Reprinted with permission from www.redesignrevolution.com

The contestants on Best Ink 2 (which airs on Oxygen on Wednesdays, 10/9C) gather in a nightclub to find out what their next challenge will be. Oh look, it’s Ray J. He’s the guest judge for the Flash Challenge. The artists have one hour to use glow in the dark paint to “set the secrets of this club on fire.” The winner of the challenge gets $15,000.

Jerod

Teresa

The artists sit down at easels and begin painting, but quickly find that it’s not so easy to make something look good in both regular light and the black light. Jerod paints two unfinished faces and something about a chain under the black lights. DJ fills the canvas with a man in a top hat, but under the black lights he’s a devil. Kelly paints a straight-laced girl that transforms into a free spirit under the black lights. Melvin makes a businessman, and under the black lights he’s on puppet strings which is poorly executed but kind of clever. Derek paints a skull and money symbols which is ho-hum. Ralph makes a killer’s face that turns into an even bigger killer’s face under the black lights. Dollarz paints an eyeball and a forty, and meaningful words in glow paint. Alli paints a chick with a martini that turns into a chick with a martini and slightly brighter hair. Tylor paints paradise, and under the black light there’s a shark attack. Brittney makes a girl with flowing hair. Teresa paints a beautiful woman who turns into a skull under the black lights. Teresa’s is actually a really good painting, but Jerod gets the win because his painting speaks to Ray J.

Jerod & Teresa

For the Ink Challenge, Pete Wentz tells the contestants that they have to use UV ink on skins that are mild mannered by day, but very different at night. The theme is secrets, and the artists have five hours to complete the tattoo. Apparently UV ink is new and really hard to use, so there should be some spectacularly lousy results and at least a few very unhappy skins.

There are a lot of requests for pinup girls and clothes coming off under the black light, plus a surprising amount of birds on fire. Why do they all hate birds? Then there’s Melvin’s skin who wants a very literal music note kind of thing that is destined for mediocrity. There’s also a cross and horoscope signs which, boooooring. Teresa’s skin requests script work and it’s a whole Bible verse so there’s lots of potential for typos.

The victims arrive for their five hours of torture. Kelly is nervous because her last skin walked out halfway through. Melvin kind of sort of salvages the bland musical notes tattoo, but he’s not quite finished with the sketch so who knows. Teresa asks her skin to double-check the spelling, so you know this is going to be an issue later on. Dollarz is inking a ribbon that is a lot like last week’s winner, but not as good.

Joe checks in on everyone to see how they’re incorporating the UV ink. So far, he’s not seeing anything inspiring until he gets to Jerod who is doing something creative with the ink.  And here we have it, you can practically hear Teresa’s stomach drop as she realizes there’s a typo in her tattoo. Luckily her skin isn’t in the room because that’d be awkward.

Joe, Sabina, and Hannah weigh in on this week’s work. DJ is lucky that he has immunity because he presents a hot mess of a phoenix that never really catches fire under the black lights. The judges are underwhelmed by Ralph’s wolf with glow-in-the-dark fur. Alli made a wacked out unsexy figure. Jerod made an awesome Native American figure that turns into a roller derby girl with the lights out. Brittney inked a nutty scary face that gets even freakier under the black lights. Melvin cobbled together a blank banner over piano keys. The judges think Kelly’s owl is “cute,” but they’re not sure where her five hours went since there’s not much detail in the tattoo. Tylor impresses Sabina but Hannah can’t stand black and grey spots of color. Dollarz gets compared to DJ with the bow, and called out for adding a splotch of water that has no meaning. Derek sort of crapped out with his bird on fire that Sabina calls a “turd with wings.” Teresa’s tattoo is called pretty, and the UV ink works really well. However…typo! “Phillipians” is not a word. That should be one “l” and two “p’s,” but close enough?

Teresa’s Misspelled Tattoo

Jerod, Tylor and Brittney are the top three, and Brittney gets the win for the explosion of color under the black light. The top three choose the bottom three, and the deliberations are fairly catty. Tylor hates Alli as a human, and Brittney calls Derek an “a**hole.”

The bottom three contestants are Kelly, Melvin, and Dollarz. The judges let Dollarz off the hook because his fundamentals are good. They decide to keep Kelly and her stupid owl and send Melvin home. They also remind Kelly that she’s been voted into the bottom three two weeks in a row, so she really needs to get it together.

Next week, teamwork! That’s not going to end well.