Bad Ink

This show is freaking awesome! Fully entertaining and personally, It is one of the very few reality shows worth watching. These guys are hilarious and to say the show is fake and no talent is SO far from the truth! I personally have met a ton of people in my chair (hairstylist) that swear by Pussycat tattoos. Do your research before posting speculations! Dirk and Ruckus rock! Dirk can make an embarrassing tattoo look like a TOTAL work of art! The fact that his family makes little cameos just adds to the show. I love variety and a non scripted show. They not only work on hotties, but on completely average folks as well. I hope this show is around a heck of a lot longer than the brainless real housewives of who the hell cares and hillbilly trash shows little honey friggin boo boo! Keep up the great work guys!!

I just watched the show where the "Nina, will you merry me" heart was covered up. I thought it looked like Sharpie because the ink appeared to be on top of the skin rather than IN the skin, and it was awfully shiny... and the ME was smeared with the smeared ink clearly visible on his skin!! Then when they did the 'coverup' there was no part of the bright red heart visible AT ALL... and on the final product, the pale greenish blue was pale greenish blue... which it couldn't have been if it was actually covering up a bright red heart.

Why does this show feel the need to fake stuff?? This is terrible, even by reality TV standards...

This show has the very interesting backdrop of Las Vegas with all of the unexpected that can be expected. Dirk is a great tattoo artist and his sidekick, Ruckus, make the show fun to watch. I like the extra personal touch they throw in when they aren't doing the tattoo search and cover. The goofy dog is a nice addition to the show. I also like the fact that these two guys also play in a band. This makes for a multifaceted couple of dudes. I hope the show keys in on more of the personal side of the main characters and the Las Vegas scene. There are so many angles that can be taken in this setting that I expect this show will last for a few seasons. These guys give the whole tattoo experience a new look and add a fun side to bad decisions.

So the other night I was flipping through the channels and happened to see a show on A&E called Bad Ink.

The premise of the show is two total tools walk around Vegas and try to check out bad tattoos. Then they talk the person into getting a cover-up on the supposed bad tattoo while laughing at the outrageous story behind the bad tattoo. The catch is the original bad tattoo is fake and obviously drawn on with a sharpie, and the cover-up is in my opinion terrible.

One girl supposedly had a lopsided tramp stamp so they covered it up by just making it a bigger lopsided tramp stamp.

I've only had one tattoo in my life, which is an angel on my ankle. I got it in the pink district in Mexico with an ink that is said to be not available in the US. It's a beautiful blue that I often get compliments on. I've thought about getting other tattoos but haven't just had the time or motivation, I guess. But I found this to be an interesting show. The bad tattoos are entertaining oand the cover-ups are very artistic. My only complaint is that there's just too much filler. We see too much of the two guys, who I can't tell if there are a couple or just friends, with virtually the same dialogue just over and over in each show and not enough of the actual tattoos are shown. It's like watching a cooking show where the host talks too much - much of it irrelevant - and finally the dish is complete but we see only a few seconds of it after all that invested time. I understand that it is something taught in the entertainment industry, that you want to just tease the viewer long enough to leave them wanting more. But there's a limit to what your audience will put up with. You need to, at some point, give them a full meal not just little nibbles.

I think it's about a 20 minute run time per episode without commercials, and you get two bad tattoos and two cover-ups in that one episode. But the fillers with showing a bunch of people on the Las Vegas strip and hearing the guys bantering back and forth takes up at least 15 minutes. We don't see any of the conceptualization or drawing prior to the cover-up although we do hear a lot about what brought the client to get such a bad tattoo.

So cool concept, interesting and entertaining to a point. I'd probably rather just flip through a before and after album.