Top 10 Worst Ink Master Contestants

In all honesty, I thought that he was pretty good, but clearly nowhere near what he claimed to be. Yeah, he stirred the pot on the show, but I couldn't help but imagine his whole bravado not rubbing people the wrong way.

If he is brought back for season 7, I won't watch it. He is a mediocre one-trick pony at best. I was surprised he didn't choke on his own ego. I never thought I would see someone more annoying than Emily, but here he is!

This guy is such a delusional egomaniac! It was so satisfying to see Chris knock the self-proclaimed "tattoo god" off his high horse.

Way too controlling. The biggest problem with Tri-Cities is that Dave kept changing the initial designs mid-tattoo. He tanked his shop with every one of these decisions.

He and Bang were in the bottom every elimination they were there, four times in a row. I would not let them get anywhere near me with a tattoo machine.

I have no idea why Mike was even on Ink Masters. I looked through his portfolio, struggling through roughly 15 photos, and found inconsistencies in each tattoo I viewed.

Regarding his vocabulary, I am at a total loss. I fully believe he must have Word of the Day toilet paper, choosing one or two words to use per day without understanding their definitions, as he misused words more than once. As for his looks, I suppose someone has to brag about him being good-looking to try to convince others. I do not see anyone else applying for the job of boosting his ego and narcissism, so I can only presume this is why he seems to be the only one patting himself on the back for his looks, vocabulary, and tattoos, while delusionally believing he is one of the best tattoo artists in the world.

I find this absurd, extraordinarily frustrating, and, to use a word he might understand, laughable. I could go on, but see no reason to frustrate myself thinking of someone so easily forgettable.

He is dreadful. I think the judges have been showing favoritism towards him.

Nasty, narcissistic attitude. Argued with judges.

Loved Sirvone! Spoke a lot of truth! Should not have been eliminated when he was!

I really don't understand why anyone would get a tattoo from that guy. His artistry just blows my mind (in a bad way). It just sucks. He can't draw proportion or good fundamentals that are appealing. Look at his pinup and geisha, for example. Terrible face and hands.

He and Season 5 Mark have the worst competitive records out of anyone on the show. He has consistently been in the bottom, yet he still manages to slip through the cracks every single time. How he's made it as far as he has is beyond me.

Attacking others for their looks rather than just focusing on tattooing. He produces clean tattoos, but he definitely isn't an artist. He can't draw up anything that looks decent.

As poor of a performer as he is, you gotta admit that he said one of the best lines of the entire show: "Why do you look 50 when you're only 24?"

His arguments involved attacking people personally. He lacked the ability to realize his mistakes, although he was in the bottom a lot.

One word to describe this guy: he just yaps and yaps. It's only three episodes in, and I don't like him already. Honestly, if this guy even goes to the finale, I will quit watching Ink Master.

Don't get me wrong, he's a great artist, but he only ever does one style. It's annoying that he never bothers to go outside his comfort zone.

An Ink Master should be able to nail any style that comes their way, not be a one-trick pony the whole way through.

Just checked out what she's been up to since then, and whoa, has she been busy! Arrested twice on domestic violence charges against her boyfriend and thrown behind bars. I'm sure she's out now, but it won't be long given her track record. Maybe she should invest in some anger management therapy or some form of couples counseling.

Really bad tattoo artist. I would be devastated if I had a tattoo from her.

She could not make a decent tattoo to save her life!

I hated her the most in Season 8. She constantly complained about her canvas. Her team tried to give her a canvas they thought she liked, but she still complained. She says that better artists should be given harder canvases, yet when she is given a hard canvas, she complains and says they should give the weak artists hard canvases!

This season was marked by consistent whining and a double standard by the "girl's alliance." It was okay for them to target specific people and gang up, but when others did it to them, it was "unfair." Nikki was the worst of this group. She complained about everything, and she was smug as well as arrogant. Probably my least favorite season.

I've never seen anyone else on the show as big-mouthed or insecure as Kay. He's all bark and no bite. All he would do is run his mouth, and he didn't even have the skill to back himself up. No way he should have made it as far as he did, and he probably would have been the first to go if Cee Jay didn't misspell 'Corinthians' on her tattoo.

I absolutely could not stand this guy. He kept talking about playing mind games, but in reality, he was just pathetic. He thinks he's some big badass because he's been to prison before. But all in all, he was a weak tattoo artist, and I'm surprised he made it for as long as he did.

This dude is always complaining about the challenges, saying that they are not conducive to his style. It becomes utterly apparent that he is not a good tattoo artist.

Always making excuses for his poor performance. Glad we don't have to hear him complain about how the tattoos are out of his element anymore.

His battleship mouth wrote checks his tugboat tail couldn't cash! At that point in the show, he had to face the fact that his weak work (like that horrid "Family" head tattoo) just was NOT going to keep him there, as evidenced by the critiques. His mind games with the women weren't working either.

Plus, he'd made so many openly misogynistic remarks that he just couldn't bear the thought of being sent home while women were still there, kicking ass. So, the whiny baby quit! Good riddance, I say!

I say season 3 ONLY because she was great during season 2. In season 3, she did well a few times, but other than that, she was consistently in the bottom, yet she still made it to the finals somehow. She even considered quitting in the middle of the competition, but the judges talked her out of it. No way she should have lasted as long as she did that season.

I agree totally. She lost the plot in Season 3. They kept her (I believe) to save face!

So can't even put together a tat machine. Come on, people.

Josh is extremely talented and one of my favorite artists to ever appear on Ink Master. If he wasn't removed from season 5 due to smoking pot for anxiety issues, it would've been Josh vs. Clean in the finale.

This guy is a douchebag, plain and simple. I can't believe they would bring him back for another season. Just goes to show you they care more about the drama than the ink.

Good tattooer but has a horrible attitude. I've met tattooers like him. He's the type that would want to change your idea into his own. That's not what tattooers are supposed to do. The good ones admit that they want to bring your vision to ink, not change it to their own.

Very whiny. I think he made it to the end based on luck. No way he was better than his rival in Season 5. He just lucked out that Josh got sent home.

Says everybody is looking for a free tattoo. He is supposed to be there to show he's the best tattoo artist, not the biggest jerk.

This ASS gives gays a bad name. When there is so much unreasonable prejudice out there, it really sucks that he would use his sexuality as an excuse and insinuate that the judges factored that into their decision. The fact is he sucked and probably should have gone home sooner than he did.

His tattooing skills were lackluster enough, but then he insisted on pulling the gay card on the judges the last time he was there. No one cares if you're a homosexual in the tattoo industry. If you go home, it's because you did a bad tattoo.

The problem most people have is they're looking for overall skill across the board: line work, saturation, etc., forgetting that certain artists choose to specialize in one style. Roland is a badass Hawaiian tribal artist who is extremely popular on the Big Island. His work is impeccable. Just because he can't do biomechanical tattoos doesn't mean he can't tattoo.

Not sure how he even thought he could make it through the rest of the competition. I've picked up a machine twice and executed better tattoos.

Why was he allowed to compete in the first place? Who thought it would be a good idea to let someone who lacks any artistic ability onto a show to show off skill when he lacks any at all?

Would never get a tat from this guy. How can you think those were great?

He has such a big mouth, without the tattooing skills to back it up.

Big mouth dumbass with no skills to back it up.

She is so annoying, trying to shut down everybody about ego problems when most of them just have confidence, which she doesn't. Way too emotional for a competition like Ink Master. She isn't a good tattoo artist, and she isn't a good person, so I dislike her very much.

She needs to stop blaming her whining on the fact that she's a girl. No sugar, "girls" don't do that. YOU do that. Don't lump me in the same group as you because we both have a vagina. She was emotionally unstable and clearly expects to get a free pass for every failure because she's female. Just no integrity at all. Ugh.

She was in way over her head. She started crying and quit the competition before the judges gave their critique of her tattoo because she couldn't handle the pressure. Whiny and pathetic.

He was a weakling to begin with.

Dave targeted the Girls Alliance because he was threatened by their talents. What Dave did after he won his first flash challenge was backstab Team Peck (mostly Ashley and Gia) to try and get in the way of getting the title of Ink Master.

I hate this punk kid so much and will be clapping when he goes home. He's like a defensive 17-year-old trying to prove himself to a bunch of adults who've been in the game since before he was potty trained. He can't take critiques without getting an attitude and blowing off whatever someone says to him. I mean, look at his intro. He's even got the attitude there!

He may have good technical skills, but without artistic talent, it doesn't mean squat. The only time I liked St. Marq was when he went off on him for being an outright douche to Sausage. Props to Marq for not smashing the kid into the ground because I couldn't have held back on his punk attitude.