News of Old Girls
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Sarah Conway-Clark
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She says "There is a lot you have to consider with piercings. You need to have very good hand-eye co-ordination and get it just in the right place to avoid it becoming infected. Pretty much anywhere can be pierced and there are new things coming through all the time. The latest really popular thing is having little jewels that just sit on the skin, you use a little foot like thing that goes in and hooks just under the epidermis to keep it in place."
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Sarah now has her own body piercing studio Psara Piercing, at Serenity Hair and Beauty in Mill Road, Colchester. "My nickname from when I was about 18 was Sarah with a P - it is a long-standing joke with friends, so that is where the name came from.”
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At the age of 22 having been to university, Sarah taught Philosophy and Religious Education at CCHS, training as she went along. She stayed at the school for a few years and after staff changes she moved to Moulsham School and a little later left there to find another job.
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She had been the sole breadwinner as her husband had stayed at home with their two children and having suffered a breakdown she moved temporarily to Chelmsford where she received counselling from South East and Central Essex Mind. She was able to learn more about herself, including the possibility of having Asperger's Syndrome, and the counselling helped her to gain confidence. She decided that as she had always been interested in ear piercing she would get the best training she could. She researched the possibilities of becoming a body piercer and signed up for a course with Keith Fakenbridge at the British School of Body Piercing.
She began studying in Glastonbury at the same time as her marriage broke down and at this point Sarah, who had long realised she was gay, came out but continued with her studies and passed her diploma with flying colours. She formed a friendship with a woman on-line and they arranged to meet in Glastonbury, while Sarah was there. "It was very much about supporting each other and just talking to each other up until then and we decided perhaps we should meet face to face." They have now been together for several years.
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