Face tattoo ideas

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Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a woman's face framed by curving horns, roses and a bird, in a shaded illustrative style.
Horned woman and roses on upper arm
Sketch-style tattoo on the outer thigh showing a bearded face built from a house with windows, holding a pipe and a hand with yellow and blue wash.
Bearded face made of a house on a thigh
Realism colour tattoo of a cyborg face in mirrored sunglasses with a glowing red eye and exposed metal skull, on the upper arm.
Cyborg face portrait on upper arm
Colour realism tattoo of a man in a blue jumper and white collar in front of an autumn landscape, with the words YOU'RE MY BOY, BLUE below, on an upper arm.
Realistic portrait with quote on upper arm
Half sleeve on an upper arm and shoulder showing a wolf head, a moonlit haunted house, a grim reaper with a scythe and bearded faces, in realistic grey shading with yellow accents.
Wolf, haunted house and reaper on upper arm
Realism tattoo of a serene Buddha face in black and grey shading with a red lotus flower beside it, on a forearm against a dark background.
Buddha face and lotus on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a face with an open mouth on a calf, with the script words Run n tell that above and Homeboy below.
Portrait and script on a lower leg
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a horned demon with ram horns, wings and clawed hands on an upper arm.
Horned demon with wings on upper arm
Back of a bald man's head with a greyscale tattoo of a wrinkled older man's face, featuring blue eyes, a heavy brow and a moustache, placed across the scalp.
Older man's face tattooed on a bald scalp
Black and grey back tattoo in realism and geometric style, with a sun face medallion at the upper back, a tree with horse-drawn chariots at the lower back and a dotted border.
Sun face, tree and chariots across a back
Collage of five black tattoos in fine line and lettering, including a quote on the ribs, the number 9 3/4 on a wrist, a cat on the hip and a face on the forearm.
Five small black tattoos: quotes, a cat and a face
Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a skeleton, a grinning skull and a pumpkin face.
Skull and skeleton full sleeve
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a crescent moon with a smiling face and outlined stars, on a cream background.
Crescent moon with face and stars
Black and grey dotwork portrait of a man in a collared shirt, with the word SOMETIMES above, on the thigh.
Black and grey portrait of a man on a thigh
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a woman's face with a tall beehive hairstyle and dark lips, on the forearm.
Stylised woman portrait with beehive hair on a forearm
Black ink tattoo of a cartoon cat face with a bold tribal-patterned headband, on the forearm, in a blackwork style.
Hello Kitty face with tribal headband
Black and grey realism tattoo on a shoulder and upper arm showing two helicopters, a pointing man's face and silhouetted figures rappelling from ropes.
Helicopters and rappelling figures on shoulder
Large black and grey back tattoo of a gothic night scene with bats, a moon, a silhouetted couple, a tower and twisted trees, with small red flowers.
Gothic night scene across a full back
Colour realism tattoo of the red-skinned Darth Maul face, with horns, yellow eyes and a snarling mouth, on an upper arm.
Darth Maul face tattoo on upper arm
Fine line black tattoo of an infinity symbol with a crescent moon face in one loop and the word Love in script in the other, on the top of a foot.
Infinity symbol with moon and love script
Black and grey tattoo of a face with a feathered headdress on the upper arm of a woman with long hair, seen from behind on a city street.
Face tattoo on upper arm
Black marker drawing of a monkey head in profile with a spiralling tail and dot accents, sketched on lined notebook paper as a tattoo design.
Monkey head with curling tail design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a woman's face framed by roses, with a skull and thorned stems below, in a realistic style.
Woman, roses and skull pencil design
Traditional style knife tattoo on an upper arm, with a black and grey face in the blade, a red dotted handle and red blood spatter below.
Knife with face and blood on upper arm
Blue pen drawing of a tattoo design showing a stag with blossoming branches for antlers above a woman's face framed in a circle, in a neo-trad style.
Stag and woman in a circle with blossom branches
Neo-trad colour tattoo of a woman in profile wearing a peaked cap, with a tear and peach roses, on a forearm.
Woman in a peaked cap with roses on a forearm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a face with dark hollow eyes and cracked skin across the back of a hand.
Cracked face portrait on the back of a hand
Black outline tattoo of a stylised face wearing red and blue 3D glasses, with a curved smile below, on the calf.
Line drawing of a face in 3D glasses on a calf
Four-panel progression of a realistic portrait tattoo of a man's face with dark floral shading below, on the outer thigh, moving from purple linework to full colour.
Realistic portrait tattoo on thigh, in four stages
Black and grey geometric tattoo of a lion head merged with a woman's face, with a mane above and dotted shading, on the thigh.
Lion and woman face on a thigh
Realism tattoo of a woman's face merged with a tiger's head in orange and black, on the outer thigh.
Woman and tiger portrait on a thigh
Illustrated tattoo design of a face split into a woman's side and a skull, with a Roman numeral clock behind the head and a colourful butterfly wing over one eye.
Half skull, half woman with clock face
Fine line sketch of a woman with flowers in her hair and a teal watercolour wash on the ribs, with a second dark tattoo and a navel piercing on the left side.
Sketched woman with flowers on the ribs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a moon with a human face and a metal capsule lodged in its eye, on the upper arm.
Moon with a face and capsule on upper arm
Seated person with an orange peony tattoo on the calf, a blue rose on the thigh and a neo-traditional style sleeve on the forearm.
Orange peony and blue rose on legs
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a skull-headed figure in a dark cloak beneath a dotted sun with a star, on the forearm.
Skull figure with sun on forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with long hair and a direct gaze, on the upper arm.
Black and grey portrait of a woman on an arm
Black line drawing of a wolf's face seen from the front, with sketched fur strokes and no shading, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Wolf face line drawing
Black fine line tattoo of two facing profiles forming a heart outline, with a flower and the word love in script, on the upper thigh.
Profile faces in a heart with flower and script
Black and grey realism tattoo on an arm showing a face with dark lips and bared teeth, with clawed hands and thin white linework below.
Realistic face and clawed hands on an arm
Fine line black tattoo of a woman's face wearing a leaf crown, on the forearm.
Line drawing of a woman with a leaf crown
Small black fine line tattoo of a matryoshka doll with a flower pattern on the dress, on a forearm resting on a floral bedsheet.
Matryoshka doll tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman's face framed by a lion's head on the upper arm.
Woman's face with lion headdress on upper arm
Colour tattoo on the outer thigh of a teal cartoon game console character holding a bunch of balloons with cartoon faces.
Cartoon robot holding balloons on a thigh
Black and grey blackwork sun tattoo with a human face and long rays, placed centrally on a person's upper back.
Sun with face tattoo on upper back
Small black and grey fine line tattoo of a cartoon monkey face on the inner forearm of a person sitting down.
Small monkey face on a forearm
Colourful painted-style tattoo of a blue stylised face with yellow eyes and red lips, with flowers below, on the side of the ribs.
Blue stylised face tattoo on the ribs
Black ink linework drawing of a sun with a closed-eyed face and a crescent moon, with dotwork rays and stars, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon face design