Two black and grey cartoon tattoos on the backs of two hands, one showing Sally with stitches and flowing hair and one showing Jack Skellington's head, in a bold traditional style.

Enlarged with AI from a smaller original

Sally and Jack tattoos on the hands

Traditional · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

Two hands rest side by side against a black leather surface, each with a cartoon character tattoo on the back of the hand. The left tattoo shows Sally with a stitched face and long flowing hair, and the right shows Jack Skellington's head with a bony, spidery hand beneath it. Both designs use dark outlines and soft grey shading in black ink, with the figures set against bare skin.

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

Mabel had been stitching the same hem for three nights when the stranger knocked at the back door of the chandler's shop in Hebden Bridge. He stood on the step with a lantern whose glass was cut like a pumpkin, and his coat smelt of wet graveyard grass. He said his name was Oswin and that he had come about the ledger, the one that recorded every wish made in November, and that someone had written her name in it in pencil.

Keep reading

Mabel had no ledger. She had a drawer of mismatched buttons, a tin of thread, and a rag-stuffed woman she had made for her sister before the winter took her. The doll's cheeks were stitched across where the cloth had torn and been mended and torn again. Oswin looked at it for a long time. "She's been waiting for someone to finish her," he said. "Nobody finishes anything in this town."

They argued over tea. He wanted the ledger back. She wanted the doll's face left alone. He offered to pay in frost, which turned out to be a pinch of it in a paper twist that stayed cold in her palm. She offered him a digestive. By the second cup they had agreed the doll could stay as she was, half-mended, and that Oswin would sit on the step each November and tell her what the weather was doing on his side of the hills.

When the first hard frost came, Mabel found a pumpkin seed on the step beside a single black thread, the same colour as the stitches she had never got round to finishing. She pressed the seed into the windowsill, picked up her needle, and went back to the hem.

More like this

Two black and grey sugar skull tattoos on a pair of forearms, one with floral detail on the forehead and one with hair and a rose, with the fists pressed together.
Matching sugar skull tattoos on forearms
Two forearm tattoos: a black and grey Jack Skellington skull on a key shape on the right arm, and a teal and pink padlock on the left arm.
Jack Skellington and lock forearm tattoos
Two matching colour tattoos on adjacent fingers show Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, each holding a red heart, in a traditional style on the hands.
Jack and Sally finger tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of a skull with a snake coiled around it, running up the inside of a forearm.
Skull and coiled snake on a forearm
Two forearms showing a colour padlock tattoo on the left and a black and grey skull-headed key tattoo on the right, both on the forearm.
Skull key and padlock tattoos on forearms
Two hands with black and grey traditional style tattoos, a large skull on the back of the left hand and a rose on the back of the right hand, with small finger tattoos including a cross, a letter P
Skull and rose tattoos on the hands
Black and grey tattoos of Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas on two forearms, with Zero the ghost dog in a doghouse beside a graveyard fence.
Jack Skellington and Sally on forearms
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two skulls facing each other above a rose, on a forearm.
Two skulls and a rose on a forearm
Two tattoos on bare calves: a solid black silhouette of a girl reaching up on the left leg, and a small red heart balloon with a string on the right leg.
Silhouette girl and red heart balloon on calves
Two hands with small grey skeleton tattoos on the fingers, one wearing a blue bow tie and the other a pink flower, shown in a fine shaded style.
Matching skeleton tattoos on two fingers
Fine line black ink tattoo of a girl sitting on a swing on the inner wrist, one of a matching pair on a second wrist.
Matching girl on a swing tattoos on wrists
Two realism skull tattoos on the inner forearms near the wrists: a skull with a red polka-dot bow on the left and a grey skull in a top hat and bow tie on the right.
Matching skull tattoos on the wrists

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