Hand tattoo ideas

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Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing an outstretched hand, a lantern with a flame, green leaves and a dangling bead chain.

Hand, lantern and rosary beads on a thigh

Black outlined cartoon hands curving together around a solid red heart, a bold traditional style tattoo on the thigh.

Cartoon hands forming a red heart on thigh

Traditional style tattoo on the thigh showing a hand gripping a stake, red carnations, a banner reading INTO EVERY GENERATION A SLAYER IS BORN and a red gem with a B.

Hand with stake, banner and carnations

Black and white photo of tattooed forearms and hands gripping a skateboard, with a traditional rose and a woman's portrait on the left forearm and a heart design on the back of the right hand.

Tattooed hands and forearms gripping a skateboard

Traditional style tattoo on a thigh showing a hand holding a white rose, with banners reading Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris, framed by red berries, green leaves and yellow flames.

Hand and rose banner tattoo on thigh

Colour traditional tattoo of a pale-faced woman with blue hair and flowers in an orange frame, beside a red rose, on the upper thigh.

Pale-faced woman in a frame with a red rose

Black and grey tattoos on a pair of thighs and knees, including lace-like patterns and a snake, with a black cat lying across the lap.

Black and grey thigh tattoos with a black cat

Colourful traditional-style tattoos cover a thigh and forearm as two people lie on a bed holding hands.

Two people holding hands with tattooed legs

Black and grey traditional tattoo on a thigh, showing a peony, daisies, fern leaves, a stylised hand and a banner reading I long for you to hold me in your arms.

Peony and hand banner tattoo on thigh

Traditional colour tattoo of a woman with blue eyes and a red veil that reveals a skull, held by a hand with long blue nails, on the thigh.

Veiled woman with skull on thigh

Traditional-style tattoos of an eye, a bearded face with a flower and lettering on a thigh, with a white kitten in the foreground.

White kitten in front of traditional tattoos on a thigh

Two hands with a colour nautical star on the back of one hand, LOVE on the knuckles, and Japanese-style dragon and koi tattoos on the arms and legs behind them.

Nautical star and Japanese sleeve on hands

Black and grey traditional tattoo of a man and woman seated either side of a Ouija board inside a circle, on the outer thigh.

Couple at a Ouija board on a thigh

Colour traditional-style tattoo of a hamsa hand with a blue eye, lotus flowers and leaves on the outer thigh.

Hamsa hand with eye and flowers on a thigh

Traditional style skull in a red paisley bandana, framed by red flowers and dark leaves, tattooed on the outer thigh.

Skull in a red bandana with flowers on the thigh

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

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 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 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

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

Traditional face, heart and chain with cuffed hand

Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh of a hand shake with a snake biting the wrist, above the words Trust No One.

Snake and handshake with Trust No One lettering