Bad Ink

I've rewatched this series several times... Love the work and love their personalities.

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.

Yeah, I get it.... A Reality Show about fixing bad tattoos (or poor decisions?) CAN be interesting... But the 2 "hosts" RUIN this show! There's only one thing that's worse than having to live through someone who isn't funny - and that's having to listen to someone who isn't funny but THINKS he's hysterical! BOTH of the losers on this show think they are funny AND cool... And trust me, they're NEITHER! They are often times condescending towards those who they approach about fixing their tattoos, as if the have P.h.d's ( which-i-am-sure-they-do-not!) I am boggled by how these dudes even got on TV? I can't even stand to watch it, sorry, amateur night at the lodge is looking a lot more appealing in comparison to this show! Waste of my time... I'd rate it with a zero is it were possible...

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.