Back when I was a teen and this series first came out, I really liked it. Up to that point I had only know tattoos to be these overly shaded blobs of uneven pigment that tended to turn a sort of unsavory green color. This series showed me, that tattoos can be nice and colorful, I wasn't yet fed up with the reality TV shtick either.

In hindsight the series isn't very good at all. For one, the quality of the tattoos is average at best. Excessive shading, weird linework and overall just unappealing motives. When it comes to oldschool style tattoos, they know what they are doing, and Kat can really make some nice portraits, but anything outside their scope is handled pretty poorly, and personally, I wouldn't be satisfied with 80% of what they present and thus I would personally never choose to get a tattoo from any of them. The series did however spark an interest in tattoos, and I did go on to figure out what I like and find artists more suited to my taste. That wouldn't be only reason why the series is not as good as I remember it.

The other reason is the already mentioned reality TV shtick, which I've grown tired of. The need to make every situation overly dramatic with unnecessary editing and music is just cringe. What is even more cringe is attempting to make every tattoo about a lifechanging story. Every customer had to "FIGHT" in life, be it school, work or any other pretty mundane situation. Let me tell you something. Tattoos don't actually need to mean anything beyond, you liking it at the time when you got it.

I did enjoy the series, when it came out and it did widen my horizons, it had aged poorly though and in retrospect is pretty cringy.

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