Hand tattoo ideas

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Close view of a barber's tattooed hands holding a comb on a man's head, with a traditional skull on the knuckles and a coloured rose and dagger on the right hand.
Traditional hand tattoos while cutting hair
Traditional colour tattoos on a forearm show a hand holding a lighter labelled BEST, above a matching hand holding a joint labelled BUDS, with leaves and pink flowers.
Matching lighter and joint hand tattoos
Black ink tattoo of two hands linking little fingers in a pinky promise, framed by sprigs and small stars, on the forearm.
Pinky promise hands with sprigs and stars
Traditional style flash design of a hand holding a quill over a scroll reading Dear John, with a red rose, black feathers and a heart envelope.
Quill, scroll and rose flash design
Two hands showing traditional red rose tattoos with green leaves and chain drapes ending in a heart pendant on the back of each hand, with script on the fingers.
Traditional roses with chain drapes on hands
Traditional style tattoo of a hand holding a sprig of yellow wheat, red berries and green leaves, on the inside of a forearm.
Hand holding wheat and berries on a forearm
Black and grey tattoos of an anchor, a ship and a small cross on the hand, forearm and upper arm of a person with long hair, against a dark background.
Anchor, ship and cross tattoos on an arm
Black ink tattoo on the chest of a person in an open denim shirt, showing an eye with dotted rays above an engraved-style hand.
Eye and hand tattoo on the chest
A hand rests on a sleeping husky while a colour forearm sleeve shows roses and a bird in a traditional-style design.
Hand on a sleeping husky beside a forearm tattoo
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a hand holding a bouquet of flowers and leaves on a forearm, with dotwork shading.
Hand holding a flower bouquet on a forearm
Colour tattoo of pink peonies, green leaves and a hand gripping a lightsaber hilt, with bold black outlines, on a lower limb.
Peonies and a lightsaber hilt on a lower limb
Neo-traditional style flash design of a woman's portrait framed by bees, honeycomb, a UFO and an 'I want to believe' banner, with no body placement shown.
Portrait with bees, UFO and banner
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing an anchor, clasped hands, crossed arrows, a rope, flowers, an envelope and banners with lettering.
Traditional flash sheet with anchor, hands and banners
Traditional style tattoos of a diamond, club, heart and spade playing card suits, one on each finger of a hand, with a grey ornamental pattern across the back of the hand.
Playing card suits on fingers
Traditional style colour tattoo on the thigh showing a hand holding a banner reading Forget Me Not, surrounded by purple flowers, lavender and dark green leaves.
Hand holding Forget Me Not banner and flowers
Two black linework stencils on tracing paper show a traditional rose with hatched leaves and a cartoon character face, held beside a tattooed hand.
Rose stencils with cartoon faces
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a heart holding a human hand and a paw, with a crescent moon, stars, a flower and the words Boys Whatever and Cats Forever, on a limb.
Heart with hand and paw, cats forever lettering
Traditional-style flash design of a grey weeping angel with its face in its hands beneath a peach banner reading DON'T BLINK, with blue tears.
Weeping angel with Don't Blink banner
Three traditional-style stickers on a grey surface: a skull with red and blue flowers, a pointing hand with flowers, and a pill bottle, each with text on a banner.
Three traditional flash designs with banner text
Four hand-shaped forms display tattoo designs: a praying figure with rays, a horned devil, a geometric pattern and a skull in a feathered headdress.
Four tattoo designs printed on hand forms
Two inner wrists held together, each with a black anchor tattoo with a red ribbon wrapped around its shank, in a traditional style on the forearm.
Matching anchor tattoos on two wrists
Traditional style flash sheet showing a ship in a rope frame, a globe with a 30 degree banner, flowers, a hand with a bracelet and a geisha head with roses.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, globe and flowers
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a thigh, showing a wreath of three roses and leaves around a pointing hand and the script Love Me Till I'm Dead.
Rose wreath with hand and script
Traditional red rose tattoos with green leaves cover the backs of two clasped hands, with black outlines and shading.
Red roses on the backs of both hands
Two hands held together showing a red traditional rose on the back of one hand and a black and grey rose on the other, with small finger tattoos on the fingers.
Rose tattoos on the backs of both hands
Black and grey flash sheet of nine traditional-style tattoo designs, including a rose with a banner, a skull with crossed shovels, a boombox and two bold character heads.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Traditional flash sheet of tattoo designs in bold colour, including a skull with crossbones, a hand with flowers, a snake and heart, mushrooms and a frog.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, hand and snakes
A woman holding a white mug shows a black and grey traditional style tattoo on her forearm, with a fist and leaf shapes.
Black and grey traditional forearm tattoo
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
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a hand gripping a beaded ring medallion, shaded in gold and brown, on the back of a lower leg.
Hand holding a beaded medallion on a calf
Black and white photo of a hand with a traditional-style rose and leaves tattooed on the back, with silver rings on the fingers.
Rose tattoo on the back of a hand
Two tattooed hands crossed over a denim jacket, one showing a black and grey wolf head and the other a colour tiger head, both in traditional style on the backs of the hands.
Wolf and tiger hand tattoos
Black and grey tattoo of a raised finger in front of lips beside ornate blackletter lettering with flourishes, on a limb.
Lips and raised finger with blackletter lettering
Black and grey hand with a blade through it and red drips of blood, tattooed on the upper arm and shoulder in a traditional style.
Hand and blade on upper arm
Black thread embroidery in a wooden hoop showing a traditional-style rose and a hand with leaves on cream fabric.
Embroidered rose and hand design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design in a traditional style, showing a hand holding a letter with a heart, two roses, leaves and a butterfly, on a tracing sheet.
Hand holding envelope with roses and butterfly
Two people with crossed, heavily tattooed forearms showing a grey rose with a black outline on a hand, a pink rose on a wrist, and a teal heart padlock on the chest.
Roses and padlock tattoos on crossed forearms
Traditional style tattoo of two clasped hands with cuffs, framed by a rose above and a smaller rose below, on the outer thigh.
Clasped hands and roses on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo on a forearm of a hand holding blue forget-me-not flowers in a blue and yellow base, with the words FORGET ME NOT in black lettering beside it.
Forget-me-not hand and lettering on a forearm
Black ink flash sheet in a traditional style showing two female heads with daggers, barbed wire, clasped hands, a sailing ship and birds.
Traditional flash sheet with ship, daggers and barbed wire
Neo-traditional tattoo of a woman with waved hair and orange earrings, holding a fan with a hand and eye design, on an upper arm.
Portrait of a woman with a fan on the upper arm
Traditional style flower and rose tattoos cover a person's forearms, upper arms, thighs and calves, with their hands resting on a seated dog.
Floral tattoos on legs and arms with a dog
Colour neo-trad tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder of a hand with a raised middle finger, surrounded by scissors, thread, a paintbrush and ink bottle, with PRIDE IN CRAFT on banners.
Hand and craft tools on an upper arm
Two matching traditional-style tattoos of linked hands with blue cuffs in front of an orange sun, on two forearms.
Matching linked hands and sun on forearms
Two colour traditional tattoos on forearms, one of a hand holding a lighter with a 'BEST' banner, the other a hand holding a joint with a 'BUDS' banner, both with cannabis leaves and red flowers.
Matching lighter and joint hand tattoos on forearms
Two matching colour tattoos on adjacent fingers show Jack Skellington and Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas, each holding a red heart, in a traditional style on the hands.
Jack and Sally finger tattoos
Black thread embroidery in a wooden hoop of a tattoo-style hand holding a heart with a SOULMATE banner, a chain and a decorated cuff.
Embroidered hand holding a heart banner
Black traditional tattoo of a crowned hand with a pointing finger on the outer thigh, with denim shorts at the top of the frame.
Crowned hand on a thigh