LA Ink: Episode 9
What can I say about this episode that I haven’t said already? Most of the customers are ridiculous, and most of the tattoos are flash grade crap.
Kat Von D only deigns celebrities worthy of her services. She has an astounding collection of bug-like sunglasses. And she instigates drama at every given opportunity. Sounds like a great way to “run” a business. She touches people and gross stuff with her gloved hands, and with what she wears to work she may as well tattoo in a bikini. Gross. The words totally, gnarly, stoked, rad and dude are used liberally. The tattoo she does is, of course, crooked.
Corey does another awful tattoo, on an even more awful flakey girl who has no business getting it. The lines are so shaky they’re barely there, it’s nowhere near symmetrical. It ends up looking like a temporary tattoo, but perhaps he thought he was doing her a favor.
Next is a girl who can’t pronounce sepia, (sep-ee-uh instead of seep-ee-uh) and Pixie can’t help but butt in and try to lend Kim her “expertise.” This is a huge no no. She’s not an artist, and without being asked she has no business trying to give the customer input, chances are good she’ll suggest something ridiculous, and implausible, and the customer will get their heart set on it.
Hannah does a great tattoo of a rockabilly dude’s girlfriend. She uses a greenish blue tint that I notice is prevalent in her tattoos. I’m beginning to think 90% of LA’s population is made up of aging “rockers” and rockabilly dudes. She does a too-dark sleeve on a creepy music pastor (at Sandals, isn’t that a resort?), and shows she’s by far the best natural illustrator any tattoo tv show has seen.
The show ends with Kat & Co. at a drag bingo night, exploiting queers like a trip to the circus. Not surprisingly she turns out to be one of those gross people who devours her date’s face in plain public view. Kat Von PDA.
i still think Kat’s face looks like its made from the same material as my dead grandmother’s fake leather couch.
Ha! I imagine most of her clothes look this way too. I don’t understand why most of what she wears entails 1. a ratty flap of leather with some ties 2. a torn up t-shirt. I bet boutiques selling clothes that came from dumpsters make a killing in LA.
they have those vintage shops there where you can buy an original Asia or Dokken tour shirt for like 400 dollars so nothing really surprises me about LA
I’ve never seen this show, but I’m enjoying your reviews of it greatly.