Skull tattoo ideas

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Traditional tattoo of a shaded skull with a green cobra and a second snake coiled around it, with red drips, on a forearm.
Skull with cobra and snake on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a skull with flowers and leaves growing from its top, shaded with dotwork, on a limb.
Skull with flowers in traditional style
Line drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on a torso, with an eagle, a LOYALTY banner, a ship, a skull and flags, shown in black outline.
Eagle, ship and LOYALTY banner torso design
Traditional colour tattoo of a hooded grim reaper holding a scythe whose blade is a dripping pepperoni pizza slice, with bold black outlines.
Grim reaper with pizza slice scythe
Traditional style colour tattoo of a death's head hawkmoth with a skull marking on the upper thigh, set against a red circle.
Death's head hawkmoth on thigh
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red rose, a dagger with a yellow ribbon and a small skull on a forearm, with stars and leaves around it.
Traditional rose and dagger on a forearm
Full torso covered in traditional style tattoos, with a coloured skull and roses above a black and grey owl on the stomach, with sleeves visible on both arms.
Skull, roses and owl across a full torso
Black ink traditional flash sheet showing a skull, a sun, a bat, a spider web, an eagle and a snail, drawn in a bold outline style with shading.
Traditional flash sheet of skulls and symbols
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo with roses and leafy vines across the upper back, shown from behind.
Sugar skull and roses on upper back
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a skeleton holding a long staff inside a framed tarot card, placed on the upper arm.
Skeleton tarot card on upper arm
Two pairs of tattooed legs in black sneakers, with traditional-style skulls, roses and a compass on the calves and hands, in mixed colour and black ink.
Traditional leg and hand tattoos with black sneakers
Black and grey traditional grim reaper tattoo with dotted shading, a scythe, falling tears and the words O heaven knows we'll soon be dust, on a limb.
Grim reaper with quote on a limb
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a calf showing a pirate woman with teal hair, a heart eyepatch and a skull on her hat, with a red rose and a compass.
Pirate woman with rose and compass on a calf
Black and grey photo of a bold black skull with a snake coiled around it on the inner forearm, in a traditional style.
Skull and snake on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a blue skull with red eyes, crossed wheat-tipped arrows and a banner reading DEATH BY GLUTEN, on the forearm.
Skull with wheat arrows and banner on forearm
Several arms and hands pressed together, showing a realistic black and grey cat tattoo, banknotes, portrait tattoos and a skull on the forearms and hands.
Realism portraits and cat on hands and forearms
Traditional style tattoo sleeve with skulls and daggers in black and red on a forearm and upper arm, with arms crossed.
Traditional tattoo sleeve on crossed arms
Traditional style tattoo of a grim reaper holding a scythe and smoking a cigarette, with 'Life's a Drag' script, on the upper leg.
Grim reaper with scythe and script
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a shaded skull wrapped in a snake, with two roses and a dagger at the base.
Skull with snake and roses design
Black and grey skull and snake tattoo in a traditional style on a forearm, with the snake coiling through a loop beneath the skull and its fangs bared at the bottom.
Skull and coiled snake on a forearm
Traditional tattoo of a shaded skull with a bouquet of colourful flowers and green leaves spilling from its top, on a forearm.
Skull with flower bouquet on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a female face with a bindi and extended tongue, a mandala ornament and skulls, on a forearm.
Female face with skulls on forearm
Traditional style tattoos of roses, a skull and a woman's head cover both forearms, shown in full colour.
Traditional forearm sleeves with roses and figures
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a skull with roses, palm trees and a sunset over waves, on the outer thigh.
Skull with roses and palm trees on a thigh
Traditional style tattoos covering both legs, including a skull and rose on the knee, a snake and a panther on the thigh and calf, and a small piece on the ankle.
Traditional leg tattoos with skull and snake
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a compass rose with scrollwork above a skull on a forearm, with dotwork shading.
Compass rose and skull on a forearm
Back of two hands with a grey shaded lotus on one and a coloured traditional rose on the other, plus small finger tattoos spelling DOLL and FACE.
Rose and lotus hand tattoos with finger lettering
Colour tattoo of a skeletal Rosie the Riveter in a red polka dot bandana and blue shirt, flexing one arm above a 'We Can Do It!' banner on the thigh.
Skeleton Rosie the Riveter on the thigh
Colour neo-traditional sugar skull tattoo in green and blue with red and orange flowers and blue roses, on the thigh.
Colourful sugar skull with roses on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a white skull with a red rose and green leaves on a stem, placed on the outer ankle of a leg.
Skull and red rose on an ankle
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey skull fused with a metal engine part with gold trim and blue accents, on an arm.
Skull and engine part on an arm
Two side-by-side photos of traditional and neo-traditional tattoos on the calf: a grey skull with an ornate key and red accents, and a padlock heart with sugar skulls and a red rose.
Skull key and padlock heart on calves
Traditional-style Halloween flash sheet in bold black outlines and bright flat colour, showing a pin-up witch, ghost, bats, skull, pumpkin and coffin designs.
Halloween flash sheet with witch and bats
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with a vintage microphone, dice, two skulls, a rose and an 8 ball, shown without any body placement.
Skulls, dice and microphone flash design
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an arm, shown from three angles, with roses, a pocket watch, a crown, playing cards and a skull on the upper arm and forearm.
Black and grey full sleeve with roses and pocket watch
Colourful neo-traditional sleeve tattoo showing Hello Kitty, teddy bears, cherries, red roses and a heart-eyed skull wrapped around an arm.
Hello Kitty and skull sleeve tattoo
Black linework drawing of a pair of legs in high heels, covered in traditional-style tattoo flash designs such as a heart banner, anchor, spider web and skull across the calves.
Traditional flash designs on drawn legs
Colour traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with a pink flower on a man's forearm as he holds a tray of coffee cups.
Sugar skull tattoo on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of stacked toy pirate figure parts, including a skull hat, eyepatch head and sword torso, running down a forearm.
Stacked pirate minifigure parts on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoo of two cartoon characters from Beetlejuice with a skull above, set in a grey scroll frame on the upper arm.
Beetlejuice and Lydia cartoon tattoo in a scroll frame
Two bare feet with bold colour neo-traditional tattoos across the tops, including an orange target-like motif, a small skull and red roses on the lower legs.
Colourful abstract foot tattoos with roses above the ankles
Black ink flash drawing of an anchor with rope, a skull and a cluster of flowers, in a traditional style.
Anchor, skull and flowers drawing
Black and grey dotwork and traditional tattoos on a forearm and hand, including a large bee, planets, a dotted constellation and crystals.
Bee, planets and crystals on forearm and hand
Pencil drawing of a traditional-style skull framed by red-outlined flowers and leaves, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Skull and flowers flash drawing
Traditional-style flash design of a blue teacup with a skull and crossbones, coffee spilling out, framed by two scroll banners of lettering on a red splash background.
Skull teacup with coffee banners
Black and grey traditional chest tattoo of a skull-faced woman cameo in a beaded frame, flanked by ornate scrollwork, on a chest.
Skull cameo with scrollwork on a chest
Traditional flash sheet of four designs in colour: chess pieces with a rose, a sunset over waves, an hourglass with a skull, and a fox with pine trees, above a BRAND NEW banner.
Traditional flash sheet with rose, fox and hourglass
Black linework flash design of an ornate sugar skull flanked by roses and leaves on a cream background, in a traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Sugar skull with roses flash design