Ink Master (season 1)

Ink Master (season 1)
Country of origin United States
Release
Original network Spike
Original release January 17 (2012-01-17) – March 6, 2012 (2012-03-06)

Ink Master (season 1) is the first season of the Spike tattooing competition series, Ink Master.

The show follows the lives of ten tattoo artists competing against each other in an elimination-style competition leaving the last person standing with the title of Ink Master and a $100,000 grand prize. The show is hosted and judged by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro. Other judges include former Miami Ink cast member Chris Núñez, and accomplished tattoo artist Oliver Peck.

The winner was Shane O'Neill of Middletown, Delaware.

The success of the show lead to six more seasons, with season 7 premiering on March 1, 2016.

Second Runner-Up James Vaughn returned to the show for Ink Master Revenge (season 7). He was the last veteran artist to come to the competition, arriving in Episode 8.

Format

Episodes begin with a Flash Challenge, a task that usually does not deal with tattooing itself, but has contestants utilize skills related to tattooing in an unusual way. Most of the time the skills highlighted in the Flash Challenge will be needed to complete the Elimination Tattoo. The winner of the Flash Challenge gets to pick which human canvas they would like to tattoo during the elimination tattoo, while other contestants are assigned a canvas by random draw. The contestants are then given a chance to meet with their canvas before tattooing them the next day when they will be given a set amount of time to do the tattoo. A judging panel then commences where the best tattoos of the week are recognized, the weak tattoos are pointed out and one contestant is eliminated from the competition.[1]

Contestants and Progress

Flash Challenge Progress

Episode Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Most wins
Flash Challenge
Winner		 Josh Bili Al Josh Shane Tommy Shane Josh
Shane
2 wins
Contestant Elimination chart
Artist Name [2] Age Hometown 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Shane O'Neill 39 Middletown, Delaware HIGH IN WIN HIGH IN WIN WIN INK MASTER
Tommy Helm 38 Brentwood, New York WIN IN IN IN IN LOW HIGH RUNNER UP
James Vaughn 38 Asheboro, North Carolina IN WIN IN IN HIGH LOW LOW FINALIST
Josh Woods 30 Nashville, Tennessee IN IN LOW LOW WIN HIGH OUT
Léa Vendetta 40 Boca Raton, Florida IN LOW HIGH WIN LOW OUT
Bili Vegas 29 New York, New York IN IN LOW LOW OUT
Heather Sinn 41 Los Angeles, California IN IN IN OUT
Al Fliction 42 Brooklyn, New York IN LOW OUT
Jeremy Miller 27 Austin, Texas LOW OUT
Brian "B-TAT" Robinson 30 East Orange, New Jersey OUT

Credit Order: Shane, Al, Léa, James, B-TAT, Josh, Tommy, Jeremy, Heather, Bili

     The contestant won the competition and was named Ink Master.
     The contestant was the runner-up on Ink Master.
     The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
     The contestant won the flash challenge but was eliminated from the competition.
     The contestant won best tattoo of the week.
     The contestant was given an honourable mention.
     The contestant was considered to be in the top
     The contestant was in the Bottom 2/3.

Episodes

Episode 1: Fresh Meat

First aired January 17, 2012

Episode 2: Botched Head Tattoo

"First aired January 24, 2012"

Episode 3: Pasties and a Camel Toe

First aired January 31, 2012

Episode 4: Ink Disaster Piece

First aired February 7, 2012

Episode 5: Game On

First aired February 14, 2012

Episode 6: Permanent Mistakes

First aired February 21, 2012

Episode 7: Picture Imperfect

First aired February 28, 2012

Episode 8: Ink Master Revealed

First aired March 6, 2012

The final three compete in an 18-hour tattoo marathon. The winner of Ink Master is revealed.

Chris Nuñez stated that Tommy Helm's pin-up girl was the best tattoo all season. Tommy chose a pin-up to show the panel he was capable of doing a gorgeous pin-up with perfect hands and a perfect face. Oliver Peck also mentioned that he felt that Tommy's 12-hour tattoo of a grim reaper was his most "bad ass" tattoo.

Judges

Guest judges

Spinoffs

References

  1. ↑ Knowles, David (13 January 2012). "Ink Master: TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Ink Master (7 December 2011). "Ink Master To Premiere Tuesday, January 17 On Spike". Spike. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Spike. "Tattoo Nightmares: Bios - Tommy Helm". Spike. Retrieved 4 December 2012.

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