"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode..." " A girl needs to go home." " We've got to start going for heavy hitters." "announcer:" "The sexes battled for control." " I've got to win this thing right now and take out one of these girls." " We're going to fight just as hard or harder than every single man in this house." "In this skull pick, we're ensuring our place..." " Mm-hmm." " In Peck's top five." " Now you got two girls paired up against all the guys." "announcer:" "In the elimination tattoo, the females had the power..." " I got the worst canvas in the room." "It would suck to make it all this way and not go to the top five." " I have to be extra careful." "There is zero room for error." "announcer:" "And Gia learned having the advantage isn't everything." " Gia is my girl, and I am seriously worried." "You need to fight." "You could potentially go home." " If Gia goes down there, she's gone." " You get rid of one of 'em." "That's the ultimate way to [bleep] with their emotions." "announcer:" "In the elimination," "Nate, Mike, Boneface, and Gia were the bottom four." " Nate." " These saturation issues that you have..." " Man, I totally understand." " A little bit of a technical slip could slip you right out the door." " Mike, that thing is anatomically all over the place." "It just looks like she was in a blender." "Boneface." " It's camouflage without having a camouflage pattern on it." " All you have with me is contrast." " It's [bleep] dark." " If that's the best that he can go, like, how much further can he go?" " You haven't done anything yet but make promises on what you can do." " I did." " Well, Gia, once you start looking at anatomical issues, there is no calf." "There is no distinguishing shape." "If you're gonna do a beautiful pinup, you don't want to give her cankles." " The judges have decided." "Gia, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." "[dramatic rock music]" "♪ announcer:" "Ten artists remain, but only one will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." "[rock music]" "♪" "[upbeat music]" "♪" " I hope Boneface goes home." "It's his turn." " Mike." " Oh, my God." "I'm so nervous." " [exclaims]" " Ooh." " [gasps]" "Get the [bleep] out of here." "Are you [bleep] kidding me right now?" " So Gia's gone." "Damn." " How does anyone look at Gia's tattoo and feel like it was a worse tattoo than the other three?" "It's crazy to me." " It is crazy." " It's insanity." " I don't think so, man." "I thought Gia was going down there." " But it's unfair." " Hey, y'all wanted the [bleep] best." "You're getting the best now." " Shut the [bleep] up." " You're mad." "You're pissed off." " There could've been one person here that I feel could've gone home more than Gia." " Then say the name." "He knows you're talking about him." "He's standing right [bleep] there." " I'm just glad the judges have the final say-so and not the people in the room." "I'm here, and I'm not gonna let anybody make me feel like I don't deserve to be here." " Wow." "God." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Welcome." "Congratulations on making it to the top ten." "♪" "However, only one of you will win $100,000, a feature in "Inked" magazine, and the title of Ink Master." " [bleep] yeah." " Also on the line is a guest spot at Chris' shop, Hand Crafted, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Oliver's shop, Elm Street Tattoo, in Dallas, Texas." "You are the five strongest artists on Team Peck and on Team Nuñez, and this battle is about to get even more brutal." "From this point on, no one is safe from elimination." " And today is the first day that it's everybody tattooing." "It's everybody in it." "Who excels and who fails completely decides who goes." "Play the game and win." "You're up against everybody." " Everyone's out for each other." "This competition's finally started." " Today there is no flash challenge." "Your next elimination tattoo is happening right now." "There is no jury of peers." "It is all up to the judges." " Right in the moment that you start to feel comfortable, [bleep] hits the fan." "It's do or die." " This week, we're testing your adaptability." " Adaptability is being able to handle whatever canvas comes your way and whatever kind of conditions you're facing." "If a tattoo artist doesn't have good adaptability, they're going to crack under pressure." " And today you have an intense challenge ahead of you." "You must create a 12-hour tattoo for your canvas' head." " Tattooing somebody's head is completely different from tattooing anywhere else on the body." "Not only does it hurt a lot, but there's the dome shape and ear." "It makes for a very strange composition." " The brain has two distinct lobes." "The left side of the brain handles logical thought, and the right side of the brain handles creativity." "You must find a way to reflect that in your design." "You'll have six hours to tattoo the left lobe today and six hours to tattoo the right lobe tomorrow." " A 12-hour tattoo in one spot is hard enough, but both sides of your head... these canvases are out of their minds." "They're going to be in a world of hurt." " This is a seriously intense tattoo challenge." "Two days in a row, all on the head... the smart person will not torture this person the first day so that they tap out and cannot handle coming back and getting tattooed the second day." " Kelly, you won Team Nuñez's last elimination tattoo, and Gian, you won Team Peck's last elimination tattoo." "Because there is no flash challenge, the two of you will assign all of the human canvases together." " The people Gian is gunning for are the people that I'm trying to save, so we might have a fight on our hands." " Let's meet your canvases." "♪" "Kelly and Gian, remember, it's every man for himself or herself, so be strategic." " Let's have a talk, you and me." " Well, I don't want to shoot at Eric or Sketchy right now." "How about this idea:" "You choose two people, and I choose two people." "I don't want the girls to keep winning, and I really want to shoot at Ryan or Nikki, but sharing a skull pick with Kelly, there's just no way to do that." "Who do you want to choose?" "Are you gonna choose your girls?" " I'm taking my girls." " All right, cool." "So let's do this thing." " What were you thinking of getting?" " For my logical side," "I was thinking, like, a trash polka enclosed maze, and then, on the creative, a old-school microphone." " You'll just have to talk him out of it." " For my logical side, an hourglass with a skull in it." "Then I want a little family tree and some other little things." "Motor for a motorcycle." "For my right side..." "I'm a cabinet installer, so I want some kind of tools." "I want a skull, and it's got an American flag on it." " [bleep]." " This guy has so many ridiculous ideas." "He wants enough tattoos to fit a back." "Dude, this is your head." "Calm it down." " For the logical side, black and gray... kind of photo-realism maze, and then, for the creative side, something to incorporate autism for my son." " Tough one." " The 3D maze..." "I have no idea how to approach that tattoo." "I don't want to go anywhere near that." " My lady." " I'm not sure what the strategy is, but I really hope their target is on Boneface." "Boneface is still here, and Gia is not." "I think that's [bleep] up." "♪" " I tried to do right by everyone." " All right, canvases, one by one, please reveal the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Gian." " Kevin." " SketchyLawyer." " Eric." " Nate." " Kelly and Gian give me the canvas that wants anything he could possibly imagine." "Thanks a lot, guys." " Ryan." " Mike." " Nikki." " Kelly." "♪" " Boneface." " Good luck." " You'll have six hours today to tattoo the left side of the head and six hours tomorrow to tattoo the right side of the head." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "Good luck." " How's it going, man?" " How's it going?" " Good." " So far in this competition, we've had:" "one week it's Team Nuñez." "One week it's Team Peck." " I'm really excited about your tattoo, if you can't tell by the huge smile on my face." " Now that we're down to the top ten, everybody is competing every challenge." "No longer are we gonna look at report cards." "It's worst tattoo of the day goes home." "Top, top artists now can go home with one bad tattoo." " Are you against the maze being shaped like anything?" " No." "Hey, you're the artist, man." " I've never done a tattoo like this on the head before, but my technical application is what kept me here." "My tattoo is gonna be the cleanest one in the room." " I really wanted the hourglass with the skull." " We're not really working with that much space." " I mean, like, a little square or a tape measure..." " All these different items..." "none of 'em go together." "I got to try and get rid of some of this stuff." "♪" " Okay, artists, you have six hours to tattoo the left side of your canvas' head." "Your time... starts now." " Cool." " Left side brain." " Just gonna shave you a little bit." " All right." "Sounds good." " Tattooing a head calls for adaptability." "Every head's different." "It's a different surface." "There's a different skin type, a different skin tone, and a different shape, and you have to plan for all of it." " You guys are gonna look like straight-up badasses." " [chuckles]" " We are at an equal place in the competition." "It's my top five versus Oliver's top five." "I hope this week, somebody from Team Peck goes." "I hope every week, somebody from Team Peck goes." "[tattoo machine buzzing]" " What's up, Oliver?" " Getting nervous." " Getting nervous?" " Yeah, man." "It could be anybody now." " Yeah." "I was in the bottom last week, but I think I'm getting back in the groove." "This game is tripping me out." " Yeah." " So far, I have not shown the best representation of my work." "The report cards aren't gonna matter anymore." "I just know I have to do a great tattoo." "♪ [tattoo machine buzzing]" " So you went pretty big with it." " Yeah." "After some smooth talking," "I got my canvas to agree that some of the things that he wants on the left side of his head can be flipped to the right side of his head." "I just felt like it was too small." "With all the stuff he wanted, it would be... it'd be crazy trying to get it done." "I made it easier today for myself, but I am dreading tomorrow." " Four hours left, you guys." "Four hours remaining." "♪" " You got gentle hands." "Loving it." " I'm very light-handed." "I'm a lady tattooer, and I tattoo like a lady." "♪" "Now that Gia got eliminated, there are only three of us left, and if we want to survive this thing, we're gonna have to pull together." "♪" "I don't care about Team Peck." "I want to be alongside those two girls in the end." " These females can knock off some of these dudes easily." " All right, right now, who's out of here?" " Based on these?" " Just right this second." " Mike." "It's like that pinup." "It's like... it's just like..." " I'm just worried about Nate." "I think that Nate is the one who has to battle with problems." " We're mano a mano, five on five." "What if my team takes you all the way down to your last two?" " Then my last two people will be in the finale." "♪" " May the best team win, buddy." " My canvas is whimpering with pain." "I have just screwed myself over so bad." " I want to beat the [bleep] out of these boys." " Why not Kelly?" "She's gonna take your money." "Why are you not concerned about her?" "You guys get too [bleep] emotional." "That's all I got to say." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " You have 30 minutes remaining." "♪" " I'm showing adaptability by doing a three-hour tattoo in six hours' time so I can keep her tough and ready for tomorrow." "Tomorrow might suck a little more 'cause we're gonna have a little more detail." " Right." "I'm not overdoing it, but I'm not underdoing it either." "[exciting music]" "♪" " Oh, my God." " We've got this little back guy over here." " [groans]" " My canvas is whimpering with pain." " [groaning]" " This is kind of a big tattoo." "There's no way she's gonna be able to sit through another tattoo tomorrow." "I have just screwed myself over so bad." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Oh, I just made it." " Holy [bleep]." "I love it." "That is awesome." "Thank you very much." " Nice job." " Nice." " Boneface just slapped an image on the side of this guy's head without putting any creativity or thought into it." " I like it." "It is good placement." " Get the hell out of here, dude." "♪" " Gia went home yesterday, and that lit a fire inside of me." "I want to beat the [bleep] out of these boys." " Why the boys?" "Why not Kelly, 'cause she's gonna take your money?" " This is the eighth round of this competition, and there hasn't been a female to win this yet." " Yeah, you don't really know what it's like." " Dude, stop playing the [bleep] vagina card." " I'm not playing the vagina card." " Seriously, y'all are pulling the vagina card." "I'm not cool with that, dude." " Yes." " Just [bleep] off." " If y'all win, then you know what?" "Congratulations." "It doesn't matter if it's a guy or a girl." " Listen, just because..." "Sketchy..." " See, I'm done with this." " Says a white man." " Yeah, well, I pull the white guy card." " Captain Privilege." " You know why a girl hasn't won?" "Because you guys get too [bleep] emotional." " Oh, is that what girls do?" " That's all I got to say about it." " [bleep] you for thinking that my emotions are a detriment." " Listen to yourself." "You're getting emotional right now." " And I have beat you several times already." " I'm done with the man thing." "I'm the [bleep] man, and I'm [bleep] winning." "[bleep] it." " The drama queen in this house has a blond beard, and he just stormed out the door." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Skulls?" " Yesterday, you tattooed the left side of the brain for the first six hours of a 12-hour head tattoo, and you're being judged on adaptability." "One of the best ways to prove your adaptability is to finish what someone else started." " What?" " That's right." "You must all swap canvases." "Today, another artist will be finishing what you started, and you must finish what someone else started, tattooing the right side of someone else's brain." " Hell, yeah." "Hallelujah." "Now somebody can deal with what I had to deal with yesterday." " On the bottom of the skulls are numbers." "You will each draw a skull to determine a picking order." "You will then select which head tattoo you want to complete." "You cannot pick your own tattoo, and you cannot touch the left side of the head." " You're gonna have two tattoos against everybody else's two tattoos." "We're gonna judge everybody overall, but we are also heavily taking into consideration how well you match the head tattoo you had to complete." " This is total chess." " One by one, please choose a skull." "Boneface, you're up first." "♪" " Number six." " Kevin." " Eight." " Eric." " Number two." " Nate." " Seven." " Kelly." " Three." " Sketchy, come on up." "♪" " [laughs] Ten." "[bleep] ten." "I basically have to do the tattoo that no one else wants." "Oh, [bleep] this." " Gian." " Nine." " Five." " Four." " And finally Nikki." " I got one, and you don't." "Yeah." " All right, that's the picking order." "Let's bring in the canvases." "♪" "Canvases, please show us your tattoos." "♪" " Nikki, you're up first." "Which canvas do you choose?" " I'm going with Gian's canvas." "I want to show the judges that I have what it takes to go up against anybody in this competition, especially Gian." " Eric." " I'm gonna take Ryan's canvas." " Kelly." " Sketchy's canvas." " Mike." " I'll take Boneface's canvas." " Ryan." " I'll take Eric's canvas." " Oh, well, head-to-head battle." " Boneface." " I'm gonna take Nikki's canvas." "I'm taking Nikki's canvas because it'll allow me to show that I can tattoo ten times better than Nikki." " Nate." " I'm gonna take Mike's canvas." "Mike's the weakest link on the girl alliance." "Might as well get rid of him now." " Kevin, you're up next." " I'm gonna take Kelly's canvas." " Gian." " I'm picking Kevin's canvas." " Okay, so that means, Sketchy, you get Nate's canvas." " Word." "Sure enough, I'm getting Nate's canvas, who wants all the bells and whistles." "I'm [bleep]." " After your consult with your new canvases, you'll have six hours to tattoo the right side of your canvas' head." "Based on your work on both canvases, one of you will be packing your machines." "Good luck." " Hey, girl." " Hey." " Today the artists have to finish someone else's head tattoo." " I would do a different background." " We'll work with that, same size and everything." " This is where the adaptability really comes into play." "You have to be able to adapt to the other person's style, technically and artistically." " I was playing with the idea of, like, doing a realistic owl." " Can it be a colorful owl, though?" " The only thing about color is... is it takes a little bit more time." " Maybe go a little smaller." " I have to match size with what Kelly did, 'cause I want the beaks..." " Yeah, right." " To kind of match up in the same place." " You want a tree, a skull, a flag, and..." " It doesn't really have to be a tree." "It..." "I just want it family-oriented." " What about some sick-ass, like, script along the side that says "Family"?" "If you let me do my thing..." "I've done head tattoos." "I've done some fire-ass script, man." "You're gonna love this [bleep], man." " Hook it up." " Hook it up?" " Yep." " My dude." "He sees where I'm coming from, and he's gonna let me ride with it." " I need to come up with something creative." " I want the flag." "The boots are, like, the country music, 'cause I love country music, so..." " I'm afraid the shape of the boot is gonna look weird." "I cannot do literal boots on the side of this guy's head." " It's always been boots." "That's what... that's what I wear every day." " The flag I can do." "I can put the boot in there, but it's not gonna be good for me." "I have to convince my canvas to change this crappy idea, or this thing could easily send me home." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Kev, will you come here for a sec?" "♪" "We got to talk to you." "So your canvas can't do it." " Really?" " Yeah." "She's feeling like she can't make it from her first tattoo, so she's gonna pull out." " I broke her." " Kevin's canvas got tattooed by Kelly yesterday, and Kelly did a very big, very elaborate tattoo, and her canvas cannot take another day." "What's gonna happen is, you're gonna have a whole new canvas." " It's a whole new idea and concept." "Whatever this person wants for the creative side... could be a blessing, could be a curse, but you're gonna have to make the best of it." "♪" " Kelly, you knocked her out the box." "Six hours is mucho." " This is what I was talking about when I said," ""Don't push these people over the limit."" " I tried to tattoo with..." "with a plan in mind." " You set either yourself up or whoever else was gonna take over for failure today." "I'm definitely putting strikes against Kelly." "She totally went overboard to where there's no way they're gonna get tattooed today." " Damn." "[rock music]" "♪" " All right, guys." "You have six hours to show adaptability by finishing another artist's head tattoo." "Your time starts now." " All right, let's do the thing." " Let's do this." " I'm so excited." " I am too." " Today these artists are all gonna have to match what another artist did on the other side." "So you want to adapt to the shapes, the sizes, even the color palette." "We are at an equal place in the competition." "It's my top five versus Oliver's top five." " That looks awesome." " Right now, the object is preservation." "It's keeping the team strong and moving against Olly's team." " You ready?" " Mm-hmm." "[exciting music]" "♪" " I tried to make it more dynamic." "The judges are pissed that I over-tattooed my canvas yesterday, so I've got to be perfect today." "♪" " Hey there." "I'm your new canvas." " What's going on?" "You got an idea for me today?" " Yeah." "I was thinking of a tattoo machine with, like, paint." "I tattoo and paint and stuff like that, so it would actually mean a lot." " Okay." "I do a lot of realism tattoos." " Honestly, I'm actually up to let you just do your thing that you think that you could do well." "I prefer it that way." " Cool." "My new canvas wants a tattoo machine." "Perfect." "Kelly's situation is working in my favor." "Let me tell you something." "You are a godsend." "♪" " What are you shading now?" " I'm, like, finishing out the buckle." "Thank God I found a picture reference of a belt buckle with a pair of boots on it." "He's happy with that idea, so we're gonna run with it." " Can't go wrong with a man from Texas." " Whole lot of boots out there." " Oh, yeah." " I've been getting crappy canvases pretty much the entire competition." "It's dragging me down." "I need to be in that top spot." " Four hours to go." "Four more hours." "♪" " Oh, [bleep] hand and all." " Couldn't go safe today." "I don't get that [bleep] maze, though." " Boneface picked off way more than he can chew by picking my canvas' tattoo." "He really thinks he can tattoo next to me?" "Come on, dude." " I'm gonna leave here with two great pieces." " Indeed." "♪" " Ugh, let's see this thing." " This [bleep]'s hard in here." "Her little tiny..." " I know." "The little dials and knobs and stuff..." " Yeah." "I originally wanted to do my own art, but Gian already did that dirty work for me." "He actually stayed up all night drawing." "So if I have a drawing of his," "I can easily adapt to whatever he was about to do." "I [bleep] love this rose you drew, though." " Yeah, buddy." " I know I can tattoo just like Gian, but better." " Man, I really wanted to do this side." "I really wanted to." " One hour." "Final hour." "[dramatic music]" " Eric and I are the only pair of artists that ended up swapping canvases, and even though he's been tattooing for over 20 years," "I am not afraid of adapting to another artist's work." " If you want to learn something, look at the other side of her head." " You're just being a pain in my ass." " I'm gonna make my side of the tattoo stand out a lot better than Ryan's by throwing in way more detail." "I'm gonna nail this [bleep] tattoo, and I'm gonna win tattoo of the day." "♪" " Five, four, three, two, one." "That is it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " This thing is sick, man." " It's just freestyle script, man." " Yeah, this is nice, bro." " It's hand script." " Almost like graffiti." " This guy wanted a family tattoo, and Sketchy just kind of gave up and just wrote "Family"" "on the guy's head." "What?" "How lazy are you?" " What kind of writing did you say it was?" " [bleep], I just call it" ""gangster as [bleep]."" ""It's so hard for a girl to be a [bleep] tattooer."" " Shut the [bleep] up." " This tattoo puts you in a very vulnerable spot." " You're showing me that you're scared." " You were somebody I thought was gonna go a lot further." "[dramatic music]" "♪" " Who's going down to the bottom?" " I was going to put Kevin in there..." " No." " Because is just slapping a tattoo machine on someone's head really enough of a creative theme?" " Is slapping Gian's tattoo on somebody else's head creativity on your end?" " Shut the [bleep] up." "It looked just like Gian did it." " I see Sketchy going down because his was simple." " You can read it from across the room, can't you?" " But you haven't really shined or impressed." " I haven't had to try." "There ain't nothing I can do to get sent home." " God damn it, like..." " And when I cash that check," "I'm gonna be like, "I [bleep] did nothing and [bleep] won."" "You guys can sit here and get so artsy and all this [bleep] all you want, and y'all are deuces out." " Okay." "♪" " This week, you tattooed 12 hours, 6 hours on the left side of a canvas' head and 6 hours on the right side of another canvas' head, finishing another artist's design." "There is no jury of peers, and both teams are up for elimination." "Let's start with Kevin." "♪" "Did that throw you off your game at all, to have Kelly's canvas back out?" " It was just trying to keep a steady, positive mind about it." " At first glance, this thing looks really nice, but the start of an outline and then the non-follow-through of an outline throws me completely with your style." "If you're gonna outline the screw to the contact point, why aren't you gonna outline the screw that goes into the back of the machine?" " Doing photo-realism, I honestly rarely ever do lines." "I don't know if it's gonna take away from it looking photo-realistic." " You got to get that liner out, man." "If you're doing a color-realism portrait of something, then it's all got to be perfect to make it look real." "It's just not definitive enough to put a yellow circle on something and think, "Okay, that looks perfectly rounded."" " All right, Gian, come on up." "You completed Kevin's earlier tattoo." " Well, Kevin, I really like this design." "It's elegant and beautiful." "The thing for you and outlines is, you need to really know when to use 'em and not to use 'em." "You did an outline where the pinky finger bends." "If you would've just stuck to that outline, that pinky finger would have that nice shape." " Gian." " Gian, it's a very well-done, beautiful tattoo." "I don't really think it adapts to the other side as far as the concept." " She told me that she wanted the stained glass on one side to be broken." " And I didn't realize it." " You knew this was supposed to be stained glass." "For you to say you didn't even know that the piece of glass from the other hand was supposed to go onto this side of the head... that lack of communication is a failure at adaptability." "♪" " Gian, let's take a look at the tattoo that you started, and Nikki... you finished Gian's head tattoo." " Well, Gian, I like everything about this tattoo." "I like the fit." "I like the way it sits on the head." "The areas where the tattoo machine is visible, the details are almost flawless." "Technically, man, smooth as ice." " Nikki." " The flow of the film itself and the overall design really lends itself nicely to the other side." " They matched this way better than anything." "I was just trying to adapt to his style, even though I didn't draw it." " You made the strongest choice." " Both tattoos are done well, but on a technical level, I think Gian outdid Nikki's just a little bit." " I agree." "Gian definitely has the upper hand." " Nikki and Boneface." " Nikki, I like the darkness of it, the richness of it." "Really amazing detail to the cheek." "Really gives him a strong, statuesque feature." " Boneface." " From a distance, it stands out strong." "The blue background was a smart move, to do a cool color opposite Nikki's hot color." " As far as who got who, the simplicity of Nikki's aura and the richness of her black..." "I give the day to Nikki." " Boneface and Mike." " Boneface, this is a great tattoo for this challenge." "It definitely speaks to the logical side, and the simplicity of this design is its strength." "How you shadowed it to look recessed... it just looks cool." " Mike." " The buildings are going straight up, and the Statue of Liberty's kind of leaning." " Your outline on here..." "that big, tall skyscraper definitely has a little lean to the left." " I was just trying to make the shape fit, and that's what I was having a really hard time with." " Also, you did leave one puzzle piece uncolored." "I don't know if that was an accident." " Didn't see that. [bleep]." " That's a mistake." "Unfinished, it's a little weird." "Boneface came out ahead in this one." " Mike and Nate." " Mike, it looks like you had some issues with your gray." "It looks really patchy all throughout." "It has a very grainy look to a lot of it, and you chose to do a lot of circular shapes, and none of the mechanisms really tie in together." "They're all just kind of overlapping." " Nate." " When you first glance at this tattoo, it's very impressive." "It has that wow factor, but really, the shape of the buckle is pretty wonky." " Nate, you have your issues, but for the wow factor and for everything about it," "I think Nate takes it." " Sketchy, come on down." " All right, Nate, one of the weirdest things about this whole design is the eyebrow just crashing into the eyelid." "That has a strange look." "It confuses me about the direction of the eye." " The reference went straight down." "It was, like, a mean eye." " There's no way in hell that that eyebrow is laying on your eyelid." "I feel like this one got away from you." " Sketchy." " As far as adaptability goes, your canvas had a crazy idea." "You simplified it." "I think it's the easy way out." " I tried to adapt, man." " There is a lot of sketchy outlines in this." "This tattoo, right now, puts you in a very vulnerable spot." " Frankly, this head doesn't really seem to work together." " This one, for me, is a draw." " Let's bring down Kelly." " Well, Sketchy, this is more the guy that I know." "These lines... nice and strong." "It's solid." "It's bright." "It's vibrant." "The colors play off of each other." " I'm not a big fan of the way it fits on her ear, but this strong, crisp outline is what you needed in that "Family" tattoo." " Kelly." " Aesthetically, right off the bat, it's a beautiful tattoo." "Brightly colored, great color palette." "I like the way it fits the head a lot better than the way Sketchy's fits the head." "It has some breathability and it doesn't look like it's crammed in." " Between the two, I lean towards Kelly on these." " I'm going with Kelly." " Cool." " Kelly, your canvas tapped out, so you just have the one side on this canvas to talk about." " The area where you have the biggest issue is making something this big on the side of her head." " You have all these multiple tones and blends of different colors, tattooing over the same area three times." "Of course it's gonna hurt real bad." "That sits negatively against you." "You've got to be able to work the whole challenge." " Ryan and Eric." " Ryan, I really like this tattoo." "I think you definitely used contrast to put depth in this to make the skin and gears and tools look like they're overlapping, and the detail is very nice." " Eric." " The style of the rips really match up nicely." "You followed the same flow on the front of his head as Ryan did." "I think you guys worked really well together." " Ryan and Eric, you guys picked each other's canvases." "Let's start off with Eric." " Eric, I love this floating figure that you have in the center." "Then the color trickles off into this gnarly pattern." "It looks great." "What I love about the way these two tattoos tie together is the fact that, Eric, you created that beautiful, floating geometric shape, and it looks like that's the light that's backlit on Ryan's tattoo." " Ryan." " The layout and the artistry here showed adaptability." "All four tattoos came out super strong." "Out of the one that Eric started and that Ryan finished, picking a winner out of these two," "I would pick Eric, but out of the head that Ryan started and Eric finished, the winner I would pick is Ryan." "It just shows that knowing that you're creating something versus you have to match something shows a lot more confidence and a lot more comfort." " This is the first time that we've had both teams tattooing at the same time." " Anybody standing out in the front?" " Yeah, it's Eric and Ryan for the win." "It's my team versus your team." " One person gets to win." " I mean, I'm going with Eric all day." "Eric's creativity, consistency, and flow on both sides of his tattoo were much nicer." " The cleanliness is not there if you look close at that outline." "A couple of sketchy lines, like the keys and a couple of stressed out areas..." " Does Eric's purple lack a little vibrancy to it?" " Yeah." "Looking at all aspects of all four tattoos," "Ryan's just a little bit sharper." "My vote is for Ryan." " My vote is for Ryan." " Bastards." " Winner of the best tattoo of the day goes to Ryan." " Thank you." " Congratulations." "Head back to the loft, and we'll call you back when we have a decision." "♪" " I'm having a really hard time." "I should've won." "Dude, my [bleep] had, like, a hundred times more detail than her [bleep] had." " They're walking around saying how much harder it is for a girl to be a successful tattooer." "This ain't 1950." " Or 1990." " Yeah." "It ain't like that no more." " But you shouldn't say [bleep] like that." " I'm not [bleep] out of line by saying that [bleep]." " But I've seen it." "When a girl apprentice comes in," "I see everybody sitting around." "You know, they talk..." "it's a bunch of [bleep] talking, and I think that's where they all come from." " But you can't be a successful tattooer and carry that torch with you." "Like, if you would've won the card, they would've been like, "See?"" ""See what I'm talking about?" "It's so hard for a girl to be a [bleep] tattooer."" "I'm over the [bleep] head games, man." "I'm over living in this [bleep] weird situation and sitting in a house full of people that want to argue about dumb [bleep]." "♪ [dramatic music]" "♪" " All right, today we're testing adaptability." "12-hour head tattoos." "Who's in your bottom?" " Definitely Sketchy." "He had the worst outing he's had this entire competition, and I think he thought other people were gonna do way worse, and he was comfortable..." " And he just kind of coasted through?" " Yeah." " The "Family" tattoo is jacked up, very recklessly done." "The mandala..." "I don't like the way it fits the ear." "I just don't like it." " But that's your personal taste." " There's problems with it." " I would say the mandala's on par with Mike's Statue of Liberty." "The buildings are definitely leaning." " I think Mike's got challenges in both of these tattoos." " Those gears there are very flat." " No two of these gears interlock anywhere." " He's one of the bottoms for me." " And then Nate, for sure, has the weakest line work application." "Look at the outline on the top, how thick and black he had to make that to hide his wobbles, and in that belt buckle, there isn't really a clear, nice section of outline anywhere in this thing either." "♪" " Today, no report card." "Worst tattoo of the day goes home." " Yeah." " Is that the worst pair of tattoos?" " That "Family" is the worst one of the day." " Without a doubt." "Without a doubt." "Worse than Mike's gears?" "No way." " I hate that thing." " I hate that thing more than I hate that "Family."" "This is gonna be a crazy, crazy day." " I think I'll probably go home today." " Why do you say probably you?" " 'Cause I've lost twice on technical things." " Me too." "We're in the same boat, bro." "♪" " All right, guys." "In the bottom, we've got Mike," "Nate, and Sketchy." "We'll see you and everybody else downstairs." " Okay, I did not expect Nate." " Me neither." " Let's get this over with." "Let's go." "Ready?" " Yeah." "♪" " This week, you had to show adaptability." "Based on your work, one of you will close shop." "This decision is far from made." "We are not in agreement." "Let's talk this out." "Nate." " At first glance, your tattoos pop out as eye-catching and dramatic, but you left yourself open for a lot of debate on why these lines are not all clean or why they don't make sense." " I guarantee you I can show you clean line work." " But then you did the second tattoo, and the only place that you had to do clean line work was in the belt buckle, and there you have a lot of problems." " My tattoos, compared to Mike's tattoos..." "I definitely don't think I deserve this." " Mike, if we're looking at gears, teeth have to fit." "It just doesn't play properly to what a gear looks like." "Those are things that count at this point." " I got no excuses for the gears, but with the Statue of Liberty, I was happy." " Well, I think when you get to the statue, your mouth's definitely to the right." "There's no two buildings that are exactly perpendicular to each other." "These tattoos have a lot of problems." " Let's move on to Sketchy." " I know there's been some talk in the room that people that do like the mandala, but I have to say it, man." "I just feel like it's weak." "I do see line work problems." "There's even some lines in the leaves that's going completely the wrong way compared to all the other leaves, which is weird." "But, man, this "Family" thing is hard for me to swallow." "That Y, the way it goes over the ear... out of sorts." "The skull with just no interaction between the family, just popped there..." " I felt more comfortable doing this than a tree and all those crazy ideas." "I was confident in it." " That's kind of my concern." "You were cruising, and you got really comfortable 'cause you didn't feel like your ass was on the line." " I don't know, man." " When you look at what the field was doing, there's a lot of strong artwork out there, and you needed to be as strong as them on paper, and these were just really big and simple." " I do script all the time, man, and it's good." "This time it just wasn't." " All right, guys." "Time to decide who's going home." " The one worst tattoo of the day, 100%, hands-down, is the "Family."" " For sure." " Well, I thought we were averaging the two." " But I don't like the mandala either." " What's a better tattoo, the mandala or the eye?" "I'd take the mandala." "The mandala or the gears?" "I'd take the mandala." "Between the mandala and the statue," "I'd take the mandala because it's cleaner." " But you can't take that "Family"" "and put it up against the Statue of Liberty or the belt buckle." " But I would rather have "Family" on me than that big eye." " You put that "Family" next to that eye..." " Go for it." " That "Family" looks [bleep]." " "Family" is worse than the eye?" "No way." " Technically, yes." " The eyebrow that goes into your eye... who has an eyebrow that goes into your eye?" " I think they're all scared of me." " How in the world would we..." " Plain as day." " Be scared if you're in the bottom again?" " The only reason you would want to vote me off is 'cause you're scared." " I think that the "Family" is the worst tat of the day." " I don't like the "Family" at all, but I feel like, if you average the "Family" with the mandala, that puts him in the lead." " Listen." "If I go two for two for two, then Mike's two average falls shorter." " You're right." "Oliver, final decision?" " I vote for Sketchy." " Nate's got some wow factor with the flag." "The mandala is light-years above the gears and the eye." "Mike has two mediocre tattoos." "I vote Mike." "Chris?" " Mike." " The judges have decided." "Mike, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " It sucks." "This is not who I thought would be the choices today." "You were definitely somebody I thought was gonna go a lot further." " Please pack your machines and close shop." "♪" " I have no excuses." "I'm not gonna sit there and make up some bull[bleep] about people being scared of me and wanting me to go home." "You know, I did the tattoos." "There's no changing it." "I [bleep] up, so I'm going home." "♪ announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " You have a very special canvas." " I am not afraid of you." "I don't think anybody here is." " It's us versus them, regardless." " He was trying to keep it real the whole time, and then he comes with some [bleep] boy [bleep]." " This one shows a lot of struggle from you." " They're not clean, and they're not precise." " One major [bleep] up here..." " Is it that major, Dave?" " You can't be hurt." "It's a fact." " Whose fact?" "'Cause it's not mine." " Bring me down here on a good [bleep] tattoo... [bleep] y'all." " I gave you a good [bleep] tattoo."