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On the last episode of Ink Master, Shop Wars, Made Rich Return.

I think before you win, Ink Master Shop.

All good.

And the pressure of the competition intensified.

It just sucks.

Like, I want to win a flash challenge.

Oh, my god.

A little grandma over here.

Are you being an asshole?

I'm being an asshole.

Just hurry.

In the elimination tattoo.

veterans know how this game is played.

I need them to go home.

We're going to give them the hard one.

Beach shore, like boardwalk, palm trees blowing in the wind.

I figured everybody would be coming after me.

I am pissed, but their plan backfired.

Did you see Carlos in there?

Yeah.

It's massive.

I'm confused at this point that I am even in an alliance.

The purpose of the challenge is to do detail.

It didn't work and it was poorly done.

We hit detail.

That's the challenge.

You did too much.

You the judge?

In The Elimination, Think Before You Ink, Tri-Cities Tattoo, and Black Anchor were the bottom

three shops.

I feel like ours is a little bit more recognizable.

I didn't have any detail in that tattoo.

It's a little bit more dynamic than yours.

Dynamic.

It wasn't dynamic day.

It was detail day.

Are we not judging on the worst tattoo of the day?

Because that's what I thought I was here to do.

The judges have decided, Black Anchor, you do not have what it takes to be master shop.

Eight shops remain.

to take on returning veteran shops.

But only one will earn a $200,000 prize and the title of master shop.

All right, so this is where we stand.

Tomorrow, somebody else going to go home, and they ain't coming back.

We need to stand tall together.

But when we was down there, she was the first one to say something about us.

There's a right and wrong way to do things, and I feel like you guys tattooed this the wrong

way.

Everybody got to fight.

You got to fight.

Then everybody fight.

Your was an easy-ass target.

Then if we was an easy target, then I'm going to pull you as an easy-ass target.

Yeah, because your was easy to pick apart.

Exactly.

So sorts of alliance, she that up.

I didn't nothing up.

You're not trying to take off the heads of the top players because you're scared to hold your

own weight.

All right, with that being said, this whole alliance, you.

I'm coming for your .

every time. I'm coming for your .

every time.

Do that.

it.

Welcome.

You're here to fight for your shop.

Make it to the end, and you'll earn $200,000, a feature in Ink Magazine and the title of Ink

Master.

And your shop will also earn the title of Master Shop.

Standing between you and the title are the next returning veterans.

One competed in season two and one competed in season seven.

From Brooklyn, New York.

They're here to represent House of Monkey tattoo, Lalo and Picasso.

I feel very different since the last time I was here.

I think last time I was thrown out of my element.

Her lips, her nose, her eyes, they're scribbling.

It looks smeared.

It looks like this is on paper, and you walked in the rain to get here.

With technical tattooing like this, you are not going to make it very far in this competition.

But the thing is, I have the technical abilities.

I've been in my head this whole time, and I'm blowing it.

I am very excited to be back to show everybody that I've grown as an artist and just as a

person.

And really, really, he got back up.

He knows I got his back.

What is her skin color?

This mermaid looks like she was trapped in an oil spill.

I really like this tattoo.

The outline is weak.

There's not any real solid black.

Taking this from a technical level, you this up.

It's like my first day in school.

This is my test, but I ain't scared.

I need my homework.

How's it been working together?

I think we are a really strong team, because Picasso is one of the most inspiring artists

I know.

We have a good balance.

We're kind of like a yin and yang.

Palm tree and the ninja.

OK, guys, this week is designed to put your shop to the ultimate test.

Succeed, and you stay.

Fail, and your shop will go home as fast as you return.

Go ahead and join the others.

Thank you.

Two returning veterans.

Now there's two people who know the ins and outs of the game.

It's on now.

This week, we are testing technical application.

Technical application is the application of the tattoo.

Smooth lines, good saturation.

I got this.

For today's flash challenge, you must tattoo some of the most fragile skin on the body, the

ear.

Tattooing the ear is the hardest only because it's nowhere near a flat surface.

You're in like a lump, a bump, a curve.

It's ridiculous.

Ain't nothing straight.

But that is not all.

You and your teammate must create matching micro tattoos on two separate canvases.

OK.

You guys will all do your own tattoos.

You have nobody to lean on but yourself.

The key word in this challenge is matching tattoos.

They need to look the same.

This is a great way to see everybody's skill.

If you have a weak link in your team, they will drag the other one down.

Win, and your shop will have the power to assign all of the human canvases for the elimination

tattoo.

Let's meet your canvases.

All right, canvases, please tell us what you're hoping to get today.

Skeleton key on the backside of the ear.

A thorny rose on our lobe.

Shit music in the upper ear.

Nobody wants to pull five consecutive straight lines through a bumpy ass ear.

A wine goblet on the back of our ear.

A jellyfish on the front of our ear.

Ladybug in the front of the ear.

Dragon down the front of our ear.

Where the hell are you going to fit a whole dragon on an ear?

Pins and needles, you won the last elimination tattoo, so you get the power to choose your

canvases.

Ooh, sweet.

Yes, we get to choose our canvas.

We want something that's simple and straightforward to make sure that we're going to be on

top this week.

Which pair of canvases do you choose?

We're going to be choosing the ladybugs.

OK, remaining canvases, one by one, please choose a skull.

The name on the bottom of your skull will determine your artist.

Old Town Ink.

Think before you ink.

Allegory art.

Oh, music notes.

Classic trilogy.

I knew it.

How are you going to fit a sheet full of music in your ear?

This is impossible, dude.

Unkindness art.

That's a dragon.

House of Monkey.

Dry city tattoo.

Artistic skin design.

OK, artists, you have two hours.

And your time begins now.

Hi, ladies.

Welcome to our domain.

The technical application on these tattoos has to be flawless.

So tell me about the idea.

A skeleton key.

They're tiny, small, little tattoos on the ear.

We are talking a white wine fading down to a red wine.

We can do that.

Any discrepancy is going to stand out.

How many lines in the music?

Five.

Six.

If these two tattooers don't tattoo exactly the same way, it's going to be hard for them to

make their tattoos look identical.

You know you can do these lines.

I can do anything.

OK.

It's just I don't do it all the time.

You are a little more familiar with traditional stuff.

Just kind of take the lead.

If somebody has more experience, we're going to follow that and just go with the best idea.

What do you think about that?

I like it.

I think that if you do the three-quarter view, that you should have a three-quarter view jaw.

I must say I'm digging the teamwork, guys.

We're trying.

Talk about teamwork.

Yeah.

Did she show you the sketch?

No, we haven't seen anything.

I'm like, what are they sketching?

So we had to simplify it a little bit to shrink down to this size.

My canvas, she's the one with all these stipulations.

I wonder if you should make it a little bit smaller.

If we go smaller, I'm going to probably lean towards making it solid black.

We want to keep it subtle.

So if you have a big black thing in the back.

She's calling the shots at this point.

She's making our job a lot harder.

I don't want it solid black.

Yeah, it's just like the smaller, the less detail you can get.

See how it fits on that ear.

OK.

So ideally, we want to get it on the flat surface.

We deserve to win Master Shop because as a team, we know what we got to do for our team to

get things done.

I'm going to tattoo first, and then Dee, he'll tattoo second, just to make sure at the end

of the day, our tattoos match up seamlessly.

You see the top loop?

Yeah, I see that one.

Now follow the bottom loop.

Those middle lines are basically, leave them like that.

Just go over those.

They're too thin.

Pretty hard to put my ego aside in a lot of things, but next to DJ, it's not hard at all.

Go way deeper, dude.

Don't be afraid.

Dude, I'm getting it.

This is absolutely not the time to set myself apart from my teammate.

We're trying to look identical.

The little tentacle's thin, and it meets the other one.

Oh, no.

I'm getting this part because it's been bugging me.

You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

OK.

I honestly don't know if Bubba's even here at all.

I know that DJ is definitely pulling the strings in this relationship.

Maybe before you're done, we both look at them next to each other and discuss a little here,

this, and that.

I don't think we should add anything else.

OK.

We really need to win this challenge because they're testing us.

I'd be damned if I come back and not have the technical ability to win this.

Still, before you're completely done, we should check it out.

We can't make tattoos that look the same if we're not communicating.

For some reason, I thought these were going to be really painful.

This will be the time for me to separate myself from my teammate.

Did you call me Bane?

Yeah.

Did you want to take a look at this while she's standing?

Aren't we supposed to have matching ear tattoos?

I said of mine a little darker than yours.

It's almost like we're competing with each other at this point.

Four, three, two, one.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Done.

We're back.

OK, artists, it is now time to critique your work.

Try City's tattoo.

You guys definitely look like two different people did it.

Bang, you have some blowouts towards the bottom, which is probably why it got heavier, because

you were cleaning up a little.

Dave, yours was a lot cleaner.

Crisp outline, and the shape of the key was very straight.

They look like they're competing against each other, not working with each other.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

There's seven lines in there?

Six lines.

We just counted seven.

Typically, there's five.

OK.

To give yourself more lines than what there should be makes it even harder to do in a tiny

little bit of the ear.

You guys made some weird decisions.

I don't love this one.

Pins and needles.

You did a good job making them look like the same person did them.

I like the fact that every line looks deliberate.

You guys seem to hit everything directly, one shot, one pass.

Artistic skin design.

Technical application is very clean on these, but the designs look different from one ear

to the next.

You guys have been crushing it, but I think this one, you overworked yourselves.

Think before you ink.

There's more of a consistent hand on riches throughout the entire outline.

Detat, you hit a major bump in the glass.

And their minimal amount of work, which means every bit of it has to be perfect.

I did a good job in this piece.

But as a team, we're getting a back critique.

This sucks.

Old Town ink.

It's very tight, clean, crisp, very small line details.

And they both look like they have great technical application.

Similar design.

Looks like the same artist did it.

That's what we're looking for.

Killer.

Next team up is allegory art.

Technical application of both these is on par with each other.

My only nitpicky thing about it is the anatomy.

There's no forehead, and then the jaw is huge.

But I do think it is a bold tattoo.

Unkindness art.

You had a tougher road with the actual shape of the ears being so different.

Yeah, it just wraps differently because of her anatomy.

But overall, the technical application in both ears is on par with each other.

Solid teamwork.

Thank you.

Thank you.

House of Monkey.

This was a really tough challenge trying to put a dragon going up the ear, but the difference

between the two is pretty obvious.

Picasso's ears has a little bit lighter, a little scratchier look, and Lalo's ear looks a

little more punched in.

You guys are held closest to the fire on this.

Show up, or you're going to be right back out.

We arguably had the hardest challenge of the day.

I don't think it looks scratchy at all.

Some bull .

I was looking to get, like, a gothic-themed angel.

That's just not the challenge.

The stencil keeps wiping off.

I'm melting down.

Today, we're testing technical application and the return of Picasso and Lalo.

This is one of the big stinkers of the day.

Certainly doesn't look like the same artist did those.

Lalo and Picasso didn't hit the mark on technical application.

Of the day, who stands out to you?

Pins and needles.

They have some of the strongest application.

The big part of this challenge today is doing two tattoos that look the same, and they definitely

accomplished that.

Let's talk about Old Town.

They obviously have strong, tiny detail abilities.

Very clean, line work only, smart decisions, legible.

And they both look the same.

Want to make a decision?

Yeah.

All right, let's let them know.

All right, artists.

Today, some of you had flawless technical application.

The judges have decided the winner of today's flash challenge is Old Town

Ink.

I'm here to win.

I don't give a .

I'll let DJ take the spotlight.

I'm here to prove just how much I've grown, how much I've learned, how much I can actually.

Mr.

Underestimator right here.

Congratulations, DJ and Bubba.

Thank you guys so much.

Thank you very much.

You'll have the power to assign all human canvases in the next elimination tattoo.

Bubba does not have a strategy.

It's DJ I'm worried about.

He's menacing, he has plans, and I'm kind of freaking out about it.

We can all head back to the loft.

All right, dude, how do you want to play this?

Do you want to give ourselves the best?

I think we should give ourselves a smart play.

A lot of times, people get the skull picks, and they get so excited that they try to take

the easy road and go too easy, or take the hard road and go too hard.

I mean, we did that, too.

Yeah.

We just need to not, you know, butt heads at all.

I mean, we do.

You know, I feel bossy, but I'm like, do this.

And you're like, I was gonna.

You know, like, that's how it is.

Yeah.

We're good friends anyways, and I think that's going to bring us far in this whole challenge.

I'm so pumped to hand out these skulls right now, dude.

God, dude.

Welcome to the elimination tattoo.

Based on your work, one shop will lose their shot at $200,000 and the first ever title of

master shop.

Lalo and Picasso, as the veteran artists, it's on your shop to prove that you deserve to be

here by overcoming your weaknesses.

And in their honor, you'll all be judged on technical application.

Today, you must tattoo a black and gray cherub.

There it is.

All around, cherubs are not easy to tattoo.

They have little fingers.

They have little noses.

They have little eyes.

They have little cheeks.

And your application has to be solid.

Otherwise, this cherub is going to be looking real weird.

For this elimination tattoo, you and your teammate must each tattoo a cherub on the same canvas

at the same time.

This is going to be a tug of war.

He's going to be pulling.

I'm going to be pulling.

It's going to be insane.

Today, you're doing your own tattoo.

The catch is both tattoos have to look like the same person did them.

So this is where we're really going to test who can do what.

Remember, you're a team.

You guys don't want to bump each other off, but you also don't want to dumb yourself down

to end up in the bottom.

You're on your own, but you're together.

Remember, after every elimination tattoo, all of you will form the jury of peers.

You'll deliberate and choose one shop to put up for elimination.

Let's meet your canvases.

Old Town Inc.

Your shop won the flash challenge.

That means you now have the power to assign the canvases.

This is your chance to protect your shop.

Take it.

I want a cherub angel on each shoulder playing the horn.

I'm playing chess with these guys.

I want a baby boy and a baby girl on my thighs.

There's people here that are strong at one style and not strong at the others.

I want to see everyone's weaknesses exposed.

A praying cherub on my arm and my back.

Unrealistic.

Are you open to getting both your arms?

I was pretty set on the back of the arm.

Those are two areas that cannot be tattooed at the same time.

Unless you can remove your arm, that's the nightmare piece.

Cherubs playing hide and seek, and cherubs wrestling.

So Thorish boy cherubs.

Jeez.

Let's just put the Sistine Chapel full of cherubs on your arm, and we'll just call it a day.

Pass.

Evil cherub on my left chest and a good cherub on my right chest.

Chest is one of the most painful places to tattoo at the same time.

Two Gothic angels, one on my shoulder, one on my lower back.

It'd be hard to do.

This is a cherub challenge, not angel challenge.

These ideas are horrible.

Let's begin.

This is our second skull pick.

It's time to send a message to everybody.

Put some fire up under these asses.

OK, canvases, one by one, please read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull.

House of Monkey.

Pins and needles.

Tri-Cities tattoo.

More chairs.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

If I had hair, I'd pull it out right now.

Old Town Ink.

Rage hair on the arm and on the back.

Think before you ink.

I knew that was the case.

Old Town Ink, if I get a skull pig, I'm just going to shoot you in your ass.

Unkindness art.

Allegory arts.

Artistic skin design.

Apparently, Old Town thought it would be a great idea to give us the canvas that doesn't want

cherubs.

God damn it!

You will have six hours to tattoo two smooth black and gray cherubs on your canvas.

Based on your work, one shop will be out.

Good luck.

Allison, nice to meet you.

There's no better way.

to prove technical application than with a cherub.

Two baby style, one on each shoulder and the back.

These tattoos are very easy to mess up.

You've got to have perfect anatomy.

It has to look lifelike.

And it also has to look cute.

How do you draw a little fat baby angel?

These artists have to tattoo the same canvas at the same time.

You ready to get a tattoo of two people at once?

I'm ready.

We're going to see who has what strengths and who has what weaknesses inside each team.

All right, let's sort these ideas.

The one on the arm, I'm pretty set on how I wound up.

The back and arm thing is damn near impossible to do here.

The only way that we'll be able to do these pieces is if we convince this man to move one

of these tattoos to another location.

Give me another location.

What do you think?

I mean, maybe both arms.

All right.

All right.

Raises to the most high this canvas is so easy to work with.

Old Town Inc intentionally tried to throw us a curve ball, but nothing's going to faze us.

I was looking to get a gothic-themed angel, one on my shoulder, and a lower back.

They have to be cherubs, so they have to look like little babies.

Yeah.

I don't want to do too much of the baby face to it.

That's just not the challenge.

Why did you come on cherub day if you don't want cherubs?

We are so frickin' boned.

Yep.

We're back.

Pretty good.

There's a lot of pressure here.

Stay with that one?

Do you want to do it a little smaller and then?

No, because then we're losing detail on the face.

Yeah, but so many people in this competition go away because of size.

I mean, you're making me overthink already.

Our canvas is great.

Picasso, why do you have to make it difficult?

You know why the last people got kicked out, right?

Yeah, because they did a giant piece of .

We're not doing a giant piece of .

We could bring both down a little.

I'm going with my gut.

I need to concentrate.

I'm the one drawing.

Let's stay in our lane.

Just let me stencil, and then we'll figure it out.

OK.

I don't want to get frustrated.

Don't be frustrated, dude.

Picasso, dude.

OK, artists, you have six hours to tattoo two cherubs on a single canvas.

And your time starts now.

OK, let's do this.

Today, these tattooers are going to tattoo on their own, but they have to look like one artist

did them.

I think a little bit of texture in the front would be cool.

Perfect.

It is incredibly easy to mess up cherub tattoos.

The technical application has to be spot on.

Gray wash outline everything.

I'm just going to tag it, gray line it.

Hey, if you feel comfortable with it.

So many things anatomically can go wrong here.

How's the monkey?

How's the monkey?

OK, I'm

going to do the face outline real quick, OK?

OK.

Our canvas wanted adult angels, not cherubs.

We finally compromised, and we're doing children angels.

Honestly, I don't think this is a bad idea to go, like, back and forth with important stuff.

As long as we just communicate the whole time, we're fine, you know?

Yeah.

As long as we nail technical application, I think we can skate back.

Did you do your olive branch already?

Yeah.

I personally don't tattoo a ton of black and gray tattoos, and Dane does, so I'm just going

to pick his brain while we're sitting there.

Your olive branch is way bigger than mine.

Maybe just, like, have him fan out, like, wider as they go.

It's really difficult to make two tattoos look like one person did them.

If I'm moving the table or anything, tell me.

You're fine, baby.

I'm definitely hoping Bubba's going to be able to keep up.

If it's black in the photo, you make it black in the tattoo.

The pressure's definitely on me right now.

DJ has a lot more experience than me.

Once it's done, it pulls all together.

What I'm going to do is just do my best to mimic his strategy and his technique.

Check out how I'm doing the foetering in the wings.

See that?

Yeah.

Black and gray is something that I definitely don't specialize in.

You also shade those fingers.

I'm having to have Aaron hold my hand.

And this finger?

Mm-hmm.

Use it as reference in here.

OK.

This is absolutely the challenge that's going to show which artist in each team is the weaker

link.

Do you want to use any white in this at all?

Nope.

No, I don't either.

Four hours to go, guys.

Four more hours.

How's it feeling?

Not too bad?

It's good.

If you need to take a break, just say so.

OK.

This canvas wanted wrestling cherubs and hide-and-seek cherubs.

Do you think you went too big, or are you comfortable with the size?

I'm fine with it.

So we're going to go more in an illustrative design.

Because it does play to our strengths, we do know how to manage our time with this one.

I've been saying it from the beginning.

We swing for the fences.

We try to go big.

Yep.

That's what we're here for.

I'm just looking at the little bit of line work in the nose.

I might just throw that in there at the base of the nose.

Allison is adding a thicker line than expected.

I'm not used to putting line work in my realism.

Hello, hello.

Uh-oh.

I don't know how this is going to pan out.

Jesse's is so rough.

It covered outside the lines instantly the second the needle hit.

And then the other one's nice.

Yeah.

artistic skin design.

They're doing clean tats, but it's cherub day.

It's the name of the challenge.

Those are teenums.

Right now, it's the battle of who's going to it up.

I need you to just make sure that everything over here is straight.

I am stressed out to no end.

The stencil keeps wiping off.

I'm so far behind, I'm literally melting down.

Take a sharpie and do, like, a loose indication of the line.

I don't have a clue how this is going to work out if I've got to draw on every line before

I do it.

Give it one more go, I suppose.

Wait, let me do these lines.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We work together like two lumberjacks on the opposite ends of a saw cutting down a tree.

Are you lining?

Yes.

We know how to work with each other on our best days and our worst days.

I did the little shading you told me on the leg, and it looks great.

Oh, see, I do have some good ideas.

You have good ideas.

One hour remaining, kids.

I think I can face it with the shading, but, like, I had to stop.

Let me see you hit one of the other lines.

Dave's style is totally different from mine.

Like, just make sure you just keep the skin tight, and it doesn't need, like, too much pressure.

Our communication is really working.

We're checking out each other's tattoo.

He's giving me advice.

This is the best that we've ever been working together as a team.

What's up, man?

Nothing.

I told myself I was going to make your life live in hell because you me, but I'll leave it

alone.

Tri-Cities, what is your motive in this game you're playing?

You're Aggie.

You're kind of close right now.

You're Aggie as .

I talk a lot, but I got the skills to back it up.

You showed your colors, Dave.

I'm the vet.

They could have had a friend in this house.

People are always thinking I'm starting.

I'm going to be starting.

I'm going to be saying .

He's annoying as .

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

That's it.

Machines down.

Time is up.

No more ink.

Thank you.

Yep.

All righty.

Yo, those are so sick, man.

Made Rich talks so much, but he can't back it up with being able to tattoo.

Your tattoo looks like a toy sleeping on cabbage.

God, do I want Made Rich and Think Before You Eat to go home.

Do you think that he has what it takes to carry you to the end?

You're not going to come at me and expect me to not come at y'all.

You can see a blowout through solid blast.

Get the hell out of here.

These are the worst two tattoos y'all have done since y'all got here.

It's not going to work out.

I know what it's like to be the new people in the house, and just know that was designed for

y'all to come back and show the hell out.

It's a warm up.

The difference about y'all team as opposed to the other returning teams, y'all have two vets.

You guys honestly came in the lion's den with meat hanging around your neck.

We have zero intentions of making it easy on anybody who walks in that door.

If you show your flaws, you guys better be ready.

Plus, we're focusing on the people that we don't think come up to par, and you guys don't

even meet up to them.

This just sounds personal, for real.

T-Tack.

Do you think that he has what it takes to carry you to the end?

I stand behind the win, lose, or draw.

This is how it goes down.

Your boy made Rich rolled in here throwing blind punches left and right.

I'm going to defend my work.

But you can bat every single one.

I'd rather defend my work regardless of how you feel.

This isn't a run your mouth, talk all the you can challenge.

That's cool.

I only bring that up when y'all bring that up.

Shut up.

I don't have to shut up.

If you want to play the shut up game, I'm just going to keep talking.

Just take it.

I'm disrespectful, but I never told none of y'all to shut up.

Just put your tattoos where your mouth is, man.

Today, you had to prove your technical application was flawless.

Lalo and Picasso, this challenge was designed to test your weaknesses.

So let's see how you did.

House of Monkey, you're up first.

Overall, the designs are nice.

Technical applications on par.

Picasso, I think your biggest problem in a tattoo is the face.

He's got a cross-eyed look, his nose is crooked, and you just put a little hard beak on him.

I follow my reference, but I do see what you're saying.

But I would say from the last time we saw both of you in this competition, this is much more

consistent line work and much cleaner.

It's pretty good.

OK.

Tri-Cities Tattoo.

Looking at both the tattoos,

It looks like one person did it because both of you have incredibly hard times outlining.

Bang the back of your inside leg and that huge, crazy line you tried to clean up, you have

to do it in one pass.

Dave, your outline is very blown out.

The skull and the hand and then the hair.

This collarbone area is just a really tough area.

That is nothing but a technical application issue.

Old Town Inc.

Technically, both of you show a lot of really nice application.

DJ, I love the position.

I love the pose.

I love the elements.

And the way you shaded the tattoo looks like it's supposed to look.

Well, a couple of things get away from you.

You definitely aged a kid a little bit.

You definitely sunk his eyes in a little bit.

You've got to stay soft.

I don't think these look like the same artist did them.

Think before you ink.

Well, guys, there's an obvious divide here.

Rich, your tattoo's a lot smoother.

You have a lot cleaner outline.

and a lot smoother shading.

Your tattoo quality definitely progressed from when you were here.

Thank you.

D-tat, yours shows a big variance from Rich's as far as application goes.

You have a lot of shaky lines.

The tips of the fingers are blacker than the line coming down.

There is a way to pull a really clean line, and you're missing it on this.

Artistic skin design.

These are the worst two tattoos y'all have done since y'all got here.

It's anatomy.

So weird.

April, what is up with the extra pupil?

The eye on the right of the screen is going crazy.

You made the tear duct too big.

This is not what we've seen from you so far.

You two are the two that work the best together and seemingly the worst apart.

Classic trilogy tattoo.

You couldn't be further apart on design and tattoo.

The dynamics of the characters that Tom drew versus the dynamics of the characters Derek drew

are totally different.

Look at the hands, look at the noses, look at the mouths, look at the bodies.

The whole challenge here is working off of each other.

In that category, you guys hit bottom.

You have to operate as one.

Pins and needles.

These do not look like the same person did them at all.

I have to say it, Allison, you killed it.

You blew her out of the water.

You've got a beautiful, childlike, cherub face, best eyes in the room.

Jesse, really rough shading here.

The hand holding the scale, it just looks like you shaded over it where you were shading the

wing.

This is where we start to see the divide in the room.

You're going to have to work more as a team.

You're going to work together no matter what.

Unkindness art.

I love the interaction of these two characters from one leg to the next.

The designs were dynamic, the layout was dynamic, but it's pretty apparent that Erin's tattoo

is a lot nicer.

I think I'm about half amount of experience tattooing as she is, and so I was trying to catch

up to the tricks that she knows.

You have a big separation from where the eye goes to the bridge of the nose, and the forehead

protrudes forward, so it's throwing the design off.

Erin, yours is beautiful.

The face, the gestures, this really detailed, fine line, wings, the beautiful hair that you

did.

Great job, Aaron.

Allegory Arts.

I do love the illustration.

The way they work together as a design is great.

Getting right into the rough side of it, both outlines, really rough.

Euless, your side, that back leg, those ripples and wobbles and the nervousness of those lines

make the leg pretty misshapen.

Eva's outline looks a little heavier and bolder, but also has quite a few areas of blowouts

around the top.

Yeah, that skin can be really tricky.

That's technical application.

That's a mishap today, big time.

OK, guys, it's time to announce Tattoo of the Day.

There was a huge divide between partners today.

So how do we do this?

The strongest pairs might be unkindness and pins and needles, even though one's way stronger

than the other.

I'm going to go on what I think is the best tattoo of the day.

And my vote is for Aaron, which means my vote is for unkindness.

I agree.

My vote's for unkindness.

Go on with unkindness art.

The judges have decided that the best tattoo of the day goes to unkindness art.

Congratulations.

All right, guys, as the jury of peers, you must all deliberate and put one shop up for elimination.

Head back to the loft.

Neither of y'all did a tattoo better than me.

Even though theirs was lighter and the anatomy was messed up, your boy's tattoo had a lot

more flaws in the line work.

Both of y'all lines are .

You think that my lines.

Y'all lines are .

I don't agree with that.

I don't think that that's true.

I don't think anybody said that that was true.

You're the only one that has said that.

The judges said it.

He chewed both for y'all lines.

The judges said that about everybody except for two people.

Then he said about my lines.

Some people are frustrated with you because you get me.

I don't care if you're frustrated with me or not.

You're being obnoxious.

You can't expect people to not.

Shut up.

Shut up.

Shut up.

I'm walking out because you're obnoxious.

Do that.

Thank you.

If y'all want to sit and have a respectful conversation, we can do that.

I don't know if you're capable of that.

We're here as the jury appears to determine which shop will get sent down for elimination.

That shading and detats has to be the worst of the day.

It's missing a belly button.

The line work is wobbly.

Under the chin is really bad.

The hair at the top is blown out.

Everybody here has blown out lines.

Think Before You Ink beats artistic skin designs, because theirs at least has one solid tattoo.

I just feel like the inconsistencies in our tattoos.

Don't add up to the inconsistencies in D-Tad's tattoo.

April's tattoo is the worst tattoo of the day.

You have a lot of shaky lines that all of the judges called out.

They also said that they're being a lot harder on us because we don't suck as much as you

guys.

These are horrible tattoos.

They are not horrible tattoos.

That's just being mean for the sake of being mean.

I said that the same way that he said I suck.

So I'm going to defend my just how he defended his.

You're not going to come at me and expect me to not come at y'all.

I'm not playing that game.

Technical application.

Rough day.

Now we're getting a chance to see these people tattoo individually.

How do you think these guys did?

I think a perfect example is made Rich.

His shading in the tattoo is really nice, but Rich will end up sinking because his teammate

can't swim.

But also, Allegory Arts was pretty challenged.

Everything from the halo to the line work.

And they're rivaling Tri-City on blowouts.

And it's obvious that Dave is a little bit stronger, but still has problems.

It's going to be interesting to see how the jury of peers is going to vote here.

Absolutely.

All right.

I'm curious as to who they're going to pick for the other two.

I don't think any of us are safe, but we'll see.

All right, jury appears.

Who are y'all putting up for elimination?

Jury appears has voted Think Before You Ink for elimination.

All right, we'll see Think Before You Ink, Tri-Cities Tattoo, and Allegory Arts.

And everybody else downstairs.

Wow.

I did not see that comment.

Holy .

I just want to get this other one.

Yeah, let's get the out of here.

Let's go.

Today, you tattooed black and gray cherubs testing your technical application.

Based on your work, one shop will be packing their machines.

Time to hear from the jury of peers.

Guys, why did you vote think before you ain't to the bottom?

Someone want to speak?

I feel like D-Tat Star's application was very chunky.

Yeah, but both of y'all didn't do a great tattoo.

D-Tat, your tattoo, is one of the bottom tattoos of the day.

The shading is not smooth like Rich's is.

It's a pretty large gap.

I think the flaws that we have in our tattoos are very minimal compared to the other two.

Blowouts live on the bottom, period, no matter who you are.

There was a lot more blowouts in those tattoos.

No, there's not.

You can see a blowout in the top of the Tatstar's halo.

The hell out of here.

And it's filled with solid black around.

Y'all got two bad tattoos.

Honestly, guys, I don't find these two tattoos amazing.

Y'all were less challenged in the design, but technically, you jacked them up.

No one's brought up Tri-Cities tattoos.

Tri-Cities has equal amount of blowouts.

Bang's legs almost connect on a blowout.

There's blue bruising.

Do you guys not see that?

I see it now.

You've already had previous critiques and other tattoos about technical application.

Today was the day to really hone in on it and not show us those mistakes.

We got caught up trying to, like, match our tattoo aesthetically, and that ended up being

why I had those blowout issues.

Fellas.

Time to determine who's going home.

The most appealing imagery is allegory art.

The more consistent application between two artists also is allegory art.

In my mind, allegory is safe.

I'm going home.

You guys aren't going anywhere.

Thank you, guys.

So we're now between Think Before You Ink and Tri-Cities Tattoo.

The best single application out of all four of these tattoos is made rich.

Riches is better than D-Tats, but then if you go to Tri-Cities, there's application problems

on both sides of the fence.

No-brainer for me.

Tri-Cities Tattoo.

I got to go with Tri-Cities Tattoo.

My vote's for Tri-Cities Tattoo.

The judges have decided.

Tri-Cities Tattoo, you do not have what it takes to be master shop.

Exposing yourself in this environment is tough.

You guys are just at a phase where you need to grow more, and then, who knows, maybe y'all

will be back.

Please pack your machines and move out.

I'm mad.

I don't want to go home.

I think we made some stupid mistakes.

Everything we did needed to be done as a team.

Everything should have been 50-50.

That's where we failed.

There are a lot of relieved people in the house that won't have another bang attack.

True.

There will never in the history of Ink Master be another bang, ever.

On the next episode of Ink Master.

These new veterans come in here, send them home.

You're only as good as your weakest link.

So should D-Tab go take a nap now?

Watch yourself, bro.

If you ever pull some like that.

Don't point to me like that.

You have to etch your sketch right.

Shut the up.

There are just elements that I'm not willing to compromise on.

Now I'm in freaking panic mode.

Pass out.

Tim.

This isn't a good way to leave your clients.

You drew those hands, and you put that on somebody.

Today is just a bloodbath for everybody.