My Dear Friends of Inked You know sometimes a little change with your body with your hair new clothes making you feel super light and sexy and like feminine sometimes we like we can have the time when we’re really low and we feel like oh everything is so like basic boring and I’m tired of everything when you’re getting something you were.
Thinking about for a long time and it’s like becoming so beautiful make you want to fly a girl my name is Pony Wave I’m tattoo artist I’m based in Los Angeles I was born in Russia in a small city named Vladimir it’s close to Moscow yeah and I moved to California 10 years ago growing up in Russia especially in Vladimir in a small City it might be tough but still a.
Lot of fun you have your all like ups and downs but sometimes I miss my city but I’m really happy here now back in Russia there are times the tattoos was probably only prison tattoos or tattoos you got like in the military so it was like you know like faded like bluish tattoos so probably that was this.
Kind of tattoo I I seen the first time but back then people can judge you like like heavily judge you like for having tattoos so it wasn’t that fun if you like fully covered with tattoos in Russia like 20 years ago that’s good I remember when I was about like nine years old or so.
I’ve got this liners that the pen that was like pretty expensive that time and I bought them and I started to do tattoos like small like tribal tattoos for myself and for other people and that time I was thinking oh my God I definitely gonna get like really tiny small tattoo for myself and this is going to be it.
Didn’t happen didn’t end like this my first tattoo was the Little Star on my neck and I was still believing that I’m going just wanted to and this is going to be it but it that’s not only for next two months after two months I got another one I felt like a rock star with the.
Tiny tattoos or a tattoo on my neck I was feeling like Oh I’m a bad girl I said to my parents that my first tattoo I had I said this is temporary and this like special technique with the temporary tattoos you can get it just for one year and after one year they start asking me questions and I’m like ah you know maybe I just refresh it yeah.
My parents doesn’t doesn’t like tattoos at all when they saw me moving to another country and growing my career as a tattoo artist and they saw me like all over the Internet they start to understand this is not temporary this is not something something you are growing through this is like you you are a narcissist and now we.
Understand you now we like respect you and now like we see what it’s all about I think they love me too much to argue with me and make myself like like uncomfortable I think their love it’s like much bigger than like they are feeling about tattoos so again win I remember I was planning like to do the iography on the cars.
Or music so I was like really like artistic person and I was thinking oh what should I do remember I told you the small tattoo I got the star so the tattoo artist who did that he asked me what are you planning to do and I said oh probably I’m gonna do the iography on cars and he said okay because he saw my artworks and the year after I just came.
Back to that guy who did my tattoo and I’m like I want to start a tune and he said I’m gonna teach you everything so he’s decided that I’m going to be the he’s a pro Apprentice the vibe of like being musician being an artist and being tattoo artist it’s so close they’re always like all together so I decided that I want to be a tattoo.
Artist being an artist it’s being like a perfectionist of course you want to fix things all the time especially when you’ve done this when something else done it you’re like oh my God this artist is amazing I love him so much so he is so talented but when you look at yourself I’m not good enough oh my God I’m the.
Worst artist ever I need to fix this I need to fix that yeah it’s it’s Never Ending Story being an artist is always like growing growing growing growing growing and being not enough all the time I started noticing that like people like see me as a like tattooed person when I cut the half of the sleeve first and then when I got like my full sleeve.
My first one yeah I remember when I just got my full sleeve and I still was in Russia that was more than 10 years ago and I remember the times when I go just to the public transportation and older people can do like like this so they’re reacting to me like.
I’m someone like dangerous or like doing some like creepy stuff and sometimes I even see like the older a woman do like this they do in Russia when they see a demon do I look a demon yeah sometimes whatever you can be a really strong person and just ignore those people but when you.
See it day by day or in all your routine in all your regular life it can be really really painful so all people are different sometimes you can meet people who is really rude to you and it’s really painful but sometimes the opposite side when you meet the people who really like oh my God you look so beautiful you’re a piece of art.
It’s like a balance so you like if you feel yourself I think it’s really helpful you see the people who understand you and you see the people who doesn’t understand so it’s like balancing each other I’m looking at it as just part of me probably I’m just stop looking at this like.
Separately from my body when I’m getting tattoo I’m getting the new part of myself so now I look in at my tattoos as a part of me I think I will change something I would probably more practice on other people than on myself because some tattoo side down for myself I would change them.
I have a like Disney movie right here on my leg I was practicing on myself and I probably like will be thinking about like to get something on the top of this yeah everything else no I love all my tattoos yeah their memory how I’m getting tattoos it’s usually.
Like when I see a lot of something I want to keep for myself like forever for example my favorite flower is plumeria I love that like so much so I decided to get like plumeria on my body or for example like I’m thinking about my parents relationships the best relationship I’ve seen so I want to mention something like represent this.
Kind of love on my body of like oh it’s probably like too dark like flying to each other so then I’m getting this so every time it’s like I love it so much I wanted for me forever like super close to me then I’m getting it flowers and nature those things you will never.
Be bored and tired about this is the things you always gonna love so flowers is really safe to get flowers like you’re not gonna regret it nature is probably the thing the most magical and beautiful thing around us so.
In flowers I see not only flowers I see the sacred geometry like if you see like for example in rose petals this is a sacred geometry this is how everything in um universe is going like the these circles so nature like God speaks through nature I love it foreign
About a decade ago Pony Wave got a beautiful floral sleeve tattoo. Yet when she rode public transportation in her home town outside of Moscow, older people would stare and cross themselves as if she were the devil incarnate. It was at that moment that she realized people were looking at her in a different way than they ever had before. In this episode of Heavily Inked, we discuss Pony’s affinity for the natural world, her journey to become a tattoo artist, how she convinced her parents her first tattoo wasn’t permanent and much more.
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