Ribbon tattoo ideas

1,005 photos and flash · 24% Traditional, 17% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Pink flash-style design of a heart with a banner reading FEMINIST and two roses with leaves, drawn in bold outlines with no body placement shown.
Feminist banner, heart and roses flash
Black and grey flash design of four arrows wrapped in a ribbon reading A MAN MUST MAKE HIS OWN ARROWS, with feathered shafts and radiating lines.
Four arrows with ribbon banner quote
Black line-art flash design of a ribbon banner with the words don't worry, you're just as sane as I am, flanked by wings and a pair of round spectacles, with a cherry below.
Ribbon banner with wings and spectacles
Black and grey drawing of an eagle with spread wings holding a Live to Ride banner, with a blank banner below, in a traditional style.
Eagle with Live to Ride banner
A neo-traditional skull design drawn on paper, framed by grey scrollwork and red panels with dotted borders, with pens lying nearby.
Skull with scrollwork in neo-trad style
Black and grey traditional-style drawing of an anchor with a heart, a ribbon and a layered flower, shown on plain paper with no body placement visible.
Anchor and flower tattoo design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a Dalek above a banner reading EXTERMINATE, shown as a tattoo design on a spiral sketchbook page.
Dalek with EXTERMINATE banner design
Traditional style tattoo flash of a red rose with green leaves, a gold banner reading LOVE and a small skull, shown on a teal painted background.
Rose, banner and skull design
Neo-traditional flash design of a dark-haired pin-up character in a black bodice, with banners reading Waiting for true love's kiss, roses and a rope frame.
Pin-up character with banners and roses
Traditional-style flash drawing of a green snake coiled around a cream banner that reads Tunnel Snakes Rule, set on a plain green background.
Green snake with Tunnel Snakes Rule banner
Black and grey traditional-style drawing of a rose above a banner reading LOVE, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Rose with LOVE banner design
Traditional style flash drawing of a pale hand with pink fingertips, wrapped in three yellow banners reading COLD HANDS, COLDER and HEART, with dripping red and white details at the wrist.
Hand with COLD HANDS, COLDER, HEART banners
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style dagger with an ornate hilt and the word Rumplestiltskin on the blade, with banners reading All magic comes with a price, shown as a tattoo design.
Dagger with banner reading All magic comes with a price
Two temporary tattoo transfer designs in packaging, a red heart and a grey anchor, each with a banner reading Ben + Annie, in traditional style.
Heart and anchor temporary tattoo designs
Line drawing of a rose with leaves and an empty ribbon banner in plum linework on a cream background, a traditional style flash design with no body placement shown.
Rose and blank banner flash design
Black ink flash drawing of a king of hearts and queen of spades playing card with ribbon banners reading You're the King, baby I'm your Queen, in a lettering and dotwork style.
King and queen playing cards with banner lettering
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a pastel green pony with a pink mane, blue bow and saddle, above purple and yellow roses, with a hand holding the paper at the left edge.
Pastel pony and roses design
Traditional style flash design of a woman in leopard print holding a wand, with red roses and cream banners reading GREEN, SUPER GREEN, BZZZZZZTTT and HOT HOT HOT, on a green background.
Pin-up figure with roses and banners
Black and grey line drawing of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in ribbon banners, one reading FAMILY, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Anchor with family ribbon banners
Traditional style flash design of a red and white ball above a red polka dot flower and a blue rose, with gold banners reading I and CHOOSE YOU and YOU.
Poke Ball and rose flash with I choose you banners
Black ink traditional-style anchor design with three banner scrolls across the shank reading Sleeping With Sirens, drawn as a flash sheet with no body part visible.
Anchor with three banners reading Sleeping With Sirens
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse, crescent moons, flowers and a ribbon banner reading We found love in the dark, in a traditional style.
Lighthouse and ribbon banner flash design
Black and grey pencil flash sheet showing heart lettering designs, a globe with a ribbon banner, a lightning bolt, a shoe and heart, and a linework portrait with lightning bolt face makeup.
Lettering and heart flash sheet
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Black and grey flash design of a pin-up skeleton woman and a top-hatted skeleton man holding hands, with a banner quote above and below them.
Skeleton couple with banner quote
Black line drawing of a message in a bottle with a tied scroll, flanked by three roses and leaves, drawn on pale paper.
Message in a bottle with roses
Flash sheet of five heart designs: a red winged heart, a black dotted heart, a heart with a ribbon banner, a scrolled heart and a floral heart with leaves.
Five heart flash designs on a sheet
Coloured flash design of a star fruit with a green leaf on top and a pale blue banner reading One Sky, One Destiny across it, drawn in a bold traditional style.
Star fruit with banner reading One Sky, One Destiny
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing six dagger designs, each with a ribbon banner curling beneath the blade.
Six traditional dagger designs with banners
Black line flash design of a songbird holding a sprig, a rose, a pearl necklace and a folding fan with peonies, in a traditional style with no placement shown.
Bird, rose and folding fan line drawings
Black and grey pencil drawing of a rose with leaves, two hearts and flowing ribbon banners, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Rose with hearts and ribbons design
Hand-drawn traditional flash designs on tracing paper, including a rose, a bowed heart, a beaded heart locket, a crown, and a beetle, with no body placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet with roses and hearts
Traditional style flash design of a light blue ribbon banner with the word Survivor in black script, outlined in black on a white background.
Survivor ribbon banner design
Pencil drawing of open scissors with a scalloped-edged bow, shaded in black and grey, as a tattoo design.
Scissors and bow pencil design
Pen drawing of a traditional-style anchor wrapped in rope, with a seagull, a ribbon banner reading family and blue water, shown as a design with no body placement.
Anchor and rope design with family banner
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with three stacked ribbon banners reading Fortune favors the hustle, shown on paper with no placement on the body.
Fortune favors the hustle ribbon banner
Painted traditional-style flash design of a raised middle finger in a sunburst, framed by green leaves, red berries and a teal ribbon bow, with no body placement shown.
Raised middle finger in a botanical wreath
Traditional-style swallows holding a gold key and a red heart with ribbons, printed on a white baby bodysuit hung on a line.
Swallows, key and heart on a baby bodysuit
Traditional style flash design of a grey dagger wrapped in yellow ribbon banners with lettering, a red cross detail and a red drop of blood, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Dagger and cross with lettered banners
Black line drawing flash design of two swallows, a spool of thread with scissors and a needle, and a banner reading CRAFT OR DIE, in a traditional style.
Swallows, thread spool and CRAFT OR DIE banner
Traditional style flash drawing of a hot air balloon with a red sun, flowers and an anchor, with the words Enjoy the Ride on a banner.
Hot air balloon with banner and flowers
Pencil drawing of a crescent moon, a hand holding a wand and two ribbon banners with script lettering, shaded in yellow and black linework.
In the Name of the Moon banner design
Black and white pen drawing of a traditional-style design with stacked ribbon banners reading Ain't no woman like the one I got, an arrow and a heart, with no body placement shown.
Stacked ribbon banners with lettering and heart
Cross stitch of a red heart with a white banner reading MOM and a small pink rose, in a traditional tattoo style on dark navy fabric.
Cross stitch heart with MOM banner
Coloured pencil tattoo design of a hummingbird in flight above a banner reading FOREVER AGO and trailing ribbons, in a traditional style.
Hummingbird with Forever Ago banner
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design showing an anchor wrapped in rope and vines, with two roses and a ribbon banner, drawn in black and grey.
Anchor with roses and rope in pencil sketch
Traditional style flash design of a pink dagger with a crescent moon and wings, with ribbon banners reading MOON PRINCESS, printed on a dark grey sweatshirt.
Moon Princess dagger and banner design
Pencil drawing of a cross with a ribbon banner wrapped around it, shaded in black and grey, a tattoo flash design.
Cross with wrapped ribbon banner