The artists will be working on New School pieces which is basically whatever the newest and hippest fad. Jesse feels confident that he will win this challenge because he is known for New School. Consultations start and Nick’s client is insane and slurring her words as she tries to not really explain what she wants. Since he’s so young he doesn’t really know how to deal with her so he kind of makes sarcastic replies to her. Clint wonders what happened in his client’s life that he would want a tattoo that looks like his brains were shot out on his head. He warns the client that he might pass out and that he might not be able to do all that he has requested in the time allotted. The client assures him that he won’t pass out but Clint seems skeptical.

Sarah says that the previous night she cried but woke up refreshed for today and ready to fight. The challenge starts and Clint yells out a good luck to Jesse before running into his little cubby hole. Seriously you guys I love Clint and his bad humor. Nick’s client is a bit different and more open to ideas today which is great for Nick who is struggling to make her happy. Jamie’s client has to have her vag area blurred out while he works on it because god forbid we see some pussy. Creepily, Nick and some of the others wander into Jamie’s work space for no apparent reason. I guess they have never seen pussy before because they sure are lurking. It’s not even really on her vagina…it’s like between vagina and stomach unless your vagina is super close to your belly button. Can someone confirm this? Mark’s client is having a rough time handling the pain while Clint’s client is like a beast just taking it all in.

Clint interviews that Jesse predominantly does New School and that he is like the queen on a chess board with Clint trying to come after him. Sarah’s client leaves pretty much everything up to her so she rocks out some random colors on this poor guy’s skin. Nick’s client starts freaking out about some little purple spikes he added for effect. She sits back down all while screaming and hollering at him for being shady and doing something terrible on her. He’s a dick about the entire incident and not really trying to pacify the situation. He finally offers to sort of fix the image by adding more colors to the palette which sort of makes her stop shouting so much.

The artists go in for judging and it seems as though Sarah and Jesse have done the best job with Nick and Lalo on the bottom. While deliberating, the artists are back at the loft discussing Nick’s client. Sebastian, for some odd fucking reason, blurts out that if you turn the machine up and go a little slower you’ll see how quiet they get. Mark jumps in and says that is bad practice to intentionally inflict pain on a difficult client by overworking the tattoo. They go back and forth and really the issue is that Sebastian made a really stupid comment out loud. Nick and Lalo are on the bottom and the judges are going back and forth regarding Nick being able to color in Lalo’s tattoo correctly or Lalo coloring Nick’s tattoo in a better way.

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For the color challenge, they really should have sent home the person who did the worst color job. Not the person who had a crappy design (which wasn’t really his fault to being with since the client wanted that particular design and would have chewed his head off if he gave her something different).
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Also, I wonder who ends up in the hospital on the next episode.
ok, looking at those Gypsy heads side-by-side (thanks for that, btw) makes me see Tray’s is a cartoon and looks awful compared to Sarah’s.
Sure, hers might have to be re-touched later and some extra color added but I’d rather have that, than some gypsy with colors that could never be re-touched, because she’s wearing a gallon of blush, eyeshadow, and those stars look like flies around her head. The angle on it also looks like she’s mounted on a wall like a deer.
I’m glad Sarah redeemed herself, I voted for Jesse’s kid with guitar tattoo…it was pretty cool, and there were some good shades and details in there.
I didn’t like Tray’s Gypsy Girl either.
She looked more like an old gypsy whore that was rode hard and put up wet for many many many many years.
Sarah’s looked like a young, beautiful girl, and I loved the slight angle she put on the head so it was looking upwards. I don’t feel sorry that she lost though, because her face is scary.
She has a bully’s face.
If Sid from Toy Story had a twin sister, it would be Sarah.
And it made me laugh that the worst insult she could fling at Kay Kutta before fleeing was that he’s a dick. Because I’m sure he hasn’t heard anything worse than that before.
Nick’s client’s clothes were all like three sizes too small.
Things were just falling out and bulging all over the damn place.
She and Tatu Baby probably shop together.
And I liked Sebastian, but that comment about deliberately hurting clients to make them shut up was so upsetting. What kind of savage ass shit is that? And why would he think that was okay to do, not to mention admit to doing on national/international tv?
And these are people who are paying him. Even if they are assholes, they are paying assholes. You can’t hurt them. How did he even come up with that? My eyes got so big when he admitted that shit, and then to defend it. Omg, he’s dead to me.
I liked Lalo’s tattoo, but it really did need some bright color. Especially given the skin tone of the girl that he got. A really bright, punchy palate would have looked beautiful on her.
Vagina tattoo was really anticlimactic. It was more of a mons pubis tattoo, which is not a big deal.
Next time we are promised a vagina tattoo, I better see some feet in stirrups.
Clint has grown on me a bit. When he came skipping into judging and then when he jumped in front of the judges, I had to laugh. So silly.
Clint is either a complete wuss about pain, or he was just scared of screwing up in such a visible spot. I have a head tattoo and it was the least painful one I’ve ever done.
^ People have different thresholds of pain, and where you get the tattoo done on your head/the size of the tattoo also makes a difference, I’m sure. Plus, the vibrations of the machine can be disturbing in their own way.
Last year, this guy wanted a tribal headpiece, and Bili (the artist) couldn’t finish it because his canvas was starting to pass out.
Sooo….yeah. Your experience is probably not typical.
I guarantee that no girl or woman in the world has EVER had her vagina tattooed! The reason is that the VAGINA is inside the body, and it always HAS been!
I suspect this is simply further proof that most men don’t have a clue about a woman’s anatomy.
Aw Clint’s my bby. I heart that little asshole so much. Represent Texas, boy! And Sarah was really freaky this episode, girl needs to calm herself.
But Kay needs to shut up. Just shut up. Like anyone’s going to take him seriously after he called Nick a “young, stupid idiot”? Best you could do, huh Kay? I’m still Team Clint because seriously, why isn’t anyone else impressing me???? And can I have a pocket Oliver? That little beaver is just too cute.
@chaosbutterfly…..your comments cracked me up! I just realized we got screwed out of a “promised” vagina tatt. All we got was a bird crop-dusting some flames on a pubic bone. no fair!
Also, regarding the skull tatts, the more I look at it, the more I like Lalo’s! I love the colors….very old school looking. His mermaid idea was cool, but I do think it should have been slightly bigger and way more colorful.
Also, yes I love me some Sebastian but he came across like an a-hole after his comments. I like Mark for calling him out on it, too.
I disagree about Ron maybe not deserving to be ousted. The judges pointed out that he managed to harm the skin of two of his canvases already this season. Wounding people is always a good reason to give someone the boot.
Clint is the funniest character and I like Matt too. Hopefully both of them stick around for a while and get a lot more airtime than Klaycutter.
I definitely liked Sarah’s gypsy girl MUCH MORE than Tray’s. His gypsy was BUSTED. That being said, Sarah has the scariest facial expressions.