‘Miami Ink’ Star Draws On Fame

MIAMI (TNA) – Every television show needs a resident hottie, and for TLC’s hit Miami Ink, it’s a hazel-eyed Cuban named Chris Nunez.

“I knew I wanted to be a tattoo artist since I was little,” says the Miami-based Nunez, who wielded spray cans long before he held his first tattoo gun.

With 15 years of artistry under his belt and Miami Ink now in its third season, Nunez is definitely enjoying the fruits of his labor, but admits he misses a slower pace.

Chris Nunez has opened a bar and started a clothing line after the success of "Miami Ink."

“Once this kind of cools off, there’s nothing I want to do more than start on some big [tattoo] projects and just kick back with those clients and really get deep into doing what I love to do,” he says.  

Nunez makes no promises of a drama-free season on Ink, but says now that Kat Von D, the only female cast member, is gone, he believes viewers will “see us a lot looser,” and predicts the original five guys will be “getting out and havin’ a little more fun.”

And since they don’t call him a ladies’ man for nothing, more fun usually involves the obvious.
 
“It’s too hard to be in this situation when you have to answer to somebody all the time,” the bachelor explains. “I’m 34 years old, I’m set in my ways, I’m happy.”

Nunez is also pleased with his DeVille clothing line. Along with expanding it by years’ end, Nunez plans to launch another line for Love/Hate, the bar he opened last year with his Miami Ink cohort Ami James.

But why fashion?

Nunez explains: “I’m sick and tired of seeing all these tattoo-artist wannabes that aren’t tattoo artists rippin’ off tattoo designs and making hundreds of millions of dollars!”