Skull tattoo ideas

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Woman's profile with roses and a vintage car

Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a skeleton, a grinning skull and a pumpkin face.

Skull and skeleton full sleeve

Black and grey realistic design of a cracked skull with a rose at its right side, set against a clock face with Roman numerals.

Skull and rose within a clock face

Black and grey realism tattoo of a snarling wolf head above a shaded skull, across a man's chest.

Wolf and skull on chest

Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull and pocket watch with roses and leaves across a man's upper arm and shoulder.

Skull and pocket watch on upper arm

Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a woman's face framed by roses, with a skull and thorned stems below, in a realistic style.

Woman, roses and skull pencil design

Black and grey tattoo of a skull with soft shading and dripping splatter effects on the upper arm of a person in a white vest top.

Shaded skull with drips on upper arm

Realism-style black and grey tattoo of a large skull and eye across a man's chest and stomach, with a snake and flowers on the shoulder and arm.

Black and grey skull and eye torso tattoo

Black and grey realism tattoo on the ribs of a torso, showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals in front of a skull, with roses, a monarch butterfly, gears and scrollwork.

Pocket watch, skull and roses on the ribs

Realism tattoo of a shaded skull with blue and grey tones across the back of a hand, with smoky grey and purple shading running up the forearm.

Shaded skull on the back of a hand

Black and grey realism tattoo of a death's-head hawkmoth with a skull pattern on its thorax, placed on the stomach above the navel.

Death's-head hawkmoth on the stomach

Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with three skulls, roses and three scrolling banners reading See, Hear and Speak no evil, drawn in black and grey shading.

Skulls, roses and no evil banners design

Realistic drawing of a grey skull wrapped in pink and dark teal octopus tentacles with suckers, shown as a standalone tattoo design on a white background.

Skull wrapped in octopus tentacles design

Realism tattoo of a sugar skull woman with red roses in her hair and teal eyes, placed on the thigh.

Sugar skull woman with roses on a thigh

Black and grey skull tattoo in an ornate scrolled frame with a candelabra-style ornament below, on the inner forearm.

Skull in ornate frame with chandelier on forearm

Realistic colour tattoo of an eye with a yellow and orange skull shown in the pupil, with long lashes and grey shading, on skin.

Eye with skull in the pupil

Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull and ornate pocket watch with feathered wings on the upper arm.

Skull and pocket watch with wings

Realistic forearm tattoo of a bone-coloured skull with glowing teal eyes above a red and orange flaming skull.

Skulls and flames on a forearm

Black and grey realism tattoo of skulls and swirling smoke-like forms covering a forearm.

Black and grey skull sleeve on forearm

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

Colour realism tattoo of red roses, a shaded grey skull and green leaves across an upper arm.

Roses and skull on an upper arm

Black and grey realism tattoo of a large skull with two figures in ruffled collars, champagne glasses and a bottle in ice, on the upper arm.

Skull with two figures on upper arm

Black and grey realistic tattoo of a skull with a piston bursting through its crown and dripping ink-like lines, on a limb.

Skull and piston on a limb

Black and grey realistic design of a skull with a black music note across the forehead and dark liquid dripping from the eye sockets, nose and jaw.

Dripping skull with music note

Black and grey realistic skull tattoo on a lower leg, with cracked bone detail and angular shapes above it.

Cracked skull on lower leg

Realism tattoo of a grey shaded skull with red roses and dotwork mandala shapes on an upper arm.

Skull and red roses on upper arm

Realistic colour tattoo on a lower leg of a skull wearing a green beret with a badge, set over crossed daggers, red and yellow lightning bolts and a bullet.

Skull in green beret with crossed daggers on calf

Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull and a clock face with Roman numerals across a man's upper back and shoulder.

Skull and clock across a back

Black and grey realism tattoo of rolled dollar bills and banknotes with a skull at the lower edge, on a forearm near the elbow.

Rolled dollar bills and skull on forearm

Realism tattoo on a forearm of a grey skull tipping a skeletal hand holding an amber Jack Daniel's bottle, with a black label and shaded background.

Skull drinking from a whiskey bottle on forearm

Black and grey realistic tattoo of a skull with a monarch butterfly, a rose and a rosary with a cross, on a limb.

Skull, butterfly and rose with rosary in realism

Realistic colour tattoo of a grey skull rising from a frosted cupcake with red blood dripping down it, on a limb.

Skull and cupcake with dripping blood

Black and grey flash design of a bearded figure in a crown of thorns, with cherubs, a skull, an armoured angel with a sword, an apple and praying hands with a rosary.

Religious allegory flash with skull and angel

Realistic colour tattoo of two pink roses above a shaded grey skull with red accents, on the outer thigh.

Roses and skull on a thigh

Black and grey realistic full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a shaded rose above a skull with smoky background shading.

Rose and skull full sleeve

Realistic skull with two red roses and smoky shading, tattooed along the side of the ribs.

Skull and roses on the ribs

Realism style tattoo of a shaded grey skull with red roses, leaves and grey scrollwork across the upper arm and shoulder.

Skull and red roses on an upper arm and shoulder

Realism tattoo of an owl with an orange eye and a skull on a man's upper arm and shoulder, with the words POWER and WISDOM and red sketch lines.

Owl and skull upper arm tattoo

Realistic grey skull with red cherry blossom outlines on a lower leg, shaded in black and grey with a cracked skin texture.

Realistic skull and cherry blossoms on a calf

Realism tattoo on a calf of a woman's face, half skull, with a clock face with Roman numerals behind her head and a blue and orange butterfly wing over one eye.

Clock and skull portrait on a calf

Colour tattoo of a deer skull with antlers and a green eye inside a red-outlined triangle, on a calf in a neo-traditional and realism style.

Deer skull and eye in a triangle

Woman with wolf headdress and skulls

Black and grey realism tattoo of a sailing ship in stormy clouds inside an ornate oval frame with a skull below, on a calf.

Sailing ship in ornate frame on a calf

Realism colour tattoo on a forearm showing a shaded grey skull with two bees above and a pink rose below.

Skull, bees and rose on a forearm

Realism tattoo of a snarling skull wrapped in dark flames and smoke, with red and grey shading, on the calf.

Skull with flames on a lower leg

Realistic tattoo on the upper arm of a stitched, bleeding doll-like figure in a striped top, with a smiley face and a graveyard behind it, in black, grey and red.

Stitched doll with graveyard on upper arm

Full sleeve realism tattoo on an arm with horror-style portraits, a skull mask, a silhouetted figure and orange flames, with lettering at the lower wrist.

Horror-themed realism sleeve with fire background

Black and grey realism sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a long-haired man pointing, with smoke, potion bottles, a snake and a skull.

Black and grey portrait sleeve with skull and snake