TATTOOS: An honest conversation with Zaya

Honestly Podcast with Clemmie Telford

Clemmie Telford + Mags Creative

Death, Parenting, Cancer, Gender, Relationships, Faith, Honest, Prison, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Race, Sobriety, Marriage, Honesty, Body Image, Honestly, Money, Society & Culture

4.7 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Clemmie and Zaya go back a while, but until now their conversations have always been accompanied by the pain of a needle… Meeting in a different type of ‘studio’ we get a glimpse into Zaya’s fascinating journey: from studying at Chelsea School of Art, fainting TWICE the first time she got a tattoo, through to becoming the hugely successful artist she is today and with it get a better picture of how the industry has evolved from underground to mainstream culture. For the full transcription of the episode please follow honestlypodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Smarty Mobile. Please visit www.smarty.co.uk/honestly for more details. To vote for Honestly to win the Listener’s Choice Awards, please visit: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.
0:09.0	Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.
0:14.8	From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table.
0:21.9	Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.
0:29.9	I love tattoos and I particularly love the seven of mine that have been done by today's guest, Zaya.
0:35.5	Her work not only brings me joy because of how talented
0:38.4	she is, but she has also helped me reclaim my body as something that is truly mine. Though they are
0:44.5	relatively common, tattoos still do divide opinion, so I thought it would be good to get her in today
0:49.7	and chat about the industry, about the business side of it, right through to her relationship
0:53.9	with her body, which is also covered in tattoos. For me, it was really great to get her insight,
0:59.9	and particularly so, because it's the first time we've ever had a conversation where she
1:03.9	wasn't inflicting pain on me with a tattoo needle. I hope you enjoy the episode.
1:09.0	We're going to start with a quick fire round.
1:13.9	On a scale of 1 to 10, how fun are you?
1:15.3	How fun are I?
1:20.4	I think I'm quite fun, but I think I'm basically really goofy.
1:21.5	Are you?
1:24.2	Yeah, I'm really goofy, really clumsy.
1:25.6	Not when I'm tattooing.
1:27.3	When I'm tattooing, I'm like, I'm not clumsy. No one was to hear about the clumsy tattooing. Yeah, but as soon as I take away my needles and my
1:30.9	machine, I'm just like falling off my chair and spilling my drink. Did you think that's because
1:34.0	you're so focused? I don't know, maybe, yeah. In my other life, I'm just like fall over a lot. So can you give me a number out of ten? Out of ten? Okay, fine, I forgot about fun.
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