- Hey, I'm Paul Booth, tattoo artist.
Today, I'm gonna share some of my horror stories with you.
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When I first started tattooing, I had a guy,
he was drunk, but I didn't know he was drunk.
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He passed out,
so I went and got my mentor and I said,
"This guy's unconscious, what do I do?"
And he said, "Well, you might as well keep tattooing him
and when he wakes up, it'll be done."
Seemed weird, but I guess it made sense.
So, I went on to tattoo him while he was unconscious
and next thing I know, after like five minutes,
picks up his head and projectile vomits
straight into my lap
and across my workstation
and then passed out again.
I was covered in vomit.
I had to hose everything down in my room
and no, don't tattoo drunks
cause that's what happens.
- Hi, I'm Fan.
I'm from Gristle Tattoo.
It's a vegan shop in Brooklyn.
It was summertime and the guy came into the shop
and he wants to get a small number
on his rib here.
I asked him to put arm like this placement.
The second he opened his arm like that, I'm like,
dude, you should have take a shower
before coming to get a tattoo.
And I'm almost passed out.
It's the worst experience.
- [Producer] What did it smell like?
- Oh my god.
Like a chemical destroy weapon.
(laughs)
And the second one is also the smell.
There's a girl.
She's cute
and
she wants to get a custom piece
on the back of her calf
and
I asked her to take off her shoe
cause I have to check the placement
and the second she took off her shoes,
it's also in summertime,
I was like,
Okay.
It's like, smells like a
dead fish,
(chuckles)
but it's so terrible.
And lucky she just laid
on her stomach
and she cannot tell my face,
but I have to fear the smell
for like maybe two hours around.
And the first hour I was like, I'm dying,
but the last hour I was just like,
oh I'm getting
into the smell.
(laughs)
I'm like, I can not smell anything else.
Just her feet.
The smell will never makes you forget.
I hope only me have this worst experience.
It won't happen to any artists.
I hope we'll get lucky.
Yeah, just I recommend every single person
getting, take shower before you get a tattoo.
I appreciate that you take a shower.
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