Scar tattoo ideas

25 photos and flash · 48% Botanical, 12% Realism · Forearm most common

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Black serif lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading we all have scars and we all have stories, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo reading we all have scars
Neo-traditional tattoo on the upper arm inside an ornate gold frame, showing a black silhouette of a woman with a horned or feline head, beside a photo of scarred skin.
Framed silhouette tattoo on upper arm
Side-by-side photos of a back: on the left a healed scar down the spine, on the right a black and grey scrollwork tattoo running the length of the spine.
Black and grey scrollwork down the spine
Collage of colour Disney character tattoos, including the Beast on a hand, Scar, a Genie, and Peter Pan and Tinker Bell on a forearm sleeve.
Disney character tattoos collage on hand and arm
Black and grey lotus and scrollwork tattoo across the lower abdomen, shown above a lower panel of the same area with a horizontal scar and no ink.
Lotus scrollwork tattoo across the lower abdomen
Black and grey botanical tattoo of peonies and leaves on a forearm, shown beside a close view of pale scar marks on skin.
Peony and flower forearm tattoo, before and after
Split image showing a scarred forearm on the left and the same area on the right covered by a black and grey realism rose tattoo with leaves.
Black and grey rose covering a scar on wrist
Close view of the back of a neck with the black lettering open at the close tattooed in a serif script, with a raised scar running down below it.
Open at the close lettering on neck
Side-by-side view of an upper arm: on the left, raised scar tissue with no tattoo; on the right, a colour traditional owl and rose tattoo on the same arm.
Owl and rose tattoo on upper arm, before and after
Colour cartoon sleeve tattoo on an upper arm showing Lion King, Oliver and Company and Aristocats characters across three photographs.
Disney characters arm sleeve in colour
Side-by-side image with scarred skin on the left and a black and grey traditional rose with leaves and buds on an arm on the right.
Black and grey rose over scarred skin
Black and grey realism tattoo of the Chucky doll with clawed hands raised, across an upper arm.
Chucky doll on upper arm
Colour tattoo of pink lotus flowers and a blue bird on the abdomen, shown beside a close-up of a surgical scar with sutures.
Lotus and bird tattoo over abdominal scar
Black and grey botanical tattoo of peonies and flowers on a forearm, shown beside a close view of pale scarred skin.
Black and grey peony floral forearm tattoo
Two-panel image: above, a healing raised scar on skin; below, a red and black cherry blossom branch tattoo on the shoulder covering that area.
Cherry blossom branch over a scar
Colour tattoo on a leg of the character Scar from The Lion King, split into angular coloured panels, with lion silhouettes under a teal moon above.
Scar from The Lion King in geometric colour
Colour realism tattoo of a horror doll face with stitches and a forehead scar, with blue shading, on an arm.
Horror doll face with stitches on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork and hatched forearm tattoo of a rose above a face, on a person holding a cigarette with their legs crossed.
Rose and face forearm tattoo
Black feather and small star tattoo on a lower leg, shown beneath a panel of a healed scar on a leg.
Black feather and stars on a leg
Colour tattoo of a pink cherry blossom branch with a bluebird on the lower back, shown in a before and after view covering a scar.
Cherry blossom branch and bluebird over a back scar
Black fine line tattoo of scissors with a dashed cut line running down across the lower abdomen, above the waistband of jeans.
Scissors and dashed cut line on abdomen
Side-by-side photos of a surgical scar on the abdomen, and the same area covered by a colour tattoo of a hummingbird and pink lotus flowers.
Hummingbird and lotus cover-up on abdomen
Split image: on the left, pale scarred skin on an arm; on the right, a black and grey rose with leaves and buds tattooed on the upper arm in a traditional style.
Black and grey rose tattoo beside scarred skin
Colour tattoo of stitched wound lines on the inner forearm near the wrist, in red and orange with dark outlines.
Stitched wound design on a wrist
Before and after photo of a colour tattoo of a blue bird and pink lotus flowers covering a raised scar on the abdomen.
Lotus and bird cover-up over an abdominal scar