Mgk has routinely hit on and mentioned that it’s ok to date underage girls, one being Eminem’s daughter who was 16 at the time when he was in his 20s. Also said he couldn’t wait to pursue Kendall Jenner when she turned 18.

as someone who is black, correlating black out tattoos to “black face” is INSANE! how does it correlate?

I'm not a fan of MGK either but his black out is amazing. His tattoo artist did such a great job. MGK's old tattoos were tacky IMO.

Maybe the reason ppl dont like mgk is that he is a creep that comented on eminems daughter when she was a minor and in general said some pretty unsavoury things about sleeping with young girls. And he is just in general pretty cringy in many aspects.....at least thats why i dont like him.

as much as i hate mgk his blackouts actually look really fucking good

Ehhhhhhhh it's kind of weird to call this close to black face. Im black and pretty sensitive about this stuff, but i dont see the correlation

I love the black out look but what concerns me about it is: where do you go from there? If you wanna reinvent yourself again, what options do you have? It’s so drastic

I do just want to point out one thing with Kat von D: even though she was born in Mexico, all four of her grandparents emigrated to South America from Germany in the 1940s. They did so because they had been affiliated with a certain political party that was not in favor anymore. That should say enough, especially considering Kat von D's previous interactions with people of a modern version of said political party.

"a tiger and a bit of meth and you would be mine. lol" THATS FUCKING WILDDD

When it comes to blackout tattoos, I don't think you could call it blackface, because if you could do the same effect with another color i'm sure people would, but black is the only thing that's going to cover tattoos. It's the only choice people have when they're in a situation where they can't laser, and they can't cover.

I liked it before the crop top comment, now I can’t unsee it…😂😅

My favorite blackout is Davey Havok, it's so well done with little bits of his old stuff peaking through, not to erase the past but just grown out of it

Kat Von D has had a lot of "misunderstandings" with racist things, including her partners. I know that we can't judge someone by their partner's actions,but when it's not one or two, BUT THREE... It's a pattern. So, it doesn't matter that she is of latin descent, she can have racist behaviors.

I love to hear people like MGK say they "didn't use anaesthetic when they got tattooed" as if we don't know they are high on cocaine and ketamine.

As a coloured person, linking black out tattoos to racial tones or “ickiness” is absolutely wild.

I kind of feel like blacking out tattoos is equal to a person admitting that they made a mistake when getting something PERMANENTLY placed on their body. Like, I understand changing and evolving. But getting MORE tattoos to cover up MISTAKE tattoos…. Eh?

I think black outs look really cool, but I love blast over sleeves with patterns. Treacle Tatts has an absolutely gorgeous floral blast over sleeve. If I was going to go for some sort of black out I think I'd prefer something more like hers.

Calling blackout tattoos “blackface adjacent” is fucking insane😂

Kat Von D is like the epitome of LOOK AT ME. Every single thing she does she literally amps it up. It's like super obsessive.

I feel like a dermatologist would absolutely hate you if you came into their office with a full body black out. Don't these people have moles?

Kat V D literally changes her entire personality based on who she is dating, she'll absolutely regret this down the line.

Why is no one talking about Joe Exotic's comment? 😂

I feel like choosing a bold way of an artform doesn’t meen you wanna blackface. Tattooing is putting color into your skin. You can go to the full extreme and just put color everywhere. To do it all black must be the boldest extreme of that.

i don't know/care about mgk but his blackout work looks really good imo. It follows the lines of the body nicely

OK ok but we hate mgk bc of the accusations against him obv

I always think older blackout tattoos that fade greyish do look more like the smurfish looking condition Agyria (that you get when you ingest way too much silver)

I think at the end of the day a tattoo is a tattoo and the only person it affects is the person who has this ink in their skin.

My god, why don't people, "who want to heal", just don't go and see a therapist? It's so much more straightforward and effective

I think MGK wants to be Oli Sykes so bad lol

As a person who is concerned about the toxicity of tattoo ink, seeing people with that much ink makes me anxious.

Mgks breakdown line makes me think he got hisnoriginal tattoos where done in haste after having a mental break

The blackface comp is wild I feel like it's more cultural appropriation when white people have traditional tribal but people are crazy nowadays

The whole comparing it to blackface bit sounds extremely stupid to me. Before long pale people won’t be able to bronzer or self tanner or be able to go out in the sun without ten pounds of sunscreen on without the risk being called racist for it. Just an absolute reach with that crap. No black person looks like a black out tattoo 🙄 if anything it feels more racist to even compare that to actually being black. Now if they were doing these black out styles with brown ink then you would definitely have a point. This is not me defending these kind of tattoos though. I think most of them are ugly as hell. Some of the ones with design work in it are good but most of them suck especially over time. I’ve seen plenty of black out tattoos that aren’t even that old look god awful. I’m sure these artists are probably better than most so these celebs will probably be fine but I just have a feeling the average person is gonna end up looking awful if they attempt this. Give me beautiful artwork over boring blocks of just black out any day of the week.

for anyone wondering, hispanic is an ethnicity not a race - country/region of origin does not dictate skin color. similarly to saying someone is american, it doesn’t determine their skin color.

as a heavily tatted girly i can say that even if tattoos are way more common now, most people still don't have the typical job stoppers so even if 22% of americans have more than one tattoo, it's still most likely being a butterfly on the hip, or a rose and 777 on the arm and there is nothing wrong with that, but ppl saying it's more different to NOT have tattoos these days just makes me so angry. then why do i still get stared at and discriminated? i'm very happy tattoos are getting more common, but we're not anywhere near this person thinks

I don't have any tattoos because I always felt like there's nothing I would want on me "for-ev-er" and I'd want to change them at some point, so I think can already understand it on some level and it's really cool to see and hear the thought processes of these people with lots of them. Basically sharing examples of it being OK and fine to want to change your appearance at whatever point you feel like it no longer aligns with who you are or aspire to be! But with the blacking out the whole bodies, I'm black myself and I doooon't know how I feel about it becoming a trend lol, so that will be interesting to see what societal implications/questions arise out of that if it becomes a "mainstream" thing, but I can see why people find it offputting. I could definitely see celebrities doing this as a way to differentiate themselves and I could imagine at some point as even blackout becomes normalized that we could see more people doing body modification like that The Black Alien Project guy. I've followed him for a bit and it's weird that for some reason I never thought about him being in blackface even though his whole face and body is literally black, but I think it's because the body mods he's done on top of blacking out his skin are so jarring that it's not appropriative (to me) because he's almost trying to get away from being perceived as human at all? 😅

It is so offensive to black people to say that blackout tattoos look like them.. People that feel like this is a race thing are ingorant.

As someone with chronic pain that controls every hour of my life, I feel a little icky about the idea of intentionally going through the pain of these blackout tattoos and coming out the other side a “different person”. But I can’t articulate even to myself exactly why I was a little taken aback. This is focusing on a totally different subject than the idea of blackface. This is my reflection on the portion that’s supposedly about seeking the very experience of pain itself and the tattoo being permanent results that a show off that pain one went through (if one chose not to be numbed or put under.) People have every right to do things to their bodies as part of self-expression, their self-discovery, their life’s journey. So I can’t place why I wasn’t impressed to hear about going through temporary intense pain with a very obvious visible display of that painful experience as the goal. Though actually, the way I just phrased it, it kinda got closer for myself. My suffering produces ugliness that will gnarl and scar my body forever. My body and suffering isn’t an artistic choice, and I guess maybe I’m jealous they have that privilege to choose. But they *should* have that privilege to choose. Pain, particularly chronic pain with no end in sight, has been especially consuming me lately, so I’m extra thoughtful and maybe a little too sensitive about it. There’s a nationwide Dilaudid shortage and my pain management has been catastrophically disrupted for several months in a row, which is extremely stressful. So there’s some anger inside me about my inability to escape pain, then seeing people *choose pain* for some allegedly deeply personal reason - but then seeing the people who choose it who are pretty infamously problematic and impulsive and good at saying BS. But I need to remember, it’s still personal. It’s their body. I’m just very aware of the vast difference in our varied relationships with pain.

1. You have to say where you got that necklace from! It's beautiful 😍 2. I think black outs can be stylish and I agree it is an intense way to get tattooed. It a massive way to transform yourself.

I'm really NOT a fan of blackout tattoos. But then, I'm not going to get them, so it really doesn't matter in the end. Does it change how I treat people? No. First approach maybe, but I'm autistic, so I have difficulties approaching anyone I don't know. How I treat people depends on how they behave. Both towards me and towards others. What you do with your own body is completely up to you.

People can do whatever they want to their own bodies. Period

I wasn't a black out fan but i kinda love what MGK and Kat are doing by leaving negative spaces and some old tattoos popping through. It looks really cool.

Close to black face?! Lmaoo how is it “icky” I have a black out tattoo, and I’m Mexican/black. Getting a black out tattoo is a form of expression and some people just like the aesthetic. One persons tattoo experience does not revolve around someone else’s feelings and opinions.

There’s also a medical problem with blackouts, like not being able to find a vein or get a good MRI scan.

I’m someone who cares deeply about my tattoos and why I will never regret a single one as they are more like ‘time stamps’ in my life. Not everyone would like my tattoos but that doesn’t matter. I get frustrated by people who rush into tattoos, especially the fads, then give tattoos a bad name because they now regret theirs. I know little about MGK but he did his without anesthesia (nipples even) and the blackout is symbolic to him. It’s like tribal tattoos that were all the rage and now no one wants EXCEPT for the legit tribal tattoos some people have that get viewed crazily because they have them simply because tribal tattoos overall get a bad rap.

Are people aware of the trend of skin whitening? Is this also cultural appropriation when compared to blackout tattoos? I’d say both are related and go in the same direction but there is a crucial difference and that is the intent. If the intent is „I like how it looks on me“ it has a different flavour than „I want to look like - insert skin color -„

People that always talk about spirituality are messed up folks that has made a lot of bad decisions. Those initial tattoos bring bad awful memories but blacking out will just be another constant reminder of their fcked up life in the future.

Kat Von D is so different now, it makes sense for her to either want to transform them in some kind of way.

Black people aren’t black. Those comments just make me think of quiet on set with the charcoal costume suggestion. If it was a brownout tattoo then it would be cultural appropriation…

I mean, both KVD and MGK are kind of shitty people. Little odd you didn't look into why they're considered controversial?

I don't know if it was a maturity thing, but I got my first tattoo at 25 years old. For me at least, I think waiting later in my life to settle into who I would become in life. Made my tattoos actually mean something significant to me. For a longer period of time. Rather than, " This is who I am this year so put it on me permanently." What Kat VonDee did was saying " I no longer like my tattoos I got when I was younger" "So, let's put something else on me that I feel I am now." Case and point why I waited to settle into myself first. To avoid that very situation.

The picture you used for the whole body black out in the white traditional Japanese undergarments (fundoshi) is clearly a former yakuza. Tattoos in Japan are linked to the criminal underworld and blacking out his tattoos is a clear sign of him being done with the yakuza life style. It has nothing to do with culture appropriation.

Tim Commerford from Rage Against the Machine did this (blacking out tattoos) in the early 1990s. Just sayin.

Thank you for touching on the connotations of overdoing the blackouts. I felt icky too, instantly. There ARE grey areas as well as acceptable crossovers, and I am glad people are discussing it. 🐙 It is so tough because if you look at traditional New Zealand tattoos, they can black out quite a bit of skin, and far be it from me to deny a light-skinned New Zealander the desire to connect to their roots.

I’m a Black person who is heavily tattooed and full body blackout does make me uncomfortable but I can’t exactly put my finger on why. I got a blackout tattoo back in 2015 so I’m not bothered by portions of the body being blacked out at all ….🧐 I need to think about it more. 🐙

Really interesting video. This is probably TLTR for most, but here it is. Anyway, aside from MGK's problematic issues with underage girls and also Kat Von D's previous (and current?) issues, I actually like the look of MGK's blackout especially. It has a bit of a very precise blastover in spots with very clean negative lines in the piece. I think it looks pretty cool. I haven't seen Kat's finished blackout, but so far, I'm not as much of a fan of hers. But I see why some heavily tattooed people are getting them as it's the easiest (if painful and many sessions) way to get unwanted (or grown out of) tattoos covered. I really shouldn't comment on the racial connection with the blackout as I'm white - but I can't help myself to make a few comments. The one piece I saw of the man who is almost completely covered in black, except for his head, hands and feet gives me the ick - and it doesn't look like he's getting old tattoos covered, it looks like he's going for the look of being all black. I feel that's quite different than people getting a more blastover style black out with at least, skin breaks here and there or just parts of the body covered in black - not most of it covered. I like the look of the negative space (with some old tattoos peeking through) a blackout piece. It did take a while to grow on me. At first, I didn't like blackouts at all! Finally, the "black" issue is a tough one, because black ink just happens to be the best color at covering old tattoos. If you have fresh skin, it would be interesting if someone would go with some non-racial color like, blue or green, light purple? I want to say red (but for Native Americans and other cultures). Thanks for the great video. 🐙

Id actually love a video on tattoo trend cycles!! I've loved all your videos that break down tattoo styles, inks, and so on. So educational!

Thanks for talking about this and especially for showing more of roxx's work. Some of it is absolutely amazing. 🐙 I have new ideas about a cover up I want done now that I've seen those elegant designs

Celle I Love your jewelry collection, love all the earrings on past videos, and this necklace is next level. Can you share some places you like to shop, or hype some jewelry artists you support? I just love the style of the pieces you wear on your channel. Great video as always!!

2:49 that's not a poem...that's marketing copy...some of these tattoo artists are skilled copyrighters/marketers...I like the blackouts, but I think the people who have the desire to get the blackouts have already demonstrated that they get tattoos that they end up wanting to cover, so in ten years...will they want to get rid of the blackouts? Who knows

As a black man, the argument that a blackout tattoo is black face or could make people of color uncomfortable is just ridiculous and seemingly a way to find outrage over body modification. Im speaking for myself but I think blackout tattoos are awesome no matter the skin color of the person getting them, and to suggest that it’s somehow an extension of blackface is just ridiculous and ignorant. Not to mention the fact that black people don’t literally have black skin is what makes it funny to me. Don’t think just because you’re white you have to defend yourself just because a few people of color feel “uncomfortable” with blackout tattoos, obviously the intention is for body art or to coverup old tattoos in a cool way, not because they’re trying to offend black people. Give me a break 🙄

I didn’t get the blackface comparisons until 14:20 because blackouts are usually pretty obviously not a skin tone, but I didn’t even think of it fading to the point it genuinely does look like actual blackface 😬

These people are a HUGE cautionary tale as to why you don't just ink yourself when you have an urge. We evolve DAILY. Yes, the fundamentals of who we are are generally set by 6 years old, but our taste in things changes as our lives change. We can change too like Kat Von D suddenly finding religion. I’m so thankful my one & only tattoo was screwed up TWICE, 33 years apart, or I might be dealing with tattoo regret too. I was on my own for almost a year, looked older, and didn't have parents in my life to get their permission. Being a minor, I didn't complain because I didn't want them or myself in any trouble. At least I was smart enough to get it in my bikini area so it can easily be hidden or I can show it if I so choose. Honestly, I’m burned out on tattoos, and seeing people get ruined by tattoo artists has really turned me off to tattoos thanks to my own tattoo story. I just watched a story about an artist in Las Vegas who ruined a vacationing British woman’s big tattoo because he relapsed!🙀 My tattoo is at least pretty, just not what I asked for... It was done at a very reputable tattoo shop by a very reputable, well-known artist. However, it was the wrong color and no 3D illusion of the curvature of the petals. Then, when I went to have it fixed, I explained it clearly to the new artist I was referred to at a different, equally reputable tattoo shop. Instead, he just colored it all in dark purple and, once again, no 3-D illusion of the curvature of the petals. I give up. My advice to my kids and anyone reading this is, “If you want to get a tattoo, don’t just run out & get it. Wait at least 5 years. Then, if you still want that specific tattoo, go for it.” 💜😽💋

Your necklace is so dope!! 🔥🙌🏽

Hey Celle - maybe you could do a celeb tattoo tour series? Just a thought cause sometimes i like looking up a certain celebs styles but i find the articles online filled with loads of pointless writing and pop up adverts. Or they leave out photos or just focus on ONE tattoo that might have went wrong. (Realised this when i was trying to see what recent tattoos cara delevigne had got but the articles kept going on about a spelling mistake) Would be cool to have them laid out and discussed on this type of platform. The background behind them and the artists who did them and stuff. Just an idea 🤷 love the vids ❤

emmm kat von d's new found spirituality and getting baptized is definitely a political stance rather than a religious or spiritual one imo. fundie fridays did a video about this a few months ago

This isn’t making POC uncomfortable, truly nobody cares. People will find reasons to be outraged on social media for any reason.

I just got a video on Instagram about someone lasering off their blackout. Once the trend is over, these people are doomed...

I'd say most people don't like him because he said creepy stuff about young girls. So most people probably are just venting their distaste for him overall. His fans, well fans are always wishy washy imo. They care too much on things they can't control about another persons life, so you know typical parasocial relationships. I may not like MGK but as far as tattoos go I don't care what he gets. If he didn't like all those tats before and laser can be difficult for people with tons of overlapping tattoos then blackout kinda sounds like your only major option left outside of leaving it all there. So it doesn't matter to me. It looks fine.

Mgk said some weird things about minor girls

MGK's is honestly the best choice he could have made. He went from having some trashy random drawings and coverups over his skin to a pretty descent blackout/blast over that fits him really well. I don't get why people botter so much about him specifically, even if you don't like the guy because he is/was a prick or because of the whole Eminem beef If I had to cover some trashwork with a blackout, I'd definitely go that way of his

I don’t have any any tattoos but I really enjoy listening to your point of view. You’re so young but so wise and I hope this means you won’t get tired of your body art. I think total blackout work is already trendy and old. Roxx’s work is beautiful! I like seeing blackout where you can see the older tattoos within the design. Solid blackout is boring. I wonder when or if Kat will regret her blackout work. Then what?

Celle ! We need another tat update :) I’m so curious 🫶

Hispanic isn’t a race. Kat’s race is white, her ethnicity is hispanic.

MGK with blackouts just confirmed how bad Eminem hurt him for saying something about Em’a underage daughter.

Comparing the varying shades of black people's skin to literal black ink is what's offensive.

Cultural appropriation is ridiculous sometimes. Some black people wear blue contacts and have blonde hair. The argument can be never ending.

I do not like machine gun Kelly at all, but he's smart to cover his bad past work, specially cuz him and Megan do seem really out of the conventional already. Also it looks so much better

Seeing Kat Von D getting baptized was not on my 2024 bingo card

I have no tats still. Want some. But wish it wasn’t mainstream. It’s just too expensive for me😂

Your necklace is amazing!! I want it in gold ❤

LoL 🤣 Spelled "Everything" right. 6:12 I think it's a more extreme example of hiding or removing bad memories or too many tattoos together

People claiming that blackout tattoos are cultural appropriation is ridiculous....1. You don't need permission from random people to get a tattoo or any change on your body 2. It doesn't even look like black people 3. black people are straightening their hair and getting their hair dyed blonde is that cultural appropriation too?

My blackout was perhaps the most brutal experience I’ve ever had, but god it was cathartic.

I think the idea that people consider blackout tats to be cultural appropriation/blackface is ridiculous. While I don't like the full blackout bodysuit, I don't think it's got anything to do with race. I think mgk's blackout tats are pretty cool actually, far better than what he had before (which really was a disordered patchwork). Ultimately i think blackout tats are nice when done well and suit the person. 🐙

i dont know a lot abt tattooing, so looking at roxx's work, what REALLY impresses me is her designs based around negative space!! if i wasnt going for a patchwork look, if i wanted black out tattoos, i would pay so so much money to come to america and be tattooed by her omg

Ive had a black out sleeve for over 8 years now and not once have I ever been accused of black face or recieved any negative comments about it. I have mostly black and spanish friends and while they have made plenty of jokes about it, never have I been attacked over it. Also, since were on the subject of blackout, I gotta mention my boy Ephemeral Remy. A pioneer in what can be done over blackout in the right hands. What Remy is achieving is in no way an easy task. You aint gonna bang out a tattoo in a sitting over black work. It takes some time and multiple sessions but it can be done and done well imo. At the end of the day, tattoos are gonna be tattooed and its 100% a personal journey and should be done for you. Opinions are like aholes and theres plenty of aholes in this world. Not too mention the ungodly amount of trolls on the internet just spitting out trash comments to be edgy or make themselves feel better about their meaningless existence. At the end of the day, get what you want and to hell with what other people think. This has been my Ted Talk. Stay Inky.

Hi Celle! Blackouts when done right really looks great, I wanna get one in the future as well

Curious, how does the liver react? Honestly asking, not judging.

I've been considering getting my left arm blacked out but it's a hard decision to cover some of it up. I never thought about leaving some of it revealed, that really makes it an easier decision for me

I can understand why people would have issues with blackout, or indigenous tattoo styles and how they would view that as cultural appropriation. Fact of the matter is that no, serious, artist proficient in the style of ethnic tribal, would directly copy the tattoos of an indigenous tribe. Rather, they use the symbolism to create a tattoo that matches the life story of the recipient. Also, and this is a fact not many people realize, a lot of the indigenous tattoo styles had all but died out in Borneo/Polynesia and it was actually white people, through their travels, that reinvigorated the style and taught a new generation of indigenous people how to tattoo in the 'traditional' style.

Kat von is not like other girls🙄

Inevitable because most celebrities get terrible tattoos.

I was waiting for the reveal at the end that Celle also had a blackout, but thats just her shirt. Also, as a person of color, it makes me uncomfortable that people getting dumb tattoos makes other people uncomfortable. But I am happy to hear that their lives are so sheltered that something like this can make them uncomfortable. Shelter is a good thing. I mean, it's in the hierarchy of needs, even.

I have a 3/4 blackout sleeve on my right arm that I had done last year. Yes, it was a coverup, and I could not be happier. There was absolutely no numbing cream used in my case and it took 4 sessions. In the last session, my artist used a HUGE gauge cartridge and I almost died. Remy actually had my tattoo on a video recently. I’m the thumbnail!

Black skin isn't actually black. Not everything that is black is appropriation.

oh hello 11 seconds ago honestly it sounds pretty cool to me, i think you just have to "get it" and i think i get it, i think it's beautiful

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Ronnie Radke. He said in a stream that he just got them to cover up his existing tattoos because he thought they were really bad. 🐙

I saw someone say this was bordering on racism 😂 I couldn't believe someone actually thinks that way Edit: omg 🙄 I see art when I see the black out tattoos. Like any other tattoo. Black people are always so worried about what other people are doing 😂 weird

I'm shocked that people would think body art has anything to do with racism. "Black people" aren't the only ones with indigenous cultures that promoted tattooing. Native Americans, Japanese, Indonesians, and so on all had tattoos done in history as part of their culture. Furthermore, there is a difference between being Black and being African: one is a race while the other relates to ethnicity on the African continent. Is anyone who's not "Black" forbidden from tattoos? Getting a tattoo permanently placed on your body just to mock a race is really over the top. Why would you put yourself through so much pain for that? Furthermore, the ink discussed here is actually black. "Black" people, although usually associated with brown skin tones, have a variety of skin colors as well, and being black as ink is not one of them. I suppose getting tanned is even more racist than getting blackout tattoos. Having dark skin should not be a privilege limited to one race.