britain.

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The trend has seen some millennials ditching the traditional diamond engagement ring and forgoing the band altogether. Instead they are having the diamond embedded into their engagement ring finger!

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This new bizarre craze involves peeling back a few layers of skin on the ring finger and inserting a titanium or gold anchor to attach the diamond to. A New York piercing specialist, NYC INK, reported to CBS news that the procedure takes 10 minutes and costs $100 and has swiftly noticed the rise in popularity of this piercing.

Photo Credit: Cosmopolitan UK

Photo Credit: Cosmopolitan UK

The diamond is sold separately. Something tells us that fine jewellery stores won’t be making space for specialist piercing any time soon!