Butterfly tattoo ideas

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Two matching pink and black butterfly tattoos on the inner forearms, each framed by a curved script quote about sisterhood.
Matching butterfly tattoos with sister quote
Full colour realism sleeve tattoo on an upper arm showing a tabby cat in a bow tie and top hat, a second cat with orange eyes, and butterflies.
Cat and butterfly sleeve on an arm
Colourful butterfly tattoo on a forearm, with blue wings, black lace-like detail and loose yellow, orange and red splashes in a painterly style.
Blue butterfly with paint splashes on a forearm
Pink and red butterfly tattoo with black outlines and curved script lettering across two forearms.
Pink butterfly with script on forearms
Man in a white shirt with crossed arms, both arms covered in small colourful illustrated tattoos of a camera, watch, rabbit and crown on the forearms and upper arms.
Colourful illustrated sleeve on crossed arms
Black and grey butterfly and daisy tattoo on the forearm, drawn in a fine line botanical style with soft shading.
Butterfly and daisy on a forearm
Colour botanical sleeve tattoo on an arm and shoulder, with a monarch butterfly, roses and asters, and a blue butterfly on the upper back.
Butterfly and floral sleeve on an arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of daffodils and butterflies running up the inside of a forearm, with soft shading.
Daffodils and butterflies on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a pink lily with green leaves, blue and green butterflies and black music notes and treble clefs on the inner forearm, in a botanical style.
Lily, butterflies and music notes on a forearm
Black and grey peony, butterfly and hourglass tattoo across a forearm, shown in four side-by-side photographs.
Peony, butterfly and hourglass forearm sleeve
Small solid black butterfly tattoo with textured wing detail on the inner wrist, shown against a blurred green background.
Butterfly on the inner wrist
Close-up of a forearm with a small gold metallic butterfly temporary tattoo and a thin copper band and a blue band around the wrist.
Gold butterfly and bands on a forearm
Small black butterfly tattoo with looping, calligraphic wings on the inner wrist of a forearm.
Stylised butterfly on a wrist
Healed colour tattoo of a red and magenta butterfly above a black script name with a decorative capital, with small star sparkles, on the inner forearm in a lettering style.
Butterfly and script name on a forearm
Small black and grey tattoo of a standing fawn with a butterfly above it, on the inner wrist.
Fawn and butterfly on the inner wrist
Black and grey tattoos on two forearms: the word Amore in script on one wrist, a fine line world map and a shaded compass rose, with a real brown butterfly perched on the arm.
Amore script, world map and compass on forearms
Black and grey fine line tattoo of two butterflies on the inner wrist, one larger below and one smaller above, photographed in black and white.
Two butterflies on the inner wrist
Black and grey realism tattoo of roses and a butterfly running up a forearm, with small script on the wrist.
Black and grey roses on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman's face and eye with a butterfly on the forearm.
Realistic face portrait with butterfly on forearm
Black and grey butterfly with filigree wings beside a grey awareness ribbon reading Diabetes, with a small red drip, on a forearm.
Butterfly and diabetes awareness ribbon
Woman with gold metallic geometric temporary tattoos on her forearms, wrist, hand and fingers, with a vertical filigree design down her midriff.
Gold metallic temporary tattoos on wrists and hand
Two black and grey butterflies with turquoise spots and wing edges, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Two butterflies on a wrist
Black outlined butterfly tattoo with looping wings, black dots and a pink and grey body, sitting on the wrist.
Outlined butterfly with pink body on wrist
Realistic colour tattoo of a painted lady butterfly in orange, pink and black on a forearm, with faded butterfly shapes above it.
Realistic painted lady butterfly on a forearm
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
Colourful watercolour-style butterfly tattoo with black linework and dotted outlines on the forearm.
Watercolour butterfly on the forearm
Small fine line outline of a butterfly on the inner wrist, shown with the palm facing the camera and the ink faded to a pinkish tone.
Butterfly tattoo on the inner wrist
Colourful geometric butterfly tattoo made of isometric cubes on a forearm, with a grey top and dark jeans visible beside it.
Geometric cube butterfly on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a pale figure with large eyes and dark hair in an ornate oval frame, above a blue butterfly with red spots.
Pale cartoon figure and butterfly on a forearm
Black and grey butterfly tattoo with a geometric triangle and dotwork accents on a forearm.
Butterfly and triangle on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a teal butterfly and a peach awareness ribbon with a small grey script word on the wrist.
Butterfly and awareness ribbon on a wrist
Black fine line butterfly tattoo with a curling script letter beneath it, placed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Butterfly and script letter on wrist
Colour illustration of a botanical sleeve design with a golden skull, pink roses, green vines and blue butterflies, shown beside a character with a tattooed upper arm and forearm.
Skull, roses and butterflies sleeve design
Two colour tattoos on the inner forearms: pink peonies with violet flowers on the left, and a pale blue swallowtail butterfly among pink flowers on the right, in a botanical realism style.
Peonies and a butterfly on forearms
Black and grey tattoo of a large butterfly, a swallow and a smaller butterfly with a rose down the inner forearm.
Butterflies and swallow on a forearm
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind, with three grey shaded butterfly tattoos on her upper back near the shoulder blade.
Three butterflies on the upper back
Model with a gold metallic lace-patterned gun temporary tattoo on her hip and a geometric hexagon design on her forearm, beside a sheet of matching designs.
Gold lace gun temporary tattoo on hip
Black tribal-style butterfly tattoo with curling swirls on the inner wrist, photographed with the palm facing up.
Butterfly and swirls on a wrist
Neo-traditional botanical tattoo of a large peony with green leaves and a butterfly, running up the inside of a forearm.
Peony and butterfly on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a butterfly with blue and pink swirled wings and black outline, on the forearm.
Swirl butterfly on the forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a bearded man with a quiff and moustache on the back of a hand, with small finger tattoos and a Believe script on the wrist.
Bearded man portrait on the back of a hand
Full arm sleeve in traditional style with a sailing ship, shark, swallow, pin-up and roses scattered with small stars, shown in three photographs on the upper arm and forearm.
Traditional nautical full arm sleeve
Colourful traditional arm sleeve on the upper arm and forearm, with a woman's face in grey and pink, a red rose, a dagger and a butterfly.
Traditional arm sleeve with woman, rose and butterfly
Black and grey traditional butterfly and moth tattoos on the inner forearms and elbows of a person with raised arms.
Butterflies and moths on both forearms
Fine line black tattoo of a seated cat reaching up toward a butterfly with small sparkles, on the inner forearm.
Cat reaching for a butterfly on a forearm
Digital 3D render of a woman in black lace lingerie with a rose on one arm, a dark tattoo sleeve on the other, a koi fish on one thigh and a dreamcatcher on the other.
Woman in lingerie with tattoos on arms and thighs
Colour tattoo of a dreamcatcher with a monarch butterfly, turquoise beads and magenta-tipped feathers, on the forearm.
Dreamcatcher with monarch butterfly on a forearm
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo surrounded by roses, leaves and a butterfly, shown on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Sugar skull with roses on a forearm