The first tattoo of this episode is a crane on a girl’s ribcage. As Kat’s applying the stencil some dude Corey’s tattooing is ogling her and making rude comments. If this ever happened to me when I was getting tattooed, I would never come back. If I were the artist working on a client who […]

The theme of the episode is Kat’s dramatized self-intervention. She gets wasted, says something to upset her boyfriend and decides to stop drinking. Hmm, probably a good idea since her party antics got her fired from Miami Ink, and it appears she doesn’t have much involvement managing her own shop. The last thing I ever […]

The previews for this show frame it in such a way to suggest a lot of drama will happen each episode. But this is almost entirely gimmick, and very little actually happens. It took until the end of the episode before Kat decided to “lay down the law” with Pixie after being a big passive […]

What’s up with the creepy new title credits that sound like the movie Seven?
Kat talks a lot of shit about running a business, but she ran off and left Cory in charge. How can she expect her “employees” to take her seriously when she takes off whenever she wants? Secondly, the artists themselves are […]

Television tattoo artists are in the unfortunate position of ambassadors between the tattoo world and the so-called “normal” world. It’s certainly less than ideal, but this is how TLC chooses to present their reality franchises, as insight into lives and professions most of us will never experience. Little People Big World is a perfect example […]

I believe this is the first episode of LA Ink where Kat doesn’t tattoo a celebrity. Instead she accompanies some girl’s lame sob story with equally lame lettering. “I came out, and my parents said they still loved me. It was real sad.” Yeah I definitely feel for you, wow what a life changing experience. […]

Every week this show becomes less about tattoos and more about Kat’s personal life and client tragedies. This episode focuses on Kat’s new boyfriend with a gross, unironic mustache.
Kat does a terrible tattoo on Jenna Jameson, who seems to be going for the world record in worst tattoos. After she finishes, Kat’s sure to […]

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 […]

Kat’s 5 hours late which is completely unacceptable and unprofessional for any artist let alone supposed shop owner. Were she working for anyone else she would’ve been fired- again. She continues the show’s trend of only tattooing celebrities, presumably to keep the ratings up. After making the guitarist of My Chemical Bromance and his hired […]