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SO WHAT DO WE THINK OF KAT VON D?

 Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 1:59pm by

Against my better judgement, I’ve been watching L.A. Ink these past few weeks because someone tipped me off that Dimebag’s “widow,” Rita Haney, Sebastian Bach, and Scott Ian would all be getting tats on the show. And while I appreciate the work Kat Von D does* and the opportunity to hear more Dime tidbits from Haney (cheesy though it is, I loved hearing that the first thing he asked her every morning is “What did you dream?”), I’m having a hard time getting around the fact that Kat is, for lack of a more polite term, an idiot – I mean, if anyone ever asks me to “hang ten on the couch,” I’d have no choice but to kick them in the shin.

What do you fine folks think?

Rita Haney Gets a Dimebag Tat
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Baz Gets an Angel Down Tat
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Scott Ian gets an AC/DC Tat
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*Although I still think Paul Booth’s shit looks cooler – it’s more bad assed, and more three dimensional.

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  • Wayne

    While she’s very easy on the eyes and does good work, I agree with you. Total idiot.

  • http://countshockula.blogspot.com ezra

    i saw that show be accident in a hotel room once, I think half my brain ran out my ears!

  • Rob

    She’s dumb, she’s barely an artist (I respect the fact that she can copy a picture verbatim on human skin, that’s pretty cool, but have you ever seen her freak out when someone asks her to do something that’s not copying a picture verbatim?), she thinks she’s WAY hotter than she is, and did I mention she’s dumber than a box of brain damaged rocks? I thought I did, but I just wanted to make sure I was able to impress that point. Gotta agree with Axl, Paul Booth is a much better and more interesting artist and personality. Where the fuck is his reality show? It could be called “Paul Booth: I Keep Dead Babies In Formaldahyde Filled Jars, For Fuck’s Sake!”

  • http://www.myspace.com/freaksystemband Sammy

    I was in West Hollywood two weeks ago and stopped in at High Voltage. It was actually pretty cool because Kat and Pixie were both there – Kat inking someone and Pixie making appointments. The place looks exactly as on TV. About 20 people were milling around, trying to make appointments, buying merch, taking photos. All low key.

    As for Kat, she’s a hung-with-the-wrong-crowd, high school dropout. She’s basically a 15-year-old plus 10 years. Yes, they’re hot in person, but a few pounds heavier. My kid was overjoyed.

    But I hate L.A. It’s a giant slum with tiny pockets of nice. Hollywood ain’t one of those.

  • http://www.coreymitchell.com Liquidman666

    I love this quote at the -8:27 mark of the Rita Haney clip where Kat’s talking about Dimebag: That was, uh, you know, her old man before he passed away. Brilliant.

  • http://countshockula.blogspot.com ezra

    someone should break one of those skateboards over her head. 7 plys of rock-hard canadian maple might fix her up.

  • TruePagan

    She is a mediochre tattooist at best. I say “tattooist” because she doesn’t qualify, to me anyway, as an artist. You want an ARTIST? Look up Mike Parsons, Paul Booth….or better yet, the BEST B&W ARTIST OUT THERE Tom Renshaw out of Michigan. She has an attitude to boot. When she was in Miami, she would flat out turn down people by saying “I just dont do that style” or “I don’t want to that.” Ok, wait….a true Tattoo Artist is faithful to their craft in that they do what is asked of them, they TATTOO PEOPLE WHO WANT A TATTOO. You don’t just turn people down because you don’t do that. She is incredibly immature and a bit to full of herself. And the fact that she all but threw Orbi out into the street for Nikki Sixx makes my hand itch to slap her across that smug face.

  • Rebecca

    I don’t know much about her…but i don’t think the hate is really necessary, unless you’re all jealous. I’m not saying she’s the smartest or prettiest person, but she is lucky. She’s a 15 year-old dropout and doing the thing she loves. I don’t know about you guys but I’de prefer that life over than working my ass off for a piece of paper to do a job that I hate. She can easily pull off the whole Paris Hilton praise me shit, but she doesn’t. And who are you to talk about her like she’s a snobby bitch just because she happy with the way she looks? It takes a strong person to say they’re pretty and I highly respect that in a person.

  • http://236.com Poop Pooperson

    “And who are you to talk about her like she’s a snobby bitch just because she happy with the way she looks? It takes a strong person to say they’re pretty and I highly respect that in a person.”

    People are jealous because she makes a lot of money and is successful, however she is an imbecile that may not deserve this money by what comes out of her mouth and how she acts. As for being snobby, yes, she is snobby, watch the show and her ego. I’ve been in her shop, 95 percent of the apparel she sells says Kat Von D. How about some more High Voltage Tattoo t-shirts? She calls her self pretty and is really secure in the way she looks. Did you miss the beginning of her own show? She looked like she had lost like 100 lbs and was blowing coke daily. I recall her being chubby and snobby on Miami Ink, …I only draw portraits and do lettering”. Why the sudden bodily change if she is so happy and pretty? I can only assume…

    …she probably had no friends in Miami, and sat and ate comfort food all day long alone sobbing at her great opportunity in front of her, not good enough though. My name is KAT VON D! I belong in overpopulated plastic minded, garbage dump LA, much like Miami is I’m sure, but more hispanic than white trash. Then it was back to the celebrity diet of ice cubes, cocaine and cigarettes all day long. Yeah…. she’s a real strong pretty woman that other women should pride.

    I hope she leaves her own show to go blow Nikki on tour and Corey takes over, re-names the shop and brings some intelligence and better art to that shop in her place. Chris from Miami Ink would do just fine.

  • donald

    Oh kat von d? I hope she dies.

    bye.

  • G

    Kat Von D is a disgrace to tattooing and every single subculture associated with it.

    People may be jealous of her success, but if I had a choice to have Kat Von D’s “success” and lifestyle, or give up my integrity, I’d most certainly choose the latter.

    She may not do the “Paris Hilton praise me shit”, but she certainly has a very inflated ego. First her show about tattooing turns more into a show about HER, then she has her own make up line (because she’s “always worn make up!”), and now she has a fucking book. Really?

    Her 15 minutes are nearly up and I can’t wait until she falls flat on her face for being such a self-centered piece of shit. Thank you for pissing all over the tattoo industry, Kat. Way to go.

  • G

    Sorry, I meant “uphold my integrity”, haha. This is such an old article so I doubt any one will come around to pick apart my comment, but I’ve digressed.

  • kat von D

    ure so jealousss.

    but guess what, im on tv and ure not.

    losersssssssssss!!!!

  • ATM

    She is a drug addict, and looks like she goes clothes shopping straight out of a garbage can. I dont blame her ex husband for dumping her – she got gangbanged by the band Mastadon, and they busted the ass to mouth move on her. Trash

  • Katie

    I used to be a massive fan. I’d draw her constantly, read her book over and over again, and basically, envy everything about her.
    Oh, how time have changed!
    Granted, she has a bit of talent. But all she does is portraits and B/G. A more gifted artist would be open to doing custom made work but still have a style they prefered. I watched the first 2 episodes of LA this season. And she has changed so much. She’s become so stuck up!
    I mean, she told that new artist (can’t remember her name, but she had black and pink hair, BIGGG boobs) that she didn’t want her there cause she’s not looking for an apprentice, even though the girl had a few years experiance. She didn’t give her a chance, and I think thats unfare. Somebody gave her a chance when she started. For Gods sake, she did a few tattoos with a rigged guitar string!!!
    She’s only known to be a good tattoo artist because of Miami & LA ink. There are much better people out there than her. Paul Booth, Mike Devries, Nikko Hurtado, for example.
    And before I get the ‘your just jelous’ speech. I am not. I wouldn’t be jelous of someone that is so cruel to her fans, and she cheats on every boyfriend she’s ever had!! Thats nothing to envy!

  • http://www.tribal-art.ch/ maori tattoo

    Miami ink is a great serie, I really love kate she is so cool. I hope they will continue it forever:-).

  • http://n/a TedToo

    I don’t care how she looks or how many tatoos she has or does. My problem with her is the way she treated her long time friend and partner, Corey Miller. She allowed the two shop harpees to diss and mess with him. First the blond chick who stuck her nose in everyones business and eventually talked one of Corey’s customers into not getting a tatoo. The second girl was just a first class snob, who thought she was above everyone in the shop. Kat offered her to Colrey as a going away present when he first decided to leave. Unless she hated Corey, there was no reASON TO OFFER HER TO HIM. Kats brother doesn’t know squat and seems to be the other half of the part of her dead brain. The fact she took weeks and not days to decide Corey should be allowed to come back shows just how brain dead she is. He’s better off gone. That girl is the center of a triangle of constant conflict.