Rose tattoo ideas

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

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Black thread embroidery in a wooden hoop showing a traditional-style rose and a hand with leaves on cream fabric.
Embroidered rose and hand design
Black line drawing of a tattoo design in a traditional style, showing a hand holding a letter with a heart, two roses, leaves and a butterfly, on a tracing sheet.
Hand holding envelope with roses and butterfly
Traditional style flash design of a red rose and a black ink sugar skull with green leaves and rainbow lines, drawn on a tan background with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull and rose design on tan background
Traditional style flash of a jumping sailor pin-up in red shorts and red heels, with blue tattoo designs on her upper arm, thigh and calf.
Sailor pin-up with tattooed arm and legs
Black and grey flash drawing of a mermaid sitting on rocks beneath a full moon, with a sailing ship, stars and roses, designed as a traditional style tattoo.
Mermaid on rocks with moon and ship
Black line drawing of a tattoo design showing a heart made of two crossed skateboards, with a rose behind, leaves and a blank banner, in a traditional style.
Skateboard heart with rose and banner
Black and white line drawing of a rose with two leaves in a traditional flash style, shown on a round white background with no body placement.
Rose with leaves flash design
Traditional style flash sheet showing a black heart with a pink rose and teal leaves, beside two black and gold hearts with a YOU SUCK banner and arrows, with no body placement shown.
Rose heart and banner hearts flash sheet
Traditional-style flash design of a grey crocodile head with a dagger, a pink rose and a KILLER banner, shown on a textured grey background.
Killer Croc crocodile, dagger and rose design
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Flash sheet of six red traditional roses with dark green leaves and black outlines, shown on a tan background.
Six traditional roses on a flash sheet
Traditional-style nautical design of two swallows, a rope-edged anchor and roses, burned into a pale wooden board, with no body placement shown.
Swallows, anchor and roses design on wood
Eight traditional-style flash designs of classic horror monsters, each on a sun-like red and orange backdrop, with red roses in the lower corners.
Eight classic monster flash designs with roses
Sheet of black line drawings of traditional tattoo designs, including roses, skulls, swallows, snakes and anchors, arranged as a character grid.
Traditional tattoo flash glyph sheet
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and banners reading see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, in realistic greyscale shading.
Three skulls with roses and see, hear, speak no evil banners
Traditional style flash design of a dagger dripping blood, wrapped in lettered banners over a drawn arm with a spider web and rose.
Dagger and banners flash with blood
Seven-step tutorial showing a traditional-style rose built from pencil circles, then inked in black outline with red petals and gold accents, with no body placement shown.
Step-by-step traditional rose drawing
Black and grey pencil-style drawing of two swans with spread wings flanking three roses above a knuckleduster with dripping ink, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Swans, roses and knuckleduster design
Traditional flash design pairing an umbrella with rain drops over a rose, and an anatomical heart, each with a banner scroll reading a line of text.
Umbrella, rose and heart flash sheet
Neo-traditional style flash design of a hand gripping a dagger with a ribbon wrapped around the blade, flanked by red roses and set in an ornate frame labelled Ace and Swords.
Ace of Swords tarot design with dagger and roses
Distressed vintage-style illustration of a dark-haired woman with red roses in her hair leaning towards a teal and cream skeleton, with clasped hands and swirling teal lines, shown as a design with no
Skeleton and woman embracing, distressed flash
Traditional style flash drawing of a green peacock perched above a cluster of red roses and green leaves, outlined in bold black.
Peacock and roses flash design
Traditional style flash sheet of red and black heart designs, including a dagger through a heart, a rose with a MOM banner, and swallows with LOVE ALWAYS lettering.
Traditional heart flash sheet
Traditional flash sheet with a green umbrella over a red rose and a path of raindrops, beside an anatomical heart, each with a scroll banner of lettering.
Umbrella, rose and anatomical heart flash
Pencil drawing of a steampunk sleeve design with a pocket watch, gears, pipes and roses in black and grey linework.
Steampunk clockwork sleeve design with roses
Black line drawing of four stacked teacups decorated with roses, flowers, leaves and birds, drawn as a tattoo flash design.
Stacked teacups with floral and bird designs
Six vertical illustrated flash designs in a neo-traditional style, each showing a Disney-inspired princess or fairy character framed by roses, ribbons and banners.
Six princess flash designs with banners
Traditional-style flash drawing of a blue and gold dagger piercing a red rose with green leaves, shown on a white background with no body placement.
Dagger through a rose flash design
Traditional style flash design of a red rose, pale blue snowflake and yellow flame above a ribbon banner reading KEEP MOVING FORWARD, with no body placement shown.
Rose, snowflake and ribbon quote design
Traditional style flash design of a tarot card with three swords, a watchful eye, a heart and roses, with no body placement shown.
Three of Swords tarot flash design
Digital flash design of red roses woven through black and grey tribal swirls and spikes, drawn for a sleeve-length tattoo.
Red roses with black and grey tribal swirls
Three black and white rose tattoo designs on a flash sheet, one with dotted shading and leaves, one open bloom with an outlined bud, and one with dotwork shading and leaves.
Three rose designs on a flash sheet
Traditional-style flash sheet showing four oval Star Wars scenes with X-wing, AT-AT walkers, TIE fighters and a Millennium Falcon, each framed by roses, on a white sheet.
Star Wars flash sheet with four oval scenes
Black and grey flash design of four stacked skulls with roses and ribbon banners, drawn in a traditional style and suited to a long vertical placement.
Stacked skulls with roses and ribbon banners
Black and grey engraved flash drawing of a cluster of roses, buds and leaves in hatched linework, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Engraved rose spray design
Grid of eight illustrated princess portraits in neo-traditional tattoo flash style, each in an oval cameo frame with rose and banner details.
Eight princess portraits in tattoo flash style
Grid of ten colour illustrations of Disney-style princesses in traditional tattoo flash frames with rose borders and ribbon banners, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Ten princess portraits in traditional tattoo frames
Traditional style flash design of a red-haired mermaid with an anchor, two swallows, roses and a banner reading The Little Mermaid, in colour.
Mermaid, anchor and swallows flash
Black and grey traditional-style pin-up illustration of a woman in a checked shirt and high-waisted shorts, with skull, praying hands and dagger tattoos on her legs.
Pin-up woman with tattooed legs illustration
Black line drawing of a mermaid wrapped around an anchor with a rope, in a traditional flash style, on a sheet of paper.
Mermaid wrapped around an anchor flash
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups
Black line drawing of a skull entwined with three roses, leaves and thorny stems, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Skull and roses line drawing