The Worst Tattoos of Season 12 (Part 1) 🤮 Ink Master 

especially on a show titled "Ink Master"

They should've known it's a shady business when they heard it's a free tattoo

I would understand maybe 1 or 2nd season but any other season after that should have known they needed to know most of these things to come on the show and win

She should’ve went home

Time stamp??

@Pink Velvet a traditional American tattoo of a pinup girl. Typically in 1950s fashion, slightly sexy but also cartoony. Can look really bugged if not done perfectly which sadly doesn't happen often on this show

Yup!

😂 💯

Right especially after the season 5 episode where they did pinups. Those were busted as hell and there were only 2 that was good.

I would never, ever get a portrait either. Those never turn out right. Every once in awhile one will look good but that's more the exception than thr rule. And these are people the canvas' know. They have to look at their jacked up kid or grandma on their arm forever.

Also.. I don’t think I would want to hear my artist talk about how she never learned how to tattoo color, while actively tattooing me lol

Yeah, cuz she sucked.

What irritated me is that their biased commenting towards Ash every single piece seems to have stroked her ego, because all the sudden she was talking shit about Alexis and other artists when it's 100% clear that she, Ash, is the least capable artist.

@@boondocksdragon8959 lol and Alexis is WAY better than Ash. Hell, Alexis is a tattoo God compared to Ash.

Pony should’ve stayed and Ash should’ve been sashaying her azz home.

@@hybr1dthe0ry_ I agree. Pony was 100 times better than Ash.

Perhaps because Pony was not an all American girl, so they dismissed her amazing skill to favor Americans. I loved her Tattoo's.

what's her insta??

ponywave i think

Exactly

I agree. She should've stayed. Tbh I'd rather have her tattoo than Ash's.

I agree. Alexis should have went home for that shading.

I mean, this show is scripted, so...

If this show is legit then it made zero sense. The first tattoo was sloppy and had oddly shaped facial features, the second was shaded very strange and dark, the third was better than 1&2 except it was colored and shaded inconsistently. The 4th had best lines, most pleasing aesthetic, great coloring and shading. The only negative was it potentially could use more time to saturate it with more color but I liked it as it was. All of that and she had a twitchy client. This is all just my opinion and the criticisms were all based off of being professional artists so I mean sloppy for a person as talented as she is, not sloppy for the average person.

Alexis was so much uglier than pony's. In fact her was beautiful! It looking unfinished was not a problem at all. They should be more flexible abouy that topic

It was the best looking tattoo by far, but on this show they judge a lot based on contrast and how the tattoo is going to look once it heals. The colors were very light so I guess only the outline would be visible after a couple of years, but even considering that she didn't deserve to get eliminated

YEP.

the favoritism is so irritating

But that's not DrAmAtIc

Yes they did blind judging with a marathon challenge and it was a way better format. They looked at each tattoo individually, the all together to compare them, and the conversation was all about the tattoo, not the artists.

@@DemstarAus Def need more blind reactions. It was also messed up how they would be like "oh so and so definitely did this" if it was good or one of their favs just to find out it wasnt and then theyll be like "oh was not expecting that" Why not? Show gets on my nerve sometimes, the judging isnt consistent. some days they hate color, other days they wish the artist added more, sometimes they hate black, then the next its you need more black, just changes depends on who they're judging not even the challenge or the art itself

No mercy😂

I thought the same thingggg lol

That was Brutal! :~))

Lmfaoo

He didnt care in the slightest💀

YES that was definitely the most frustrating part about her. She got a lot of solid advice from better artists and even past winners and she just basically would tell them to screw off by doing absolutely nothing that they’d say.

She was only there because she has big boobs and is pretty. The judges are full of men that favor boobs over talent

Yeah, damn I was gutted when Big Jaz left, his tattoo had one issue, hers had a handful.

@@lordstumpy2945 Right? Big Jaz, Justin, and Pony are ALL far more talented and capable than Ash. They should judge the work blind, so their favoritism stops hurting the show.

That's because Dave ALWAYS votes the black ppl out.. He NEVER wanted to give Anthony a win his season

@@ashleetyler429 that because Anthony said he wasn’t finished and he didn’t do a full sleeve I didn’t mind that Anthony one though I just hated that Jason beat clean rock one

Her cheek looked hollow and her nose was so flat! It looked ugly

That T-rex fish net hit 0 on that tattoo style and she can stay? Fuck that

she also has the mentality of a 13 year old , i think she thinks being dumb is cute ://

I AGREE 100% ON THE FAVORITISM!

I didn't mind her too much, It was just awkward and painful seeing her at bottom 3 every episode... come on, little girl ain't getting better. This season would of been better if Big Jazz stuck around, that guy is stupid funny.

That’s why it should’ve been blind judging

not favoritism...social programming. That is what these types of shows are about.

Imo that was a really good tattoo

Fucking agree 🤬

hers was the best out of all of them

Pony is so cute, that was the worse episode.

Yea that was 100% bullshit

I 100% agree!! A lot of favoritism!

I think so

Cause they’re SIMPS

Ash’s weren’t good but there was always someone who did worse than her so I understand why she didn’t get sent home

Absolutely agree. I feel that they are arbitrary half the time.

I wish he stuck around longer, he was so funny.

Also, the fact that he worked in an OR wanted me to hear him talk about the similarities and differences between the two and how that helped him when becoming a tattoo artist.

yeah😅 i agree

It was a good tattoo design but I agree the nose was very off. If a better tattoo artist did that design it would have been a 11/10

@@ryann06_ yeah, I agree. It's not a bad design...just that nose.

one of the coaches did say there was a broken nose though? (For the butterfly lady) but if ur talking about the NA one than I agree.

Me neither she was very mediocre.

i would love that tattooed on me shit was ungodly beautiful

Agreed. I was floored by their decision.

That tattoo is one of my favorites in the whole show

Sailor moon vibes I loved it 😢

I absolutely hate 90% of their choices for elimination. They keep some horrible tattooists

Where do they get these so called artist lmao

Yes thats what other artist saw too behind the scenes. Tatu Baby had same thing

@@Ser_IanSheepington they even said we were pulling for you to get after the second elimination

@@Ser_IanSheepington I call her the Tatu Baby of Season 12 because of that.

Exactly

Ash is a limited tattoo artist but I ain’t going to lie she is lovely. I probably wouldn’t want to eliminate her either .

exactly AND the ship and head were absolutely different tones

@@disguisedboots Yeah, don't get me wrong that tattoo had issues. My point is their critique about unrealistic hair was insane. When someone like me who isn't an artist can tell how it obviously was styled after a marble statue.

@@aspaceproductions They didn’t like that it wasn’t their personal style and that’s what screws the comp over. They need to get their personal biases out of the way and judge it based on what it’s supposed to be

*stares in Jesse from season 1* 👁👄👁⁉️ I can’t do one style?!?!

Just because someone has a style they like to do doesn’t mean they don’t know anything else. Also if you speak about her this way, most of the artist on this show do that lol

@@lexdraws1729 Exactly I noticed a lot of unnecessary shade at her in these comments

She got rid of the strong nose that we are usually known for 😂

Exactly! Native American noses don’t look like that 😭

Sex appeal saved her

@@killuazoldyck1876 i hate to agree with you being a woman, but youre right. she was a pretty young thing that producers wanted to keep for rating boosts. maybe with more experience she could contend with the big guys, but she wasnt even close to being ready for a competition like this

I was surprised she stayed after the trex cross stitch tattoo. She didn't do the challenge at all and what she did do wasn't great. The other girls face was iffy but it met the challenge. I've seen guys go home for less.

@Colorful Animations she can't even do basic anatomy, i don't think she can draw at all dude lol.

@@killuazoldyck1876 Personally, I find her nowhere near attractive and is baffled by the sex appeal comments. Her personally feels abrasive and seems grumpy, uncaring/unpleasant to socialize with.

Agreed, especially given Medusa's back story, I thought her representation was stunning

Yes! It looks like a confident Medusa who does not need to flex her snakes to show her superiority

Same love that tattoo.

WTF the judges chose the woman from the coalmine over the Medusa. Sometimes Nunez is so blind.

Same

right ik they say it all the time but it’s true, you’re on ink MASTER you should be able to do any and everything they throw at you

I'm facepalming how some of the artists complained all the time while ignoring the fact they went for the MASTER title.

Exposure. That’s the only reason.

It’s just like when girls would sign up for America’s next top model and don’t know(or act like they don’t know) that they might get all of their hair chopped off and cry about it lol

@@armnhc84 but is it positive exposure if you're just gonna fail?

My thoughts exactly!

Me too. She is a badass with her art.

By the skin of her teeth? What does that mean? My first language isn't english

@@natastyfam1622 By the skin of one’s teeth basically means that they barely managed it

​@@natastyfam1622 the phrasing comes from not having teeth on your skin. It means barely even making it through.

By the judges crushing on her, more like.

That nose so pugish but cute. 😂

Facts

Right... but it wasn't even smooth pug. It was punched in the nose pug

19:29 Not to mention that the line work on the forehead (either side of the headpiece, and on the headpiece) is uneven

@@King5outh yessss that AND the shading she did on the cheek looks like the woman’s face is sunken in hella

That’s what I’m wondering too

Yeah she should've gone home on the cross stitch challenge instead of Ashley.

She's the tattoo baby of that season Someone that shouldn't have gotten as far in the competition and only did bc of favoritism But at least she finished her tattoos i guess, tattoo baby didn't finish like 3 and still wasn't kicked out... baffling

@@metallicmaiden409 she really was.

I dont even watch this show and I was like what the fuck???

Pissed me off 🤦🏾‍♀️

Yeah, that otter sucked ass.

His tattoo was great honestly. Not every tattoo needs to be the most vibrant tattoo imaginable. If that were the case then black and grey tattoos shouldn't be a thing.

Big Jaz going home the round before was just as shocking. That's why I think they should have to judge blind every single time. Their favoritism is over the top, nearly every season. They pick an artist, usually a pretty one, and they push that person undeserved through the whole season.

It looked as if it was fit for a tinier head or something That thing was too small

They did said it looked broken

@@kahnialanier1491 They mean the other nose she did, the one that somehow won over Pony's

When I saw that nose, I thought oh she’s obviously going.🤦🏼‍♀️ my favorite woman’s face was pony’s

Right! That stubby nose lol.

He gives me gentle giant vibes.

@@jrenee1040 i can confirm that

He seems very sweet. He honestly should've stayed in the competition longer in my opinion.

i liked the guy the moment he smiled it off despite being eliminated

He gives off Dad vibes, and that is a good thing! I like him.

Mad respect, she knew it was a volatile place and did what she thought what was best for herself. It takes a strong person to do that.

Totally. When the guy said she wasn't "sticking it out" and "being a fighter" I was just about ready to lose my mind. She made the right decision

respect to you for having a yuno pfp

@@aspaceproductions How did they give her any special treatment? She left the show. She wasn't pushed through undeserved (like Ash). They accepted her choice to leave, complimented her knowledge of her own limits, and then she left.

@@aspaceproductions How did they give her special treatment exactly? Everyone is allowed to leave a competition at any point for any reason, there's no "special treatment" in that, just basic human decency. If someone left because their grandmother died would you have gotten angry at the "special treatment" as well and would you really have wanted that person to use a needle on someone in all their grief? People have the right to leave, man. At any time.

You are saying what I very often think!

Especially that comment one of the judges made when a contestant said one of the challenge styles wasn't theres and the judge says "you make art right? Be an artist." I would expect an actual tattoo artist to know that there are different styles in art and people specialize in those styles. You wouldn't go to a tattoo artist who specializes in a cartoon artstyle and ask them to give you a realistic tattoo and when they deny you, you say "be an artist." You wouldn't ask someone who specializes in digital art to paint a picture on a canvas and when they deny you, you say "be an artist." That was one of the worst pieces of advice I've ever heard and very ignorant coming from someone who is supposed to be a master tattoo artist.

@@marie-michelleanderson2851 I respect Oliver Peck's work, but I've watched Miami Ink. Chris Nunez was the worst artist there. He's the last person there I would get a tattoo from. He's not even tattooing anymore from what I can see.

I’ve been thinkin this a lot too lately. A lot of people goin home for pretty solid tattoos due to pretty miniscule criticisms compared to pretty glaring issues in other pieces.

I love that big black man, bring him back for another season and hopefully he doesn't leave early.

I'd let big jazz tattoo me

The man has serious experience and skill, I don’t know why the hell he was kicked out before Ash

@@suna2317 I think he was removed because his tattoo didn't really fit the requirement for that specific round. While his was a way better tattoo overall, he lacked the realism base requirement. It's like if you do a really good school project on the statue of liberty but the requirement was to do a project on the presidents of the U.S. May be a killer project but you didn't do it on the right topic so you fail. :/

@Troy Taylor It always sucks when a good artist gets eliminated because a canvas can't sit for the session. I'd proudly wear anything Big Jaz inked. That man is a beast of talent and heart.

I agree. Alexis and Tito's were a lot worse.

Exactly. Saw this as a marble statue as well and I thought it was magnificent!

And it looked gorgeous and smooth like a painting of a statue should. Even on skin.

I also agree. I instantly assumed it was inspired by marble statues. Which have that same exact style of hair. That's what bugs me about they judges. Some of their critiques make no fucking sense. Why would a tattoo based off a marble statue have realistic hair?

Poseidon was cool but that ship was rough. It's hardly readable and will be even less readable with time when white will disappear. Face is 9/10 but that ship destroyed it.

I thought it was extraordinary myself. The texture is really amazing, doesn’t even look like there is skin underneath. It’s as if it’s actual marble.

She shouldn't be tattooing people

@@a-o-fraud3543 why do you think she shouldn't be tattooing? She wasn't making reference to her skills, I just think she couldn't handle the pressure of the show and felt she couldn't mentally bear it

@@abriannachambers4486 I'm not saying she shouldn't ever tattoo people but based on her work and her own words she should probably stop tattooing all together for a few years and just work on the fundamentals that people learn in a traditional apprenticeship before she does permanent tattoos on people. People living with bad tattoos have it a lot worse than however she felt at the moment she was being rightfully criticized

@@a-o-fraud3543 Ook I completely understand that.

She's a winner just for that

Lol right? Some of those I was like "cross stitch? Where?"

Same, I can't believe Ash didn't go home she didn't follow the challenge at all, like not even close to cross stitch

I think Ash was thinking of crosshatch... but then didn't fully understand crosshatch or how to use it anyways.

Right, i liked that look.

It literally looked so badass! I hate when the judges rate tattoos on how **attractive** they find them, they always sound like they are discussing if they'd sleep with the illustration itself!

right??? that's what I would have wanted

She's young and has that "naive" cute look and attitude 🙄 nothing against her for it but damn the judges couldn't even pretend to be thinking with the heads on their shoulders

I think they were also the same with Tatu Baby as well. I mean they favoriting her so much yet she was very mediocre in season 3 and that was the same with Ash.

@Eva Lilith Exactly! People need to understand that "reality " shows are a show at the end of the day .The producers make the final decisions, feed them lines and create drama . Viewers want to see drama ,pretty girls and good tattoos (sometimes).

That's because the judges are assholes. They should've sent Ash home over her. She was horrible compared to Pony.

It's horrible

Same, i was shocked that she needed to go home 😢

I agree. Tbh she was amazing in that season even that unfinished rose was great too. And it would've been great if it wasn't for her bitchy client.

He seems like a good guy to be around

For the artists? How about for the canvases that now have to walk around with these tattoos? Lol

...a rating boost from having something young and pretty to watch??? I think most of us who watched this season was hella pissed cause of this girl doing shitty permanent tattoos on ppl and getting by each time

It's not even just bias. They will focus on factors in small factors over the overall quality of the tattoo and half the time those factors dont even make sense. Like complaining about the hair on the face/ship tattoo. When the face was clearly based on marble statues which have the exact style of hair she used in her tattoo

Agreed. They should judge blind every time. It's the only way they'll ever do it fairly.

@@boondocksdragon8959 100% agree! They criticize certain artists way more than they do the others and it just isn’t remotely fair

They're not sending people home because their tattoo was bad. They're sending people home who they don't feel will be audience favorites or so it'll fit whatever narrative they're trying to go for.

Exactly...time for new judges. Judges who can actually tattoo more than one style

Me too he was great

If she was a trans girl, she wasn't a dude. (I know dude can be gender neutral but not in this context.)

Exactly! Also it was a transgender man who was outted on survivor, just fyi :)

Cringe and annoying

Even when Dani or Laura did a "bad" tattoo, it still looked like the best thing.

where can i watch this?

Completely agree. And it helped they were all personable, nice people. There were some crazy immature characters in this one I’m glad got cut early.

Same. All of them killed it with their pieces, but Dani and Laura had the best ones.

@@artisticalex1206 I was rooting for both Dani and Lauren mainly because they didn't do all of the drama BS. They were there to show what they could do when it came to tattoos.

I was sad when pony got eliminated.

Way better then that face with the horrible contour

Agreed

"I wasnt so sure at the begining but i felt you really punched in that contrast and made the piece pop" Chris probably

The worst of this season were better than the best of the first

Same.

Yeah he was a very cool guy

The tatu baby effect

literally no hate at all there are more important things about a human being than being pretty so its not a big deal but she is average at best imo

@@1917yee but at least tattoo babe could tattoo better then ash

i think you mean blackouts or sleeves