LA Ink: Episode 10
Every week this show becomes less about tattoos and more about Kat’s personal life and client tragedies. This episode focuses on Kat’s new boyfriend with a gross, unironic mustache. Kat does a terrible...
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I believe this is the first episode of LA Ink where Kat doesn’t tattoo a celebrity. Instead she accompanies some girl’s lame sob story with equally lame lettering. “I came out, and my parents said they...
View ArticleTV Tattoo Artists: Step Up Your Game (LA Ink: Episode 12)
Television tattoo artists are in the unfortunate position of ambassadors between the tattoo world and the so-called “normal” world. It’s certainly less than ideal, but this is how TLC chooses to...
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Sunday at the Art Museum
Alana’s teen class yesterday at the Akron Art Museum went really well. Above is a picture of her getting ready. For the first half, she gave a slide lecture in the museum auditorium on the history of...
View ArticleAlana Interviewed by Cleveland Scene
Wherein they spell my lovely girlfriend’s name wrong, after she spelled it for them twice. Read about HIV and tattooing and piercing here. We cannot refuse someone services based on whether they have...
View ArticleLA Ink: Season 2 Episode 1
What’s up with the creepy new title credits that sound like the movie Seven? Kat talks a lot of shit about running a business, but she ran off and left Cory in charge. How can she expect her...
View ArticleLA Ink: Season 2 Episode 2
The previews for this show frame it in such a way to suggest a lot of drama will happen each episode. But this is almost entirely gimmick, and very little actually happens. It took until the end of the...
View ArticleLA Ink: Season 2 Episode 3
The theme of the episode is Kat’s dramatized self-intervention. She gets wasted, says something to upset her boyfriend and decides to stop drinking. Hmm, probably a good idea since her party antics got...
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Some of Alana’s Derek Hess tattoos have made their way onto his site. Though I’m not a fan of Derek Hess’ work, Alana really enjoys tattooing his designs since the style and line work are drastically...
View ArticleLA Ink: Season 2 Episode 4
The first tattoo of this episode is a crane on a girl’s ribcage. As Kat’s applying the stencil some dude Corey’s tattooing is ogling her and making rude comments. If this ever happened to me when I was...
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