Skull tattoo ideas

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Traditional style tattoo of an eye with lashes, a red skull in the iris and red teardrops below, on the inner forearm.
Eye with skull and teardrops on a forearm
Black and grey skull tattoo with roses, butterflies and a cobweb on an upper arm and shoulder, shown in two side-by-side views.
Skull and roses on an upper arm
Traditional-style black outline rose and skull tattoo on an upper arm, with a blue rose and red floral linework on the forearm of a person with head bowed and arms crossed.
Rose and skull tattoos on an arm
Flash drawing of a pirate skull wearing a red bandana, with a sparrow perched on top, shown in sketchy linework and muted colour.
Pirate skull with red bandana and sparrow
Flash design of a tattooed mermaid holding a skull, with an anchor, stars and a crescent moon above her head and tentacles coiled around her tail, in cream ink on a dark teal background.
Mermaid with anchor, skull and crescent moon
Pencil drawing of a skull design surrounded by butterflies, hibiscus-style blooms and daisies, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with butterflies and flowers
Colour Japanese style tattoo of a red foo dog with green swirling clouds and a skull on a forearm, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Foo dog and skull on a forearm
Stippled black and grey tattoo design of a skull formed from a twisted tree, with a forest scene inside a circle, two birds and scattered orange leaves.
Skull made of a tree with forest and birds
Black and grey traditional sleeve tattoo on a woman's arm, featuring roses, a female portrait, a banner and a winged skull on the forearm.
Traditional sleeve with roses, portrait and winged skull
Six neo-traditional tattoo flash designs on paper showing a ram skull, a deer skull, a moth, a fennec fox, a red panda and a bird with peonies, all in bright colour.
Neo-traditional animal designs on flash sheets
Close-up of a black and grey skull and entwined snake tattoo on an upper arm, with a wooden wand held beside it and a green dress in the background.
Skull and snake tattoo on an upper arm
Black and grey traditional style back tattoo of a skull wearing a pearl-trimmed bandana beside a tall sailing galleon in rough waves.
Skull and galleon across a back
Small black and grey longhorn skull tattoo on the lower back, beside white lace underwear.
Longhorn skull on lower back
Two matching colour sugar skull tattoos with roses on the top of a pair of bare feet, in a traditional style.
Matching sugar skull tattoos on both feet
Black flash design of two skulls with cross and heart eyes above a red dripping heart crossed by a red line, with the words RAGE and LOVE, shown without a body placement.
Twin skulls and dripping heart with RAGE LOVE text
Black and grey pen illustration of a skull wreathed in sunflowers and wheat stems, with the word Virgo and the line delete your search history beneath it.
Skull and sunflowers with Virgo caption
Ink drawing of a skeletal carousel horse with skulls on its saddle, standing on a pole with a grass base, shaded in black and grey with brown and red accents.
Skeletal carousel horse with skulls
Teal tribal-style skull design with swirling linework and a toothed jaw, shown glowing against a black background.
Tribal skull design in glowing teal
Coloured neo-traditional flash design of a woman in a white dress holding a lantern, with a skull reaper, bee, unicorn, ghostly figures and a Forget Me Not banner.
Bride with reaper, bee and unicorn flash
Colour traditional style sleeve tattoo on an arm showing a Route 66 sign, a red heart with an engine, a chequered flag, a flaming hot rod, playing cards, dice and a lighter.
Route 66 and hot rod sleeve on forearm
Colour realism tattoo of a skull-shaped cluster of sunflowers, roses and butterflies on the upper thigh.
Floral skull tattoo on a thigh
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a sugar skull with swirls, a spider web and a flower, on an upper arm, framed by black smoke-like shading.
Colourful sugar skull on upper arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a skull wearing a red, blue and purple feathered headdress on the outer thigh.
Skull in feathered headdress on a thigh
Flash design of a cross made of five skulls wearing cartoon-style hairstyles and glasses, with banners reading Ghosts N Crooks and Appetite for Mystery, in a traditional style.
Skull cross with banners and cartoon-gang hair
Black and grey dotwork drawing of two wolf heads, skulls, crescent moons, a central eye and a star outline, shown as a tattoo design.
Wolf heads, skulls and crescent moons design
Flash design of a skull made from a pizza slice with dripping cheese, pepperoni eyes and a banner reading Small Steps, in a traditional style.
Pizza skull with Small Steps banner
Traditional style tattoo of a skull wearing an eyepatch, with gold coins and a banner reading Goonies Never Say Die, on a limb.
Skull with eyepatch and banner on a limb
Line drawing of a cat skull with green eyes and bared teeth on a black background, with a glowing green outline.
Cat skull with glowing green eyes
Pencil sketch of a woman in profile with a wolf over her head, a skull and rose at her temple, and crows at the right, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman with wolf, skull, rose and crows
Traditional style flash design of Jack Skellington's grinning face above a banner reading The Nightmare Before Christmas, framed by red roses, a bat and spider web linework.
Jack Skellington with roses and banner
Pencil sketch of a cracked skull framed by roses, rose buds and leaves, drawn on spiral notebook paper as a tattoo design.
Cracked skull with roses pencil design
Realistic colour tattoo of an amber skull beneath a black bare tree with grey splatter marks, on the upper arm.
Skull and bare tree on upper arm
Black and grey crossbones tattoo on a finger, with silver skull and coffin rings worn on the same hand.
Skull and crossbones finger tattoos beside skull rings
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a rose and a skull with scale detail on a woman's forearm.
Rose and skull on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull-faced woman with roses and a swallow on the thigh of a person lying on a white bed.
Skull portrait and roses on a thigh
Black and grey line drawing of three ornate sugar skulls with floral patterns, above and below a handwritten quotation, in the style of tattoo flash.
Three floral sugar skulls with handwritten quote
Realism colour tattoo on a forearm showing a bearded figure whose beard is made of tentacles, with a carved skull coin above it.
Bearded tentacled figure and skull coin on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoos on a forearm, including a wand, a snake with a skull, Deathly Hallows symbols and the number 9 3/4.
Wand, snake and Deathly Hallows forearm set
Colour traditional tattoo of a red rose with a central skull-like figure on a forearm, with a white long-haired cat held in the crook of the arm.
Traditional rose tattoo on a forearm holding a white cat
Black and white photo of two hands held out palms down, with knuckle lettering, a skull and banner, a spider web and a broken heart tattooed on the hands and forearms.
Knuckle lettering and skull banner on both hands
Black and grey dotwork skull tattoo with a torn skin effect, placed over the elbow.
Skull with torn skin on an elbow
Black and white line drawing of a skull wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Skull wearing a cowboy hat
Close photo of a small fine line black geometric heart and triangle tattoo on the side of a finger, with silver skull rings nearby.
Geometric heart tattoo on a finger
Full back tattoo of a shaded grey skull with red poppies, a helicopter and a line of black lettering, with painterly black and red splashes.
Skull and poppies across a full back
Black ink drawing of a snarling cat face merged with a skull, with stippled dotwork on the bone and fine hatched fur, shown as a tattoo design.
Cat and skull hybrid drawing
Pen and ink sketch of a sailing ship whose hull forms a dripping skull, drawn on an open sketchbook page.
Skull ship pen sketch
Traditional style flash design of a white teacup with a skull on its side, steam rising, green leaves, red roses and two banners reading Death Before Decaf.
Death Before Decaf teacup flash
Four-panel photo of a traditional colour tattoo on a forearm, showing a heart, roses, a devil, a skull and a mermaid framed as Mexican loteria cards.
Loteria cards and roses on a forearm