Upper arm tattoo ideas

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Two upper arms held close together, each with a small fine line dotwork constellation-style tattoo in black ink.
Matching fine line constellation tattoos on upper arms
Colour traditional tattoo on an upper arm of a dotwork camping scene with mountains, pines and a tent, framed by red roses and a black butterfly.
Camping scene, butterfly and roses on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork skull tattoo covering the back, with mandala ornament, dotwork on the upper arm and a geometric cross on the other arm.
Black and grey skull across a back piece
Black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm showing a fading pine forest, a street grid and a large building.
Pine forest fading into a city street map on an arm
Black and grey tattoo covering the shoulder and upper arm with a rose, a central mandala flower and ornate paisley linework below.
Floral mandala sleeve on upper arm
Black dotwork mandala tattoo with a central flower and layered petals on the upper arm, below a white lace top.
Black mandala on upper arm
Four black arrows with feathered fletching and dotted arrowheads, in a blackwork and dotwork style, tattooed on the upper arm.
Four arrows on an upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a hovering hummingbird with dotted shading on the inner upper arm.
Hummingbird on an upper arm
Close crop of a woman's upper arm with a dense black dotwork mandala tattoo, her face not shown.
Dotwork mandala tattoo on an upper arm
Black linework peony tattoo with dotwork shading and dotted arcs on the inner upper arm, in a fine line botanical style.
Peony tattoo on the inner upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a stylised girl with a red heart and branch motifs on a woman's upper arm and shoulder.
Stylised girl figure on upper arm
Fine line black and grey tattoo of three moon phases with a dotted constellation on the inner upper arm, stippled shading on the moons.
Moon phases and constellation on upper arm
Realism tattoo of a woman wearing a gold Venetian mask with blue feathers, a peacock feather and a red flower across the upper arm and shoulder.
Venetian mask and peacock feathers on upper arm
Black and grey mandala tattoos on the upper arm and upper back of a woman with dark hair, seen from behind.
Mandala tattoos on upper arm and back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an acoustic guitar on the upper arm, with a crescent moon, stars, a cabin and pine trees inside the body.
Acoustic guitar with cabin scene on upper arm
Black and grey peony tattoo with stippled dotwork shading and dark leaves, sitting on the upper arm.
Peony tattoo on the upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart made of cactus, topped with a flower bloom, on the upper arm, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Cactus heart with flower on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line tattoo on an upper arm showing a seated figure fishing by a lake inside a rope-edged oval frame with flowers below.
Fishing scene in an oval frame on an upper arm
Black and grey dotwork mandala half sleeve with floral and paisley motifs covering the upper arm and shoulder.
Mandala half sleeve on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork jellyfish tattoo with dotted bell and long trailing tentacles on the upper arm.
Jellyfish tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey moon with a dotwork crescent shadow on the inner upper arm, with a small galaxy ring and Genesis reference inset below.
Moon and crescent shadow on upper arm
Black geometric lion head tattoo with dotwork shading in the mane and face, placed on the upper arm.
Geometric lion head on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a heart containing planets, stars and a crescent moon on the inner upper arm.
Planets and crescent moon in a heart on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a matryoshka doll with paisley, flower and geometric patterns across a shoulder and upper arm.
Matryoshka doll shoulder and arm tattoo
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cat wearing a striped scarf and holding a takeaway coffee cup, on the upper arm.
Cat in a scarf holding a coffee cup
Black and grey mandala tattoo on the upper arm of a woman in a white tank top printed with a Triwizard Tournament slogan.
Mandala tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a bee with stippled shading on the upper arm, close to the elbow.
Bee tattoo on upper arm
Colour fox head with a white lily and black and grey dotwork flowers on an upper arm, with the forearm raised in a bathroom selfie.
Fox and flowers on an upper arm
Full arm sleeve in blackwork and dotwork geometric designs, with a dotted mandala rosette and cube patterns on the upper arm and forearm.
Blackwork and dotwork geometric arm sleeve
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
Black and grey sunflower tattoo with stippled dotwork centre and shaded leaves on the inner upper arm.
Sunflower with leaves on the upper arm
Black and grey dotwork moth tattoo with a geometric background, sitting on the upper arm and shoulder.
Moth with geometric background on upper arm
Black geometric tattoo of a solid triangle with a partly dotwork circle overlapping it, on the upper arm.
Solid triangle and dotted circle on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork sleeve tattoo of mandalas and flower of life patterns across the upper arm and forearm, shown in a four-panel collage.
Mandala and geometric sleeve on arm
Colourful neo-traditional bee tattoo with stippled glitter wings, shown in two photos on skin, one on the chest and one on the upper arm.
Glitter bee tattoo with sparkles and dotted trail
Close-up of a small red and blue fine line tattoo of a flying saucer with dotwork shading on the upper arm.
Red and blue flying saucer on upper arm
Black and grey toucan tattoo on the upper arm, with solid black areas and stippled shading in a blackwork and dotwork style.
Toucan perched on an upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a cactus and succulents inside a geometric glass terrarium on the upper arm.
Cactus terrarium on the upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of two flowers on long stems across the upper arm and shoulder, with dotted swirls beside the stems.
Two black and grey flowers on an upper arm
Full floral sleeve tattoo covering the upper arm and forearm, black and grey on the left panel and coloured on the right, with flowers, swirls and dotwork.
Floral sleeve tattoo on the arm
Collage of six black and grey mandala tattoos in dotwork and fine line styles, placed on the shoulder, upper back, forearm and upper arm.
Mandala tattoos on shoulders, back and arms
A white ink feather tattoo in fine line with dotted shading on the inner upper arm, shown against a white lace top.
White ink feather on an upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a floating island with a snowy peak, river and pine trees on the upper arm.
Floating mountain island on upper arm
Back view of a person with a black and grey stippled rose tattoo on the back of the hand and a heart tattoo on the upper arm.
Black and grey rose on the hand
Multicoloured painterly pine tree tattoo on the side of the ribs, with a black dotwork mandala on the upper arm at the left edge.
Watercolour pine tree on the ribs
Black and grey mandala tattoo on a woman's upper arm and a smaller mandala on her upper back, shown from behind with her face turned away.
Mandala tattoos on upper arm and back
Black and grey dotwork heart tattoo on the upper arm, filled with a cratered planet, a ringed Saturn, a crescent moon and four-pointed stars.
Heart with planets and stars on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an Art Nouveau woman in profile, wreathed in ivy and peonies, on the outer thigh.
Art Nouveau woman with ivy and peonies on a thigh