- Ew, that was gross.
Oh, it snagged.
Okay, we're just gonna keep going.
- [Keith] Today we're gonna give people tattoos
and as of right now we have no idea how to do that.
(tattoo machine buzzing)
It's a tiny little needle that just moves back
and forth a bunch.
- [Eugene] I don't know who these people are.
Who coming in to get a tattoo from us?
I feel like that's a huge risk they're taking.
Oh, I don't have ink.
I was just gonna stab you without any ink.
(Peri laughing)
- What kind of waivers are we having these people sign?
(intro theme)
- [Zach] Today we are giving tattoos without training.
- Hey, I'm Hunter.
This is Kal and this is our tattoo shop.
It's a magical bond, I mean, as cheesy as that sounds.
- [Kal] It's very intimate.
It's gonna be a nice time.
- [Rachel] And who designed the tattoos
they'll be doing today?
- [Kal] We did a few each and they picked
- [Zach] So the tattoos are already designed?
- Oh yeah, they're ready to go.
All y'all all gotta do is sit down and tattoo.
- Easy, a paint my numbers sort of thing.
- I'm more worried about the volunteers.
- Hello.
- Hey, what's up?
- So I'm gonna be your tattoo artist today.
Best case scenario, they look at it and say, "It's perfect."
And they show all the friends and they brag.
Worst case scenario would be them going,
"Oh that's not exactly what I was expecting."
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Good, how are you?
- I'm Eugene
- Peri.
- I think body art is so cool and if I had my way
I would probably be like fully tatted.
- Hey man, Zach, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- What's your name?
- Ryan.
- [Zach] Thank you for being my canvas today.
- [Ryan] Of course.
- I don't want to give someone a tattoo.
If I do it wrong, it's gonna hurt.
If I do it right, it's gonna hurt.
Oh, oh boy.
Let's just look at what we have here.
As I understand it, a tattoo gun is like a needle with ink.
How does it work though?
Shit if I know.
We've got the tattoo and the goo
and the gun and a razor, I guess I have to shave you.
- So right now we're gonna be shaving the arm.
You don't want to tattoo a hairy body.
It could lead to a nasty infection.
- I've never shaved someone I just met.
- [Ashley] Oh, well, I'm honored.
(Zach laughing nervously)
- Sorry, I'm a little obsessive, as a person,
so maybe that's not the best with our time limit.
(Peri chuckles)
- [Hunter] So he's gonna be applying
the stencil concoction which basically
just allows the stencil to stick onto the skin.
- We're gonna put some of this goo on you.
It says stencil cream, but it really looks more like soap.
- Kind of has the consistency of, you know.
(Ryan laughing)
Hmm. Do I tattoo through the paper
(Ryan laughing) or do I tat?
Do I put it down and then just kind of
- [Hunter] This is the part where it counts the most.
You wanna make sure your stencil's in the right placement.
You want to check with everyone that it's okay.
- Is it like a temporary tattoo where
I should dabble the other side too?
I think so.
- [Hunter] No, just take it off.
(Ashley laughing)
- No? Oh.
Oh no, it's bleeding.
- Is it okay if that there's just a
little bit that is missing?
I'll just fill it in. Okay.
- Oh, that's adorable.
You really, you made a great choice.
- [Ryan] Thanks. Do you have any tattoos?
- [Zach] I have one tattoo.
I have a smiley face on my butt.
I'll show you my butt afterwards.
It like, it would fit in great with your arm.
(Ryan laughing)
- [Hunter] You start from wherever you're dominant hand
wherever you're tattooing from, from that side
and then move forward.
(tattoo machine buzzing)
- Oh, I hate it.
I don't like being in charge of this.
I don't want to hurt you.
- You couldn't hurt me.
- I could.
I think when I know what I'm doing
I work well under pressure.
When I don't know what I'm doing...
Where like what?
I don't understand at all.
I very quickly will start to be like,
you've seen me in without a recipe.
(tattoo machine buzzing)
Turn on.
Plant our hand.
- [Hunter] Go really slow and steady
to give yourself a nice clean line
which is what you want.
- Okay, let's just (beep) go for it, huh?
(Keith sighs heavily)
Oh boy.
- [Ashley] You did it.
- Oh man, I'm so freaked out.
I don't want to do this anymore.
(Ashley laughing)
- Here we go.
Just think of me as Dr. Cristina Yang.
Now you tell me if it's,
if anything feels uncomfortable.
This is why tattoos are crazy.
And I love tattoos.
It's one of the few things you know will last longer
than your own soul on this earthly plane.
- [Rachel] That's so dark.
- Like when you exit, your tattoo will stay.
I feel comfortable.
We've got connected over Shonda Rhimes, Grey's Anatomy.
She just started, but she's on season five
- Six
- Six, but aren't they on season 19 now?
You've got a long way to go.
- My goal is once Sandra Oh leaves, I'm done.
- Pick me.
Choose me.
Love me.
How can you lose Ellen Pompeo?
- I get to dip this like
I'm a old timey, Revolutionary War soldier
and you're my love that I'm writing letters to.
(Ryan laughing)
I don't like disappointing people.
It's a bad feeling.
I'm okay at being bad.
I'm bad all the time
but people don't expect much from me in the kitchen.
People don't expect much
from me when I'm doing physical activities.
But here they go, "Zach, you're creative,
you're artsy, you're weird.
You smoke weed."
Okay, I forgot to refill with ink.
I should probably do that.
- [Hunter] I'm trying to think of what they might do wrong.
- If you don't stretch the skin, you need like
a taught surface to be able to pull the line evenly.
Otherwise the the skin will snag.
- Ew, that felt gross.
Oh, it got stuck in your skin.
Oh, I hated that.
Oh, you didn't react at all.
- I didn't feel it at all. (chuckles)
- Oh, that was gross.
Oh, fuck it snagged.
It's like when a, like a hangnail gets caught
in a sweater.
(Ryan laughing)
Oh, but the sweater was your skin.
- [Rachel] Do you remember giving your first tattoo?
- Oh, it was the worst.
Destroyed my friend's leg.
And I still think about it to this day.
- That's kinda the beginning of tattooing though,
is like having really forgiving friends that later
on they're like, "Hey man, remember this?"
And you're like, "I'll give you a good one now."
You know.
- I got a little spot on the lip.
Our first mistake that I'm incredibly aware of,
I mean the rest of it's like, yeah, the line works not great
but that's because I'm physically shaking.
- It's hard to draw straight
because this whole thing is
- Shaking, shaking, shaking.
- Let's see if I can fix that.
- The tattoo machine is moving at a super high rate.
So it's making tiny dots that end up becoming a line.
- Now I have to do a circle.
Am I gonna da da da or da da da?
- [Hunter] So if you're doing these really quick motions
and trying to like feather it in, it's gonna look choppy.
- And now we know.
(Ryan laughing)
- Oh, I see, I see.
It's like dotted.
Oh, it's terrible.
- [Kal] If you're not doing one continuous line
it's gonna look pretty bad.
- It's a little jagged because
I was probably just too nervous to commit to a line.
- [Kal] You do the first line and then you wipe
and it's not there and you're just like overcome
with stress and sweat and
I think that's gonna be a fun thing to see.
- Well, it's gone just like that, it's gone.
It feels like it's wiping away.
That I'm not pressing hard enough.
I'm gonna go harder this time.
- [Ryan] I'll tell you if it's too much.
- Confidence is everything in tattooing,
you just have to commit.
I think you just have to like kind of go for it.
- Did that hurt more?
- Nope.
- It felt like I like entered your skin.
- I mean you are.
- Right
(Ryan laughing)
- Now how come that one didn't make a line at all?
- Well, we're done with the first pass.
I've been told I need to do it twice.
- Are you used to second passes in tattoos?
- Do most tattoo artists talk to you or is it more kind of
like an Uber driver situation where you just
don't know what the vibe is until you get in the car?
- That, it totally depends on the person.
(tattoo machine buzzing)
- Okay, that's a thickie boy.
Thickie, thickie line line.
Now we're cooking with gas.
Ahman, do you think that Eugene should get a tattoo?
- No, I don't think so.
- [Zach] I could give him one.
I'm doing a real good job.
- What do you think of tattoos?
- I'm okay with other people, but not my son.
- Ah, that's a nice way of putting it.
- After I die, you can do it.
- Great. Perfect.
So it's more of a commemoration.
- [Zach] Okay.
- Great.
- And we're gonna call that a fricking tattoo.
- Yeah.
- [Zach] It's really cute.
- The teeth are a little,
my hands are not that of a surgeon.
- [Rachel] So, you guys each train for
at least two years before you tattooed a person.
How would you have felt tattooing a person
on day one without training?
- I think I would've been overly confident.
- Being a part of it and being
around it for two and a half years is what humbles you.
- It's always fun learning you're not good at things.
- Always.
- Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
Oh, I love it.
Oh yeah, this is perfect.
- So gentlemen, today I worked with my client to
create a beautiful smile that's almost as beautiful
as their smile.
I sort of went with a rough line approach.
(Ashley gasps)
- [Kal] Wow.
(Hunter laughing)
- [Keith] What do we think?
- [Hunter] Oh wow.
- [Kal] Yeah, no, I see
the sketchiness thing that you were saying.
- [Hunter] I think what I would've done is I would've like
maybe committed a little bit more.
It looks like you went really fast.
- [Kal] It's got a lot of like zazz to it.
I kind of like it.
- It's definitely zazzy.
- I would say I would've
I would've gone in a little bit more right here.
- [Kal] Because a lot of the stuff that's like reddish
or kind of gray or you know
around the bottom and stuff, that's just gonna fall out.
- Fall out?
- [Kal] Like it just won't be there.
- [Hunter] Won't exist.
- Fall out, that's the phrase?
- That's what we call it.
Yeah, it'll just fall out of the skin.
- There's just a tattoo on the floor.
- [Kal] It just falls out.
- [Keith] You don't feel the leg
underneath the needle jabber, you know?
So it sometimes it was like
I don't even know if I'm touching.
- There's a sweet spot that you can feel
in your hand when you're in that like perfect groove.
- You can.
(Kal and Hunter laughing)
- Maybe not on your first tattoo.
- [Kal] It's not that bad, honestly.
I've honestly seen worse first tattoos
from people who are trying to be a tattoo artist.
- Wow, well that's upsetting.
(Kal and Hunter laughing)
- Maestros, it's just as the
Shonda Rhime's television series, Grey's Anatomy,
has been on air since 2005.
So too, will this tattoo be on
my lovely client Peri's leg.
- [Kal] Beautiful.
- Let's take a look.
(Kal and Hunter exclaim)
- That's really good, Eugene.
- [Zach] Oh, shocker.
(Eugene and Peri laughing)
- I certainly needed the second pass
to cover up a lot of mistakes, but,
- I'm really surprised.
- I am too.
It looks awesome.
Maybe one of the better first tattoos I've ever seen.
- [Hunter] It's a really hard design to make as well.
- If you're surprised, you clearly don't watch our videos.
Yeah. That's pretty good.
- [Keith] I mean, I see some mistakes.
(Zach laughing)
Just me.
I see a couple.
- [Hunter] Go ahead and point 'em out.
- Well yeah, like on the bottom right there
the second one up, it's almost little squashy for sure.
It looks like a bug got
in the web and spider had to redo it.
It's not a perfect circle in the middle.
- Judges today I present to you a flower that's adorable.
Flowers are always changing.
We wanted to capture that vibrancy.
- What does that mean?
- Oh, look at him.
- You know what I liked the most about this so far?
The circle doesn't connect at all.
And so it looks kind of like
it's on purpose for some reason.
Was it on purpose?
- It's the flower's moving, it's the chaos of life.
- You were really feeling it.
- [Kal] Where did you start on it?
And then where did you,
where do you remember ending?
- [Zach] See that's up to interpretation.
- [Hunter] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Kal] Did you jump around?
Cause some of the stuff in the middle looks alright.
- [Hunter] It feels like you really tried on this part.
- That's what we do here.
- What would you say your notes should be?
What would you do differently next time?
- I don't think I had a consistent pressure and thickness.
So I'm afraid that it's gonna be like darker,
lighter at different parts.
I got to a point where I was like
I think if I try and fix this, I'll make it worse.
- And also there's some lighter lines on the other tattoo
on the tattoos around it and stuff.
Like honestly, it will heal and match perfectly.
- Wait, okay, let's see this.
- Is it the same tattoo?
- [Desiree And Ryan] Yes.
- Okay. Fuck you.
So to me that looks a little copy and paste,
whereas this has charm.
- You're telling me my tattoo's ugly?
- No, it's not ugly.
It's just...
- Basic.
- Yeah. You know, like you've seen it been there, done that.
- Perfect. That's the word you're looking for.
- I feel like I've been freaking set up here.
I'd like to see a side by side with the other two.
- All right y'all, so we're gonna go down the line and say
are you gonna keep it, cover it or fix it?
(all laughing)
- I love this-
- [Rachel] Can you look Keith in the face?
(all laughing)
- I'm genuinely saying this like
from my heart that I love this design
and I love how you tattooed it.
I think that I would like to get it added to.
- So, fix it?
- [Zach] Refine it.
- [Eugene] Well it's better than cover.
- I'll take it.
- Actually, you did a really good job.
I'm definitely gonna keep it.
I might just get it
like shaded so it matches my other tattoos.
- [Eugene] I agree.
- It's a nice way of rewording fix it.
(all laughing)
- [Eugene] Embellish.
- [Peri] Embellish.
- Zach.
- Yes.
- I'm gonna keep it.
(bullhorn blaring)
(group clapping)
- [Ryan] No changes.
No changes.
- [Keith] Wow. - [Kal] That's amazing.
- It matches the rest of the vibe of the-
Yes, I'm gonna keep it.
I'm gonna keep it, Keith.
- [Keith] Cool.
(Zach laughing)
Sure.
- [Zach] Thank you for watching the video.
I'm the best tattoo artist.
It's official and life is great.
I think this was a perfect video
and there's nothing more to say.
- Comment below about what you want to see Zach tattoo
around his ass smiley face.
And he will do it if it's the most upvoted comment.
He promises he will do it within this year and maybe one
of these guys will tattoo it.
Maybe they'll be subjected to see the booty.
But in any case, it's all up to you, audience.
- [Rachel] Oh, could you show us the booty?
You never showed Ryan.
- [Keith] Show us your butt,
- [All Chanting] Show us your butt.
Show us your butt.
- Does anyone here not wanna see my butt?
- [Eugene] It's just a slight butt cheek.
It's like the side.
- I've seen a lot of butts in this shop.
- Show us your butt.
(All cheering and clapping)
- Here, put yours, like we can have em hang out.
(All laughing)
Thanks for watching.
- So in the end, you were the Meredith Gray
and I was the Cristina Yang.
(Peri laughing)
And we successfully achieved
our surgical adventure together.
- This was just like brain surgery.
- Just as important.