Rose tattoo ideas

4,399 photos and flash · 46% Botanical, 31% Traditional · Forearm most common

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Black and white ink drawing of a bat with outstretched wings, surrounded by rose stems, buds and leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Bat with wings spread among roses
Traditional-style tattoos on both feet, showing a blue dotted teacup and saucer on one foot and a blue dotted teapot with a pink rose on the other, with 'tea heart time' written across the toes.
Teacup and teapot with tea time toe lettering
Realistic grey-shaded wolf head design holding a red rose in its mouth, drawn on a pale background with no body placement shown.
Wolf head with a red rose
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two roses with leaves, shaded with stippled dots, on a limb of skin.
Two roses in dotwork
Traditional style colour tattoo of a gramophone with a red rose, green leaves and a small blue flower on the outer thigh.
Gramophone and rose on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo on a forearm showing a red and white eye within rays and clouds, above a woman's face in a headpiece and a red rose.
Eye, rays and rose on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm showing a woman with sugar skull face paint, a flaming thorned sacred heart, a skeletal hand and a rose.
Sugar skull woman and sacred heart on upper arm
Ink line drawing flash design of a cat curled inside an ornate beaded frame beside a rose, in a neo-traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Cat and rose tattoo design
Black and grey roses with leaves and fine sprigs tattooed on the upper arm, shaded in a dotwork style.
Two roses on an upper arm
Back view of a shaved-headed man with a realistic red-mouthed snake tattoo across his back, with colourful floral and grey Japanese-style sleeves on both arms.
Realistic snake across a full back tattoo
A colour and grey anchor tattoo wrapped in pink roses, green leaves and rope, with a small script word beside the flukes, placed on the side of the body.
Anchor with roses and rope on the side
Black and grey realism tattoo sleeve of roses and daisies running from the upper arm down the forearm to the wrist.
Black and grey rose and floral sleeve on an arm
Traditional colour tattoo of a cartoon couple within a gold-edged heart frame with red roses, on the outer thigh.
Cartoon couple in heart frame on thigh
Black fine line tattoo of a faceted geometric woman wearing a flower crown, with roses below, on the inner forearm.
Geometric portrait with roses on forearm
Pencil sketch of a swallow in flight above two roses and a rosebud, drawn in blue and orange pencil on cream paper, as a design for a tattoo.
Swallow and roses tattoo sketch
Black and grey realism tattoo of a striped lighthouse with light rays, clouds and a rose, covering the forearm.
Lighthouse and rose sleeve on a forearm
Colour tattoo on a thigh of an artist's palette, two paintbrushes, a yellow rose, leaves, a beaded chain and an open pocket watch, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Palette, brushes, rose and pocket watch on a thigh
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a forearm of a compass, red roses and a banner reading wherever you go, with a small oval plaque at the top.
Compass, roses and banner on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a teal bird resembling a peacock, with a red rose and green leaves, on an upper arm.
Peacock and rose on an upper arm
Black and grey realistic rose tattoo with water droplets on the back of a hand, shaded in fine detail.
Realistic rose on the back of a hand
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a grey anchor wrapped in rope with two pink roses, green leaves and a pink flower on skin.
Anchor and pink roses tattoo
Black and grey mandala tattoo with two roses on the outer thigh, in dotwork and fine line style.
Mandala and roses on a thigh
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo of a rocket with two roses and a butterfly on the side of a ribcage.
Rocket, roses and butterfly on ribs
Black ink drawing of an ornate bird with patterned wings, small roses and swirling flourishes, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Ornate bird with rose and flourish design
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing a stack of strapped books with red roses, a small red flower and green leaves.
Stack of books and roses on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a lion head with roses and fragments of script on the upper arm and shoulder.
Lion head and roses on upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of two peonies and rosebuds with leaves on the outer thigh, shown in a close photo of a woman wearing a patterned skirt.
Peony and rose cluster on a thigh
Black and grey unicorn head tattoo with a small pink rose on the top of a foot, in a bold traditional style.
Unicorn head with rose on a foot
Two lower legs in a bath of foam, with a red rose and ornate black linework on the left leg and a colourful swallow on the right leg, in neo-trad style.
Rose and swallow leg tattoos in a bath
Traditional style colour tattoo of a swallow in flight beside red rosebuds and gold leaves on the upper arm.
Swallow and rosebuds on upper arm
Four-panel view of a colour and grey realism sleeve on an upper arm, showing skulls with red roses and green leaves.
Skulls and red roses on an upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose made from folded 100 dollar bills, shown on a lower arm.
Rose made from folded 100 dollar bills
Black and grey poison bottle tattoo with a stippled skull and crossbones on a forearm, with a partial bird and rose at the left edge.
Poison bottle with skull and crossbones
Traditional style tattoo of a matryoshka doll in a red headscarf with a pink rose on its apron, shown in two close-up photographs.
Matryoshka doll and rose tattoo
Black and grey dotwork rose with symmetrical leaves and a pointed tip, tattooed on the centre of a chest.
Rose with leaves on the sternum
Colour botanical tattoo of three red roses with green leaves, buds and black swirling tendrils on the upper back.
Three red roses with swirls on the upper back
Colour tattoo of a blue rose with green leaves and a thorned stem on the ankle, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Blue rose with leaves and stem on an ankle
Black and grey tattoo of a robed figure with rays and roses on an upper arm, shown in a mirror selfie.
Robed figure and roses on upper arm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a woman with wavy hair and eyes closed, with a small rose outline beside her, on a person's upper back.
Black and grey portrait of a woman on the back
Collage of four photos showing a red rose band tattoo with dark green leaves wrapped around a forearm and wrist, in neo-traditional colour.
Red rose band tattoo around a forearm
Colour and grey realism tattoo on a forearm showing a shaded skull, a red rose, a pale butterfly, bird silhouettes and a lettered banner.
Skull, rose and butterflies on a forearm
Two bare legs resting on white sheets, covered in colourful traditional tattoos of roses, a dagger and a lantern on the calves and thighs.
Traditional tattoos on legs against white bedding
Close-up of a multicoloured rose tattoo on a forearm, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink and red with loose black sketch lines around its edges.
Watercolour-style rose on a forearm
Realism tattoo of a shaded grey skull with pink roses on the outer thigh.
Skull and roses on a thigh
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 realism rose and scrollwork sleeve tattoo covering both upper arms from the shoulder to the forearm, photographed from behind.
Black and grey rose and scrollwork sleeve
Traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing a planchette with a moon, a yellow rose and a spider, above a hand with a jewelled ring and spiders crawling near a red cuff with a web.
Planchette, hand and spiders on a forearm
Black line drawing of two sugar skulls, one in a veil and one in a top hat, framed by roses and a banner reading 'Til Death Do Us Part, in a traditional tattoo flash style with no body placement
Sugar skull couple with roses and banner