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:scust: at anyone actually trying to get a tattoo from these amateur motherfukkkas.






EXCLUSIVE: Harlem tattoo shop featured in VH1 show sued after woman suffers infection

BY Barbara Ross , Dareh Gregorian
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 2:30 AM


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Loni Tate, 31, is suing Harlem’s Black Ink Tattoo, which is featured in a VH1 reality TV show, after suffering infection and scarring on her forearm.
Her dream ink turned into a tatt-eww.

Loni Tate, 31, said a trip to Harlem’s Black Ink Tattoo Studio, which is featured on a reality TV show, ended with her being hospitalized with an infection and permanent scarring.

“I have never been through anything like that,” the tattoo aficionado said.

The Harlem native got her first tattoo — a large Day of the Dead skull on her back — in 2012.

“I just thought they were cool and it’s a good way for self-expression,” she said.

Tate said she went to the Lenox Ave. shop for her sixth tattoo because she’s a fan of “Black Ink Crew,” the VH1 show about the business.

She’d gotten one there on her arm of a butterfly flying out of a skull — “I like skulls,” she said — in January 2014.

“I was very happy with it,” she said.

But her return trip three months later for a custom rose design on her forearm by another artist turned into a much thornier experience, she said.

The artist, Kelvin Cepeda, said he had to leave for “an event” about three hours in, and told her to come back the next day so he could finish up, Tate said.

She did, and said she was surprised to see he had a tattoo gun already set up when she walked in.

“They normally open it and set it up in front of you,” she said.

The red on black and black on red design came out just as she hoped, but three days later, “I was in excruciating pain,” Tate said.

She said she texted Cepeda, who told her she’d feel better in “a couple of days.”

But Tate said she felt much, much worse.
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Loni Tate's arm is seen while she suffered an infection that required four days at a hospital. She said she believes the tattoo artist used a dirty tattoo needle on her.


“I felt like my arm was on fire, like I’d been burned,” she said.


The ink then started swelling and oozing, and Tate wound up getting hospitalized for four days while doctors battled a deep infection.


Tate said she now believes Cepeda used a dirty tattoo pen on her.


She’s suing the shop for unspecified damages, while her lawyer, Mark Shirian, is calling for stricter regulations for city tattoo shops.


“People need to understand that a tattoo procedure is the equivalent of undergoing minor surgery,” Shirian said.


“More stringent regulations must be adopted immediately in order to protect the health and well-being of New Yorkers.”

This is the third lawsuit brought against Black Ink.

Another action earlier this month involved permanent scarring left on the left breast of a woman from South Carolina who’d asked Black Ink artists to cover up her old unicorn and horseshoe tattoos with fruits and vegetables to reflect her new interest in cooking, PIX11 reported.

Tate hasn't gotten any tats since her incident, but said she will.

“Don't be afraid to get a tattoo — just be cautious,” she said.

“Make sure the artist opens everything in front of you and everything is sterile.”

Black Ink did not respond to requests for comment.

“Black Ink Crew” is scheduled to return for a third season on VH1 in August.

The show’s website says the “docu-series follows the lives of Ceaser, Dutchess, Sassy, Puma and O’ S--t, as they work, live, party, and hang out in Harlem.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Harlem tattoo shop featured in VH1 show sued after woman suffers infection

BY Barbara Ross , Dareh Gregorian
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, April 30, 2015, 2:30 AM


R. Smith/Bryan R. Smith
Loni Tate, 31, is suing Harlem’s Black Ink Tattoo, which is featured in a VH1 reality TV show, after suffering infection and scarring on her forearm.
Her dream ink turned into a tatt-eww.

Loni Tate, 31, said a trip to Harlem’s Black Ink Tattoo Studio, which is featured on a reality TV show, ended with her being hospitalized with an infection and permanent scarring.

“I have never been through anything like that,” the tattoo aficionado said.

The Harlem native got her first tattoo — a large Day of the Dead skull on her back — in 2012.

“I just thought they were cool and it’s a good way for self-expression,” she said.

Tate said she went to the Lenox Ave. shop for her sixth tattoo because she’s a fan of “Black Ink Crew,” the VH1 show about the business.

She’d gotten one there on her arm of a butterfly flying out of a skull — “I like skulls,” she said — in January 2014.

“I was very happy with it,” she said.

But her return trip three months later for a custom rose design on her forearm by another artist turned into a much thornier experience, she said.

The artist, Kelvin Cepeda, said he had to leave for “an event” about three hours in, and told her to come back the next day so he could finish up, Tate said.

She did, and said she was surprised to see he had a tattoo gun already set up when she walked in.

“They normally open it and set it up in front of you,” she said.

The red on black and black on red design came out just as she hoped, but three days later, “I was in excruciating pain,” Tate said.

She said she texted Cepeda, who told her she’d feel better in “a couple of days.”

But Tate said she felt much, much worse.
tattoo30n-1-web.jpg
Bryan

tattoo30n-3-web.jpg
Bryan R. Smith/Bryan R. Smith
Loni Tate's arm is seen while she suffered an infection that required four days at a hospital. She said she believes the tattoo artist used a dirty tattoo needle on her.


“I felt like my arm was on fire, like I’d been burned,” she said.


The ink then started swelling and oozing, and Tate wound up getting hospitalized for four days while doctors battled a deep infection.


Tate said she now believes Cepeda used a dirty tattoo pen on her.


She’s suing the shop for unspecified damages, while her lawyer, Mark Shirian, is calling for stricter regulations for city tattoo shops.


“People need to understand that a tattoo procedure is the equivalent of undergoing minor surgery,” Shirian said.


“More stringent regulations must be adopted immediately in order to protect the health and well-being of New Yorkers.”

This is the third lawsuit brought against Black Ink.

Another action earlier this month involved permanent scarring left on the left breast of a woman from South Carolina who’d asked Black Ink artists to cover up her old unicorn and horseshoe tattoos with fruits and vegetables to reflect her new interest in cooking, PIX11 reported.

Tate hasn't gotten any tats since her incident, but said she will.

“Don't be afraid to get a tattoo — just be cautious,” she said.

“Make sure the artist opens everything in front of you and everything is sterile.”

Black Ink did not respond to requests for comment.

“Black Ink Crew” is scheduled to return for a third season on VH1 in August.

The show’s website says the “docu-series follows the lives of Ceaser, Dutchess, Sassy, Puma and O’ S--t, as they work, live, party, and hang out in Harlem.”
I'm siding with Caesar, fukk that broad.
 

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Youngin had them scared as fukk.
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Ceaser is a bytch ass nikka and i hope
dutchess get her chin shook.


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She's a puppetmaster playing with Caeser and he just signs off on all of the shyt. Wants him to close up his shop he built (even though its a piece of shyt and I wouldn't take a free bottled water out of there) and move to NC so she can start up some imaginary shop she has in her head. fukk outta here.
Puma's wife put the battery in his back too and straight up got him beefing with Caeser. Lied and told Puma that Caesar and the big nikka came there and threatened her and her child. Crazy ass chick actually believed that shyt and sold it to Puma when nothing like that even came close to happening. Med even told Puma that's not what happened. These females be straight up ruining these dudes,friendships and money. Duchess and Puma wife have ruined that whole crew.
 

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She's a puppetmaster playing with Caeser and he just signs off on all of the shyt. Wants him to close up his shop he built (even though its a piece of shyt and I wouldn't take a free bottled water out of there) and move to NC so she can start up some imaginary shop she has in her head. fukk outta here.
Puma's wife put the battery in his back too and straight up got him beefing with Caeser. Lied and told Puma that Caesar and the big nikka came there and threatened her and her child. Crazy ass chick actually believed that shyt and sold it to Puma when nothing like that even came close to happening. Med even told Puma that's not what happened. These females be straight up ruining these dudes,friendships and money. Duchess and Puma wife have ruined that whole crew.

North Carolina or Harlem?:patrice:
 

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When Donna made that call deep down Dutchess and Cesar were like :merchant::whoa:
Man she was wrong how she came to her boss but cease was wrong how he came to her as an employee. That's some hatin shyt dutchess did. I still don't like her. She start a lot of shyt like with teddy. I hope sky beat the breaks off of her.
 

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She's a puppetmaster playing with Caeser and he just signs off on all of the shyt. Wants him to close up his shop he built (even though its a piece of shyt and I wouldn't take a free bottled water out of there) and move to NC so she can start up some imaginary shop she has in her head. fukk outta here.
Puma's wife put the battery in his back too and straight up got him beefing with Caeser. Lied and told Puma that Caesar and the big nikka came there and threatened her and her child. Crazy ass chick actually believed that shyt and sold it to Puma when nothing like that even came close to happening. Med even told Puma that's not what happened. These females be straight up ruining these dudes,friendships and money. Duchess and Puma wife have ruined that whole crew.
I think puma wife is on that stuff and u already know it makes you paranoid so it might just be the crack. Dutchess is just outright evil.
 
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