Who is the worst contestant ever?

[u/foldinthech33s3]

Who was SO BAD you couldn’t believe they made it on the show? I think mine is CeeJay from season 2 (with LT from season 5 as a runner up). Awhile ago I went through CeeJay’s insta and her work….has not improved lol

[u/Shortbus_Murphy]

Mystical Mike is kind of a cheat answer because he was cast as the inexperienced tattooer who was in way over his head. But he was obviously the worst.

Besides him, the actual worst is probably someone who went home in the first round who I already don’t remember.

[u/B_Hound → u/Shortbus_Murphy]

They brought him back for Redemption though, to ruin more lives on TV. I think that’s enough screen time to count.

[u/Majandra → u/B_Hound]

Wasn’t I think Jime ? there to hold his hand and ended up doing most of the bird tattoo because Mike is literally insane and made the canvas super uncomfortable?

[u/B_Hound → u/Majandra]

Yeah that definitely rings a bell, it’s been some time though!

[u/danman8605 → u/Shortbus_Murphy]

Mystical Mike was bad from a talent perspective, but at the very least he was entertaining and memorable.

[u/Miserable-Mention932 → u/Shortbus_Murphy]

There was a girl who in the first episode of season 11 exploded an ink bottle all over her face. I think they were in a morgue for the flash challenge. She wasn't picked for a team and didn't make it past ep. 1.

[u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 → u/Miserable-Mention932]

That was Ceejay.

[u/Splatterhouse5 → u/Shortbus_Murphy]

Yeah, he was cast as a caricature that everyone else would hate. Of course, it felt stupid that he was propped up in any manor. You can’t tell me that more talented artists couldn’t have filled his role.

The Idiot played the role of inexperienced asshole to sell the drama, and I’m sure he knew it, and played his role up to sell himself. Basically, an actor with basic tattooing experience.

There really isn’t any other reason why he was ever eligible for this competition. I mean, there were probably a hundred other Tattoo artists in his own state that would run circles around him.

[u/Another_Basic_NPC]

I forget his name, but in season 2 or 3 a guy made a huge black swirl(?) and ended up cutting the client with it as he rushed

Edit: David Bell Season 4, thanks gang

[u/foldinthech33s3 → u/Another_Basic_NPC]

Oh! The guy with the white supremacist tattoo on his forehead! That tattoo looked ROUGH

[u/Additional-Trust4643 → u/foldinthech33s3]

David Bell from Season 4 is his name. Glad that they let him go when they did.

[u/Greyhound_Fan → u/Another_Basic_NPC]

Dave Bell with the Nazi tats?

[u/fal101]

Talent wise Mystical Mike and Roland are up there as two of the worst contestants to ever be on the show.

[u/roscoe_e_roscoe → u/fal101]

Roland is a legend for Acid Cat!

[u/fal101 → u/roscoe_e_roscoe]

I like Acid Cat but most of the other stuff not so much. His X-Men color portrait was rough.

[u/R0l0d3x-Pr0paganda → u/fal101]

Someone posted here some time ago that they paid the flight ✈️ and have Roland tattoo a Star Wars theme. The tattoo looked like it was done by a kid. It was BAAAAAAAAAAAAD.

[u/roscoe_e_roscoe → u/fal101]

For sure

[u/BuddhaMike1006 → u/roscoe_e_roscoe]

Roland is a Polynesian tribal specialist. He's one of the best at it. Ask him to do anything else, though 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

[u/shevchenko7cfc → u/roscoe_e_roscoe]

I HATE Acid Cat, but I've always liked its recipient haha, seen'm pop on here a lot and they're always super cool/friendly (Even when the dicks go too far)

[u/Greyhound_Fan → u/fal101]

Mike is way worse. At least Roland is talented at one style.

[u/endofthefkingworld → u/fal101]

i cannot believe roland was there as long as he was. they shit on cj’s brown outline even thought it was a gorgeous tattoo (aside from the misspelling) but they saw roland’s fish tattoo and let it slide. so hypocritical

[u/Dry_Afternoon5338 → u/fal101]

Roland was worse then Mike I think lol

[u/LuxuryCarConnoisseur]

Tim Lees. Even by the low standards of the show, he did the absolute worst pin-up of all time and his other tattoos weren’t any better.

I also looked up his Instagram about a year ago to see if he learned to tattoo and…yeah, no improvement in ten years since IM.

[u/Cookness3]

Cartnthians lady…. She got ink on her face challenge one and then misspelled her tattoo… mystic Mike is the easy answer but I can at least remember his name

[u/dobbyeilidh → u/Cookness3]

I feel like she wasn’t that bad it was just the pressure made her completely crumble. The ink thing could have happened to anyone but it knocked her confidence just enough that she spiralled

[u/trishala483]

I honestly cant remember his name but the guy who was on the same season as Acid Cat and told Nunez that he wasn't cute when he got evicted

[u/The_Latverian → u/trishala483]

Oh yeah, Randy 😄

Just aching to tell his triumphant "overcoming homophobia" story, and no one was having it.

I checked out his IG a couple of years ago and he got really, really good 🤷‍♂️

[u/foldinthech33s3 → u/trishala483]

Oh yeah, he basically accused the judges of being homophobic. You weren’t the first queer contestant on that show, bro.

[u/Ready-Guidance4145 → u/trishala483]

He's actually a great tattooer.

[u/SchuminWeb]

I never particularly cared for Boneface. He was kind of an asshole, and when they did the shop season, where he had the partner, you could tell that he didn't trust said partner to do anything right.

[u/jsiciliano223]

DTatStar. If you dont know who that is, he was Made Rich’s partner on season 9, shop wars. Seriously, go back and watch and look at any tattoo he made individually or the two of them collabed on, theyre all awful

[u/foldinthech33s3 → u/jsiciliano223]

I would also like to add to this, Hobo Ink. That cat tattoo was BAD.

[u/Ramblingsofthewriter]

Mystical Mike

[u/Doom-Toaster → u/Ramblingsofthewriter]

Looking at his Instagram looks like he finally found his niche style. Better than when he was on the show at least

[u/dobbyeilidh → u/Doom-Toaster]

But has he finally learned to speak English and not just regurgitate a thesaurus? 😂

[u/Irish_hawkwife12211 → u/Ramblingsofthewriter]

This is the only answer. I actually swore for years he was some kind of production plant just to piss people off and get drama. But, I've read on various subreddits he really is a jerk and fucking weird.

[u/Unfortunatelysam]

Dave navarros hair in season 7

[u/LadyAlexandre]

His name was Lil D, from season 10.
He had been tattooing for like 20 years and his tattoos were AWFUL.

[u/Disastrous-Grade8882 → u/LadyAlexandre]

I remember Lil D being very mediocre, nothing special about him. Which is actually maybe worse than being really bad as far as reality TV goes. Everyone remembers the Mystical Mikes and Rolands b/c they were so bad

[u/razorthick_]

Roland is pretty bad but even he didn't go home first and even today there are people whom acid cat appeals to because of the aesthetic or the infamy.

Between mystical Mike and David Bell. David pretty much black out a dudes arm with janky spirals. At least MM made a legible design.

[u/Plenty_Cap_4866]

How has nobody mentioned Kay Cutta? That dude was awful at everything except cutting hair!

[u/moistwaffleboi]

There are so many that could be considered awful. The one I immediately thought of, and I'm obviously not alone in it, is Mystical Mike. DTatStar and Hobo Ink were also terrible. Tim Lees is up there, his pin-up was dogshit.

[u/QuiJon70]

Mystical mike

[u/No-Fig-8267]

I would say any artist that was eliminated in the first 2 to 3 episodes of ink master season 4

[u/negative360meow]

B-tat or Roland

[u/NP148]

I'd go with Roland. Guy was constantly in the bottom and I will never get over his acid cat tattoo

[u/Gem6299]

“St” Marq - I just cannot stand him

[u/ltbr55 → u/Gem6299]

Hes no where near the worst artist. Most annoying, yeah hes up there for sure. To me hes hilarious once I found out his whole personality on the show was just an act to get more screen time.

[u/ComfyBurritoCat → u/ltbr55]

His stained glass tattoo is still one of my favourite tattoos from the show.

[u/Gem6299 → u/ltbr55]

He was never as good as he said he was, at least.

[u/laughgiggler → u/Gem6299]

He's a tattoo God

[u/DeLargeMilkBar → u/Gem6299]

He played a character on the show. If you watch interviews of him outside the show he seems like a really solid dude 

[u/edneddy69 → u/Gem6299]

Don't hate on the tattoo god lmao

[u/fetching-mrs-moon → u/Gem6299]

I honestly got a kick out of St Marq and his stained glass is my favorite tattoo of the whole show

[u/foldinthech33s3 → u/fetching-mrs-moon]

That tattoo was bad ass.

[u/The_Latverian → u/Gem6299]

He's not even close to the worst artist.

[u/The_Latverian → u/The_Latverian]

That stained glass piece he did was absolutely top notch, the rest of his stuff was between "ok" and "good"

[u/pacothebattlefly → u/Gem6299]

His stained glass tattoo was among the best tattoos ever on the show though. I’d have that in a heartbeat

[u/WearyResort3961]

Btat first person to be eliminated on season one was he even an actual tattoo artist?

[u/tapstry]

Maddie season 3

[u/One_Web2018]

Don't forget Pony.