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Ink Master: Angels is a new series from Spike that puts some of the best female competitors from Ink Master Season 8 and puts them up against local tattoo artists across the country. Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose will travel across America taking on all-commers in a variety of competitions. In the series premiere they are Las Vegas bound where the challenge subject matter is addiction. Each week the competitors will be given different challenges that will push their tattoo skills and their creativity to the limit. If a competitor manages to beat one of the Angels, then...read more...

Gia Rose is one of the four new stars of Spike’s newest series — Ink Master: Angels. Along with the other three, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Ryan Ashley Malarkey, she was a contestant on Ink Master Season 8 last year. Gia has worked from the east coast to the west coast, but her 14-year path as a tattoo artist has been far from easy. In our interview below she tells us how after her apprenticeship and subsequent work in a New Orleans tattoo shop, Gia discovered she had an aggressive form of cervical cancer. Don’t Miss: Exclusive interview with...read more...

Spike megahit Ink Master constantly delivers the goods with larger-than-life personalities and amazing tattoos, all created during stressful but spectacular challenges. On Season 8 of the show last year, the women — Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose — all bonded along the way. Without realizing it, these fab four gave producers a launchpad for the big upcoming Ink Master spinoff: Ink Master: Angels. The result of Season 8? The series’ first female winner was crowned. Ryan Ashley Malarkey, a small-town Pennsylvania girl whose inner artistic bent and admirable work ethic — undoubtedly helped by her arrestingly...read more...

Watch out, boys. Today, Spike announced they've ordered a new spinoff of the TV series Ink Master called Ink Master: Angels.The competition show "features four of "Ink Master" Season 8's top female competitors - Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose - as they travel the country and go head to head with some of America's most talented tattoo artists."Read More…...

Spike has given the greenlight to a new entry in its Ink Master tattoo franchise: Ink Master: Angels, a 10-episode series focusing on four of the original show’s top female contestants, will air this fall. Angels will follow four previous Ink Master competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose – as they travel the country in contests with other tattoo artists. Winners of the various challenges vie for a spot on Season 10 of Ink Master (premiering in…...

Ahead of its Season 9 summer premiere, Spike TV has renewed its hit tattoo-competition series Ink Master for a 10th season and given the green light to a female-focused special, Ink Master Angels. Ink Master has received a 16-episode order and will go into production later this year for premiere on the rebranded Paramount Network in 2018. The hourlong special Ink Master Angels will feature four of Season 8's top female competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson…...

On Ink Master tonight, tattoo legend Chris Garver drops in as a guest judge as the contestants face turning their canvases into cyborgs! Garver has been tattooing since 1988 and previously featured on TLC’s reality series Miami Ink. And this week on Spike he lends his decades of expertise to deciding who’ll be eliminated from the Ink Master Season 8 line-up. There are only five artists remaining — Ryan Ashley Malarkey, Nate Beavers and Gian Karle Cruz from Team Peck and Nikki Simpson and Kelly Doty from Team Núñez. But when Dave Navarro breaks the news that they’ll be making their...read more...