Skull tattoo ideas

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Colour tattoo of a cartoon unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail, holding a banner that reads feminist as fuck, on a area of skin.
Rainbow unicorn with slogan banner
Six numbered pencil sketches of skulls in varying shapes and shading, shown as possible tattoo design options.
Six numbered pencil skull sketches
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with ornamental swirls and outlined petals across an upper arm.
Skull and filigree swirls on upper arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a witch holding a jack-o-lantern in front of a haunted house, with zombies and candles below.
Halloween witch and haunted house on upper arm
Flash sheet of horror tattoo designs in black and pink, including a skull, werewolf head, open mouth with fangs, skeleton, coffin, raven and creature head on a pink background.
Horror flash sheet with skulls, skeleton and coffin
Black and grey realism tattoo covering a full back, showing a raven perched on bare branches above a skull among roots, with script down the right side.
Raven and skull tree on a full back
Black ink flash drawing of three dinosaur skulls, a T-rex, a triceratops and a raptor, each entwined with flowers and leaves, in a stippled botanical style.
Three dinosaur skulls with botanical vines
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull partly wrapped in smoke, shown on the back of a hand against a black background.
Realistic skull in smoke on the back of a hand
Drawing of a tattoo design showing two stacked skulls with sugar skull forehead ornaments, swirling smoke lines and red roses, with no body placement shown.
Stacked sugar skulls with red roses
Solid black tattoo of a stylised skull with two white eyes and a spiral tail, centred on a woman's upper back.
Spiral skull on upper back
Pencil-style drawing of a compass rose with a fleur-de-lis at north, a skull and crossed pistols at its centre, on an aged parchment background.
Compass rose with skull and crossed pistols
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
Black and grey fine line mermaid tattoo with flowing hair, bubbles and skulls in her tail, on the outer thigh.
Mermaid with skulls on a thigh
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 photograph of a blackwork ornamental skull tattoo on the upper thigh, with the face cropped out of frame.
Ornamental skull on the upper 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
Coloured flash design of a sugar skull woman with a sundae, cupcake and ice cream cone in her hair, on a neo-traditional banner reading Sugar Skull.
Sugar skull with ice cream sundae
Black and grey skull with a crown of roses tattooed on the side of a finger, shaded in stippled dotwork.
Skull and roses on a finger
Black and grey realism tattoo of a skull with two roses and smoky shading on the inner forearm.
Skull and roses on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a skull with two daggers above it and dripping blood below, on a calf.
Skull and daggers on a calf
Shirtless man with a realistic black and grey skull and red sunburst tattoo across his chest and stomach, with geometric linework and red and grey sleeves on both arms.
Skull and geometric full torso and sleeve tattoo
Black and grey realistic drawing of a skull with a cluster of roses and leaves, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Skull and roses design
Colour realism tattoo of a grey skull with glowing teal eyes above a smaller red skull, on the inner forearm against a dark background.
Glowing teal skull and red skull on a forearm
Black ornamental sugar skull design with a cap, crossed bones and filigree swirls, drawn in solid black linework on a white background.
Ornate sugar skull with crossbones
Black and grey realism tattoo on an upper arm showing a hooded grim reaper with a skull face holding out a hand above skull coins, with wispy smoke behind.
Hooded reaper with skull coins on upper arm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of an animal skull with a yellow crescent moon, a red rose and green leaves on a forearm, with a black snake coiled below.
Animal skull, rose and snake on a forearm
Two photographs of a forearm sleeve tattoo in an Art Nouveau style, with red bellflowers and green vines on the inner arm and a framed seated woman with skulls on the outer arm.
Art Nouveau bellflower forearm sleeve
Greyscale realistic drawing of a woman with closed eyes, a skull and roses above her head and a jawbone at her chin, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Woman with skull and roses design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a skull with blossoming flowers and leaves growing from its crown, on a forearm.
Skull with flowers on a forearm
Colour tattoo on a forearm showing an Art Nouveau style woman in an arched frame with red bell flowers, a vine and skulls below her.
Art Nouveau woman and red bells on a forearm
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
Black and grey Japanese style sleeve tattoo with an oni mask, dragon and skulls on a man's forearm, beside a woman with floral tattoos on her upper arm.
Japanese sleeve with oni mask and skulls
Realistic grey skulls with red daisy-like flowers and black swirling linework across a person's upper back.
Two skulls and red flowers on a back
Black linework flash sheet of small tattoo designs themed on the number 13, including a rose, spider, skull, eye, bicycle and envelope.
Friday the 13th flash sheet
Black ink line drawing of a skeletal hand making the rock horns gesture, shown as a tattoo flash design on a pale background.
Skeleton hand in rock horns gesture
Japanese-style drawing of a samurai skull in a helmet, surrounded by a serpent, skulls, white chrysanthemums and red lightning on a dark smoky background, with no body placement shown.
Samurai skull and serpent with chrysanthemums
Forearm tattoo in a shaded traditional style showing the words The Goonies in orange and yellow lettering above a skull and crossbones, a Never Say Die banner, and a skeleton in front of crossed
The Goonies skull and skeleton forearm tattoo
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
Black and grey blackwork tattoo design of an eye within a triangle above an animal skull with antlers, flowers and feathers, framed by circles and geometric shapes.
Eye in triangle with skull and antlers
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder showing an anime-style girl beside a wolf-like creature with a pale masked face, with skulls at the base.
Wolf creature and girl with skulls on upper arm
Realism-style tattoo design of a grey shaded skull in front of a Roman numeral clock face, with a pink rose, red poppies and black filigree swirls.
Skull, clock and roses tattoo design
Black and grey drawing of a horned owl with feathers above a skull, framed by a botanical wreath of leaves and flowers, designed as a tattoo.
Owl and skull with botanical wreath
Neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh of Jack Skellington holding a red-ribboned bow over a stitched ragdoll Sally with a red heart, in grey shading with red accents.
Jack and Sally stitched ragdoll tattoo on thigh
Small black fine line skull tattoo on the ankle, shown beside a red high heeled shoe.
Small skull tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey line drawing of two stacked skulls facing each other with stippled shading and two sparkle motifs, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Two skulls facing each other with sparkles
Two greyscale skull tattoos on the inner wrists, one wearing a top hat and bow tie with blue splashes, the other with a red polka dot bow and purple splashes.
Two skull wrist tattoos with watercolour splashes
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed tattoo designs, including the Deathly Hallows, a golden snitch, the Sorting Hat, a stag silhouette and Dementor-style skulls.
Harry Potter motif flash sheet
Black and grey tattoo of stacked animal heads, including what appear to be an owl and a deer skull with antlers, on the front of a thigh in a black and white photo.
Stacked animal figures on a thigh