Claire Jackson

Claire Jackson is a regular contributor to BBC Music magazine and Country Life

The bloody confessions of a Claire’s Accessories ear piercer

During the early noughties, I pierced hundreds of ears at Claire’s Accessories, the chain store that collapsed into administration last month in the UK. These piercings rarely went smoothly and the evidence often resurfaced: a wonky earring here, a scar there. Good riddance (unemployment notwithstanding), then, to this lavender blight on teen culture. After a