Viki | Ady Endre road

„I graduated as a criminal psychologist, on the contrary I work in a bank where I cannot take advantage of my creative skills. Exactly because of this, I study art at evening classes after work, although it is very tiring, but it is worth it because only a three-hour-long painting or drawing lesson can really calm me down on a really stressful day. For this reason, I hardly ever have free time, but I fill the little I have with being creative (drawing, painting, sewing, whatever that is creating) modelling and dancing (authentic solo jazz and Charleston). Vintage culture is very determining in my life, I adore everything that is antique, may it be fashion, clothes, furniture, and music; concerning tattoos, only classic style is an option.”
“When did you get your first ink done?”
“I got the first one done when I was twenty-something, it was the anchor on my forearm (that is not lonely anymore it became a whole-arm tattoo), back then it was not such a fashionable topic as it is nowadays. It really bothers me that today in 2015 people in Hungary still judge and even stigmatize you based on your tattoos. I am very grateful for my present workplace because they accepted me like this, but I went to the interview in a long sleeved shirt, just to be sure. Remarks are common during the summer, I can see people’s reactions that they cannot really decide that a young and decorative girl, who is very often “dressed as a granny”, why gets tattooed all over. I like this contrast very much, what I represent by being old-fashioned in mind, a vintage look, but with a little bit modern tattoos, piercing and the negative remarks do not bother me anymore. You get used to that after a time and you let it go.”
“Which one do you like the most?”
“On the inner side of my arm, there is a bearded, tattooed guy, who was made by my favourite painter and tattoo artist, it was formed to be a little more Pötyi-like. I like him very much because he is damn simple, pure old-school, only black and red. On top of that, he is the image of the perfect man for me. Not because of the tattoos and the beard but because it ended up being very masculine. I call him Pete because when I was getting inked, the other tattoo artist working in the saloon looked at the draft and shouted, “hey you, it looks like.. Pete”, one of our friends in common.
And well, mostly because of their meaning, my favourite tattoos are on my two feet, on the left there is a vintage stiletto with the label MOM and on the left there is a tape with the label DAD. No day passes by without me thinking of my parents without any reminder but it was especially important for me to have them with me all the time at least this way, if unfortunately they cannot be otherwise. I wanted to represent them with their favourites, my mother was a Woman from top to toe, she got her clothes tailored and she was so slim and she wore 36 sized beautiful vintage stilettos (for my greatest pleasure I inherited some of them) so that’s the story of my shoe tattoo. My father’s favourite band was the Creedence Clearwater Revival, I get to know and love them from my father’s tapes. That’s why for him I chose a taper labelled CCR.
“Which one was the most painful?”
“It is undoubtedly my smallest tattoo, the one on the inside of my left wrist. I did not thing that after a full arm, a thigh, elbow, etc., three letters would be too much for me but I certainly suffered then. It’s true that we had flipped through a few samples, and I had been inked for 4-5 hours, because in general I get more in one sitting. By the way, these three letters were the initials of my ex, many people find it strange that I do not get it changed. It wasn’t a quick decision, we were after everything by then that could have made me not to get it, but there was and is a reason for it to be here. I am never going to get I covered, I like it all in all, what it symbolises and nobody else’s has ever been or ever will be on me, that is for sure. He has my initials on him, too.”