Hourglass tattoo ideas

117 photos and flash · 31% Traditional, 26% Realism · Forearm most common

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Black and grey dotwork hourglass held by a skeletal hand, tattooed on the calf with a bold outline.
Hourglass held by a skeletal hand on a calf
Black ink drawing of an ornate hourglass with mandala patterns, a lotus flower and dotwork shading, drawn on paper beside a black pen.
Ornamental hourglass with lotus design
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a compass rose with scrollwork above a skull on a forearm, with dotwork shading.
Compass rose and skull on a forearm
Black and grey peony, butterfly and hourglass tattoo across a forearm, shown in four side-by-side photographs.
Peony, butterfly and hourglass forearm sleeve
Small fine line and dotwork hourglass tattoo with swirls and dots on the inner wrist and forearm, in black ink.
Small hourglass on the inner wrist
Neo-traditional hourglass tattoo on the outer thigh, showing a sunset above and a moon and stars over dotwork sand, inside a black diamond frame.
Hourglass with sunset and night sky on thigh
Black and grey skull hourglass tattoo with stippled shading and hatched linework on the inner forearm.
Skull hourglass on a forearm
Black linework drawing on paper of a tattoo design with a swallow, an hourglass, flower blooms, leaves and dotted beads, with no body part shown.
Swallow, hourglass and flowers design
Black and grey hourglass design with dotwork shading, shown as a small temporary tattoo on a finger and on a sheet of temporary tattoos.
Hourglass design with dotwork shading
Black and grey two-panel tattoo on an upper arm in an engraved style, showing scales and a solid polyhedron on the left and a skeleton holding an hourglass above a skull on the right.
Two-panel engraving tattoo on an upper arm
Black linework flash design of an ornate hourglass with a candle inside and a peony, drawn on grey paper.
Hourglass and peony design sketch
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an hourglass with a diamond inside, two peonies and an everlasting banner on the side of the ribs.
Hourglass and peonies on the ribs
Black and grey dotwork hourglass tattoo on a forearm, its glass filled with a crescent moon, four-pointed stars and a ringed planet, with small script text beside it.
Hourglass with starry sky on a forearm
Traditional style flash design of an hourglass with an eye at its centre, two red and orange roses, and banners reading Time is Slipping.
Hourglass, eye and roses flash design
Black and grey dotwork drawing of a symmetrical owl with an eye on its brow, an hourglass across its chest and clockwork gears at the base, shown as a tattoo design.
Owl with hourglass and clockwork gears