Exactly How Do You Embed a 10-Carat Diamond in Your Forehead, Anyway?

Lil Uzi Vert’s $24 million brain diamond had us wondering. 

By: DANIELLE COHEN

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Illustration by Simon Abranowicz

This week Lil Uzi Vert debuted a gigantic 10-carat pink diamond in the middle of his forehead. Details beyond that have been spotty, but they include a since-deleted tweet where Uzi, photographed with blood dripping from the piercing, claimed he needed the diamond removed carefully or else he could die. (He’s since clarified that he and the diamond are both intact.) So, we had to wonder: how exactly is that thing attached?

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