Flesh Plating

A flesh plating is the piercing equivalent of a grill — a big hunk of metal covering a biological chunk of your body. Flesh plating involves a large hunk of metal, which is then anchored through multiple small piercings at structurally important places in the jewelry. The area that goes into the skin sometimes has holes drilled through it, so that the skin can grow through the gaps in order to make it stay in place better. Unsurprisingly, it’s just about impossible to keep these clean, and all sorts of nastiness can grow underneath the plate. But hey, get a couple dozen of them, and you’re just about be armor plated!