Profile tattoo ideas

302 photos and flash · 22% Traditional, 19% Fine line · Upper arm most common

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Traditional colour tattoo on a calf showing a lion's head behind a woman's profile, with two pink roses and green leaves below.
Lion and woman with roses on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a woman's profile in a teal circular frame with a yellow scalloped edge, flames and green leaves, on a forearm.
Profile woman in teal frame on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of two kissing profiles with closed eyes inside a triangle, placed on the lower leg.
Kissing profiles in a triangle on a calf
Small black fine line tattoo of a face in profile, drawn in one continuous line, on the forearm of a person wearing a dark jumper.
Single-line face on a forearm
Colour realism tattoo on the back of a woman's profile inside an outline map of Africa, with a beaded necklace and white and red headdress.
Woman in profile within a map of Africa
Traditional flash design of a woman's profile facing a crescent moon with a man's face, with a black and grey rose and leaves beside her.
Woman and crescent moon with rose
Traditional style colour tattoo of overlapping profile faces above a collared bust, with a star ornament, shown on a lower leg.
Stacked profile faces in a bust on a calf
Black ink drawing on cream paper of a crescent moon with a profile face, and a woman whose long hair streams outward in wavy lines like rays.
Crescent moon and woman with flowing hair
Black and grey sleeve tattoo on a forearm and upper arm showing a woman in profile wearing a feathered headdress, with stars, leaves and a dagger around her.
Profile portrait and stars on a full sleeve
Script reading The heart of an Indian beside a profile headdress tattoo on the lower back, mostly black and grey with small red accents.
Script lettering and feathered headdress on back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a classical marble-style statue in profile wearing an ornate winged helmet, on a limb.
Classical helmeted statue in profile
Tattoo of a head in a knit beanie and scarf, with a mountain and treeline landscape filling the face, shown on a limb in grey and teal.
Beanie head with mountain landscape tattoo
Bold traditional-style flash drawing of a woman in profile facing right, with red roses in her hair and on her shoulder, a green headwrap and pearl-like hair ornaments.
Profile portrait with red roses and green headwrap
Black line drawing of a sitting cat seen in profile, looking up, with its tail curled around its body, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Sitting cat line drawing with curled tail
Fine line black tattoo of two faces in profile, almost touching, on a woman's upper back between the shoulder blades.
Two profiles almost touching on upper back
Black fine-line tattoo of two faces in profile inside a rectangular frame, placed on the thigh of a person in denim shorts.
Two profiles in a line-art frame on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo on the side of the ribs showing a woman in profile with a tall black updo topped by a pink-sailed ship.
Sailing ship above a profile woman on the ribs
Black ink drawing of a sitting cat built from angular geometric facets filled with fine parallel hatching, shown on a plain white background.
Geometric cat design in black ink
Sepia pencil drawing of a woman's profile framed by two roses, petals and clockwork gears, shown as a tattoo design.
Profile portrait with roses and clockwork
Black line drawing of a skeletal female profile with swirled hair inside an oval scrollwork frame, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skull profile cameo in ornate frame
Traditional style tattoo of a woman's profile with a swallow in a ring of yellow dots, on the upper arm.
Profile face and swallow in a dotted circle
Black and grey realism tattoo on the ribs showing two hands clasped together, with their shadow forming a side profile of a head.
Hands casting a profile shadow on the ribs
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a shaded profile silhouette with ribbon banners reading Darling You'll Be Okay, on a forearm.
Silhouette and banner on a forearm
Black ink line drawing of a stylised lion head in profile with a flowing mane and a curling tail, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Stylised lion head in profile with curled tail
Black and grey Traditional-style rose tattoo on one thigh and an ornate cameo frame with roses on the other, both worn with black stockings.
Rose and cameo tattoos on thighs
Detailed black linework drawing of a lion in profile, with a patterned mane and a rust-tinted head, shown as a design for a tattoo.
Ornate lion in profile
Colour flash design of a woman in profile within an ornate gold oval frame, with purple roses and a white rose, in a Neo-trad style.
Woman in profile cameo with roses
Black and grey neo-traditional flash design of a woman in profile holding a rose, with banner lettering reading LUST is the THORN and LOVE is the ROSE.
Profile woman with rose and banner
Fine line black tattoo of a face in profile with two outlined hands and a small red rose on the inner wrist.
Profile face and rose on a wrist
Black and white photo, viewed from above, of two ornate tattoos on a person's thighs, the left showing a woman's profile within scrollwork.
Ornate thigh tattoos in black and grey
Black line drawing of two facing profiles, one a horned figure and one a woman with her hair up, leaning towards a red rose, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Two profiles leaning towards a red rose
Fine line black tattoo of a cat's head in profile with whiskers, on the inner forearm.
Single-line cat head on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo with a red sun of a moustached man in profile, wavy lines and a pentagram on an upper arm.
Moustached man portrait and pentagram on upper arm
Red pencil sketch of a neo-trad tattoo design showing a sugar skull woman with pinned curls, a profile of a man with a quiff, and a Vigilante script banner.
Sugar skull woman and profile man flash
Black and green tattoo of a woman's face in profile with a bob haircut, on the upper arm of a person wearing a striped vest top.
Profile portrait of a woman on an upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a grey globe with a woman's profile, a red and orange butterfly and red and orange flowers on the outer thigh.
Globe, butterfly and flowers on a thigh
Pencil-style flash design of a woman with flowing hair, two roses in her hair and a rose and script reading You're So Cool on her shoulder, in Botanical and Lettering style.
Woman with roses and script lettering
Black and white side profile of a person with long wavy hair, showing a small fine line cross tattoo on the neck behind the ear.
Small cross tattoo behind the ear
Black and grey neo-traditional flash design of a woman in profile inside a crescent moon, with a large rose, leaves and dotted rays.
Woman in profile with moon and rose
Fine line black outline tattoo of a face in profile and a hand, with a small red rose, on the inner wrist.
Profile outline and red rose on wrist
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing an Egyptian woman in profile wearing a striped headdress, with an eye of Horus and an ankh beside her, drawn on a sketchbook page.
Egyptian woman with eye of Horus and ankh sketch
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a woman in profile wearing a headwrap and beaded necklace, set inside an outline of the African continent with the word Africa in script.
Woman profile and Africa map on upper arm
Black continuous line drawing of a seated cat in profile with a curled tail beside a dog's head in profile, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Cat and dog in a single line drawing
Black tribal-style wolf design shown in profile, walking left, with bold patterned linework along its body and a flame-like tail, drawn as a flash design on a pale grey background.
Tribal wolf design in profile
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh of a woman in profile with black hair, yellow and pink flowers, a teal headband, teal roses and a Love Is Blind banner.
Profile woman with teal roses on a thigh
Black line drawing of Belle and the Beast in profile, with a small red rose held near the Beast's face, shown as a flash design.
Belle and the Beast profile line art with rose
Two forearm photographs showing a black linework tattoo of a woman in profile wearing a fox head headdress, with teal accents, in dotwork and geometric style on the forearm, plus a hand and
Profile woman and fox headdress on forearm
Fine line tattoo design of a woman in profile with flowing red and black hair, overlaid with grey script initials.
Woman in profile with flowing hair and script