GOOSE CREEK, S.C.–All right, Berkeley County reality TV fans. Make sure you have your eyes glued to Spike TV starting this Tuesday.
That’s when Goose Creek’s Emily Elegado, a tattoo artist at Roses and Ruins in Summerville, will be representing the lowcountry in the fifth season of the Spike TV reality show “Ink Master.”
Elegado along with tattoo artists from around the country will battle it out to defeat their rival and 16 other artists for a $100,000 grand prize, an editorial feature in Inked and, of course, the bragging rights title of ‘Ink Master.’
After every challenge, the contestants will face a tough panel made up of series host Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction) and world renowned tattoo artists Chris Nunez (“Miami Ink”) and Oliver Peck (Elm Street Tattoo) who are joined by a roster of guest judges including Joe Manganiello, Tommy Montoya and DeAngelo Williams.
Once again the ‘Human Canvases,’ who volunteer their bodies to be tattooed by the “Ink Master” contestants, will have a say in who gets sent home. The Canvases will form their own jury, deliberate as a group and pick one artist per episode who will be up for elimination.
In the jury room, viewers get an inside look at the heated arguments and wicked emotions as the Canvases defend or abandon their new ink and artist.
Elegado, who has been tattooing for six years, spent three years completing a traditional tattoo apprenticeship before taking on her own clients. Other than her work in realism, Elegado considers herself infamous for having an in-your-face attitude.
She enters the competition with a distaste for Aaron Is, the Tampa tattooist she first met when he did a guest spot at her shop.
Elegado comes from a strong artistic background, with influences including her father, an oil portrait artist. She says she has been around art culture her entire life, and decided that tattooing was
her calling at a very young age.After working downtown for the first year of working in South Carolina, she came to work for Roses and Ruins Tattoo in Summerville.
To see Elegado’s work, click here. To visit her personal website, click here.
The season premiere will air September 2 at 10 p.m.
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