Irish couple celebrate anniversary of Bicester business

Anatomy Arts Piercing, run by Dawn and Marcello, soon to be the McCormack family, offers a piercing experience specialising in solid gold and verified implant grade titanium jewellery.

The family-run studio opened its doors on May 10, 2025, with a fully booked launch day that saw the couple carry out piercings for more than nine hours without a break.

Mrs McCormack, said: “It’s incredibly difficult to put into words how grateful we are, without our clientele there is no Anatomy Arts Piercing.

“Our little family run studio is the centre point of our lives – it provides for our children, it keeps a roof over our heads, it allows us to live as our authentic selves.”

Dawn and Marcello, soon-to-be the McCormack family, celebrate the first anniversary of Anatomy of Arts piercing studio in Bicester (Image: Dawn, Anatomy of Arts)

The biggest challenge the couple has faced was starting the business with a now five-year-old and an almost two-year-old.

She said: “When we opened, it was two days before our youngest’s first birthday and our eldest hadn’t even started school yet.

“For both of us to take the leap to be self employed was a massive risk so the anniversary will definitely be our ‘we made it’ moment.

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“We are so thankful to not only be doing the jobs we both love and are incredibly passionate about; but to have the time to spend with our children is a blessing.”

To celebrate, there will be a shop discount on offer on their entire stock of jewellery.

The couple, who said they “tend to have expensive taste in jewellery”, will also pierce each other to mark the occasion, although they starting to run out of room.

Naturally grown diamonds will be added to Marcello while a solid gold chain or charm will be added to Dawn.

However, as the couple is getting married in June, they’re more focused on not burning themselves out and completing last minute wedding DIY bits.

On their return from their honeymoon, they plan to introduce an anodiser machine, which changes the colour of implant grade titanium jewellery for a low cost.

Dawn and Marcello, soon-to-be the McCormack family, celebrate the first anniversary of Anatomy of Arts piercing studio in Bicester (Image: Dawn, Anatomy of Arts)

They also hope to introduce an IPad to make consent form processes more seamless.

She said: “There’s no other job that either of us could imagine doing that gives us the same fulfilling satisfaction or gives us the space to look the way we do.

“Piercing is an adrenaline rush for both clients and piercers alike, so when your piercer is just as passionate about the piercing they’re about to do as the client is who’s about to receive it.

“All in all, our clients give us our beautiful life and we honestly couldn’t be more grateful.

“We’re so ecstatic to see what the future holds.”