La ink 3

[FLYSODA]

Hey people! A new season of LA Ink starts this coming thursday at TLC at 8PM central time. Her first big client on the starting show is Dave Navaro who used to play with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and was married to Carmen Electra. He's getting a tat for his mother who was brutally murdered. I don't know the details, but will hear them on the show with the rest of you. Kat is still going with rocker Nikki Six and plans on joining him for Crew Fest here shortly. Kat claims this season will be her best. she's got new blood in the shop and the best of the best cliental coming in. She also does a tat on her love man, Nikki that she says is hot! He tattooed " I Love You" on Kat's arm. Kat say's her and Nikki are so close and think the same things at the same time. She say's it's nice to have a boyfriend that stays busy and has wrote a book about himself and all his appearances on talk show's where he is trying to change his image of being a drunk and heroin junkie. I think that is so cute! .................not. But we'll be seeing plenty of Nikki on her show. She also has gone in and got some of her tats removed. I'm sure Orbi's name was one of them. She likes the fact that he is a leather clad rocker who is still performing live on stage. Unless Tommy Lee is in the group I can't watch Motley Crew. And my personal opinion of Nikki stinks. I think he is full of himself and totally conceeded. I saw him on his talk shows. It was all about ME, ME, ME!!! Kat should have better taste. But, they seem to be made for each other. Both shallow and selfless. Kat is in the process of writing her own book that should be out sometime soon. I hope it's better than Nikki's. And yes, I read his book. I got to keep up on this stuff. I hope Kat has a ghost writer, cause every other word out of her mouth is F--K.But the show will be great with her good tattoo crew. All the same tattooist are back and will kick butt on tattooing. As for Pixie, she will not be returning. Kat hired a guy last season that was working out good and he still has his job. So, get ready to watch LA INK and we'll both watch it together! Adios till the show starts!

[TeeOne]

Cool - I'll watch, just to keep up with your reviews! I don't like Kat at all, but like the show overall, mostly the ppl that come in for tatt's.

[Roenick]

YAY!!! I'm so glad you posted!!

[FLYSODA]

thanks Row, I'm glad people are going to watch so I can have something to write about. I miss writing out the shows, but I do make mistakes from time to time so you guys have to keep me on my toes!

[TeeOne]

thanks Row, I'm glad people are going to watch so I can have something to write about. I miss writing out the shows, but I do make mistakes from time to time so you guys have to keep me on my toes!


Good! I've got my whip ready Fly.......:67302:

[FLYSODA]

is the whip leather? <perk>.....................bwah ha ha ha!

[TeeOne]

is the whip leather? <perk>.....................bwah ha ha ha!

Yes, it's short, black, studded and has fringe....lol:hide:

[FLYSODA]

oh boy, now I can wear my leather chaps and low cut halter top made of leather too. I was saving it for Halloween!:67302:

[TeeOne]

oh boy, now I can wear my leather chaps and low cut halter top made of leather too. I was saving it for Halloween!:67302:

Wanna hear something funny? Ray and I actually went to a halloween party as bikers a couple years back:67302: It was a really easy costume for us.:67302:

[TeeOne]

Okay, who watched? WOW Kat is really going places, she has her own line of makeup now. I'm gonna have to check it out! Personally, I'm not fond of how she does her own makeup but her line looks interesting.
Really sad story Dave Navaro told about his mother's young death, he must have been pretty young, maybe a couple years old.
Can't wait to see how the new (friend) manager does, it didn't look like the crew was wild about her at first meeting.
Overall it was a good epsi, but I'll let FLY do her thing.

[FLYSODA]

Hey Tee! guess who I'm going to ask to fill in the spots while I'm gone to vermont in January to see my daughters new baby? YOU! I'd appreciate it. and I'll bug you a lot! you leather clad biker you! LMAO............................
OK, as Tee said, the shop is going nuts and it has busted out busy! Kat doesn't spend the kind of time she needs in the shop to run it right. Not that she has ever ran it right. But, she has 6 new artist working for her now, 3 new assistants. Including greg from last year. they changed the reception area to a horseshoe counter so more people can get behind the counter. Kat's sister who was hired to do some help for her finds she's becomming behind with paper work and orders cause of the volume of people that are coming into the shop. Kat decides she needs a shop manager. with her new make up line coming out, and her book, she's been real busy. jetting from New York to L.A. at a drop of a hat. Kat hooked up with a friend she known for ten years to manage the shop. when cory, kim, and hannah find out about this, they aren't happy. she hired a friend before and it didn't work out. She's desperate to find someone fast so I guess that's why she hired her girlfriend as fast as she did. Her name escapes me. Tee? did u catch her name? Anyway, they had a sit down meeting and when the new manager started speaking, cory broke out with a question real fast and asked her if she has had any experience managing before. She said she has in the past, several small places. I'm guessing restaurant managing or clothing store managment. She's real young and kinda looks like Kat. I could tell from the faces of the crew that they will be a challenge to manage. So, this young one has a lot on her plate.
Now let me tell you about the things I noticed that shocked me. First, Kat does her tattooing bare footed. this is so dangerous. Blood flys out everywhere when your getting a tattoo. Hep c is the first thing you have to worry about. she could cut her foot open or anything. Bad move. and she wore a bathing suit top the whole time she was working. sometimes with a flimsy cut out t-shirt over it. I don't like her make up. It's too bold and she wears too much and it makes her look cheap. I won't be wearing any of it. all she had to do was pick colors out for her make up and they would put her name on it. how hard was that? between the earth quakes and the shop, what else could go haywire? Nikki is on tour with his band and calls Kat each day to tell her he loves her. But it looked fakey to me the way they did it. Like an old married couple. Maybe they did it for the camera. The shop was hoping with people. and people hanging out the door. If she were to hire a REAL manager, and get things in order, I can see her opening another shop. But, she'd have to have a good manager there also. If it were me, I'd put a add in the paper and say only people that have good coping skills, organizations, can handle responsibility, and be able to cope when things go wrong. And explain what it is to be a shop manager. Not just put a friend in there. Good work ethics. If this girl doesn't win over the shop's respect, she won't matter there. So, we'll see..................................
Hannah has a scare when a masked man called Shamoo Jr. comes in. He wears his mask so no one can see his face cause he is a wrestler. And he doesn't want to give his identity away. He is a Mexican wrestler. He used to go as a kid and watch his Uncle wrestle and he was called Shamoo. Now that he doesn't wrestle anymore, His nephew has taken on his name with a Jr. behind it. He adores his uncle. He's uncle has never lost a match, and so has he. He got real emotional when talking about his wrestling. and how much it meant to him. He wanted Hannah to put a picture of his mask on his right side of his chest. but with a twist, he wants it to be in Mexican culture and have the mask half skull for the "day of dead." Which is celebrated in Mexican culture. Hannah drew up the best mask, and after putting the stencil on him, she started away, by the time she was done, he had a beautiful half mask and half skull on his chest. She did grey and black. it was beautiful with smoke all around it. and the piece matched just perfect with his back piece. Shamoo works in a hospital during the day giving out meds to patients. Hannah said this tattoo was challenging for her. And she was thrilled he loved it so much. It was a beautiful tattoo that went perfect on his chest.
Carin comes in to see Corey about putting Conji (sp) signals with symbols and roses down her back to honor her mother and father and sisters and brothers. The tattoo started below her neck and ended at her pant line. In a perfect line down her spine. He did it in black and grey and it was beautiful. first a conji signal then a flower then a conji signal then a flower till it hit her bum. Carin said she was mostly doing this for her mother. Her mother has cancer, and had 2 kids before she graduated from high school. And then she put herself through nursing school. she really admires her mother. and the florals on her back are for her mother and sisters. while she's getting the tattoo, she has her friend tell her mother they are meeting for lunch, and her friend takes her to the shop. when the mother see's her tattoo, she loves it. and is honered her daughter had such a beautiful tattoo put on her body out of love. As usual, corey hits home with his tattoo. but, his kids are getting older and complaining that daddy isn't home enough cause he has to drive to L.A. everyday. Corey lives out in Pamona. gangland. I used to live down in that area, or close to it. And it is a drive to get to downtown L.A. everyday. so this is wearing on his mind. and gas prices.
Kat has a visit from Breaja, she wants a art nervosa tattoo on her ribs. the most tender part of the body. art nervosa is the old fashioned girls in 20's clothing, very feminine, with art around their bodies and Philagree. Something you'd see on a very old box of something your mother probably had when you were a kid. Or the old coco cola girls of yesteryear. this will be a challenge for Kat. she's not used to doing color tats. and she's nervous with Hannah and kim watching close. and why aren't Kim and Hannah tattooing if they are so busy? But Kat pulls it off with a huge tattoo that covers her whole rib side. the tattoo is beautiful with large amounts of color above the girls head, like a head dress, then goes down to her toes, with philagree and color. the girl is dressed with a whimsy free flowing 20's dress style in purple, and her hands and feet are so delicatly detailed. Her face is fresh and rosey,with blonde hair and a sly smile. the art was beautiful. Kat done did good. as my hillbilly southern accent comes to me. Most beautful.
Kat is excited that Dave Navarro is coming in to get a pin up of his mother. He brings in a picture of her when she was in Her early 20's and she's wearing a tank top with white short shorts, and leaning against a rock wall. I think she was at the beach. Dave wanted his mother on the side of his ribs. sore spot for everybody today. Dave told Kat the story of his mother's murder. His mother did a few movies and did some modeling before her death. His mother had this boyfriend for 5 years that abused her and beat her. Dave wasn't home when his mother was killed, or he would have been killed also. He not only killed his mother, but his aunt as well. Dave turned to heroin and drugs and then found music. He's all cleaned up now, and would like to go to the prison where his mother's killer is and ask him why he killed her? His mother has been dead now for 25 years and wanted a memorial tattoo to Honer her. Her boyfriend was severly jealous of her and anyone around her. I guess that's why he killed her sister also. and if dave had been home, he would have been killed too. Kat did her picture justice. right down to the head band she had on. and sunglasses up on her head. she put a halo around his mother. which added a few goose bumbs. a very good black and grey tattoo for Dave. He loved it. and it actually looked good where it was put. And Dave didn't act all up in the air, he was down to earth, solid, and a nice guy. which is nice to see. His ego seems to be in tact.
Jeremy comes in to see Kim, he's always liked her art work, and wanted her to do the tattoo he came in to get. It was kind of gnarly. A machine gun with roses around it and in latin, the saying, "Live every day as your last." the tattoo runs down one side of his arm. the whole length. done in black and grey. with a banner with the saying on it. It was definatly a manly man tattoo. she added some smoke to it and the gun was done to perfection with the roses around it and the banner in Latin. It looked awesome. Jeremy had a story that goes with the tattoo, he was in his apt. with his roomates when one room mate went outside and got into it with a guy no one knew. Jeremy and his friends broke the fight up and went back into their apt. but before doing so, this guy who was fighting with his room mate told them he'd be back and they'd be sorry. a short time went by when a knock was at the door, before he could answer it, a spay of bullets came through the door hitting his room mates and putting 2 holes in jeremy's shirt. he was lucky he didn't get hit. but his room mates did. none were killed. just shot and sore. But it's something jeremy and his room mates will never forget. how they almost died that night. and over nothing. a dirty look. Thus the saying, "Live everyday as your last." good work Kim. a man couldn't have made that look any better. It rocked! and for now and till next week, Adios

[TeeOne]

FLY - Thanks, but there is no way I could do you justice! But, I will still post in your absence...grandma!

[FLYSODA]

thanks Tee! I think you write very well, I have a bad habit of over writing. My imagination takes over and off I go. I don't even know if anyone really reads these things. but if you could just recap the tattoo and fights it's really easy! LMBO.............................It would honor me if you could do this for me, I'd take my laptop to vermont, but my daughter believes in no tv. so they don't have one. but when her kid gets older I plan on having nanny 911 come visit their child. or two by that time. she will be a mother who does not discipline there kids. talking to them is the way she wants to raise them. that doesn't work. even if she is a therapist, she will have out of control kids and I can sit back and laugh my butt off after all the trouble she gave me growing up. Oh the wonderment of being a grandma!

[TeeOne]

Fly, yes being a grandma is wonderful. I don't understand where these parents today get the rules they go by, but when I have the grandkids, I do it the old way.
Plus ofcourse we can pay 100% attention to the little ones, spoil them and then send them home. AND, the BIG bonus...they love us to pieces. Yep being Nina Trina is all good!
Oh I love you writing, it amazes me how you remember every detail. I mean you cover everything!
I wanted to tell you the new manager at the shop has been friends with Kat for 10 years and her name is Naheed. Can't wait to see how she does and if the staff gives her a chance!

[FLYSODA]

In this weeks episode, Hannah decides to try comic art. Mark Wade a famous cartoonist is going to go over with hannah her comic side of drawing and give her some hints. Hannah wants to make a comic strip of all the gang at LA INK. Mark told her he'd stop by the shop to check on her in a couple days. Hannah has trouble drawing up kim and mostly herself. Kim looked good as a cartoon. cory looked more stern and tuff. and Kat looked like herself without the bathing suit top and ripped up T-shirt. And Hannah looked like herself too. they aren't like tattoo's where your putting on a Memorial tattoo of someone already dead, this cartoon is like Josie and the Pussycats style of cartooning. or Scooby Doo. it's drawing she wants to conquer. and comic book style is what she is reaching for. Mark comes in the shop and looks at her drawings and is impressed and tells Hannah so. Hannah is flattered. He told her if she ever wanted to give up tattooing he'd hire her in a new york minute. the gang all liked how hannah portrayed them.
Hannah is put through the test when Lenny, a medical student comes in to get her husband tattooed with a pin up lady with only one boob. He wants her on a swing and the swing part being the pink ribbon that's meant for brest cancer survivers. and the emblem. she was dumb struck when she was thinking how is she going to pull off a pin up with one breast? Then corey says, how about putting some flowers where the boob would go? Hannah said that sounds like a great idea! so she drew up a pin up with the floral coming down her shoulder and lightly covering where her breast should be. Lenny's mother in law just went through cancer in the breast and hasn't yet started her chemo. So Hannah gets busy with placeing the stincel on Lenny's husband inside part of his forearm. while Hannah was finishing up the pin up, Lenny's husband's mother came into the shop and saw what her son had put on his arm just for her made her day. plenty of hugs there. the tattoo was of a dark haired girl, wearing a black tank top with the stomach showing and cute little black skirt with a garter belt and dark hose going up her legs with the coolest black heels on. she had the floral on the pin up's shoulder gently settleing over her right breast, or where the breast is suppose to be. she's swinging on the pink lace swing with the emblem down below. I really liked this pin up and she made it look totally sexy. I liked where it was put on his body. everything fit. a beautiful tattoo.
Sara comes in to see Kat, Sara is a Nuero Scientist. She helps finds formulas for drug companys to keep helpful and useful drugs on the markets. Kat found this really interesting that in Sara's occupation she has the gut's to get a gnarly tattoo of a skeleton hunched over in a corner with a book on his lap and it says on the book Neuroscience with a small brain tattooed on the book, you see his skeleton legs hunched up and small caption at the bottom that read, "My Brain Hurts." in latin. Kat is amazed how people from all types of life are getting tats. she says they aren't so afraid of the stigmatism now. the tattoo looked great and boney..................lol I love skulls and this one was cool. it was done on her right arm. done in black and grey. good tat for a neuro scientist to have.
Kristy comes in to have a fire breathing dragon on her left shoulder area and down her back blowing fire at a hula hoop done by Kim.the hula hoop is on fire too. she wants the tattoo red and pink. with a few cherry blossoms thrown in along the way. Kristy also brought her hula hoops with her and showed up at the shop with them. she showed the girls how she does her hula hooping. she's very good. she can do several at one time. and on each limb all at once. she gives hula hoop classes and begs kim and the rest of the crew to come to one of her classes. Naheed comes out of the back office and see's the hula hooping going on and joins in. she hoola hoops and does a pretty good turn at it. Kim and Kristy beg her to join them in a hula hoop class so she does. Naheed says that she didn't know how she was going to break her way into the rest of the shop, and she's found that being invited to a hula hoop class by some of the people gave her a good chance to get to know them better by allowing her in their circle. after finishing Kristy's fire breathing dragon down her shoulder and back turned out very cool for being red and pink. Not the normal colors one pick out for a dragon. but it looked really cool. and she loved it. Kim did a great job and even hand drew some of the flowers on it. Greg, the assistant Kat hired to take pixies place is still there, and he went to the hula hoop class along with kim and Naheed. Greg busted out his pink tu tu and wore that to class. they all laughed and had fun and now Naheed feels like one of the crew now. It looks like Naheed is doing a pretty good job at the shop. she orders things that are about ready to run out like ink she did for kim. she's stuck at the back of the shop doing phone work and paper work all the time. so she doesn't get out front much. But now I think this will change.
Arron, Corey's babysitter of five years has finally got corey to committ to doing a wing on her left side of leg. she already has a wing on the other leg and wings on her back. She tells corey stories of what his kids do when she's babysitting them. he's horrified at times or says I don't want to hear that. laughing the whole while. Arron says she's like corey's little sister. she's trading baby sitting for the winged tattoo. He say's she really owes him nows. she's got plenty of baby sitting to do to pay for that tattoo. It turned out beautiful. they looked so soft and inviting. and I liked the way she had them done on each side of her legs. Put a pair of stillettos on that girl and she's ready to party with those winged legs!
Tony comes in to see Kat about a protrait of his father during world war 2. He's dad looks like he has a top hat on, and a dark longer length coat, with buttons and a wide belt, and holding a machine gun. behind his father is some trees and an old shack that his dad used to change his pants when he fell into some cow chit. the rest of the guys were teasing him so bad, he had to go into that shack and change his pants. He's dad looked to be around 24 or so. had dark black hair and good looking except for that crazy hat. what's he doing wearing a top hat in a war? I don't know. but Tony told Kat that when he was young he wasn't close to his father. He ran off all the time sometimes not coming home for 2 or 3 days. He'd take his dad's truck all the time and he got punished for the things he did. but as tony got older and had kids of his own, he see's his dad in different ways. he said he went and bought some beer and went over to his dad's place and sat down and drank his beer and told his dad how he felt. His dad cried, and told him things about tony he'd always wanted to say. It was a good father/son talk and brought them so close together. tony has wanted this tattoo a long time, He wished he could show it to his dad. He'd be proud, but his dad past not long ago. He had the tattoo put on his bicep area, It turned out cool. better than the picture. and tony said, the detail was amazing right down to his buttons on his coat. Kat enjoyed working on tony, they had a lot in common father wise. but the tattoo turned out wonderful with his dad posing with the machine gun, and wearing his top hat, and the shack behind him with trees too. It was lovely.
and for now, I must go. so Adios till next week.

[Roenick]

I liked the dragon but not on the shoulder of the girl.


I loved the one the guy got for his mom. It was so good!!!

[TeeOne]

I saw the show too and really enjoyed it. I liked the smart girl that is a neuroscientist, the tatt was awesome. Not that I would want it on my body, but for her -perfect!
Good review Fly!

[TeeOne]

Fly - this is brought over from another board regarding possible plastic surgery that Kat may have had....

"Well, I don't want to say for sure she has plastic surgery but
she just looks so different. In certain scenes on last nights episode of her walking, I
thought it was a boy. I think for sure a nose job and
maybe some lip injections? Her face looks really different from before. It
could be weight loss but her nose looks like the OBVIOUS result of nose job.
She kind of has that little triangular, chip, Michael Jackson thing going on with the tip.
She didnt have that before."

[FLYSODA]

Tee, as a matter of fact I have noticed Kat's nose look different other than her having it stuck up sicky's butt. (Nikki Six) she looks like she's had lipo on her stomach. it wasn't that flat before. and she is always having on bathing suit tops with low cut jeans, always black, and some sort of black shoe or no shoes if she's tattooing. She has cut her hair different and her lips are much fuller. She could have had an chin implant and cheek implants. they are easy to do and the stitching is on the inside of your lower mouth and cheek area. so no one would know. the stitches disapear after a while. but I think your on to something. and sicky looks like he's had his goblin gord altered off his neck. you know how men get that saggy skin under their chins? He looks like he's had that removed. Because he's over 50 and you just can't get away with not having a goblin gord there. The only musician I know of that has never aged and still is hotter than hot is Jon Bon Jovi. That man just keeps getting better looking with age. maybe because he married his high school sweetheart and they are still married with kids. I don't see Kat and Nikki going anywhere together but bed. And that's even a gross thought. He is so fakey. I like where he tells Kat he called her dad and then her dad called him back and they had a conversation. and kat said to sicky that her dad wondered if Sicky could have just ONE girlfriend with him being this rock god and having women all over him. she laughs a bit like that will never happen to me. They were made for each other. He said in last nights show that Motley Crue has been a band for 32 years and that was before she was born. So, I guess you could throw a rock in LA and maybe you'll hit one of his kids? Or drug dealers. He's got such a soft body too. no muscles. like a woman. When she tattooed him for his memorial tattoo to fellow muscian in the band "mick Mars" the guitarist for the crue. Kat tattooed his upper leg above the knee. It was a picture of Mick Mars with his hat on and head kinda down and he suffers from degenerate bone disease. So he's always in pain when standing while playing. he doesn't move much. But she tattooed his pic with the skull on his hat and the number 1313 that is his signature number. Sicky legs were white and blue / gray colored................lol no muscle tone. and he wore a T-Shirt while they were tattooing and he didn't have any muscles in his arms either. Gumby Boy. and Kat is Pokey. The Gumby and Pokey show! They have been together now for 7 months. And the girls that hang around Motley Crue are big breasted, leather clad, good looking women. Kinda on the trashy side, but they like that. And Kat loves basking in his lime light. And secretly thinking that she will be the one her stud takes home tonight! Kat talked the crew into closing the shop down for a day and going to Crue Fest with her. They were all up to it and went with her in a long streatch Limo to the show. they all got back stage passes. they partied in the limo till they got to the show. back stage after the show, Sicky wanted to show Mick his tattoo and started unbottoning his pants and Mick was freaking out that Sicky might show him his dong, but Sicky said, " don't worry, this is the first time I've worn underwear." and he pulled his pants down and showed Mick his portrait on his leg. Mick was so in awe of what he saw. His bright blue eyes lit up and he couldn't believe Sicky got a tattoo of him on his leg. He was overwhelmed and honored at the same time. He asked Sicky why he put his face on his leg and Sicky said, cause your the damn best guitarist I know and your a good friend. Mick was the one who named Motley Crue it's name. They were going to be called "Christmas." ANd Mick goes no, name it something Motley, like Motley crue. And it stuck. And there goes the story.......................
Joe comes in to see Corey, He wants a Marlin on his back like "The Old Man And The Sea." and crazy enough Corey had just drawn up a marlin that reminded him of his grandpa. Joe was getting the Marlin for his grandpa. But he died of cancer. So this is kinda like a memorial tattoo. Joe used to fish with his grandpa all the time growing up. He caught one Marlin that was almost 500 pounds. Corey was amazed cause when he went fishing with his grandpa he took hours to pull that fish in and it weighed almost 200 pounds. and it wore him out. He couldn't imagine pulling in a 500 pounder. Joe now takes his 2 daughters fishing with him. and they are grown now and they still go fishing with him. Corey started on his Marlin and by the time it was done, it covered up his whole back with the waves corey put in. there was some shading, but mostly black and gray. I hate to say this, but I thought the marlin looked kinda cartoonish. If it had been in color it would have looked better. but it looked like a Marlin you'd color in a coloring book. sorry corey.
Corey has his drum kit come into the shop. It's his beloved Ludwig set up. painted pearl white with all the chrome around and the handpainted roses on it with baby skulls on it and some green around the roses. absolutly beautiful. "Six Feet Under" a dummer Magazine comes in to shoot pics of corey with his drum kit. this will be the first corey miller ludwig signed drum kit. And he couldn't be more happy. I think he got the cover for his beautiful art work on it. way to go corey.
Tani comes in to see Kat about putting 3 faces of felines on her back. One is a tiger, one a lion, and the last, a cheetah. she wants these on her upper back. Kat blends the 3 together. one cat for each of her son's. 2 of her son's where with her while she got the tattoo. it was done in black in gray, the tattoo was ok but Tani's back had these wort type things all over her back and I found myself looking more at the moles and warts then the tattoo. It was not a good place to put that tattoo. I didn't really care for it. but that is my opinion. Your welcome to yours.
Stella, the biker granny comes into the shop with her crew of women to get her bike tattooed on her back shoulder. she wanted to have something put on there for Breast Cancer. so she had hannah put a pink ribbon on her tank. the tattoo was beautiful right down to the chrome. it looked fast on her back. the shading was perfect, the size was down to a tee. It was a good looking tattoo. stella walked out of LA INK a very happy Biker chick!
Ann comes in looking to get a frog put on her foot. she brings her sister Wonda with her. Kim tells ann that foot tattoo's are not reliable. the skin is thin on the foot and hands. and can be worn down. but I find this not true. I have a tattoo on my foot that I've had there for years and it looks as though I just got it done. Now hands are different. but not the foot.Ann wants a bright green frog with spots on his back. the story behind the frog is, her sister, wonda, got in a car wreck and landed up in a lake. she was submerged for more than 19 minutes, when the fire dept. showed up, they got her out of her car and worked on her clearing her lungs and debris out of her mouth, she was rushed to the hospital and was in a coma for a day. she ended up o.k but she got the nickname, Being Under Water With The Frogs! so ann had a frog put on her foot to remind her of almost losing her sister. the frog was done very well and looked really good on her foot. the coloring and spots really made the frog stand out. I really liked it.
Naheed and Kat go to an outside cafe' to have coffee and talk about their boyfriends. Naheed's boyfriend plays in a band also and is on tour. she really misses him. Kat say's she really misses Sicky when he's gone too. but she trys to make it to as many tour dates as possible. Sicky is not only playing with the Crue but with another one of his bands called "Sixx AM" starring you know who. WOW, I would have never thought he'd call a band after himself. ugh. I wonder how they did? anyone else heard them? well, thats this weeks journal of LA INK> and untill next week, Adios

[Roenick]

I missed it. But thank you so much for the recap!!!


I wasn't even told a foot tat could be an issue... had mine for almost 2 yrs. I even had to hide and wore socks and shoes within 2 days and it healed fine and looks new.

[FLYSODA]

Roe,
you hear a lot of different tattoo artist say somethings or places on the body don't take well. KIm Didn't think that the foot tattoo's would stand up to a regular tattoo because of it's placement. but for those of us who have foot tats, find out just the opposite. I bet she doesn't have one on her foot? and what is your foot tat of? mine is of a cobra. I'm just curious!

[Roenick]

I have a rosary that goes up my ankle.


My friend just got one on her foot. It's a red dragon fly. She called me Monday to tell me to go look at her pics of it. It's pretty but odd...
Anyway she works with her mom who (like my parents, don't appreciate tats) so she wrapped it in seran wrap and then had her sock and shoe on.
So I told her to take the wrap off right away.

She called back a few hours later freaking out the her sock was stuck to it and it hurt. She's put so much neosporin on it, it dried.
This isn't her first tat either but it is the first on her foot.

I wore socks and shoes, because of my work but I kicked off my shoe at my desk. After my parents saw it - my dad asked why I hadn't worn flip flops to work :shrug1: I can't win with them! :67302:

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Roe,
Your tat is awesome! I love the rosary beads and cross. it looks like you can reach right down and snatch that off your foot. good tattoo. You sound like a tough one if you can go to work with regular shoes on and then kick them off when at your desk. the one thing I notice in a foot tat is they do swell up a bit. shoes are hard to wear especially when they cover the tattoo. and socks? forget it, till a week goes by to be extra safe. I had part of my back tattoo stick to my T-shirt once. I got the T-shirt wet where it was sticking and it came right off. You got to be careful when pulling a stuck tattoo off your skin, you could pull the color off. It's like a sunburn, they swell just a bit then they bleed a bit, they peel, be careful not to scratch, then they are done healing. a two week period is about right for a tattoo to heal all the way. thanks for sharing. I loved the pic! thank you!

[Roenick]

I didn't have much problem with mine sticking. I was worried about it at first but luckily it didn't stick. It wasn't too swollen either.
It's a lot of lines and not to much full color... he used a little white for shading which is hard to see in the pic.




This is my friends tat that she just got. When she called me I was thinking having it wrapped would draw moisture to it and she'd be better off just wearing her sock... but she also had new socks on (which I never wear) so they were thick and linty.
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q180/RjLaMl/erintat.jpg

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In this weeks episode of LA INK Kat is chosen to be on the cover of Latina Magazine. they are sending someone out to interview her and take photo's of her. Her brother, Michael is in town from Tenn. to visit her and the family. she takes her brother and sister that works in the shop with her on the interview with the reporter. Being from Mexico by way of Argentina, Kat moved to the LA area when she was 4. She moved to the US in 1986. She went to regular schools when younger and was popular with the kids, when she got into Jr. Hi, she was labled kind of a freak cause she started doing things to her hair and drawing a lot and mostly keeping to herself. Most of her work in school was drawings. she got into music and the party scene. She quit school at 14 and went to work for a biker guy that liked her drawings and put her to work for a year tattooing. even though she was under age. she showed the interviewer her first house they lived in and her first tattoo shop she worked at with the biker guy. then she moved up to finer shops to tattoo in and eventually went out on her own. she was famous enough for people to call her up and ask for tattoo's. when she got the call from Miami Ink to join their team, she was in Europe with a band tattooing on Bam Magera. I think that's how you spell his last name. She said yes to Miami Ink and packed her bags and left. and the rest is history. Her Photo shoot went perfect, she looked good in every outfit. very feminine. Her dad came in the shop by surprise and she showed him her cover on Latina Magazine and he was so proud of her. She was thrilled that Latina Magazine chose her to be on their cover.
Elke The Stallion comes in to see cory. She wants angel wings on her back in 3 D. she already has a tat going down the middle of her back that says "stallion" on it that goes the whole way down from her neck to her bottom. almost bottom. the tat is poorly done and looks awful. when cory asked her about the tattoo she told him thats her nick name. cause she is a tough person mentally. She is a big bootie girl. she makes JLo look like she has no butt at all. her butt is about 5 times bigger. but her body isn't big. her legs aren't big just her butt. I wondered how she could possibly find a pair of pants that would fit her butt, I looked at the back of her and she has a elastic gaurd that bunches her pants around her waist and gathers at the back. So, I figured she had to buy a big pair of pants, ones she could get her butt in and then have them altered. Her lips looked like she had injections in them. they were big and swollen and you could actually see the punctures of where the needle went into her lips. while cory drew up the wings, they were huge. but she didn't want them to touch her money maker. Meaning her butt. she dances on vidios with rap artist and hip hop with her big bootie. she takes pictures in sexy cloths with her bootie hanging out and I must say they are nice pics but her butt is so big. but men like it and she makes her living that way. she orignally comes from east germany. Her and her family escaped the wall and got over to west germany before the wall even came down. she tried modeling over in germany and the people told her to lose weight. she thought , no way, I'm built like this and I know people in america like big booties and she made her way over to the US. the "stallion" on her back she had put on there for all the crap she had to go through to get where she's at now. the name means to her "strength." cory worked on her wings timelessly and so much he had to take a break. that's the first time I have ever seen cory take a break in the middle of a tattoo. It was a big piece. He said he was losing his sight. He had to break. My tattoo artist does this weird thing, he wears a head lamp on his head so he has extra light to see. It works for him when his eyes get tired. this makes it where his eyes don't bother him that much anymore. when corey came back from his break he finished up his wings. when he told her to go and look at them in the mirror she did and she started crying. she loved them! they were beautiful! they looked real and fluffy in the black and grey. each wing was done to perfection. I would have cried too.
Tami comes in to see Hannah and brings her children in with her with a picture. the picture is of her young daughter with a straw cowboy hat on, and her son smiling with out glasses. he wears glasses now so she wanted to know if Hannah could put glasses on him. she said no prob. so Tami sent her kids home with a parental figure and hannah drew up the photo. after placing it on Tami's upper arm, shoulder area, she checked with tami and tami said it looked good and off to tattooing they went. Tami told Hannah that her son was born with brain masses of tumors and several other things that were scary. the doc told her , her son would never walk or talk. and as living proof she had her son and daughter both walk into the shop. her son only had started walking 2 weeks before. and he could talk. so her memorial tattoo was for her kids and for parents who think what doctors tell you always isn't true. Your child can survive, your child can walk, your child can talk, don't give up hope. Her son wasn't suppose to live to a year old. and he is at least 5 or 6. the tattoo turned out good, with the cowboy hat on her daughter and her daughter having her hand on her brothers shoulder was touching. then her son with his glasses on smiling away. It looked just like the picture! she was thrilled with it. It was a big piece for her arm. but she loved it and Hannah did a bang up job.
A huge man comes into the shop to have corey put a memorial tat on him. He's name is Fernando, but he goes by Peg Leg Slim. He wants a harmonica, sunglasses, a fedora hat,and a 50's mic put together on the inside of his arm. He asked cory if he could put the reflection of the Mic in the sunglasses. and corey said he could give it a try. when fernando is home and away from people, he is fernando, when out in public or on stage with his band, he's called Peg Leg Slim. the Harmonica was given to him by his best friends mother after he died. Fernando got into a bad motorcycle accident that caused him to lose his leg from the bottom of his knee down. while he was laid up, he learned to play his friend's harmonica. corey was blown away cause it didn't look like Slim had a peg leg. he walked perfectly normal. He brought with him, the harp, sunglasses, mic, and fedora hat. when corey was done with the inside of his arm, there stood the fedora hat, the harp down to a tee with the old writing on it, and the sunglasses with the reflection of the Mic in them. It looked really good in black and grey. and slim even played corey a little song on the harp. corey told him to give him a call sometime and they could jam together. good tat.
Gage comes in to see Kat about getting Elvira the Queen of Darkness on his shoulder. Gage works as a make up artist for scary movies in the movie business. He makes people look like monsters. or gory. He talked a mile a minute about his childhood and how he was picked on for being a nerd, and for drawing monsters. He secretly drew up monsters to attack his mean crew of boys that picked on him in school. He would make believe his monsters ate them or worse. In High School it calmed down and he wasn't so picked on for being different. Kat could relate to him cause she went through the same thing at school herself. He loves horror movies, like the old ones. He has the Monster From the Black Lagoon tattooed on his chest. one on his neck and several others. He loves his job and is good at it. when kat got done with Elvira, I was shocked. she looked so real! right down to her deep cleavage! Her hair was piled high on her head, her face was perfect right down to her eyes, and her signature dress with the deep cut in front to show off her girls with deep cleavage. the tattoo was great! no one on earth will ask him who that is. You can tell! now for some Elvira trivia, Elvira is really a redhead who lives the life of a mother and wife. and when not in costume, she barely wears any make up and you'd never know in a million years it was her. I caught her on a documentary and went YEAH! A redhead! I have redhair but with brown eyes not blue. but Elvira is a cool person. she's down to earth and has a side of her for the unusual. when she dresses up as Elvira she is witty and funny and her facial expressions are timeless. It must be fun to be Elvira and then not be her and no one knows. she totally transform herself. good tattoo of the great Elvira on his shoulder and arm area. He loved it. and so did I.
Suzanne comes in to see Kim about getting a skull with a red clown nose, and top hat on her inside of her wrist area. the skull with the hat was done in black and gray and the nose was bright red. It was a cute tattoo. Suzanne and her husband started a circus in which they perform several times a week. Suzanne is an ariel artist. which means she swings from long layers of light material with the material swinging out at the bottom that gives it a illusional look to it. she invited kim and Hannah to come to circus training with her. so both kim and hannah go to see if they can do some of the stuff Suzanne does. when they got there, Suzanne showed them what she did in the air with the drapes hanging and wrapping herself in them hanging upside down with one leg. after she dismounted, it was kims turn, and kim is afraid of heights, but she wrapped her leg around the material and with a little help she did good even going upside down. Hannah gave it her try, she got up and got one leg stuck but got it lose, and did a split on the material. Both kim and Hannah agreed you have to have good leg muscles to hold on to the cloth. and realized that it was easier to watch then doing it. It was hard but they got a good work out and had fun! and thats all that counts!
so for now, Adios till next week!

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Roe,
your friend tat is cool. I've never seen an all red butterfly? is it? but I like the floral around it. it looks good on her foot. It almost doesn't look like her foot. I'm sorry she had such a hard time with it. some people do and some don't. did either of you think that getting a tat on the top of your foot hurt? Mine didn't. but I have high tolerance to pain. I hear from a lot of people that their foot tats hurt more than any other place? did you find that to be true? I found that my ribs were hard on me. especially going over and over the same spot on my rib bone. both sides were done on me. I'm glad that's over.........................lol. thanks again for sharing. I love looking at other peoples tats. and their style. all tattoos are interesting to me. even the prison ones. I want to know how they did that in prison, if it got infected. who did it? what did they use? where did they get the ink? from a pen? You can't have pens in prison, only pencils. It boggles my mind. Roe, again, thank you for sharing!

[TeeOne]

'Elke The Stallion comes in to see cory. She wants angel wings on her back in 3 D. she already has a tat going down the middle of her back that says "stallion" on it that goes the whole way down from her neck to her bottom. almost bottom. the tat is poorly done and looks awful. when cory asked her about the tattoo she told him thats her nick name. cause she is a tough person mentally. She is a big bootie girl. she makes JLo look like she has no butt at all. her butt is about 5 times bigger. but her body isn't big. her legs aren't big just her butt. I wondered how she could possibly find a pair of pants that would fit her butt, I looked at the back of her and she has a elastic gaurd that bunches her pants around her waist and gathers at the back. So, I figured she had to buy a big pair of pants, ones she could get her butt in and then have them altered. Her lips looked like she had injections in them. they were big and swollen and you could actually see the punctures of where the needle went into her lips. while cory drew up the wings, they were huge. but she didn't want them to touch her money maker. Meaning her butt. she dances on vidios with rap artist and hip hop with her big bootie. she takes pictures in sexy cloths with her bootie hanging out and I must say they are nice pics but her butt is so big. but men like it and she makes her living that way. she orignally comes from east germany. Her and her family escaped the wall and got over to west germany before the wall even came down. she tried modeling over in germany and the people told her to lose weight. she thought , no way, I'm built like this and I know people in america like big booties and she made her way over to the US. the "stallion" on her back she had put on there for all the crap she had to go through to get where she's at now. the name means to her "strength." cory worked on her wings timelessly and so much he had to take a break. that's the first time I have ever seen cory take a break in the middle of a tattoo. It was a big piece. He said he was losing his sight. He had to break. My tattoo artist does this weird thing, he wears a head lamp on his head so he has extra light to see. It works for him when his eyes get tired. this makes it where his eyes don't bother him that much anymore. when corey came back from his break he finished up his wings. when he told her to go and look at them in the mirror she did and she started crying. she loved them! they were beautiful! they looked real and fluffy in the black and grey. each wing was done to perfection. I would have cried too."
This girl was so strange I could not believe my eyes. Her butt was gornormous! Then her lips looked ridiculous, way over done! The old Stallion tat was awful, and Cory had to work around it.
Furthermore, I don't see how she get's paid for video modeling. I've never seen such a big butt girl in a video before.
Cory was very nice not to say anything about the old tatt or the size of her "money maker."
After he segment I couldn't watch anymore.....

[Roenick]

Roe,
your friend tat is cool. I've never seen an all red butterfly? is it? but I like the floral around it. it looks good on her foot. It almost doesn't look like her foot. I'm sorry she had such a hard time with it. some people do and some don't. did either of you think that getting a tat on the top of your foot hurt? Mine didn't. but I have high tolerance to pain. I hear from a lot of people that their foot tats hurt more than any other place? did you find that to be true? I found that my ribs were hard on me. especially going over and over the same spot on my rib bone. both sides were done on me. I'm glad that's over.........................lol. thanks again for sharing. I love looking at other peoples tats. and their style. all tattoos are interesting to me. even the prison ones. I want to know how they did that in prison, if it got infected. who did it? what did they use? where did they get the ink? from a pen? You can't have pens in prison, only pencils. It boggles my mind. Roe, again, thank you for sharing!



Mine didn't hurt until he got around the ankle. But the foot itself was easy. I told him before he started that I was a twitcher... I have my full name around my right ankle and when it was done my leg twitched really bad - but it went really smooth and I didn't twitch even at the ankle, it just ached since it was a long time sitting. he was really good.

She said hers hurt really bad.


I watched Ami and the other guy get theirs in Hawaii with the tap method or whatever it's called. OUCH!! I heard that Angelina Jolie had her arm tats done that way too.
I'm way too much of a weiny to even try to get one done that way.

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In this episode of LA INK, Corey needs time with his family. He's promiced his wife he'd finish her back piece and told his kids he'd make a tree fort outside in the back yard. but because of his schedule, at the shop in LA he commutes 2 hours there and 2 hours back making him late when he comes home and too tired to play with his 3 kids. It's starting to make him think about his shop in Upland and how close it was to his house and he only put in 4 days of work and then had 3 days with family. He liked his low key life when it was like that. the price alone in gas kills the family. but corey doesn't want to quit LA INK. he makes good money but he wishes he had more time with his family. He comes home early one day and promices his wife Cat that he will do her back piece and finish it. He says it always come down to those he loves and his best friends that want tattoo's from him but he puts them on the back burner cause he is so busy. He goes to Kat and asks her if he could have a couple days off to spend time with his family. she says, corey, we got 16 people working here now, talk to Naheed and she will schedule days off for you. How easy was that? he was happy and took some time off and built his kids their tree fort high enough he put a tire swing below the club house and a slide on one side and the club house looked just like a real house and the kids were on fire with joy. Now that corey has time with kids and wife. He's happy about it. and knows he can take days off but has to remember to tell Naheed to put in the schedule. so it worked out good for corey.
Naheed is really going to town on the shop. she has proven to be an excellent manager to the shop and kat is real happy. without knowing what they were doing. Kat had a man from Italy come and do the back of her building with a larger than life airbrushed picture of Kat, Hannah, Corey, and Kim. they didn't apply for a license to put that up and the city counsel wants a word with the shop and they have an appointment with the city counsel to see if they can keep it up or paint over it. I don't see what the problem is. It's on the back alley where they all park their cars. not in the way of the front of the shop. It sounds silly to me. Gregg and Naheed go to the city councel meeting and Naheed gets up showing the picture on an overhead camera so the people in the meeting could see it. she pleaded her case that it was art and not graffitti. the vote came in 7 to 3. so they won the right to have that big ass picture kept there for good. It will be weird if one of them quits and they still have there pic up there. oh well.............................
Jason and his wife come in to see Kat about getting a memorial tattoo of their daughter Kayla put on Jason's chest where Kayla used to lay her head. after birth she was diagnosed with a rare cancer and only lived to be 15 months. Kayla had to have a plastic feeding tube in her nose at all times to eat. In the picture they brought Kat to put on Jason was Kayla's face with the feeding tube in her nose, They wanted the portrait to have the feeding tube left in the tattoo. It could have easily been taken out. and you would have seen a regular baby on her dad's chest. but with the feeding tube left in the tattoo was rather creepy to me. It was uncomfortable. no one wants anything up their nose, you know it has to hurt. just looking at the portrait made my nose hurt. I personally didn't like this portrait at all. it looked sickly and weird. I would never have a child with a feeding tube put on me. the child yes, but not the tube. Jason and his wife were real happy ab out the portrait and loved it. It gave me the creeps. after Kayla died, jason's wife found out she was pregnant again. they didn't plan it. It's going to be a boy. Jason and his wife has started a cancer foundation in Kayla's name to help other children with battleing cancer. Kat said it was hard to do the tattoo cause she felt like crying at times.
Brett comes in to see Hannah about getting buttons put on his forearms. 3 on one arm and 3 on the other forearm. He wants urban buttons on one side and Mid western buttons on the other. why? cause he wants to have buttons of LA on one arm and Mid western buttons on the other arm to show where he's been and where he's going. He's very concerend what his mother might think of his tats. He and his mother are very close and best friends. When he moved to LA from MS. He came with 500 bucks and lived in his car for 3 months. He was lucky to have a 1989 volvo station wagon to sleep in. I used to have a volvo station wagon myself, and they come in handy to sleep in and cary lots of your stuff. He got a job acting in some commercials and doing odd jobs like that. He now has a furnished apt. and is all set up. Brett is kind of a odd guy, kinda goofy and giggly. but I liked the buttons Hannah put on him. they actually looked kinda cool. this was his first tattoo. the buttons were real detailed and looked like you could pick one up. very cool.
Kat has "the game" come in for a tat. He's a rapper that wants LAX with a star on his outer forearm. In bright red. He says his tattoo means Life and Times, He's going to retire from rapping and concentrate on being a dad and husband. He's on his last tour. then he's retireing. what I don't get is this: why would anyone want LAX on their arm? it's the airport! what does the airport have to do with rapping or retireing? but he got LAX with a red star along the outside of his forearm. In bright red letters and a red star. He loved it. I didn't get it. who wants a airport tattooed on their arm? I guess he did. It sure sticks out. there was no special tattooing going on in this tattoo. a straight block letter LAX with a red star. no Imagination there. I give this tattoo a 0.
Liza comes in to see Kim, she wants a Madusa on her shoulder. upper shoulder. KIm loves this cause she collects Madusa stuff as a collection. Liza plays in a all girl band. Her friend Sue comes in to see the tat. she really liked it. and they both play in bands. both of their boyfriends play in bands too. the madusa head was styling. it looked really cool on her arm and fit in with the stuff she already had thier. on the top of the head it say: Hell hath......then on the bottom of the tat it says: No fury. It turned out cool. with all the snakes coming out of her head. It was a good tattoo. after the tat was done and Liza had left, she came back a few later with a head of a madusa for kim as a gift. she was thrilled that Liza took the time to find her a madusa head to hang on her walls. a good tat and a cool gift!
Michele comes in to see corey about putting flowers on her back. She already has a memorial tattoo for her father on the middle of her upper back. so corey hand draws 5 flowers Michele has picked out for each of her kids for the months they were born. the oldest child is 19. corey draws the florals in an arch over her shoulders and above her fathers tattoo. it looked beautiful. she told corey how she met her husband. she met him when they were both 9 years old at a wedding where she was the flower girl and he was the ring bearer. while at her computer she kept getting Im'd by someone she didn't know, so she put that person on ignore every time they Im'd her. One day she gave in and asnswered the Im and found out it was the guy that was the ring bearer at that wedding. He had been looking for her on line for sometime. so they got together and it led to marriage. he had 3 kids from his first marriage and together they had 2 children between them. the flowers were for each of the kids. and the florals were beautiful. the placing of them went in the right spot and looked wonderful. she loved them and said she'd have to wear strapless tops to show off her new tattoo. corey hand draws florals extremly well. and they looked sharp. good work.
Hannah has a piggy customer come in to have a tattoo of a pig in the middle of her back. she brought with her a mini pig to show her off to hannah. after showing her pig off. the pig left and carrie, the animal activist brought in a picture of a 800 LB pig named Lilly. she wanted Lilly tattooed on her back with the word JUMP at the bottom of her tattoo. Lilly was on the way to the slaughter house when she jumped out of the truck she was riding in and saved her own life. Carrie got hold of Lilly and kept her as a pet. she has several big pigs on her little farm. she has goats, chickens, turkeys,Llamas, and other animals too. she is vegan and has nothing to do with meat or anything that comes out of an animal. she explained when she was young, she was eating bacon for breakfast and she asked her mom how they got bacon out of the pig, and her mother told her all meat and cows and chicken had to be killed in order to eat it. at a young age she decided she would never eat an animal again. so she became a vegitarian in her home and only ate things that didn't come from animals. Lilly is her pet pig. her favorite. she says there is nothing like playing with pigs or watching a turkey play by itself. she says they are zaney and fun to watch. she loves her animals very much. Lilly's tattoo came out real cute with the JUMP wrote down below the pig. the only thing that bothered me was where she put the tattoo. in the middle of her naked back. on her shoulder would have been a good place to put lilly. or above the ankle. but in the middle of her back left a big canvas to be filled. the tattoo wasn't very big. I feel that if your going to put someting on your back, make it big and cover it. Not with a pig though. Your back is your best canvas. think hard and strong before putting anything on it unless your adding to it later. that's my take on it. but all in all, it was a good tattoo, a cute tattoo, but bad placing. You'd think Hannah would have mentioned to her a different place to put lilly. but she didn't. People who are getting a tattoo for the first time should be told, considering the tattoo, where the best place to put a small tattoo. Later they may be sorry she didn't have it on her shoulder or up above her ankle. she can't see Lilly on her back unless she holds up a mirror to see her in another Mirror. and it's not high enough on her back to show if she wears a tank top. what's the point? anyway, it was an adorable tattoo. to bad she can't show it off!
so for now, Adios, and I'll see you next week!

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In this weeks show on LA INK Mario comes in to see Hannah, he's very good looking. a Musician. He wants a trashy 70's girl on his lower shoulder area. Hannah is happy with this tattoo cause she can have fun with it and make it as trashy as possible. the only thing that was left out of the tattoo that would have made it real trashy is the girl smoking a cig and blowing out the smoke. But mario wanted a disco chick. a sick disco chick. one that you'd see at the bar hustling drinks off disco guys. He wanted her to look like she came from 1979 when disco was at it's peak. a time when there was no std's and anything went. a Lolita gone bad. He got his trampy disco chick in blonde hair like Farrah Fawcett used to wear hers, and big lips with lots of shiny lip gloss on her lips. an attitude, and wearing a pair of sunglasses with the reflection of a disco guy with a moustash and weird sideburns in them. It was a fun tattoo for Hannah to do. It turned out good and Mario loved it. I think he even had a name for her too. thumbs up for Hannah and her pin up.
Yolanda comes in to see Kat about getting a tattoo down her spine. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww. the spine area is creepy to me. even though I'm tattooed there also. it was not fun. going over your back bones? ewwww. But Yolanda is a Mexican singer with a strong fan base. She got pregnant at 20 and had her baby at 21 and is raising the child on her own. she wants to put the message out there that you can be single mother and still be real. She worries what her fans might think of her knowing she has a baby on her own. she wants to set a new example and show her fans that she can be real and not hide the fact that she is a single mother. her most important message to her fans is to be real and to be real she must show them she can still be a good role model. The tattoo she got was put in spanish down her back with the english part of it on the other side but with a lighter grey. the words that she put down her back were: strength, love, wisedom, happiness, down her spine in Mexican and on the other side of the spine, it is written in english with a lighter grey. It looked good. the penmanship was beautiful. the lighter grey in it set the tattoo off. It was a nice tat. hard place, but nice.
Hector and Stephanie come in to see Corey about getting wedding tattoo's. they both want the same tattoo. stephanie wants hers on her upper back and Hector wants his on his chin. ouch! Corey being Corey wanted to know what this tattoo was all about. and they tell him the storie. Stephanie and Hector have been going out for 10 years. Stephanie wanted a committment. Hector wasn't quite ready. so they broke up. Stephanie went on with her life and started dating other men, Hector was broke up about it cause he missed her bad. after several months of being apart and stepahanie had dated several guys, she figured out they were all like Hector, not wanting a commitment. so she thought since she had hector already down for it, she got back with him and they married on June 21, 2008. they had both decided to get tattoo's to put the deal in INK. the design of this particular tattoo had me somewhat puzzled. I couldn't quite get the meaning in it. there was a snake wrapped around something that I think was a heart, that had wings on it, and roses with some red in it. and a banner at the bottom with the date of their wedding. It was done all in black and grey.except the red. the flowers were beautiful , the whole tattoo was beautiful, but I couldn't understand the snake. from what I gathered, the snake was symbolic for the ups and downs in a marriage. or any time consumed in a long standing relationship. As soon as Corey had Stephanie done He got ready to do Hector. I was surprised at how fast corey can pump out a good tattoo. He really is a good artist. I hardly see anything Corey does that is not good. Hector had his tattoo on his chin. OUCH! and since he just finished stephanie, the second one was even faster. they both looked good. it was beautifully designed, and tattooed. Like I said, I didn't get the snake and stuff, but they get it and thats all that matters.
Sandi a Hair stylist, that owns her own shop, comes in to see Kim. Sandi wants a pair a siccors and a comb with some hair in the comb tattooed on her back shoulder. Kim draws it up and puts the stincil on sandi. she likes it so they start their journey. this is Sandi's first tat. She loves her work, she feels she is a therapist to her clients. while doing thier hair they tell her all their secrets sitting in a beauty parlor. Sandi thinks this is great cause she gets to councels them and make them feel better and look better. she loves all the girls that work for her. she sounds like she has a fun shop. Kim tattooed the antique siccors on Sandi's back with an old fashioned comb with a lock of blonde hair going through the comb. It was beautiful! very fem and antique looking with the right shading in the right places. and the philagree around the siccors just added to the touch. when Sandi got back to her shop, she showed off her tattoo to the girls in her shop and they were ga ga over it. they all wanted to go down and get the same tattoo on themselves. now if they do that would be cool.
Don comes in to see Kat about getting his wife tattooed on his chest with her looking up at him. Don is 69 and he and his wife talked about getting tattooed together before she got sick with cancer. while she was sick she wanted Don to go along and get his tattoo. He really loved his wife. she was his sweetheart. He said she always had a twinkle in her eye. they were married 42 years. that's scary to me, I've been married for 33 years myself. and it still seems like yesterday. I don't live by time, even though our friends are dying around us and we go, wow! wasn't he young? I can see Don wanting his wifes picture when it was the 50's/60's. Cause that's the way you always look to your loved one. no matter how old you are. They remember you young with the best and worst of times. Don's picture of his wife was plain. He gave Kat a headshot. she was tattooed looking up at Don, with red lips, and her hair brown and swept up away from her face showing her blue eyes and neck and shoulders. It was a easy tat for Kat to do. she copied the picture, stinciled it on his chest, and by looking at the pic she shawdowed in all the facial parts. Pics are much easier to do than ordinary tattooing when you have to draw something up out of your own mind. and depth in a tattoo is important too. If you can make something look 3D in a tattoo your good. Biomechanical tattooing is the up and coming work of many famous tattoo artist. Kat cannot do these kinds of tattoos. Or she barely works with color. her specialty is portraits. they are easy to do. cause she just goes off the picture. she doesn't branch out too far and away from her portraits. cause she can't tattoo other stuff. Just watch her sometime, she only does portraits or memorial tattoos, or easy writing like on Yolanda. but Don loved his tattoo of his wife on his chest. He was very happy with it and thats all that matters.
Naheed has been going to a Hypnotist to help her stop smoking. It has worked for her. she hasn't smoked in days. She tells Kat about it and Kat wants too quit real bad. she hates the smell of smoke in her hair, and cloths, and in her car. Kat makes an appointment to meet with the Hypnotist, his name is James. He asks her when she needs to smoke the worst. She told him when she wakes up, after sex, after eating, in her car, in her office at work. Basically all day long. she ask James if he could do everyone in the shop who wants to quit smoking. He says sure. so Kat's sister, adreinne the shop manager, Kat, corey, and I think Kim go under. after they are all out,the camera goes over their sleeping faces, Having Hi def TV you can see everything. I saw on their faces except corey, how much make up those girls wear. fake eyelashes, lots of eyeliner, godly shades of eye shadow, and you could see the face powder on them all. and their lipsticks. James told them once they were out, they would be repulsed at the smell of a ciggy, taste of a ciggy, smelling others smokes would make them sick. and that they would not want a ciggy anymore. if they smoked, it would gross them out and they would put it out right away. after he woke them up, adrienne didn't go under. she was concentrating to hard. Kat said she didn't feel like smoking after waking up. but the next day she lit one up in the office and had to put it out. she realized she needed more help from james to quit smoking. so she had Naheed make her another appt. And hopefully that will work for Kat. So, Till next week, Adios for now............................................... ........:smile:

[FLYSODA]

I've noticed that no one has read any of these last postings I put up on LA INK, so I've decided not to write this show out. no one is reading them and I spend a lot of time writing these out. so, If you want to see what's going on with LA INK. watch it yourself......................adios

[TeeOne]

I've noticed that no one has read any of these last postings I put up on LA INK, so I've decided not to write this show out. no one is reading them and I spend a lot of time writing these out. so, If you want to see what's going on with LA INK. watch it yourself......................adios

Fly, I'm sorry,but I have kinda lost interest in the show itself...NOT you!
I actually only catch bits and pieces, here and there. I'm just not a huge fan.

But I have great love for you:kissyface4:

[Roenick]

Oh fly.... I've been so busy I only come in this room on Thursdays.

But if you want to stop go ahead, but promise if something crazy happens you'll post it!!! I need them to air a marathon so I can catch up - I rarely watch tv anymore

[Kami]

I've noticed that no one has read any of these last postings I put up on LA INK, so I've decided not to write this show out. no one is reading them and I spend a lot of time writing these out. so, If you want to see what's going on with LA INK. watch it yourself......................adios

Bummer...I was coming in here to see what was up with Kim on last nights show, since I missed it. :frown:

[Alibar]

My daily newspaper today has a big feature story about the tattoo place here in town and tattoo's in general. About how they are now accepted and no longer considered taboo.... or something like that. LOL