The people in Ink Master are a bit egotistical, except for teh color dude with the southern accent lol he is cool!
The rest are a bunch of egotistical dumbasses who think their work is the best in the world.
I did get a "WTF???" look when in the intro sequence they describe the show being a contest of the best tattoo artists on earth...
There are an ass load of tattoo artists out there, the feat is in finding one that can follow lines properly and bring points to a true point and not a complete fk up; that kind of tattoo artist comes once in a blue moon.
FYI chances are that unless you paid for a custom tattoo and paid over $150/hour you got some shitty ass amateur that is simply tracing shit off the wall which are printed out of some "generic" template tattoo book.