Rose tattoo ideas

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

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Blue line drawing in traditional style of a moustached man whose chest and shoulders show a woman's portrait with a rose, a ship, an anchor and hearts, framed by dotwork shading and stars.
Tattooed man with woman portrait and nautical motifs
Colour traditional tattoo of a skeleton-faced black cat, a red rose and blue flowers above a banner reading Siempre en mi corazon, on the upper arm.
Skeleton cat and rose banner on upper arm
Traditional-style flash drawing of a compass rose with two red roses and a banner reading Not All Who Wander Are Lost.
Compass and roses with banner design
Traditional tattoo of two clasped hands, one shaded and one skeletal, in front of a red rose with dark leaves and dotwork shading on an upper arm.
Clasped hands and red rose on an upper arm
Traditional style flash sheet of ten designs, including a green bird, a spider web, a red and black Spider-Man head, snakes, praying hands and a jack-o-lantern, with banner lettering.
Traditional flash sheet of mixed designs
Black and grey shaded rose tattoo with leaves on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with bold outlines and soft grey shading.
Black and grey rose on the upper back
Black line drawing flash of a pocket watch with roses, leaves and a chain, with a script banner of lettering beneath, styled as a traditional tattoo design.
Pocket watch and roses with script banner
Two legs raised against a pale wall, covered in traditional tattoos of daggers, a rose, an eye, a pocket watch and a whale, with a black and grey flower on one knee.
Full traditional leg sleeves with white high-tops
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
Arms crossed to show a black and grey mandala tattoo on the forearm, with a traditional rose tattoo partly visible on the thigh below pale pink shorts.
Mandala forearm tattoo and thigh rose
Traditional style tattoo of grey roses with black outlines and orange and green leaves, sitting on the forearm near the elbow.
Grey traditional roses on a forearm
Two bare lower legs raised in burgundy boots, showing traditional tattoos of a bow, camera, rose, ship's wheel, playing card and small script on the calves.
Traditional tattoos on both calves
Black and grey arrowhead tattoo with a bold outline and shaded fill on a forearm, with a dark rose tattoo above it.
Arrowhead tattoo on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a globe showing continents and latitude lines, with yellow and green leaves and a red rose below, on the upper leg.
Globe with leaves and a rose on a leg
Colour traditional tattoo of an hourglass framed by red roses and green leaves on a person's calf, with green canvas sneakers.
Hourglass and roses on a calf
Black and grey traditional owl tattoo flanked by two roses and leaves, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Owl and roses on upper back
Traditional style tattoo on a forearm showing a woman's face with a raven perched on her head and a red rose with green leaves below.
Woman with raven and rose on a forearm
Black and grey traditional sleeve on a forearm and upper arm, featuring a tiger head, an eagle, a feathered chief, a snake and roses.
Black and grey traditional sleeve with tiger, eagle and
Traditional style tattoo of a grey songbird perched on a thorned branch with pink roses and green leaves, on the forearm.
Songbird and roses on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of three red roses and a rosebud with green leaves on the side of a person's body, with black star tattoos on the arm beside it.
Red roses with green leaves on the side
Traditional style flash sheet showing swallow, rose, padlock heart, anchor, cupcake and diamond designs with stars on a beige background.
Traditional flash sheet with swallows, roses and hearts
Close view of a person in ripped denim shorts showing a colourful traditional-style tattoo of a fanged creature on the stomach, with a snake and rose on the upper arm and roses and lettering on the
Traditional tattoos on torso, arm and thigh
Black and grey line drawing of a rose branch with an open bloom, two buds and serrated leaves, in an engraved botanical style.
Rose branch with buds and leaves in line
Traditional style anchor tattoo wrapped in white rope with three red roses and dark leaves, shaded in grey with a black outline, on a limb.
Anchor with rope and red roses
Black and white photo of a shaded sugar skull tattoo with a rose on the top of a foot, above a black peep-toe shoe.
Sugar skull and rose on the foot
Traditional style tattoos of red roses, a butterfly and an animal head on the calves of two legs resting on a floral bedsheet.
Traditional roses and animal tattoos on legs
Black and grey flash design of a rib cage, rose, dagger, skull and butterfly with banners reading Can we create something beautiful and destroy it, in traditional style with dotwork shading.
Rib cage, skull and butterfly with banner text
Black and grey traditional-style roses with leaves and thorns tattooed on the back of a person's upper thigh, with white underwear visible.
Black and grey roses on a thigh
Black ink flash sheet of traditional-style designs including skulls, a cat, a rose, a dagger, an owl and a rabbit, many marked with the number 13, shown as drawings with no body placement.
Hand-drawn flash sheet with 13 motifs
Flash sheet with two tattoo designs: a coloured dagger wrapped in a green snake, vines and red roses on the left, and a black and grey dagger with a snake on the right.
Dagger and snake flash designs
Traditional style tattoo of a dagger through a red rose with black leaves, a chain and a bird on a forearm.
Dagger through rose and chain on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of red roses and a horned animal skull with grey shading on the front of a thigh, with grey stockings and white bedding behind.
Red roses and horned skull on a thigh
Traditional style colour tattoo of a cartoon head with glasses and a blue headscarf decorated with a pink rose, on the calf.
Cartoon head with rose headscarf on a calf
Black and grey full back tattoo of a woman with a halo and a tiger head below, framed by roses and skulls, seen from behind beside a window.
Full back tattoo of a woman with a tiger
Traditional colour tattoo on a thigh showing a teal rose, a yellow banner reading LIKE HOME, a red shoe and the words THERE'S NO PLACE in black lettering.
Teal rose and ruby slipper on a thigh
Two matching heart-shaped wreath tattoos on the calves, one of red roses and one of white daisies with green leaves, in a bold botanical style.
Matching rose and daisy heart wreaths on calves
Traditional style tattoo of a red cardinal perched beside a red and yellow star flower on the inner forearm, with a partial rose at the top left.
Cardinal and flower on a forearm
Black and grey tattoos of a shaded skull, ship wheel and snake on a forearm, with an anchor and roses on the back of the hand.
Skull, ship wheel and anchor on forearm and hand
Colour tattoo of a teal ball of yarn pierced by two knitting needles, with a red rose and green leaves, on skin.
Yarn ball, knitting needles and rose
Traditional style flash design of a man in a suit beside a vintage microphone, with a red rose, a flowering sprig and a banner reading Long Live The King, shown as a framed print.
Crooner portrait with microphone and roses
Close-up of a colour traditional tattoo of red roses with green leaves on a woman's shoulder, with a small swallow in flight below them.
Red roses and swallow on a shoulder
Traditional-style flash design of two swallows, a red rose, a red heart, a blue flower and a pocket watch, with a banner of lettering across the centre.
Swallows, heart and banner with pocket watch
Black and grey drawing of three roses with leaves, a strand of beads and two diamond shapes, arranged on a diagonal as a tattoo design.
Three roses with beads and diamonds
A bare arm rests out of a vintage car window, showing a colour traditional rose tattoo on the forearm, with a white steering wheel and pink flowers in view.
Rose tattoo on a forearm in a vintage car
Colour tattoo of a black and brown cat with green eyes above an orange rose with green leaves, on a forearm, in neo-traditional style.
Cat face and orange rose on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a perfume atomiser bottle with a red rose in a pearl-edged oval on the upper arm.
Perfume atomiser with roses on an upper arm
Forearm tattoo with red and orange roses, two small birds, script reading Time Heals Everything and a black and grey pocket watch.
Roses, birds and pocket watch on a forearm
Black traditional-style flash design of an anchor, a heart with a MIDWEST banner and two roses, printed on a coral t-shirt.
Anchor, heart and roses design on a t-shirt