Young Bae offended a client during a team-building exercise.
There have been a lot of conversations about the latest episode of “Black Ink Crew.” A client told Puma they weren’t happy about the service they received. Puma had the men and women compete for a team-building exercise. The client who was being taken care of by the ladies wanted a galaxy tattoo. And she wanted it to be full color because she’s never done that before.
Young Bae did the consultation. And she told the client they needed to work with her skin tone because not all the colors would stay the same. Bae believed certain colors would fade faster on the woman’s skin.
In the end, Vanity suggested they do a color splash instead. So the client told Puma that Bae took over and made everyone feel she was too black to get the colors she wanted.
Puma responded to the criticism.
Bae said she never came out and said this. However, Puma said that the client was made to feel this way. And that Bae needs to understand that dark-skinned people don’t want to be made to feel like they are too dark to have the tattoo they want.
Well, some fans of the show felt like Puma was being too hard on Bae. So they called him out on social media. Others were very critical of the client. Some accused the client of being insecure about her complexion and taking it out on Bae. There were some people who made very critical comments about the woman’s complexion.
Puma had a little bit more to say in response to the backlash on Twitter.
He wrote, “Reading some of y’all comments, colorism in the community is still horrible and I can’t wait for y’all to keep watching and see how this subject comes up again.” He continued, “I think it’s hard to explain to ppl how somebody else feels. End of the day, a black woman feels a way about something, I’mma speak up.”
Teddy and Ceaser were on the same page as Puma. Ceaser even decided to bring another artist in to show the crew how to tattoo on clients with darker skin.
Puma wasn’t disrespectful or mean at all. He’s just dark skinned and people get triggered and angry when colorism is pointed out.
Huh? Puma wasn’t mean. Now Bae was rude because she didn’t want to let him talk and she left while he was still talking. Funny that she gets a pass and fans have been dragging the dark skinned people instead.
Bae was very polite when speaking about the tattoo…she was saying consider what we are working with so she did not want to put colors on the darker skin that would not last….Puma act like she said (The B-tch Too Black) she could have just gave her what she wanted and then she would have been CRYING the COLOR FADED AWAY!!!!….that’s what Bae was trying to tell you STUPID!!!
Ross she already got all the protection she needs from the government. Put your cape back in the closet.
I understand some people do have triggers when it comes to our skin tone, saying that I’m a woman of a color and I have tattoos. When I got my first tattoo, I wanted to pay respect to my mother, who I just lost to breast cancer, so I wanted a pink ribbon with her name in it. The artist advised me that the color I was choosing wasn’t going to show up well, and it was going to fade. I still insisted on that color, and he did as I asked. Yes, after a few years, the pink did fade. I appreciated that the artist explained this to me at the time, so I was informed. I appreciated that Ceasar brought someone in with the knowledge of tattooing people of color. My only problem with this is that the man he tattooed wasn’t as dark as the women that the teams had to tattoo. In saying this, I think we, as black people, need to stop being so sensitive about our skin color; we all are beautiful in our own way. As far as Puma, just think about what you’re saying and how you say them. Words hurt.
Bae kept it a buck speaking to that sister about the tattoo with color. Personally I never understood why anyone would get inked and you can’t make out what it is. That goes for ANYBODY.
That sister left that shop happy but she got home and then had a problem? GTFOH!! When did Bae actually offend her? Did she even pay for the tatt? Remember this was a competition and these two sisters coulda been randoms chosen for this competition. We didn’t see that. Production coulda made it look like they were walk-ins.
Now whomever tatted her before with red just took her money. Co-signed on what she wanted knowing that was going to darken over time.
One more thing…all tattoo inks are not the same. Some inks can cause issues with skin. Just Google it.
Mary Wells you spoke so truth. I was confused as why they didn’t bring in a dark skin person to tatoo. If you experienced fading after time had passed then it is true and we shouldyget offended about being told the color you want will fade after time goes on.