247 Ink Magazine (February/March) 2016 Issue #7 | Page 93

got like a 7 foot light table we can draw on. I have no problem walking up to them and saying maybe you should change this and they do the same to me so it’s a great environment. Everybody does a little different styles. It’s a very socially interactive shop. We have cameras that live stream to our website, we have a lot of traffic. on them, we have people from all over the world who say I’m tuning in to see my buddy get tattooed. We’re making it a social experience for that person. They’re texting their friends. It works out too if you’re coming in to get a tattoo you’re gonna be watching the whole week before. Christie Mack got tattooed here and she broke our website twice. We’re 8,000 square feet. Four in the front, four in the back. When you won, and it’s time to announce the winner and they make you wait so long, forever, what goes on in your head during that? Well, they do a run through earlier in the day and there’s teleprompters so you know it’s coming but there’s no names in it so at the point when they say so and so you have what it takes to be Inkmaster, we knew whoever’s name they said first was gonna win so when I heard my name I thought , man, I think I’m gonna win this, but Jime and I have known each other for a good 10 years and he came out to Vegas because of me, he came out to Club because of me so to compete against him and have a friend there was great. Earlier in the day I just looked at him and said well, one of us is gonna win and won of us isn’t so that’s the bad thing. That was the only thing I regretted about it was going against him. It was great though. You see me go like this (raises fists up in victory) 91