Face tattoo ideas

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Pencil drawing of a face with smeared dark eye makeup and a red grinning mouth, above the script words Love is a Joke, with coloured pencils and pens around it.
Joker face sketch with Love is a Joke lettering
Black tribal flash design of a stylised face inside a circle, with sun-like rays and bold blackwork patterns.
Tribal sun face design
Black dotwork drawing of a man's face inside a circle, with a red lightning bolt crossing the head and face.
Stippled portrait in a circle with red lightning bolt
Black tribal-style lion head design with bold, spiked mane and solid black shading on a white background.
Tribal lion head design
Hand-drawn neo-traditional tattoo design of a woman's face framed by red snakes, a crown and a single eye, with dotwork ornament, on paper.
Female face with snakes, crown and eye
Black ink drawing of a crescent moon with a sleeping face, filled with mandala patterns and framed by a scalloped mandala border, shown as a tattoo design.
Mandala moon line drawing
Black ink drawing of a cat face with three eyes and dense hatched fur, shown as a flash design on white paper rather than on skin.
Three-eyed cat face drawing
Pencil drawing of a sun and crescent moon sharing a face, surrounded by swirling rays, curls and stars, shown as a design sketch with no body part visible.
Sun and moon face pencil sketch
Grey interlaced knotwork design forming a stylised bearded face with one glowing blue eye, shown as a drawing on a dark background.
Knotwork face with a blue eye
Black ink line drawing of an ornate scallop shell with a woman's face and pearl necklace at its centre, surrounded by smaller shells, waves and bubbles, drawn as a tattoo design.
Shell and wave design sketch
Black ink drawing of an eye inside a triangle, set against a circular mandala and an ornate face, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
All-seeing eye in a triangle with mandala
Black and grey tattoo flash design of two crossed revolvers above a cluster of flowers, with a woman's face at the centre and tribal-style linework.
Twin revolvers and flowers design
Black and grey drawing of a Norse hammer design flanked by two beast heads, with interlaced knotwork, spirals and runes across the top.
Norse hammer with beast heads and knotwork
Black dotwork and line drawing of a sun with an eye and a crescent moon with a face, surrounded by radiating rays, three roses and arrows, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Sun and moon with roses and arrows
Flash sheet of five blue flat-colour creature designs, including a flame spirit, a masked face, a mushroom-shaped figure, a cat-like face and a large round creature with whiskers.
Blue character flash sheet of five creatures
Illustrated pair of hands with solid black sun face designs on the wrists, a black circle with crossbars on each palm, and the letters of DEATH across the fingers.
Sun and circle hand tattoo designs
Black and tan illustrated design of a bear face framed by a mandala and cloud scrolls, drawn in a geometric ornamental style with no body placement shown.
Bear face with mandala and clouds
Flash design of a woman with flowing hair framed by peonies, a bee and butterflies, with a Virgo symbol and a banner reading Virgo.
Virgo zodiac portrait flash
Black and grey flash drawing of a slick-haired man's face with a banner reading Don't tell me that I'll be fine, framed by two stippled roses.
Man's face with banner and roses design
Black tribal band design on a white background, with a stylised face and spiral patterns on the left, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement visible.
Tribal band design with face motif
Traditional style flash design of a moth-winged woman with a skull and red roses in her hair, drawn in red, cream and black.
Moth-winged woman with skull and roses
Hand-drawn neo-traditional tattoo design of a woman's face framed by a mandala of red spades and hearts, shown on paper with no body placement visible.
Woman's face within a red and black mandala
Black ink flash design of a smiling sun with a face and a crescent moon decorated with mandala patterns, with dangling ornaments below, in fine line and dotwork style.
Sun and crescent moon with mandala detail
Black and white flash drawings of a yin yang with floral and geometric patterning and a sun with rays around a crescent moon with a face, with no body placement shown.
Yin yang and sun and moon tattoo designs
Red pencil tattoo design of a woman's face framed by a rose, leaves and vines, with a hand over her head, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman's face with roses and a hand
Black and grey flash design of two theatre masks framed by roses, beads and swirling ornament, with a small cross at the bottom.
Theatre masks and roses flash design
Black ink line drawing of a woman's face framed by knotted, flowing hair and feathered wings, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Winged woman with knotted hair
Black tribal-style sun design with a stylised face, swirls and triangular rays, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Tribal sun face design
Black ink drawing of a sun and crescent moon with carved-style faces, dotwork mandala detail and wavy rays, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Pink line drawing of a woman with flowing hair and two roses tucked into it, in a realism-leaning style, shown as a tattoo design.
Woman with roses in her hair
Coloured illustration of an ornate sun with a human face, its rays filled with dotwork and paisley-like patterns, shown as a design drawing rather than a tattoo on skin.
Ornate sun face with dotwork rays
Black and grey realism design of Medusa, with a woman's face framed by coiled snakes and rippling water below, shown on a dark background.
Medusa with snakes in black and grey
Black and white flash design of a tribal sun face surrounded by spirals, chevrons and bold curved blackwork shapes, with no body part shown.
Polynesian-style sun face and spiral design
Grey and muted-colour drawing of a Green Man face made of leaves, set within Celtic interlace knotwork and two stylised animal heads, shown as a tattoo design.
Green Man with Celtic knotwork design
Purple line drawing of a barn owl, a long-haired face, a banner and ornate script lettering, shown as a tattoo flash design with no body placement.
Owl, portrait and lettering flash design
Black ink line drawing of a sun with a sleeping face and wavy hatched rays, overlapping a crescent moon with a closed-eyed face on a white background.
Sun and crescent moon with faces
Black and grey flash design of a woman's face framed by feathers, arrows and dense ornamental linework, with the word Sagittarius in script above.
Sagittarius woman with feathers and arrows
Pencil drawing of a sleeping crescent moon with a face in front of a sun with flame-like rays, surrounded by swirling clouds and small stars, shown as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon with clouds
Two colour flash designs on a white background: a blue water and red flame yin-yang, and a sun and moon face in blue and gold, in a traditional style.
Yin-yang fire and water with sun and moon face
Black and white stencil-style drawing of a man's face turned slightly to the side, with swept-back hair and a heavy brow line.
Stencil-style portrait of a man's face
Flash sheet of six black line drawings on white: a dotted sun, a sun with a face, a spiral sun, a yin yang, a patterned sun and a circular mandala.
Six sun and mandala flash designs
Greyscale graphite drawing of a woman's face merging with a skull, with long hair flowing across the image, shown as a realistic tattoo design sketch.
Woman and skull graphite drawing
Flash-style design of a white masked spirit face with red streaks, set in black ink splatter with dripping lines, shown on a plain white background.
Masked spirit in ink splatter
Neo-traditional flash design of a pin-up woman with dark wavy hair, a red rose tucked above her ear and a green dress collar.
Pin-up woman with a red rose in her hair
Black ink line drawing of a crescent moon with a profiled face, dotted lace-like patterns and a dangling pendant, drawn as tattoo flash on plain paper.
Crescent moon face with ornamental linework
Colour design drawing of two crescent moons with human faces, stars and black swirls, shaded in purple, pink and blue, with no body placement shown.
Two crescent moons with faces and stars
Black solid-ink flash design of a crowned face with round eyes above two interlocking heart shapes, shown on a plain white background.
Crowned heart design flash
Black line drawing of two facing profiles meeting at an interlaced heart knot above a flowing chin line, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Two facing profiles with a knotted heart