Rose tattoo ideas

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Traditional style colour tattoo of a gramophone playing a record with a red rose on the upper arm.
Gramophone and rose on an upper arm
Traditional dotwork tattoo in black and grey, showing a rose above a stippled hand with a scalloped cuff on the upper arm.
Rose and dotwork hand on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a cartoon woman with dark bob hair and glasses, framed by three banners reading I am a smart strong sensual woman, with roses on a calf.
Cartoon character with banner lettering on calf
Traditional style flash design of a hand holding a lipstick above a Femme Fatale banner, with pink roses and pearls on a teal background.
Hand with lipstick and roses flash
Traditional style tattoo of an open book with a pink heart and scrolls above, over a pink and blue flower with green leaves, on a forearm.
Open book and rose on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo on a lower leg showing Darth Vader and a stormtrooper helmet, framed by red roses and green leaves, with a blue Galactic Empire emblem below.
Darth Vader and stormtrooper with roses on a calf
Traditional-style flash design of a heart with a rose, two swallows, a banner reading All of Time and Space and Allonsy, and a pocket watch, on a tan background.
Traditional heart, swallows and banner design
Colour tattoo of a sitting cat outline filled with a red rose and green leaves, placed on the forearm.
Rose inside a cat silhouette on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a pin-up woman with a red rose in her hair and a spider on its web, on the ribs, shown beside a close-up of the face.
Pin-up woman with rose and spider on ribs
Traditional style flash design of a sailor pin-up girl with red flowers, a striped top and a HOPE banner, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Sailor pin-up with roses and HOPE banner
Traditional style colour tattoo of a straw beehive surrounded by red and orange flowers and green leaves on an upper arm.
Beehive and flowers on an upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing a striped lighthouse with a banner reading There is a light that never goes out, above a red rose.
Lighthouse and rose on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of an orange rose with green leaves and bold black outlines, on the calf.
Orange rose with green leaves on a leg
Black and grey drawing of a traditional rose with shaded petals and outlined leaves, shown as a tattoo design on white paper with no body placement visible.
Traditional rose design with leaves
Black and grey flash design of a sugar skull wearing a top hat, with an ace of spades, dice, a star, roses, crossed pistols and an eight ball, with the numbers 1969 below.
Sugar skull in top hat with cards, dice and roses
Traditional-style colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a grey Totoro character under a umbrella with pink flowers, above a red rose and green leaves.
Totoro under an umbrella with a red rose on upper arm
Three side-by-side photographs of a black and grey traditional rose tattoo on the inner wrist and forearm, each shown at a slightly different angle.
Three black and grey roses on forearms
Two colour traditional tattoos on the ribs, left a sugar skull in a veil with flowers and right a skull in a top hat with flowers and the word DEATH.
Sugar skull bride and top hat skull on ribs
Traditional style tattoo of a grey Dalek above two red roses with green leaves, on the thigh.
Dalek and red roses on a thigh
Traditional style tattoos covering both lower legs, including roses, a heart and a bird, shown with white canvas shoes and a daisy-print skirt.
Traditional tattoos on both legs
Traditional-style flash design of a glowing jack-o'-lantern nested in a purple rose with green leaves and an orange and red flame above, drawn on white paper.
Jack-o'-lantern rose flash design
Black and grey traditional flash sheet of skulls, an eagle, a reaper, a pigeon, a deer head, a sun, and two feathered headdresses, with no placement shown.
Traditional flash sheet in black and grey
Traditional style tattoo of two red roses with green leaves and a grey pocket watch with Roman numerals, on the forearm.
Roses and pocket watch on a forearm
Woman in a black lace top leaning forward outdoors, showing colourful traditional tattoos on her upper arms, forearms and thighs.
Traditional tattoo sleeves and thigh piece outdoors
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 and grey traditional rose tattoo covering a forearm and part of the elbow, with leaves and curled petals, in a black and white photograph.
Rose sleeve on a forearm and elbow
A traditional style red rose tattoo with green leaves on a forearm, holding up a grey hairless cat against a plain white background.
Red rose tattoo on a forearm with a hairless cat
Traditional style illustration of a pin-up woman holding a red rose, with teal line tattoos of swallows and flowers on her shoulders and forearm.
Pin-up with rose and swallows
Traditional style tattoo of a red rose, a pocket watch, a rosebud and a string of pearls on the upper arm, outlined in bold black lines.
Traditional rose, clock and pearls on upper arm
Black and grey shaded rose tattoo with leaves and foliage across a woman's thigh, above a black garment band, in a bright room.
Black and grey roses on a thigh
Close view of black cycling shorts printed with grey traditional-style roses, snakes and daggers, with a black and grey floral tattoo on the thigh below the green waistband.
Tattoo-print cycling shorts with a tattooed thigh
Colour tattoo of a blackberry bramble with purple berries, green leaves and thorny stems on an upper arm, in a botanical illustration style.
Blackberry bramble on an upper arm
Traditional style flash design of a red heart with a tan banner reading MOM, a blue bird, pink roses and yellow stars.
Traditional heart banner reading MOM
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a rose, anchor and nautical star on the back of a woman's calf, shown in profile against a pink background.
Rose, anchor and star on a calf
Two colourful sugar skull tattoos with roses and flowers on a woman's upper thighs, shown in denim shorts, traditional style.
Sugar skull tattoos on the thighs
Colour tattoo of a Stormtrooper helmet filled with red roses, green leaves and pink flowers, in a neo-traditional style on a limb.
Stormtrooper helmet filled with roses
Pencilled tattoo flash design of a dagger wrapped in grey scrollwork, with three pink roses and a red drip on the blade.
Dagger, roses and scrollwork design
Traditional style tattoo of a rose with a bud and black leaves, shaded in yellow ochre, on the forearm.
Traditional rose with bud on a forearm
Black and grey traditional rose tattoo inside a hatched diamond shape on an upper arm.
Traditional rose within a hatched diamond
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of an animal skull with red, yellow and blue roses and a ribbon banner, on the outer thigh.
Animal skull and roses on a thigh
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design with a skull, crown, flower, feathers, roses, death's head moths and an eye with a tear, shown on paper with no body part visible.
Skull, crown and moth flash design
Traditional style tattoo of a guitar headstock with red roses and green leaves on the calf.
Guitar headstock and roses on a calf
Traditional style colour tattoo of the cartoon character Lumpy Space Princess with a star crown, a gold banner reading LUMP OFF and pink roses, on the thigh.
Lumpy Space Princess and roses on a thigh
Colour tattoo on the thigh showing a blue TARDIS police box above a cream banner reading ALLONS-Y, framed by red roses and pink swirls, in a neo-traditional style.
TARDIS and roses banner on a thigh
Woman seen from behind in grey lace lingerie, with a traditional daisy and skull tattoo across her lower back and a rose on her upper arm.
Traditional rose, daisy and skull tattoos on back
Neo-traditional flash design of a perforated triangular metal form overlapping gold and purple roses, green leaves and a red runic circle with blood drips.
Perforated pyramid with roses and runic circle
Black and grey shaded rose tattoo on an upper arm below a white short-sleeved blouse, with partial script and a key motif visible nearby.
Black and grey rose on an upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo of an antlered animal head with red roses and a yellow Montana banner on an upper arm.
Antlered animal head and roses on upper arm