"Male announcer:" "Tonight on "Ink Master:" "Redemption"..." " We have so many canvases that come here into this shop hoping for an amazing tattoo and leave here totally heartbroken." "What happens to them?" "announcer:" "Two artists return..." " Back again." "announcer:" "For a shot at redemption." " "Ink Master" is about to blessed with St. Marq's presence once again." " This is my chance to prove to the world that I'm a badass tattoo artist." " What's up, my man?" " This cannot possibly be something that I did." "announcer:" "Stakes are raised, and the artists are forced to clean up their own mess..." " You can't take the needle in her hand out, can you?" " No, I mean, you can't take anything out." "What am I doing here?" "announcer:" "And fix their original tattoos." " Looks pretty good." " This wasn't your best work." " You're being a little dramatic." " We'll see, man." "announcer:" "Or lose their shot at redemption." " He had everything to lose." "I have nothing to lose." "If he [bleep] up, I'll be sure to ruin his life." "Is that white in there?" " This time, redemption is much harder to come by." "[electricity crackles] [rock music]" " My name is Ty'esha Reels." "I was one season five of "Ink Master."" "This is my chance to take Emily down." " Yours looks way better." " Working in the tattooing industry," "I've always been underestimated as a female Native American lesbian." " You are going home!" " I'm done with this conversation." " You gonna go cry?" " Barbie bitch." " Look at the white with the red around it." "It's a mess up there." " Yes." " What's she so excited about?" " She thinks her [bleep]'s better than everybody else's." "She got flaws too." " Wow, do you guys have a little tension going on there?" " Y'all want to switch rivals?" " Yeah." "♪" " The pressure of the show actually damaged me a little." "I questioned whether I should even be a tattoo artist any longer." "Moving shops here in Pittsburg definitely changed the way I tattoo." " Hey, Ty!" " Yo." "I get to work with Sarah Miller, and it's improved my skill level, like, immensely." " "Ink Master" called you back?" " Yeah, yes." "For "Redemption."" " Oh, my God." " It's time for a..." "little comeback." "♪" "All right." "[foreboding music]" "Back again." "This is my chance to prove to the world that I'm a badass tattoo artist." "Oh, man, right now I'm a little anxious." " Meghan, welcome back." "So your artist was Ty'esha?" " Yes." " You must all tattoo a pinup." " The tattoo was nothing like what we had talked about." " On paper, the design?" " I'm a nurse." "I want it represent that." "Plus, my dad was in the army so it's... kind of was a tattoo for him." "Like, wanted her to have a big gun and look like she was on the battlefield." "I don't want her to be like the typical nurse, holding that big syringe needle." "And she has a ginormous needle sticking right towards her." " At a certain point though, you let her put it on you." " I did." " Why did you do that?" " It was kind of like heat of the moment, and I just felt like I trust her, maybe it will come out better than what it looks like on paper." " You know that's a gamble." " It is." " The judges were extremely harsh when it came to critiquing your tattoo." " The mouth, the cheek, and the nose make this thing not aesthetically pleasing." " Those feet wouldn't be able to keep her upright." "I mean, they're tiny, tiny little feet." "There's no craftsmanship in this." "You don't care enough." " How upsetting was it for you that this memorial piece ended up being one of the worst?" " It felt like he would kind of look there and be like," ""why are you putting that on you?" kind of thing." "I wanted it to be something a little more beautiful, even though it was supposed to be like a war... a war tattoo." " Of course, so we need to make this thing right." "I have Ty'esha in the shop." "I'd like to offer you the opportunity to confront her and possibly talk to her about getting this tattoo reworked." "She can draw something up, present you the design." "If you like that design, you get that tattoo." "If you don't like it, you bounce." " Okay." " All right, Meghan." "Head into the shop." "Ty'esha's in there waiting for you." "I did trust Ty'esha and I feel kind of like I got played." "I hate drama, but I really need to tell Ty'esha how she messed up this tattoo." "[dramatic music]" " Oh, man." "Hi." " Hi." " I didn't think that I would be seeing you." "What's up?" " Well, my pinup." "It just wasn't what we had talked about." "I wanted her to kind of be badass, in memory of my dad, who was in the army." "I wanted her to have a big gun, look like she's at war, and she kind of just looks like she's there with the needle in her hand, which, I hate it 'cause..." " Really?" " I feel like it's like pointing at her face." "And I'd like to try to fix her." " You still want to add a gun to it and all that good stuff?" " Possibly, in place of the needle that she has?" " Well, I can't take it off and move it." " Her face doesn't look so pretty to me either." "I would cover her face with like a mask or something." " Okay." "[rock music]" "♪" " My name is St. Marq;" "I'm from West Lafayette, Indiana." "I'm from season six of "Ink Master"." "[dramatic music pounds]" " I am St. [bleep] Marq." "I am a tattoo god." " Chris, St. Marq, you must now face off for survival." " I've been told my tattoos feel like baby angel kisses." " Here we are with two of our strongest competitors." "St. Marq, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "I was brought back to season seven obviously because I'm a competitor." " Welcome back, St. Marq." " Good to be back." "I can't help if it the spotlight finds me." "I definitely have a target on my back." " St. Marq, please pack your machines and close shop." " You're a great tattooer." "It's the way it went, man." "I know you love the game." " Ha, I love it." " You're sadistic." "I know that I'm crass and may come off as an asshole sometimes, but I'm a family man." " Doesn't it look awesome?" " It does look awesome." "There's no chance in hell that any of those canvases weren't happy with every tattoo that I did." "♪" "Apparently someone has prayed to the tattoo gods and I have answered." ""Ink Master" is about to be blessed with St. Marq's presence once again." "Well, I know for sure that this cannot possibly be something that I did." "So I'm here to help out some poor schmuck." " Junior, welcome back." " Thank you." " So your artist was St. Marq?" " Correct." " Today, you must create Egyptian tattoos." " Got to hurry and get this headdress done so I can get on to that snake." "This is excited." " Looks like a damn picture." " I remember you looking at it going, "Yeah, man, this is... "" " [bleep] pumped, it was darker." " You were so happy." " Yeah, it was dark, it looked real good, it looked like it had lighting on it." "It's faded now, it looks like it's 50 years old." " It's not crisp." " It's not crisp at all." "The detail's not there." "It's... a bunch of black." "I'm pissed." "He was really good at making me feel "comfortable."" "How long you been tattooing?" " 25 years." " 25 years, nice, man." "That's a good thing, good thing." " I'm very confident." " Right, right, right." " You've got one of the strongest players in the whole house." "Yeah, they are very afraid." " He does talk a good game." " I don't want to say I'm embarrassed, but..." "I mean, 'cause I was on "Ink Master"..." "I was able to, you know, meet people like you." " Yeah, it's still a cool experience..." " Yeah, still cool experience." " But you got to live with it." " Experience doesn't outweigh something I have to have on my arm for the rest of my life." " Exactly." " You know, if I want to wear a short sleeve, or take off my shirt..." " Oh, yeah." " I kind of want to be like..." "you know what I mean, like..." " [ laughs] - "Hey, nothing's over here."" " As you're watching the judges' commentary, does your heart kind of sink into your stomach?" " You need to put some details in the snake." "And the beard, you could have lined that out, put some more sharp, crisp details in there." "This kind of tattoo is kind of the absence of detail." " I saw your guys' criticism was, and I'm like, "Damn, he's right."" " Do you want to confront St. Marq?" " Yeah." "Hell yeah, I do." " All right, I have St. Marq here." "I'm gonna give you the opportunity to go into the shop and tell him what you think." " Oh, I will." " If you guys can make peace and if you feel comfortable," "I can get him to rework this thing for you." "If you don't want to do that, you're out of here, it's all good." " He needs to not talk, sit down, make a good tattoo, and redeem himself, because this right here is garbage." " Why don't you head into the shop?" " Let's do it." " Go say hello to St. Marq." " I'm back because I'm pissed, man." "I want to tell this [bleep] tattoo artist that calls himself, you know, "the tattoo god"" ""You're not a tattoo god."" "He has everything to lose, I have nothing to lose." "[dramatic music]" " What's up, my man?" " Did not expect to see you." " I know, I know." " No, not at all." " I hear you, but, uh, I'm a little disappointed." "You want to take a quick look?" " Let's have a look." " Sure." " Oh, it looks pretty good." "What's the problem?" " I mean, faded." "It's very faded." "Then, you know, the lack of detail, you know, the outlining, wasn't happy about it, I mean..." " I'm still quite proud of that tattoo." " Of course, you're gonna be biased." " I think you're being a little dramatic." " This wasn't your best work." "[dramatic music]" " This wasn't your best work." " I think you're being a little dramatic." "I get such a response from my fans about this particular tattoo, over and over again." " Yeah, I have a rather decent following as well." "And it's... it's 50/50." "After the show, I started getting text messages." ""Hey, listen, Junior, that cobra, man, that doesn't even look like a cobra."" "And it does look like a 50-year-old tattoo, as opposed to a 1-year-old tattoo." "I have like 20 tattoos." "I don't like this one the most." "♪" " My pinup, it just wasn't what we had talked about." "Like, what do you think about it?" " I mean, I liked the piece, it didn't put you in the bottom, but I'm confident I can fix it up." " You think so?" " Definitely." " I really want to get this fixed, but if Ty'esha doesn't give me a design that I'm absolutely in love with, then I'm leaving today without a tattoo." "I'm not trying to make it any worse than it is now." " All right, now tell me right now what you would like to add to this tattoo." " You can't take the needle in her hand out, can you?" " No, I mean, you can't take anything out." "The only thing I can do is basically put a background in there." " I like horses." " Mm-hmm." " And maybe she could have, like, her horse next to her." " Okay." " She kind of, like, over her head with something else." "I don't even care what it was." "I was even thinking like stars and stripes?" " I mean..." " Just a flag." " Okay." " Like, just black and grey." "No color, I don't want blue and red." " I'm with the flag, but I'm gonna have it fade off at the end." " Okay." " And I was also thinking of maybe some bombs, maybe like standing up, some falling over." " Nothing too much." " Yeah." "If there's anything else you want to add, now's the time." "You think that's it?" " I think that's it, yeah." " Okay." "♪" " I would like to see some outlining, some detailing." "Working with what you have here, that you can get more detail right here..." " Oh, for sure." "For sure, for sure." "Yes." "During the time we had to work with," "I was trying to nail those tones and make sure that everything was really smooth, which I think we achieved." " Okay, I mean, uh..." " Given another session on this," "I really think with some added contrast and saturation," "I think we can make it pop." " I need it to pop, man." "I need it to pop." "It's on my body." "I want him... for one day, just say, "You know what, enough with the antics."" "Let me sit down and give this guy a great tattoo."" "Because it's me..." "I'm the one leaving with the tattoo if I decide to get it." "I want to see you put it together first." " Okay, I appreciate you giving a shot at doing that." " All right, we'll see." "[dramatic music]" " This is the ultimate redemption because" "I get to fix my mistakes." " I get to let my canvas walk away, not with a brand new tattoo, with a tattoo that I fixed." "She gets to be happy with that." "I have to get my redemption." " All right!" "Ty'esha, come on down." "This is a rework of a military-themed pinup." "What did you tell Ty'esha that you weren't happy with?" " I don't like how the hand looks and how the needle's kind of pointing at her face." " Can you fix something like that?" "I mean, it's..." " I believe so, yeah." " Do you really?" " Yeah." "I mean, this is what I do for a living." "I do a lot of cover-ups and I do a lot of fixer-uppers." "It kills me to have someone walk around with a tattoo they're unhappy with." "I'm gonna give her what she wants." "I'm gonna fix this tattoo." " Let's see what you got, Ty'esha." " All righty." "Check it out." "I know you wanted the flag in the background and I know you wanted to take the syringe out so I added an AK in there." "I added a little bit of background, some smoke." "And I added some bombs to cover up the feet, just to pull the whole piece together." " Redemption on the line for Ty'esha." "I know it's an important tattoo." "What's it gonna be?" " It... there's no pressure." "There's no time restraints." "I don't have to worry about any of the bull[bleep] in the house." "It's just me and you." "[dramatic music pounds]" " I think I'll let you do that one." "You nailed it." "I think she looks definitely more badass." "The design is totally what I wanted in the first place." "Love it." " I'm excited." " All right, Ty'esha." " Thank you very much." " Good luck." "Carry on, guys." " Pretty cool design, huh?" " I love it." "♪" " I think that this tattoo looks great already, but I am gonna take this great tattoo and I'm gonna knock it out of this universe." "I'm feeling pretty confident." "I don' think this guy's gonna pass up another chance to be tattooed by me." " Guys, what's up?" "St. Marq, come on back." "Tattoo god, behold!" "So you're gonna offer Junior a reworking?" " No, I wouldn't say it's so much of a rework as like a... a finishing session." " Okay, so you admit that it's not finished?" " Well, there was a time constraint." "And I..." "I admit if I would have had more time, there definitely would have been more... more happening." " Do you want to see what he came up with?" " Sure, let's see." "[tense music]" " Really, what I would like to do, essentially another pass of texture and detail that we just couldn't get to the first time." "I'd like to add some... some motion and fill your arm up too." " I have a question for you." "What's this stain-ish look right here?" " Oh, I'm gonna like crack..." "crack the statue up." " And then is that an addition right here?" " I thought maybe like a glowing eye of Ra like, to be something..." " Okay." "to set it off at the top of your shoulder." " So is that white in there?" " I would like to plan on doing some... some white highlights, for sure;" "Just in small areas to kind of definitely give it that crisp pop that I think you're looking for too." "[tense music]" " Okay." " We're gonna have a lot of..." "lot of black pushed into it, like around the face that's just really gonna make that... that energy pop right there." " I mean, it doesn't look all that different than what's on his arm." "[dramatic music pounds]" " Well, there's... there's nothing really about the tattoo" "I have to correct." "[rock music]" " It doesn't look all that different than what's on his arm." " Well, there's..." "there's nothing really about the tattoo I have to correct." " So what do you say, man?" "Are you thinking about getting this?" " We got this, me and you." " Ahh." " So you can take an out-of-focus King Tut and get it slightly less out-of-focus." " I can't get it to be as black on the paper as I can make it on your arm." " Of course, of course." " But yeah, I think, uh, a good dose of black will, uh, take care of it." " I know that redemption's on the line for you." "I know that line work isn't something that you love to do." "But I need you to use whatever it is that's in your forte to make this tattoo pop." " I will do my best." "I'll incorporate some lines." " You want to make it right?" " I do." " Let's do it, man." " All right, thank you." " Let's do it." " Awesome, thank you." " All right." "Looks like we got a deal." "Have at it, guys." "Am I [bleep] crazy or does that look exactly like what's on the guy's arm?" "He's taking a blurry King Tut and changing it magically into another blurry King Tut." "This is crazy." "♪" " All right, this is gonna be a toughie, to get the stencil lined up with the actual tattoo, but we'll manage." "[mumbling] This is gonna be so difficult." "It's tough to line up a stencil with a preexisting tattoo because every little part has to match up." "[mumbling] Okay, just a little bit off." "It can get a little frustrating." "So if this trip I don't get it on," "I'm gonna cut it into pieces and put it on like that." " Okay." " I'm a little nervous." "I want to get it right." "And I want it to look good because it's a representation of her and her father." "Yep, I'm gonna break this bad boy up." "I'm gonna cut it up." "♪" " We are not gonna stop tattooing, I'll tell you that." " Sounds good." "[rock music]" "♪" " Going from my initial interactions with you," "I don't think you're a dickhead." " I'm a sweetie pie." " But seeing the show, and I saw how you were with the other artists." " My aggressive attitude could be attributed to the fact that it's a competition setting." " All right." " Trying to stay on their minds, 24/7." "I want them going to sleep, dreaming about me, waking up, the first face they see is mine." "[laughs] [rock music]" " It's my chance to redeem myself, not mess up again." "Hell, yeah." "That looks awesome." "Ready for some fun?" " I'm ready." "♪" "What's the pressure like when you're on the show?" " When you have, like, so many other personalities, it's really stressful." " Lot of drama." " Yeah, yeah, too much drama." "And I feel like I got caught up in the drama, and I wish I hadn't." "I wish I would have kept my head in the tattoos and that's it." "♪" " All right." "Time to check this bad boy out." "[tense music]" " This looks crazy, man." "I like the detail now, man." " Yeah, the black really made his face pop out." " I like it." "It looks bold, you know?" "Definitely not afraid to show this off now." "I might wear tank tops again, you know." " That's what I want to hear." " St. Marq, Junior, come on over." "Junior, what do you think?" " I love it, man." " Yeah?" "How do you feel?" " I'm really..." "I was worried at first, but I'm glad I came back." " Why were you..." "I've never seen you worry about anything." " It wasn't worry about making me happy." " Yeah." " Yeah, that... that's a given." "But I wanted to make him happy and I think I succeeded." " Let me step back a little bit because you know what's crazy?" "Is it really does read from here." " The black really makes it light up." "I got to be honest, I was concerned." " I was concerned too, to be honest with you." " Well, I thought he was just kind of doing what he does and just kind of making another version of the same thing." " He listened, you know, I asked him if he could just make it bold and he listened, definitely." "He added to it, as you can see on top." " I got to say, this stuff here, it just... sits really nice." " Loving it, man." " That sounds a lot like redemption to me." " Yeah, absolutely." " Junior is now leaving with an even more badass tattoo than he had before." "Another canvas has been blessed by the touch of the tattoo god." " Congratulations." "Junior, congratulations." "♪" " We are done." " Awesome." " Let's check it out in the mirror." "[tense music]" " It looks a thousand times better." "Her face is completely different." "Her body looks better." "Got rid of that needle out of her hand." "I really do love it." "It's gorgeous." " Do you think your dad would be proud of you?" " I think he would be happy with it." " That's all I want to hear." " This tattoo was such a better memorial to my dad." "Everything that I originally dreamed that this tattoo was gonna be, she was able to make it for me." "I'm so happy that I put my trust in you because I love it now." " Ladies, bring it down here." "[rock music]" "Wow." "It's a totally different tattoo." "I got to say, and no offense, but I have not seen that quality of tattooing out of you since I've known you." " I'm like totally more comfortable without the drama, without the competition over my head." "I can focus on the tattoo." " For sure." " You know, I can focus on my canvas." " Big question." "Redemption for Ty'esha, what do you say?" " I'd say definitely yes." "It's like a completely different girl on my leg." " I got my redemption." "And now when she looks down at this tattoo, she sees that badass pinup." "I'm proud of that." " Hey, congratulations." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Bye, guys." " Thank you so much!" " Thank you, ahh!" "Thank you for letting me do this." "[rock music] [rock music]" "♪" "[hip-hop music]" " ♪ Oh, oh, original"