Best Ink
Best Ink | |
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Genre | Reality competition |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 30 |
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Running time | 42 minutes |
Production company(s) | Bunim/Murray Productions |
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Original network | Oxygen |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | March 27, 2012 February 26, 2014 |
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Best Ink is an American reality competition series on Oxygen. The series premiered on March 27, 2012.[1] In May 2012, Oxygen announced that the series has been renewed for second season with Pete Wentz[2] and Hannah Aitchison joining the series.[3][4] The second season debuted on April 3, 2013.[5][6] Best Ink was renewed for a third season in June 2013,[7] with the season premiering on December 4, 2013.[8]
Contents
Cast
- Pete Wentz — Host (seasons 2–3)
- Kimberly Caldwell — Host (season 1)
- Joe Capobianco — Judge
- Sabina Kelley — Judge
- Hannah Aitchison — Judge
Format
The series follows a group of tattoo artists from various cities in the United States. The winner of the competition wins a $100,000 cash prize and a cover article of a well-known tattoo-related magazine. The show was hosted by Kimberly Caldwell during Season 1 and by Pete Wentz in Seasons 2 and 3.[9] After each challenge, tattoo artist and the shows judges, along with different guest judge every week, critique the tattoos to find the contestant with the "Best Ink".
Flash challenge
Typically a task that does not necessarily has anything to do with tattooing itself, but is used to showcase the contestants' artistic skills using different mediums, subjects and "canvases." This is to show how different art forms can translate into the tattooing art world. Usually these skills tested in the Flash Challenge will be compulsory judging factor in the Elimination Tattoo.
Elimination tattoo
This stage starts with the winner of the Flash Challenge getting a privilege in this second stage, these perks can be first/only choice of which "skin" (client) they would like to tattoo or extra time, but is predetermined by the shows production team. Once each "Skin" is allocated to a contestant, a consultation period between artist and "skin" is given (typically in a set amount of time) and followed by chance to create the artwork overnight before tattooing the next day. The Elimination tattoos are performed simultaneously by all contestants and within a set amount of time. The judges then commences their critique where the best (and worst) tattoos of the week are recognized, the contestant that produces the worst tattoo is eliminated from the show until the final episode where one tattoo artist can claim ultimate bragging rights for "Best Ink."
Contestants
Season 1
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Contestant progress
Season 1
Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Flash Challenge Winner |
Charlie | Roman | Kyle | Alexis | Alexis | Charlie | London | N/A |
London | WIN | IN | IN | LOW | LOW | LOW | WIN | WINNER |
Alexis | IN | HIGH | IN | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | RUNNER-UP |
Jon | HIGH | IN | BTM2 | LOW | WIN | WIN | BTM2 | 3RD PLACE |
Charlie | IN | IN | WIN | IN | BTM2 | BTM2 | OUT | |
Nicky | IN | LOW | IN | IN | IN | OUT | ||
Kyle | IN | BTM2 | IN | BTM2 | OUT | |||
Jessica | LOW | LOW | LOW | OUT | ||||
Roman | IN | WIN | OUT | |||||
Meghan | BTM2 | OUT | ||||||
Tiffany | OUT |
- (WINNER) The contestant won Best Ink.
- (RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up.
- (WIN) The contestant won best tattoo of the week.
- (HIGH) The contestant had one of the best tattoos of the week, but did not win.
- (IN) The contestant was safe.
- (LOW) The contestant had one of the best tattoos of the week, but was voted into the bottom.
- (LOW) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week, but was the first to be called safe.
- (BTM2) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week and was the last to be called safe.
- (OUT) The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
Season 2
Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Flash Challenge Winner |
Melvin | Jerod | DJ | Dollarz | Tylor | Jerod | Teresa | DJ | Jerod | N/A |
Teresa | HIGH | IN | WIN | HIGH | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | IN | BTM2 | WINNER |
DJ | WIN | IN | IN | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | HIGH | WIN | RUNNER-UP |
Jerod | IN | HIGH | LOW | BTM2 | HIGH | LOW | IN | WIN | WIN | 3RD PLACE |
Alli | IN | IN | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | BTM2 | BTM2 | OUT | |
Brittany | IN | WIN | IN | IN | BTM2 | WIN | IN | OUT | ||
Derek | HIGH | IN | HIGH | LOW | LOW | BTM2 | OUT | |||
Tylor | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | IN | OUT | ||||
Ralph | IN | IN | HIGH | IN | OUT | |||||
Dollarz | IN | LOW | BTM2 | OUT | ||||||
Kelly | BTM2 | BTM2 | OUT | |||||||
Melvin | LOW | OUT | ||||||||
Carolyn | OUT |
Bold The contestant won immunity the previous week and was automatically safe the preceding week.
- (WINNER) The contestant won Best Ink.
- (RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up.
- (WIN) The contestant won best tattoo of the week, and received automatic immunity for the next week's Ink Challenge.
- (WIN) The contestant won best tattoo of the week, but did not receive automatic immunity for the next week's Ink Challenge.
- (HIGH) The contestant had one of the best tattoos of the week, but did not win.
- (IN) The contestant was safe.
- (LOW) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week, but was the first to be called safe.
- (BTM2) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week and was the last to be called safe.
- (OUT) The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
Best Ink: Redemption
Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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DJ | WIN | WIN | ||||||||
Jerod | WIN | OUT | ||||||||
Brittany | WIN | WIN | OUT | |||||||
Alli | OUT | |||||||||
Tylor | WIN | WIN | OUT | |||||||
Derek | OUT | |||||||||
Ralph | WIN | OUT | ||||||||
Melvin | WIN | WIN | WIN | OUT | ||||||
Dollarz | OUT | |||||||||
Kelly | OUT | |||||||||
Carolyn | OUT |
- The contestant won Best Ink Redemption.
- The contestant defeated the opposing contestant and was automatically sent to the next round.
- The contestant lost to the opposing contestant and was eliminated from Best Ink Redemption.
Season 3
Contestant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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Flash Challenge Winner |
Amy | May May |
Willy | Darnell | Joe | Danny | Darnell | Karly | Alayna | Karly | Darnell | N/A |
Karly | WIN | IN | IN | HIGH | IN | IN | WIN | WIN | IN | BTM2 | WIN | WINNER |
Darnell | HIGH | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | HIGH | IN | WIN | HIGH | BTM2 | RUNNER-UP |
Alayna | IN | IN | IN | BTM2 | WIN | IN | HIGH | HIGH | HIGH | IN | WIN | 3RD PLACE |
Willy | IN | WIN | HIGH | IN | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | HIGH | IN | WIN | OUT | |
Lara | LOW | IN | IN | IN | IN | HIGH | BTM2 | LOW | BTM2 | OUT | ||
Joe | IN | HIGH | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | IN1 | BTM2 | OUT | |||
Romeo | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | BTM2 | HIGH | OUT | ||||
Danny | IN | IN | IN | LOW | BTM2 | LOW | OUT | |||||
May May | HIGH | LOW | LOW | IN | LOW | OUT | ||||||
Anthony | IN | BTM2 | IN | IN | OUT | |||||||
Amy | IN | HIGH | BTM2 | OUT | ||||||||
Izzi | BTM2 | IN | OUT | |||||||||
Rudy | IN | OUT | ||||||||||
Carey | OUT |
Bold The contestant won immunity the previous week and was automatically safe the preceding week.
- (WINNER) The contestant won Best Ink.
- (RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up.
- (WIN) The contestant won best tattoo of the week, and received automatic immunity for the next week's Ink Challenge.
- (WIN) The contestant won best tattoo of the week, but did not receive automatic immunity for the next week's Ink Challenge.
- (HIGH) The contestant had one of the best tattoos of the week, but did not win.
- (IN) The contestant was safe.
- (LOW) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week, but was the first to be called safe.
- (BTM2) The contestant had one of the worst tattoos of the week and was the last to be called safe.
- (OUT) The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
- ^Note 1 : Joe was originally supposed to be in the bottom 3, but since he had won the Ink Challenge the previous week he was automatically safe.
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Finale | |
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1 | 8 | March 27, 2012 | May 15, 2012 | |
2 | 10 | April 3, 2013 | June 5, 2013 | |
3 | 12 | December 4, 2013 | February 26, 2014 |
Season 1 (2012)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
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1 | 1 | "Something to Hide" | March 27, 2012 | 0.46[11] |
2 | 2 | "Pin-up Showdown" | April 3, 2012 | 0.33[12] |
3 | 3 | "Emotional Skin-Pact" | April 10, 2012 | 0.36[13] |
4 | 4 | "Tattoo Virgins" | April 17, 2012 | 0.31[14] |
5 | 5 | "Face Off" | April 24, 2012 | 0.53[15] |
6 | 6 | "Purrfect Ink" | May 1, 2012 | 0.52[16] |
7 | 7 | "The King of Ink" | May 8, 2012 | 0.44[17] |
8 | 8 | "For the Love of Ink" | May 15, 2012 | 0.44[18] |
Season 2 (2013)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
---|---|---|---|---|
9 | 1 | "Bigger and Badder" | April 3, 2013 | 0.49[19] |
10 | 2 | "I've Got a Secret" | April 10, 2013 | 0.33[20] |
11 | 3 | "A Family Affair" | April 17, 2013 | 0.49[21] |
12 | 4 | "Live Out Loud" | April 24, 2013 | 0.38[22] |
13 | 5 | "A Good Laugh" | May 1, 2013 | 0.35[23] |
14 | 6 | "I'm Sexy and I Know It" | May 8, 2013 | 0.44[24] |
15 | 7 | "Brand New Life" | May 15, 2013 | 0.58[25] |
16 | 8 | "Be Ready For Anything" | May 22, 2013 | 0.51[26] |
17 | 9 | "True Love" | May 29, 2013 | 0.37[27] |
18 | 10 | "Full Body of Work" | June 5, 2013 | N/A |
Season 3 (2013-14)
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (million) |
---|---|---|---|---|
19 | 1 | "The Seven Deadly Sins" | December 4, 2013 | N/A |
20 | 2 | "Playing Dirty" | December 11, 2013 | N/A |
21 | 3 | "Fight Club" | December 18, 2013 | N/A |
22 | 4 | "Pain in the Ribs" | January 1, 2014 | N/A |
23 | 5 | "Quittin' Time" | January 8, 2014 | N/A |
24 | 6 | "Science Friction" | January 15, 2014 | 0.35[28] |
25 | 7 | "Man and the Machine" | January 22, 2014 | N/A |
26 | 8 | "Life's a Beach" | January 29, 2014 | N/A |
27 | 9 | "Sexy Pin-ups" | February 5, 2014 | N/A |
28 | 10 | "Shock and Awe" | February 12, 2014 | N/A |
29 | 11 | "Crash and Burn" | February 19, 2014 | 0.56[29] |
30 | 12 | "The $100,000 Tattoo" | February 26, 2014 | N/A |
See also
References
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