Hand tattoo ideas

1,970 photos and flash · 27% Fine line, 15% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Side ribs tattoo of realistic hands forming a peace sign, a heart and clasped hands in grey linework with soft pastel washes, with the words Peace, Love, Unity and Respect.
Peace, love and unity hands on ribs
Back view of a person with a densely tattooed back and arms, featuring a large grey hexagon, a crested eagle and engraved-style vintage motifs in realism style.
Full back tattoo with hexagon and eagle crest
Black and grey realism tattoo of a clawed hand tearing through skin, placed on the shoulder and upper back.
Hand tearing through skin on a shoulder
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint, a rose in her hood and a hand touching her chin, on a calf.
Sugar skull woman portrait on a calf
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint and a rose, shown on a limb of unclear placement.
Sugar skull woman and rose
Traditional style tattoo of two clasped hands inside a red scalloped heart, with orange and teal flowers, on a forearm.
Clasped hands in a heart with flowers
Two legs in dark socks showing fine line black and grey tattoos of a sprig, a UFO, a crystal, a triangle, a banner, and open hands on the thigh and knee.
Fine line doodles on thighs and knees
Sketched black and grey hands reaching towards each other with orange and turquoise watercolour washes and a red triangle outline, tattooed on the upper arm.
Reaching hands and red triangle on upper arm
Colour realism tattoo of a halved papaya, blueberries and a strawberry across a forearm, with a partly visible hand design above.
Realistic fruit cluster on a forearm
Two photographs of a hand showing small black outline heart tattoos, one on the palm side of a finger and one on the side of the thumb, in a fine line style on the hand.
Small outline hearts on hand and fingers
Black and grey realism tattoo of a melting pocket watch draped over a hand shape, sitting on the forearm.
Melting pocket watch on a forearm
Small black tattoo of a hamsa hand with an eye in its palm and dotted edging, on the side of a foot beside a coin.
Small hamsa hand with eye on foot
Two black crown tattoos in fine line style on the backs of clasped hands, with a striped strap watch on one wrist and a gold bracelet watch on the other.
Two crown tattoos on clasped hands
Two matching black geometric martini glass tattoos on the inner wrists of two people holding hands.
Matching martini glass wrist tattoos
Black and white drawing of a hamsa hand tattoo design with blackwork outlines and dotwork detailing on a white background.
Hamsa hand design
Small black fine line arrow tattoo on the ankle of a person whose hand holds their foot on white bedsheets.
Arrow tattoo on an ankle
Colour realism tattoo of the Joker's grinning face with red hair and clasped green hands, on a forearm.
Joker portrait tattoo on forearm
Realism tattoo of an anatomical heart with stitches held in two hands on the upper arm, with a red heartbeat line below.
Anatomical heart in hands with heartbeat line
Black and grey realism tattoo of a vintage microphone held by a hand, placed on the forearm.
Vintage microphone and hand on a forearm
Several hands meet palms up over a table, each showing a small black star tattoo on the wrist or hand.
Small star tattoos on wrists and hands
Realistic tattoo of two clasped hands, one wrapped in bandage, shaded in grey with red accents on the forearm.
Clasped hands on a forearm
Black and grey mandala tattoos on the backs of two hands and wrists, with small rose tattoos on the fingers and silver rings.
Mandala and rose hand tattoos
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint and a hood, with a rose above her head, on an upper arm.
Sugar skull portrait with rose on arm
Realism tattoo of a sugar skull woman with purple eye makeup and lips, seen through torn skin on the upper arm.
Sugar skull woman tearing through skin on upper arm
Colourful neo-traditional full sleeve on an upper arm and forearm, featuring a large-eyed girl in aviator goggles, red roses and a star.
Anime girl in goggles and roses on a full sleeve
Fine line sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, with a line drawn face, flowers, a hand and an eye in colour.
Line-art sleeve with face and flowers
Neo-traditional tattoo of a stylised bird with a crescent moon and diamond shapes on the inner forearm, in yellow, blue-grey and orange.
Stylised bird and crescent moon on a forearm
Close-up of a small black fine line semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist of a raised hand with coral nail polish against a plain white background.
Small semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist
Realism style tattoo on a forearm showing piano keys, torn sheet music and a hand playing, with a blue rose at the bottom.
Piano keys, hand and rose on a forearm
Thin black line tattoo of three interlocking triangles on the back of a hand, in a fine line geometric style.
Interlocking triangles on the back of a hand
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with an updo, earrings and a necklace, holding a cigarette holder to her lips, on the upper arm.
Black and grey portrait of a woman on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with roses on the forearm, with a hand with blue nail polish visible at the wrist.
Skull and roses on a forearm
Black line drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye inside a triangle, crescent moons and dangling diamond motifs, in a fine line geometric style.
Hamsa hand with eye and crescent moons
Close view of metallic silver, gold and turquoise geometric tattoos on fingers and a bird motif on a thigh, styled with rings.
Metallic geometric tattoos on hands and thigh
A hand drawing a black and grey spider web design with bold, swooping tribal-style strokes on white paper.
Spider web tattoo design being drawn in marker
Black and grey temporary tattoo of the word divergent in script with birds on one forearm, and a row of circular symbols on the other.
Divergent script and circle symbols on a forearm
Fine line tattoos on a hand: a small crescent moon and a sun on the fingers, three dots on another finger, and a small mark on the back of the hand.
Small moon, sun and dot tattoos on fingers
Black and white photo of two small lettering and symbol tattoos, one on the back of a hand and one on a wrist, with a second tattooed arm visible at the top right.
Small letter and symbol tattoos on hand and wrist
Black blackwork design of a hand silhouette with a skull inside it and wispy tendrils, with the words WE KNOW beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Skull within a hand silhouette with WE KNOW
Black and grey hamsa hand tattoo with an eye, lotus flower and om symbol, shaded and outlined, placed on the chest.
Hamsa hand with eye and lotus on chest
Colour realism tattoo of a green-faced man in a fedora, lifting his hat brim, with an orange glow behind him, on the calf.
Green-faced man in a fedora on a calf
Two hands with black and grey realism tattoos, a rose on one hand and a lion on the back of the other, with a man in a dark suit and white shirt.
Rose and lion on the hands
Fine line tattoo of a hand making a finger heart gesture beside a solid black heart, on a limb.
Finger heart gesture with a solid heart
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm of a hand holding a wand beneath a black-rayed sunburst, with the word Lumos in script beside it.
Hand holding a wand under a sunburst
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with an exposed eye and an ace of spades card fan, on the upper arm.
Skull and playing cards on upper arm
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo reading saved by grace along the inner forearm, with the hand raised above it.
Saved by grace script on forearm
Two small black crown tattoos on the fingers of intertwined hands, shown in a black and grey photograph.
Matching crown finger tattoos
Five rendered hands, each with black henna-style swirl and paisley designs across the wrists, forearms and back of the hand.
Black henna-style designs on five hands