Two wrists side by side, each with a black lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol containing the words est 2008, placed on the inner wrist.

Matching infinity and est 2008 wrist tattoos

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two wrists are shown side by side, each with a black infinity symbol tattoo that carries the words est 2008 in a script-style lettering. The left design is oriented the opposite way to the right, so the wording reads upside down from that angle. The linework is solid black with no colour or greyscale shading, and the close crop centres both tattoos on the wrists against a restaurant menu in the background.

Find an artist for this

Take it to an artist as a reference. A good artist will make it yours rather than copy someone else's tattoo.

A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Marguerite,

Keep reading

The ferry was late again, so I sat on the harbour wall at Lerwick with a flask of tea and your postcard in my pocket, reading the bit about the mainland shop with the broken sign. You always did have a gift for the things that go wrong and still come out right. I'm writing because Mum asked me to tell you the cottage roof held through the gales, and because I have something to show you that I couldn't put on a postcard.

I had the ink done on the Tuesday, in the back room above the bakery. The man who did it said two lines of script on a wrist need a steady hand and a short memory, so I made him promise not to ask me what the date meant. Infinity, with the words running through the loop like a stitch that won't finish. Est 2008. I know you'll roll your eyes, but you were the one who stood on the pier that summer and said we'd be stuck with each other forever, so I thought I'd make it official.

The lettering turned out a bit odd, mind. Because the wrists sit the way they do, your inked band reads upside down when I look at it from my side of the table, and mine reads the right way round. I thought that was a shame until I realised it's the most honest thing about us. You always see my half the wrong way up and I always see yours the wrong way up, and somehow we still manage to read the same sentence.

Come home at the new year. The kettle's mended and there's a chair by the window with your name on it.

All my love, Isla

More like this

Three wrists show matching outlined script tattoos that read friends, each with small red and green accents.
Matching friends script wrist tattoos
Black and grey pharaoh portrait tattoos with striped nemes headdresses on two forearms, with the hands clasped together.
Pharaoh portraits on two forearms
Two black script tattoos on the inside of the wrists, one reading El-Shaddai and the other Adonai, with two hands clasped together above them.
Matching wrist script tattoos reading El-Shaddai and Adonai
Two matching blue butterfly tattoos on forearms, one with the word Daughter and the other with Mother in script above and below the wings.
Matching butterfly tattoos on two forearms
Two inner wrists showing matching fine line Roman numeral tattoos, one with a small key and one with a padlock, in black ink.
Matching Roman numeral wrist tattoos
Two clenched fists show blocky lettering tattoos on the wrists: blue Don't Blink on one arm and red Don't Panic on the other.
Matching Don't Blink and Don't Panic wrist tattoos
Two small black crown tattoos on the backs of hands, one drawn in outline and one shaded, with navy painted nails visible.
Matching small crown tattoos on two hands
Two people show matching black and grey puzzle piece tattoos on their inner wrists, one with an ornate padlock and keyhole, the other with a key.
Matching puzzle piece lock tattoos on wrists
Two small black fine line semicolon tattoos on the inner wrists of two people, one with a heart-shaped dot.
Matching semicolon tattoos on two wrists
Two wrists with matching fine line black infinity symbol tattoos containing the word love in script, with Roman numerals beneath, shown on the inner wrist.
Matching infinity and love wrist tattoos
Two clasped hands on a black background showing matching fine line bird and heart tattoos on the inner wrists.
Matching bird and heart wrist tattoos
Two matching black script tattoos inside heart outlines with swirling flourishes, one reading Daughter on a calf and one reading Mother on an ankle.
Matching Mother and Daughter script tattoos

From the plentytattoo archive, uploaded by a user. Is this your work? Ask for credit or removal.