'Excruciatingly Painful Palm Tattoos' Flash Challenge Preview | Ink Master: Season 8

- Welcome. There are only eight of you left, and once again the teams are tied, four on Team Peck and four on Team Nuñez. This week we are testing the technical application. - The technical application is what happens when the needle is placed in the skin. Is your line of work clean? Is your shading soft? - For this

flash

challenge

you will have to tattoo one of the most delicate and sensitive areas of the human body... The

palm

of the hand. - Oh. - Oh. - There are more sensory neurons in the

palm

s than anywhere else in the body and a larger brain area dedicated to receiving their signals.

That means your canvas will definitely be in excruciating pain. - Tattooing the palm of the hand is one of the most complicated and serious areas. It is extremely

painful

and is not like a normal tattoo. - It must have an impeccable technical application. Overwork the skin and you will permanently damage it. If you don't do it right, your tattoo won't last. - Does anyone have tattooed palms? -Has anyone done it before? - There is a right way to get a palm tattoo and a lot of wrong ways. - I don't know the technique. Not even know where to start. - Let's get to know your canvases. ♪ Canvases, tell us what you would like to get tattooed on your palm. - Traditional black and gray eyeball with teardrop. - Traditional colored sacred heart. - It's not going to happen.

Colored

tattoos

are impossible on the palm. They are not going to stay. - Realistic tiger fish color. - Colorful and realistic betta fighting fish. - I can't really do realism in the hand. His expectations are very wrong. - A colored yeti, from a new school. - Neotraditional Planet Earth. - 3D crystal ball. - Hell no. Everyone will need to do some tweaking today to get something more realistic on their canvases. - Okay, canvases, one by one, please draw a skull. The name on the bottom of your skull will determine your artist. Forward. - Nikki. -Ryan. - Incomplete lawyer. - A realistic, colored lionfish in the palm of your hand?

Completely impossible. - Gian. -Nate. - Bone Face. -Kevin. -Kelly. - As you know, the winner of this

flash

challenge

will have the power to assign all the human canvases in the removal tattoo. You have three hours to tattoo the palm of your canvas and your time starts now. - I'm Ryan. Nice to meet you. - Double trouble here, huh? - That's how it is. - Palm

tattoos

are incredibly difficult because the skin type is completely different. - The only thing left on the palm is black. - It is always being used. The skin is always peeling, always changing. - Coloring with this thing is impossible.

I will put you through so much pain for nothing. - Palm tattoos have to do with a specialized technical application and it is something that has to be deep. - Anything around here where calluses start will fall off. - Today Oliver and I are not going to help at all. This is something that, as a tattoo artist, you either know how to do or not, and we are not here to teach how to tattoo. We are here to criticize it. - Here's the thing with the hands. You have to keep it a little simple. - No, it has to stay close to realistic. - It is impossible not to make colors today.

I will have to do it. - It says something when you have eight tattoo artists in a room and none of them have tattooed palms. - Think about it. -Ah. - How bad could a palm be, you know? - Pretty bad. ♪ - So Kelly, when you got the tattoo on your palm, you go in like... - It's pretty similar to, like, outlining, doing my stippling lines. - You're a tough guy. - I'm more than happy to help Nikki and Ryan. We just need one of the girls to get the skull pickaxe. -Hey, Kelly, where do you think she should point?

Just a little below here? - Yes, that way it's like... - Understood. - Depth. - Okay, I can do this. ♪ - I'm so proud of my ladies right now. All our canvases compromise realistic design. We're about to make these guys look stupid. ♪ - Five, four, three, two, one. That's all. Machines down. Time's up, no more ink. - Oh! Oh my god, that's beautiful. - Small moment of pain for a lifetime of beauty. -Sketchy gave him something that looks like he stuck his hand in an ink spill or something. What's that? - Are you happy? - I'm happy. - Well ok. - Okay, artists, it's time to criticize your work.

Bone face. - It's a soft tattoo. If it was on a normal part of the body, that nice, soft gray shading was a beautiful effect, but you can see... the texture of the skin that has the texture of fingerprints, you can see that the shading is right on top of it. of that. That is the skin that dies in the process of a tattoo, so when that skin dies and is gone, the tattoo goes with it, so by that point, your technical application on a normal part of the body is fine, but in This challenge was not like that. hold. -Kevin. - Be questionable how it will be peeled.

You're usually not creating enough depth when you just make one pass, no matter how slow or deep, so it usually tends not to hold. - You see, when you try to contour that skin, it's not like normal skin. When you put the needle through it, it just doesn't come out crispy and will heal even worse. ♪ - The judges have no mercy. I am consumed with fear right now. -Kelly. - I really like the design. Very simple. I like the approach. This is the way to do it. When he heals, he will still look like the world. - Obviously, the moral of the day is that details will not stick.

The color won't stay on, so you can skip all that and just go in and out. - Thank you. - Gian. - What we are seeing now is a beautiful tattoo, but I don't know what percentage will be there when it heals. It will be a very low percentage, so low that people will not be able to recognize what it is. -Nate. - I've had some tattoos on my palms. I know that color is a bad decision, but... - But you put color in it. - I couldn't convince him not to do it. - The fact of the matter is that that tattoo doesn't look very good now and it won't look good later. -Ryan. - I know that getting a tattoo on the palm to make it look has to be as simple as possible. - I really like the design.

I really like the simplicity of it and I like the way it fits in the hand, but in most places you can see that they are not deep enough. - Most likely it is the tattoo that disappears. ♪ -Nikki. - The approach you used in this tattoo is definitely the correct technical application. Those who stay are the ones who become like this. Clean and very readable design. - The placement, I would like you to go a little lower and make the flame a little more pronounced, but the execution was very clean. The route you chose is the only route that will remain. - Incomplete. - I think it should look pretty good. - It's not.

It's a huge black spot. Those lines, they're just a lot of pain for nothing. - It's hard to see what's happening. Looking at it closely, the detail is very rough. -If I had gotten the tattoo that big, it would have been difficult to read. - It's just a mess, man. - I know I'm a great tattoo artist. Let them test me, I'm not used to that and I don't like it. I mean, Jesus. - Very good guys, today we are testing a technical application with tattoos on the palm. - The first three for me are obviously the girls. - Nikki made one of the best. - Nikki understood how they are supposed to look.

Her technical application was spot on and her technique correct. -And if Kelly had taken the same approach with the line thickness that Nikki had and the larger dots, I think it would have been a bigger hit. Design-wise, Ryan's is one of my favorites of the day. At least Ryan, Nikki and Kelly took the right approach. - Let him know. - Cool. ♪ - Okay, guys. Today you had to show impeccable technical application by tattooing the palm of your canvas. The judges have decided. The winner of today's flash challenge...