Butterfly tattoo ideas

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Colour butterfly tattoo with black linework and blue and purple wing fill, sitting above swirled script reading Live Laugh Love on a lower leg.
Butterfly and Live Laugh Love script on a calf
Black script quote wrapping the ribs and side of the torso, with a teal realistic butterfly tattoo near the hip and an inset close-up of the butterfly.
Script quote on ribs with butterfly
Black and grey butterfly tattoo on the upper arm beside a cursive script quote across the back, shown from behind.
Butterfly and script quote on arm and back
Two stacked photos of healed script tattoos: the upper one shows a grey butterfly and the words You'll never know dear, the lower one shows a blue flower and the words how much I love you.
Butterfly and script quote tattoos
Two stacked photos of a lettering tattoo on skin, a script quote with a purple butterfly at each end, placed along the side of the body.
Butterfly and script quote on skin
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with fading butterflies and handwritten script on the outer thigh.
Skull, butterflies and script on a thigh
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading Believe with a shaded blue butterfly above it, on the top of a foot wearing a flip flop.
Butterfly and Believe script on a foot
Tattoo design of an infinity symbol with the words Love and Family in script, decorated with a green feather, leaves and purple and teal butterflies.
Infinity symbol with love and family script
Black script reading Love me for who I am runs across the collarbone with a small black butterfly, and a pink shaded butterfly sits on the shoulder.
Script quote and butterflies on collarbone
Close photo of a black-outlined orange butterfly tattoo with a semicolon body and the script words Stay Strong and Carry On beneath it, on skin.
Orange butterfly with semicolon and script text
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 script lettering reading learn to love yourself and never hide the scars, with a small butterfly outline, tattooed across the upper back.
Script quote and butterfly tattoo on the back
Colour butterflies beside black script reading "Your tears will dry, you'll soon be free to fly", a lettering tattoo on the back.
Butterflies and script quote on the back
Black and grey photo of a person's upper back and shoulder with a small colour monarch butterfly tattoo and black script lettering reading Love me for who i am.
Monarch butterfly and script on the upper back
Black and grey tattoo design with the words She is clothed in strength and dignity, framed by blossom branches and two butterflies.
Proverbs 31:25 lettering with blossom and butterflies
Close-up of a fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with the word love in script and three small butterflies on the skin.
Infinity symbol with love and butterflies
Black script reading Love me for who i am across the upper back, with a small bird and a shaded butterfly near the shoulder.
Quote and butterflies near the shoulder
Flash sheet of three floral bouquets in teal, blue and orange with a monarch butterfly and the script words Always and Forever, in a flat illustrated style.
Floral bouquets with Always and Forever script
Black script lettering reading Forever 18 with a small butterfly beside it, on the lower abdomen of a person wearing a yellow swimsuit.
Forever 18 script and butterfly on the abdomen
Black script reading Love me for who I am across the upper chest, with a small butterfly above the text and a larger shaded butterfly on the shoulder.
Script quote and butterflies on collarbone
Pencil flash design of two heart-shaped dreamcatchers with feathers and butterflies, above and below a line of cursive script; no body placement shown.
Heart dreamcatchers, butterflies and script on paper
Two feet on tarmac, each with a black script quote and a pink and red butterfly tattoo on the top of the foot.
Matching quote and butterfly tattoos on feet
Two people's inner forearms show matching black line butterfly tattoos with green centres and script lettering beneath each wing, one reading Mother and the other Daughter.
Matching butterfly wrist tattoos with script words
Black script word Hope with a purple ribbon and an outlined butterfly, tattooed on the wrist.
Hope script and butterfly on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Esse Quam Videri with a butterfly above it, tattooed on the top of a foot, with red painted toenails.
Latin script and butterfly on the top of a foot
Black script tattoo reading Love me for who i am across the upper chest, with a small butterfly in the middle and a shaded butterfly near the shoulder.
Script quote and butterflies on the collarbone
Black script reading Love me for who I am across the upper chest, with a small butterfly tattoo on the shoulder.
Script quote and butterfly on the shoulder
Pink and black monarch butterfly tattoo with a circle of script quote text, spanning two forearms pressed together in a realistic style.
Monarch butterfly and quote across two forearms
Black script tattoo reading Forever 18 with two small butterflies on the lower back of an older person wearing a yellow bikini.
Forever 18 script on lower back
Black linework tattoo of scrolling vines, script letters and a red heart with pink and green accents on the inner forearm.
Scrollwork vine with letters and heart on wrist
Black script lettering reading Pain is just a simple compromise, ending with a small butterfly, across a forearm.
Script quote and butterfly on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Hope with a purple accent and a black outline butterfly on the inner wrist.
Hope script and butterfly on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Let me be your wings, with a small butterfly outline beside it, tattooed on a forearm.
Script quote with butterfly on forearm
Black script lettering reading Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly, with small butterflies, on a woman's shoulder and upper back.
Script quote and butterflies on a shoulder
Back of a woman's shoulder showing a colourful botanical wreath tattoo with black script reading Always and forever in the centre, in a Botanical and Lettering style.
Floral wreath with script lettering on a shoulder
Colour tattoo of a monarch butterfly and a sunflower with script reading forget me not across the top of a foot, in a botanical style.
Monarch butterfly and sunflower on a foot
Black line drawing of a bold, graffiti-style word with a rising sun, clouds, flowers, feathers and a bird, designed as a lettering piece for a tattoo.
Bubble lettering with sun, clouds and flowers
Realism back tattoo of a shaded pocket watch with Roman numerals, butterflies, feathers, script lettering and a red rose.
Pocket watch, feathers and rose across the back
Black and grey flash sheet of decorative alphabet letters A to Z, each with floral swirls, and some with small butterflies, in a lettering style.
Decorative alphabet letters A to Z with swirls
Graphite sketch of two lilies, a butterfly and swirling lines with the word Love in script, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Lilies, butterfly and Love script design
A grid of cross stitch chart designs in traditional tattoo flash style, including swallows, hearts, roses, a pin-up, a cherry pair and lettering, on a grey background.
Sheet of cross stitch tattoo-style flash designs
Black and grey shaded butterfly tattoo on the upper back, with a handwritten quote in black script reading I'm a walking travesty but I'm smiling at everything.
Butterfly and handwritten quote on upper back
Colour tattoo of a butterfly with puzzle-piece patterned wings and black script reading I Will Fight above and Your Fight below, on skin.
Puzzle-piece butterfly with script lettering
Black and red lettering tattoo with swirling vines, a small purple butterfly and a red heart shaded on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script letters, vines and heart on a wrist
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading Forever 18 with two small butterflies, sitting on the lower abdomen above an underwear waistband, with a hand resting at the left edge.
Forever 18 script on the lower abdomen
Black and grey realism tattoo of three butterflies with shaded wings and a line of script, on the side of a torso above the hip.
Three butterflies and script on the ribs
Colour tattoo of purple and blue butterflies framing a script quote about wings and flying, shown in two photos of skin.
Butterflies with a script quote about wings
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a shaded butterfly and rose, stars, swirls and the script words No Place Like Home.
Butterfly, rose and script design sketch