"Dragonflies are cool" "Not really" "Gina felt more in tune with Sara" GEE I WONDER WHY

“The last thing I would want to do is provide you with a traumatic experience.” Next episode: “all four of you will be tattooing one canvas… at the same time.”

Pretty easy to tell who drew what design, Sarah specifically mentioned water. And the chick told Sarah a lotus flower, but told the other dude lotus and hibiscus, which is exactly in the designs...

I wonder how many of these bad heals were just the client screwing up taking care of it. Exposing it to sun, taking hot showers, submerge it and whatnot.

Telling 2 people 2 different things won’t give you a “blind” pick. If you want a blind pick, talk to both artists at the same time and THEN pick the pieces from there. But I digress..

Okay but i wanna see the redemption tattoos healed now

That tarantula was 100% bad healing and not being overworked

Steve literally told her it wasn't possible. Hard to feel bad for the chick.

The recovery of the tattoo hugely relies on the after-tattoo treatment. Exposure to the sun is a huge no and I suspect that some of the complaining canvases did not properly care for the healing process.

Wasn’t a blind challenge at all if she gave each artist a different prompt

i love sarahs confidence but at the same time her positivity. she didn't seem mad at steve or sad she didn't get picked or anything, she just stayed confident

Hard to feel bad for that woman when he literally told her it wouldn't work and wasn't possible. She knew what she was getting into.

The dude that has the tarantula tattoo 100% picked at the tattoo while it healed. That's why there are so many light areas. No way that's just fading

" I want to show it off..I can't wait to wear tank tops again" you better be using sunscreen and lotion cause you faded the last one.

My issue with the redemption episodes is that aftercare plays a HUGE part in how a tattoo heals.

I thought they were designing a tattoo to cover up the cover up on her arm and I was confused why they were both so bright

The first chick Sarah literally told her she was gonna do the flower in the water and she really said “I thought I would be able to tell who did what” bro

Wow...how has St.Marq gone his whole life without someone trying to murder him?! 🤦‍♀️

The solider tattoo looked iffy on paper but damn the fade effect on the skull is amazing. Doesn't look forced or cheesy. And the eyes draws you in. One of the best I've seen on the show.

The Pharao Tut tattoo wasn’t even that bad. The black just faded a bit over time but it still looked good. A touch-up is all it needed

Sarah Miller in that outfit... I'm in love

Have people never heard of touching up a tattoo?

I honestly want to know how these people healed these tattoos. Tattoo aftercare can really affects the longevity and look of your piece. I always make sure to keep my tattoos out of the sun or if I am in the sun Or going outside for the day I always put a high spf sunscreen on. On some of these pieces I think that the canvas just didn’t take care of it. Even some of the best tattoos will fade in just a few years if you don’t protect them from the sun, or go in water too soon after getting them.

After you get a tattoo, it's very common for there to be touch-ups to finalise the piece. With Ink Master, it's all done in one session so you don't get that. Also, if you don't do proper tattoo treatment whilst it's healing, then it won't heal properly and will fade, look bad etc.

I honestly am curious about how many of these are the result of bad aftercare. You can't just leave the shop acting like a fresh tattoo is fully healed and your body will just take care of it or something. There's shit you gotta do to keep it from fading and getting infected and stuff.

Lydia’s redemption was soo good!! I loved that one!!!!

I low-key love Sarah's sassiness.

I live how blown away he was about the king tut tattoo as of he has never heard of a touch up … like.. why does it have to be different if the only thing that’s bad is the saturation

St Marq needs to use a liner. That thing is going to look the same faded POS in a few years.

i have a tattoo that was completely overworked and almost all of the color is gone and the linework is blown out. its sad because i loved it when i got it and now its just a blurry mess :( my husband has 2 tattoo from the same artist (one he got the same day) and his are almost 100% perfect. i think she was really stressed and just wasnt in the right headspace because one of her main artists was in the process of having a breakdown screaming and quitting during my tattoo. she was super professional during it but by the time we took a break and hubby was getting his tattoo next the guy was finally gone and his tat shows she was much calmer for sure!

"I can't tell who drew which tattoo" .. yes you can sarah literally talked about doing water are you serious

The king tut tattoo just looks like normal aging to me..

Sarah is an great artist, her whole loss is over bad timing/luck.. I'd let both of them tattoo me whatever design THEY chose over anyone else.

I don´t have a single tattoo and not preparing to get one at any point soon, but I love watching this type of videos. I love the smiles on their faces when their ruined tattoo was fixed/covered up, I can feel the relief they had just by watching it

I think what this show fails to make an example of is that most of the time, the healed quality of the tattoo depends on the aftercare of the person who got it. A lot of these could have just not been properly cared for, and that's the canvas's fault, not the artist's.

“I get that you’re competing, but this is my life too” lady it was your life when you chose to get that first tattoo, it was your life when you came in for this free tattoo, you’ve already made the decisions you get to make

That tweaker dude picked that spider raw thats why it didn't heal well.

So, either these ppl have been lied to be producers about how tattoos should heal, or they didn't take care of their tattoo afterwards. ALSO, like, he told her that it couldn't be covered. Like, have realistic expectations (which we know some of these canvases do not have!)

Man I was not at all expecting randy at the end, he was there for a very short time and nobody would most likely know him from being on the season with Scott, matti, sausage and halo (that being season 3 or 4 I believe) and he did terrible at trying to stay in without no lines in photo realism, im just surprised I haven’t seen any content about Roland being here on redemption cuz his shit is absolutely awful in comparison to randy, I can guarantee u if u never seen his cat tat 😂

Man so many people don’t understand that some peoples skin is different and doesn’t hold ink well. Plus after care is so important. So many of these issues are the canvases faults

Seeing canvases leave happy is my favorite part of this show! Like the smile when they get an amazing tattoo is just so great. I hope I will have the same smile after getting my tattoo in september!

Gotta love the creative editing of reality tv to form a narrative. Lady: "Dragonflies are cool" Steve: "Not really" Because thats a totally natural conversation..... I really dont believe someone would just straight up shade their personal preferences in that way straight to their face. She probably asked something and that was his respons, that they then edited to make him look like a dirtbag who doesn't care about what she wants...

I see a lot of people say "Shut up it's a free tattoo" but like... the show NEEDS people to come on and allow people to tattoo them. That "free tattoo" is the compensation to be the canvas and take the risk that your tattoo might turn out poorly. Them being dissatisfied is part of the potential experience if the contestant did a bad job. Most of these canvases have tattoos already meaning they aren't opposed to paying for them but just because it's "free" doesn't strip them of the right to be dissatisfied with poor work. As an artist myself, I know how hard it is to admit to messing up, but it's important for growth to understand when you made a mistake and when it's time to make it right instead of letting your ego get in the way.

You could clearly tell just from the consultations which was Steve's and which was Sarah's more or less their clear art styles. I still feel awful for that girl with the hideous muddy bird on her arm who has to just suffer or go through the long, expensive, and painful process of lazor removal.

ive been watching since the pandemic started....i don't even have tattoos

the tattoo depends on both the artist and the canvas if you get a black tattoo it needs to be dark when you get it so that it lightens up and you get a forever lasting tattoo. The canvas has to properly take care of the tattoo as well sun light isn’t too good for fresh tattoos and moisture is important

Sarah's design was perfection! Would definitely choose hers myself.

Feels like the flower design would fade as well, yellow ad orange don't stick

Lady said she couldn't tell the difference between the tattoo, yet the female artist said "I was thinking of a flower under a waterfall"😂 this is just kinda sad at this point

That second clip is exactly why I wouldn’t want to hear the critics. You can’t Unring that bell when you hear a negative remark about the tattoo.

I loved Sarah’s tattoo. It was so pretty!

"Its hard to make out what it is" Its literally a bird with a flower is not hard to tell what it is just faded

Steve and Lydia did such incredible tattoos. Love them.

Sarah Miller can rock the sexy librarian look and I'm all here for it.

Steve is one of my favorite artist on this show. Dude has crazy skill!!!

I wish there was a sort of paper we could use of people's skin colors to draw over to accurately show what it'll look like

A lot of people didn’t like Sarah but she was one of my favorite artists.

Ink Master editing around Peck is refreshing and a great way to own up to the controversy

"wasn't giving me as much information as her" No, she told you what she liked and you kept shooting it down

why would you go back on the show just to tell the artist that you hate the tattoo you got for free, and don't give them a chance to give you another free high quality tattoo or fix the old one? it could use more linework and some touchups but that tattoo is definitely fixable and really cool.

That spider tattoo looked like the sun just absorbed it all.

For everyone toting "after care", realize that touch ups are common and can help out a lot.

healing and aftercare definitely makes a difference. I have a tattoo on my chest and i took care of it well for the first few weeks but 5 months later I got an AWFUL sunburn and its just not as vibrant anymore and that's 100% my fault a lot of the time it doesnt seem very fair to blame the artist, bc the tattoo artist I had was so nice and patient with me and I was so happy. it was my first tattoo and I'm very happy I had such a good experience. a shame I messed it up, but I'm looking to get it touched up soon, hopefully by the same artist :]

So with Randy, I agree with the canvas, I mean he admitted it was a bad tattoo but also admitted in a way like he didn't care. I mean it's bad enough going back to see an artist that messed up, let alone trust them enough to get a tattoo

I want that spider tattoo! It's amazing! Too bad it didn't heal well, but sometimes touches are needed.

st marq's sketch looked like it'd been sitting in a sketchbook for 30 years idk how on earth anyone thought it'd turn out good

To be fair. I would love a tatto done by any of those artists. Not a chance in hell will i go on a show like this to get tattood. You know how much pressure theyre under and the time crunch. I wouldnt risk it. Their bad tattoos are usually bad due to the pressure. Amazing tattoo artists are never on a time crunch. They use all the time they need to get it perfect x

Tattooist: it's not possible Girl: OMG IT TURNED OUT TERRIBLE AND I DON'T KNOW WHYYYY

Am I the only one who thinks that Sarah looked like 🔥 in that outfit? HOT DAYUM!!!! 😍

That first tatto (at least at first look at 1:18) looks really nice healed etc.And the image itself is beautiful.

Judging tattoos that didn't heal well, then judges the new ones while still fresh and not healed... What

I get sorta confused when these people come in with “faded” tattoos. That isn’t the artists fault, that’s kinda yours. Sunlight exposure is extremely harmful for young tattoos and can make them look years older than they actually are(This is the No.1 most common mistake when people get tattoos). Not using non-scented lotion once during the early healing phase is also bad since moisturizing the damaged skin keeps it from not healing properly. Anti-bacterial soap is useful to prevent infections from happening, but it stings badly. Touching new tattoos isn’t the worst, but doing it often can create problems later on. Aftercare is one of the most important aspects of getting a beautiful tattoo that will last forever, but some canvases don’t understand that or aren’t told about it.

Client took that spider swimming in a pool and destroyed it

"Skin was overworked" yeah okay buddy .. you picked tf out of that😅

"Dragonflies are cool" .... "Not really"

I'm an artist myself n I would have said give me his flowers and her water background together and that would have been the best tatt. Because his flowers were more detailed and better looking but his background was very blocky, even manly tribal looking which makes no sense to pair tribal blocky background with something as organic as flowers. Her flower on the other hand was lacking and very simplistic no variation in color and it we just blah, but her water background not only flowed really well with the organic nature of the flower but it looked awesome. So a combination of his flowers and her waves would have been AMAZING, not to mention both artists could have done a true collaboration on her n she would have loved it. Too bad none of them had the vision or simply the ability to put all their pride aside to create something harmonious and sick.....😉

That skull cover up was fire

that king tut touchup is INCREDIBLE!

Fun fact : Tattoos are made of metal particles so a tattoo will always fade overtime by the years. The body will decompose this metal because it doesn’t belong in the body but this takes a really long time to do so. That’s why some tattoos need recoloring in order to still pop.

I always felt steve’s bird coverup looked like yata garasu from Yugioh. Honestly it doesn’t look bad, faded but I never thought the design was horrible. I’d have Steve over Sarah tattoo me any day.

Jack of all trades, Ink Master of None!🤣😂

Dude "You wanna make it right..?" St (lol) Mark: "I do", shaking his head.

no way the first girl didn't know whose design was what. Sarah was the only one who said something about the water and only 1 design had a water wave

I thought it was supposed to cover the cover-up on her arm, not an untouched area

She called Dave Navarro, Steve 🤣

That last soldier tattoo was insanely beautiful!

That last guy. Wow. Good for him. 🤛🏻

don't think Dave connected with this canvas more this any-other.. its basically both of them agreeing with each-other. he's the most perfect host for ANY show in TV history.

Lydia's soldier tattoo came out really nice

That military tattoo was awesome thank you sir for your service ❤🤍💙🇺🇸😍

Steve's tattoo had Māori patterns in it. Those patterns are very sacred in our tattooing and he just put this on a woman who has no idea what it means or where it came from. So bad

Sarah dying inside after losing again

I thought they were gonna fix the bird on her shoulder

Why cover up the old faded tattoo instead of just touching up the faded tattoo?

Randy looks like he is taking better care of himself and I was bummed he didn’t get the chance to fix that tattoo. I think he could have made it look better and added something like a border to make it look more finished.

As bad as Randy's tattoo was, if it was on me, it'd be one of those tattoos I'd be like "Well it's bad but I can live with it." Because is it the worst tattoo on the show? No. But it isn't good either.

"my poor mother" lol

Watching this after my new tattoo bc i Love giving myself anxiety

Sarah looks like Joan Cusack.

I understand there are better quality inks, and using the tool correctly when tattooing etc, but I feel like 95% of tattoos not healing properly is lack of proper care afterwards. The ones I’ve had for almost 10 years now still look nice because I took care of them