(upbeat music)
- Wowzen. That's fantastic.
(plastic crinkling)
- Okay. Okay.
How are we doing?
- Good.
- How you doing?
- [Woman] (laughing) How are you doing?
I might yell (laughing).
- Ready?
- Hi, I'm Alyssa.
- And I'm a Motoki and this is Expert Amateur Fraud.
A show where we try to figure
out who the expert is and who's faking it.
- And today we're gonna be interviewing three.
Gold box.
- Who do we have?
(woman gasping)
- [All] Tattoo artists!
- Okay.
- Oh!
- Do you have tattoos?
- I don't have any tattoos.
- Nor do I.
- Okay (laughing)
(man laughing)
(mischievous music)
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- So whoever you guys think is the expert will be
tattooing me.
- Oh my God! (laughing)
- That's exciting, right?
- That's a lot more pressure now.
- This is terrifying.
- We're usually goofing and gaffing.
- Yeah.
- Dilly dallying, as you will.
- I have all the confidence in both of you, so-
- Awesome. That's-
- Thank you.
- [Bridget] No pressure.
- You shouldn't.
- Hello?
- Howdy.
- Well, thanks for having us.
- Welcome.
- Hello, what's your name?
- I'm Xyla.
- [Alyssa] Xyla, nice to meet you.
- Also known as bloodless, as my artist's name.
So these are coil machines.
- Okay.
- They're known as like the more popular
old school machines.
So what makes it a coil machine is they have
these two coils that are right over here.
This is your front coil and that's your back coil.
And then these are tubes and then needles
which we won't be opening
since this isn't a licensed establishment.
And we don't wanna prick anybody yet.
- Oh. Sure. (laughing)
- The reason why I love tattooing is because I've always
wanted to find a career path which involved my talents.
- You have a lot of tattoos.
I noticed a lot of bear.
- So I have this says Dusk and Dawn,
and then this says living on a prayer,
the Bon Jovi song, a werewolf.
- Oh.
- That's dope.
- And then of course my moon.
- Did you do any of these yourself though?
- No, I don't really believe in putting
like tattoos on myself due to the fact
that I just know that if I do one day, I might regret it.
I'd rather have somebody like professional do it.
I mean, I'm a professional as well,
but I'd rather have like somebody
that I'm like collecting art from do it for me.
- Gotcha.
- Oh, very cool.
What did you think about Xyla?
- I just had this feeling that she's like here
to throw us off.
I don't know, face tattoo.
- Most of the face tattoo people I've known-
- [Bridget] That's true. That is true.
Are probably also tattoo artists.
What are you talking about?
- Yeah.
- That's true.
- Hello? What's your name?
- Hi I'm Tiffany. Nice to meet you guys.
- [Tiffany And Motoki] Nice to meet you.
- I have a Bluetooth stencil printer in ink.
- [Alyssa] Ooh.
- I was kind of lazy.
I didn't really wanna bring all my stuff today.
- So you would just like print off the piece of art?
- Yeah. Like I'll print out at piece of art.
Yeah.
- And then-
- And then lay it out.
- Oh!
- On the customer and then peel it off
and then make sure that the outline is all set up.
And then that's when we start tattooing.
Okay. Hm-hm.
- You actually have some fresh ones.
- Yeah. I did that last night.
You can't really stop.
They're very addicting and it feels very freeing too.
Honestly.
- What's the oddest request you've ever had from a client?
- I've had like requests before where people would ask
for scriptures and I just wouldn't really take it just
cause it's not my style.
So it's not really like odd
but it's just something I like refuse cause it's like
I'm not gonna put my heart and soul into that,
it's not gonna be really, you know, special for them, so-
- I appreciate that.
If you're doing something that you're not really like into,
that might kind of like that energy might be in the tattoo.
- Yeah.
- Right? (laughing)
Sorry. I forgot I was wearing these gloves.
(people laughing)
- I kind of feel like a superhero.
(hands punching)
And this is the ink you use.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Can we take a look?
- Yeah, sure.
- I notice you only have black.
Do you ever do other colors?
- I only do black.
- You only do black.
- Oh, just black, okay. That's your style?
- Hm-hm.
- Tiffany knew that she was having this shoot today.
Do you think that was part of her plan?
Be like, yeah, these are fresh.
- I want to trust her and say that she did
her own tattoos,
but if she did,
and those are mad professional,
and she has this,
maybe her friend.
- She has it that machine
- And she borrowed it.
- What kind of a person
- [Bridget] Very intense.
- that's a fraudulent tattoo artist
is gonna have any of this stuff?
- Unless they gave it to them on the show.
- Did you, did you guys do that? (laughing)
- You sickos.
(edgy music)
- Howdy.
- Hi.
- Hello, last but not least.
- Welcome, welcome.
- [Alyssa And Motoki] What's your name?
- My name is Christian.
- Nice to meet you Christian.
- Nice meet you.
- And what did you bring?
- This is actually a rotary machine.
Since you guys are gloved up
you can go ahead and take a look at it.
- Okay.
It's just a pen.
- Oh.
(people laughing)
- It's really cool.
- I don't even know which side is which.
- Yeah. I don't either.
- So right here is where you would-
- Looks like a dildo. (laughing)
- You put a, fair.
- I'm joking.
I'm like a boomer sometime with my jokes.
- Boomers don't say dildo.
- Dildo is a classic boomer joke?
- Is there anything that you wouldn't do at all?
Like there's something that's you feel morally wrong,
you know, doing?
- Maybe genitalia. Maybe I-
- Okay. As in like, tattooing genitalia,
or tattooing genitalia on people.
- Yeah.
- [Motoki] Yes.
- [Alyssa] Both.
- It's fair.
- What about if like two people came in,
has this ever happened?
And they're like, we just met we're in love.
- Yeah.
- Like we wanna get tatts of each other's name.
- I'd walk over in the corner, laugh a little bit,
come back and I'd be like, all right, yeah, sure.
- Really?
- Okay.
And then you do it small enough
so that when they come back to get it covered up
then you can cover it up.
- Oh.
- Got it.
Do you do a lot of cover ups?
- Oh yeah.
- You seem really levelheaded, the opposite of me.
(laughing)
You're like very healthy with your thinking.
- It's a,
it can be a stressful job,
so it's good to just be calm.
Keep cool.
Cause you deal with a lot of people.
As I've tattooed and tattooed for years and years,
I just kind of found kind of a Zen with just
kind of breathing
and you just kind of think about the moment.
- Okay. So I wanna check out some of your tattoos.
- Yeah. Right now.
I just got some of my hand stuff out, but you know
it's a lot of movie stuff,
a lot of like Star Wars and things like that.
- [Motoki] Okay.
- And, and you do a lot yourself or-
- No.
- Never.
I've never touched myself with a machine.
- Whoa. Cool. Okay.
And I think everyone can kind of answer this.
Tattoos kind of taboo.
Right, in like general society,
especially the ones that are visible.
Say like face tattoos, like your moon
and some of the ones you saw,
what would you say to those people?
- Deal with it. (laughing)
(people laughing)
- Deal with it.
(bell sounding)
- Also like, people discriminate against you
just having visible tattoos
or they make assumptions that you've gone to prison
but a long time ago,
people used to get tattooed just to,
you know, recognize what tribe you're from.
- Absolutely.
- Yeah. You should talk to my mom about-
(people laughing)
- Talk to his mom.
- My mom's Asian too, so-
- Yeah, you get it.
- She hated the whole tattoo thing, but "I'm sorry girl."
(people laughing)
- Thank you all so much.
It was a pleasure talking
to you all getting to know you and God bless you all.
(people laughing)
(choir singing)
Okay. So you you've gotten a tattoo?
- Yes.
- Did any of them kind of give you like, oh yeah.
That's the vibe of a tattoo artist?
Did you get that?
- I mean, this is not helpful, but they all kind of did.
Cause normally people I've gone to have been super
chill, laid back, and they all seemed really chill.
- Okay. Let's start with expert.
Gut instinct.
Boom 3, 2, 1.
Awesome.
(people laughing)
- Christian though.
Like I said, he was calming, right?
We all felt close around him.
- [Bridget] He was. Yeah.
- When I think about a tattoo artist,
they might just kind of be like quiet.
Like, hey man, just let me put that thing on your arm.
- Right.
- And I feel like Tiffany
and Christian had more of that vibe.
- So you think Xyla's the fraud?
- That's what I was gonna say as well.
(woman gasping)
- I never thought that. (laughing)
- Well, what were you thinking?
- Yeah?
- I thought Xyla expert.
- Really?
- Because of the old school machine.
- That's fair.
- I watched a YouTube video about like a spy talking
about how to spot a wire (laughing)
(suspicious music)
and the one person that kind of
seemed to be like turning away and not really
engaging was Tiffany a little bit,
avoiding some things from this spy video that I watched
(laughing).
- Is this Spy Kids?
- It was Spy Kids.
- Okay.
- You think Tiffany would be amateur?
- She got into the whole stencil making process a little bit
and saying that she doesn't like to do scriptures,
- That's right.
- Which is, it's a pretty likely story.
- That's kind of an interesting thing.
And maybe Xyla is the fraud.
They kept talking about like,
people think that if you have tattoos,
that means you're in prison.
That might be an old school.
- It's a traditional view, though. It's a thing.
- So maybe Xyla is a lover of tattoos
and a huge like proponent for tattoos.
- Right.
- But that doesn't necessarily mean they're an artist.
I'm freaking out though.
Cause I like literally two minutes ago
thought Xyla was the expert.
(people laughing)
How do you feel?
- I'm still excited, but it I'm nervous now.
- [Alyssa] Yeah.
- Like it's real. (laughing)
It's about to happen.
- So now we're gonna bring back our tattoo artist.
Welcome!
- [Motoki] Come hither.
- Welcome back.
This was hard actually, to be honest,
I know you might think they say that every time,
but it literally felt like an hour of deliberation.
- Xyla, we think you are the fraud.
- We thought you knew a lot about tattoos.
You obviously have some amazing tattoos,
but we thought maybe you were kind of talking
about it in a way that was like trying to trick us.
- [Man] Three, two, one.
(buzzer buzzing)
- I freaking knew it (laughing).
- See, like-
- I knew it, I knew it! (laughing)
Are you okay Bridget?
- Yeah.
I mean that's one down.
- [Motoki] Could be the amateur.
- This next one's important
- Tiffany.
- Hello there.
- We thought you were the amateur.
- It seems like you're pretty knowledgeable about tattoos.
It seems like you have clients.
- Hm-hm.
Yeah. The specific examples of like.
- I would be a client.
- What you won't do.
Yeah.
- You know, but maybe it's more of like a side hustle.
I don't know.
- Yeah.
- That's kind of my reasoning.
- Very calm and collected.
But yeah, maybe you're just getting into it anyways.
We're obviously probably wrong, but uh-
- [Man] Three, two, one.
Oh my God.
What does this mean?
(people laughing)
This is terrifying.
- Best case scenario,
Christian-
- Is not the fraud!
- Yeah.
- Before we know?
- Oh, before we know.
(woman gasping)
- Oh my God. You got this, Christian, right?
- How do you feel?
- I'll get back to you.
- Now I don't know how I feel.
- Oh my gosh.
He's the freaking fraud.
(people laughing)
Are you joking?
- [Motoki] Well, there's the tools that you had out.
- Gloves.
- But are they his tools?
- That's valid.
- Yeah.
- How are you?
- I'm good.
- Good.
- Yeah.
- Good. Good. That's good.
That's really, it's good that we're both good right now.
(woman laughing)
- Right now.
- Yeah. Yes.
At this moment.
- Later, I will also be good.
- Water, water?
(plastic crinkling)
- Okay. Okay. How we doing?
- Good.
- How you doing?
(woman laughing)
- How are you doing?
- Gotcha good.
Now, this is normal.
I do this all the time.
- Okay.
Before you do it though, are you sure?
- Me?
- Are you guys sure?
- Wait, what, what do you mean?
(Xyla talking indistinctly)
- [Alyssa] Does he need to sanitize or something?
You know, alcohol swash?
- So if a fraud was giving a tattoo
I would be a hundred percent worried
about contamination, bloodborne pathogens.
And also,
if that person really knows how to operate a tattoo machine.
- Okay, Bridget.
- Here we go.
(people laughing)
- Ready? Okay.
- I'm ready.
- Okay. I'm gonna start.
- Okay.
- Here we go.
In the skin.
Here we go.
Look at that.
How you feeling?
- Oh.
- [Motoki] All done?
- That's good.
- All done.
- Do another line.
- Go for it.
- I mean, the first one looks pretty good.
- Yeah. All right. There we go.
How are you guys feeling over there?
- My heart is pounding.
(heart beating)
- Huh, I bet.
(woman laughing)
You're good at lines.
- So yeah, I am the expert.
- I knew it!
- What!
(people laughing)
- I knew it!
- You know, growing up, I just grew up as an artist,
then didn't really know where I wanted to go.
My sister started jumping into the tattoo game
and so she invited me to get into a shop with her.
So I did.
I started tattooing
and I found that it's the best thing for me.
- So you're amateur?
- I'm actually an apprentice
for two years now
because I moved to Riverside.
Now I'm gonna be transferring over
either opening my own little shop
or continuing my apprenticeship.
- That's amazing.
- Hm-hm.
- And you're fraud.
- I, that's what I said.
I said, I thought you were the fraud
cause I was like she's great, loves her tatts.
- Yeah.
- But I don't know.
I was like, I dunno, she didn't talk much.
- I literally spent 10 hours with my tattoo artist
yesterday literally,
like I know his entire backstory.
- Wow.
- And memorized it for this moment.
- That's what I said, remember,
I was like,
maybe she just got some tattoos for this shoot.
Like to be like, yeah, this was-
- I really actually did.
- I got all five of them.
- [Motoki] For this video?
- Oh no, no, no.
- Okay.
- I just wanted extra.
So I got five yesterday.
I actually started getting tattoos
like six months ago and I have twenty now. (laughing)
- How's it going, Bridget? You feeling good?
- Good.
I feel really good.
I am really proud of all of us. (laughing)
- Wow.
- This is great.
- Thank you guys so much for watching.
- I mean, I feel so much better.
- I do too.
- It was actually so, so stressful.
- I was having an emotional reaction
and thinking that we just like,
what did we do?
We really wanna hear your comments.
What you thought, did you know?
Were you freaked out?