Skull tattoo ideas

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Colourful traditional-style sugar skull tattoos with flowers and a rose on a person's forearm, in front of a white door.
Sugar skulls and rose on a forearm
Small traditional-style tattoo of a skull with a red rose and dark leaves on the side of a finger.
Skull and rose on a finger
Traditional style full arm sleeve tattoo in bold colour across the shoulder, upper arm and forearm, featuring a rosette, a grey skull in a hat, roses and an orange flower.
Traditional full sleeve with skull and roses
Colour traditional tattoo of a geisha with a half-skull face and flower hair pins on the back of a hand.
Geisha and skull portrait on the back of a hand
Pen drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design on paper, with two banners reading Fatally Yours, a skull, a heart, a flower and leaves, shown without a body placement.
Fatally Yours banners with skull and flower
Traditional flash design laid out across a white body silhouette, covering the arms and torso with an eagle, snakes, dragon, peacock, pin-up, reaper and portrait.
Full-body traditional flash on a white silhouette
Two carved wooden arm and hand boards showing traditional-style tattoo designs of skulls, a heart with a dagger, a goat, a cat and flowers, in black and cream.
Carved arm boards with skull, goat and cat designs
Black and grey traditional flash design of a grim reaper lying on its front talking on a telephone, with a scythe and the words when death calls.
Grim reaper on a telephone with script
Traditional tattoo of a grey skull with a green and orange snake coiled around crossbones, placed on a calf.
Skull and snake on a calf
Two clasped hands showing a traditional-style skull and crossbones tattoo on one wrist and a pink rose with a teal bow on the back of the other hand, with a black patterned tattoo on the forearm
Skull and rose tattoos on clasped hands
A sleeping tabby cat rests its paw on a forearm with a colourful traditional-style skull and rose tattoo.
Sleeping tabby cat resting on a tattooed forearm
Black and grey Traditional-style tattoo of a keyhole with a skull, fleur-de-lis and scrollwork on the centre of the chest.
Ornate keyhole with skull on chest
Colour traditional tattoo of a red cigarette packet with a woman's portrait in an oval, held by a hand with long dark nails, on the calf.
Traditional cigarette packet held by a hand on a leg
Two matching colour sugar skull tattoos with roses on the inner forearms, in a traditional style, shown on a person wearing a black top.
Matching sugar skull tattoos on forearms
Traditional colour tattoo of a skull with red-shaded eye sockets, crossed banners reading Goonies Never Say Die and a ship's wheel on an upper arm.
Skull with Goonies Never Say Die banners
Traditional-style flash design of a skull with a red rose crown, orange earrings and a FRIDA banner over red roses.
Skull with flower crown and FRIDA banner
Two black and grey forearm tattoos in a traditional style: a hanging flower with leaves on the left, and a skull within an ace of spades playing card with a skeletal hand on the right.
Flower and ace of spades skull on forearms
Traditional-style chest tattoo of a crest with a Dropkick Murphys banner, a red-eyed skull, a shield holding a red rose, and a Signed and Sealed in Blood scroll.
Band crest with skull and rose on chest
Black and grey traditional arm sleeve tattoo with a skull in a bottle, a lady portrait and roses across the upper arm and forearm.
Traditional black and grey arm sleeve
Traditional style colour tattoo of a poison bottle with a skull and crossbones, a 'Life is Poison' banner and a flower, on an upper arm.
Poison bottle and banner on an arm
Traditional colour tattoo of a dagger piercing a red and cream skull with green leaves, on the inside of a forearm.
Dagger through skull on a forearm
Traditional tattoo of a woman embracing a skeleton that holds a red rose, bold black outlines and shading, on the lower leg.
Woman embracing a skeleton with a rose
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo design with rose-filled eye sockets, flowers, a cross and scrollwork, shown as a drawing with no body part visible.
Black and grey sugar skull with roses
Colour traditional tattoo of a sugar skull with a red rose across its forehead and pink flower eyes, on a forearm.
Sugar skull with red rose on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a death's head moth with a skull on its thorax, placed on the outer upper arm.
Traditional death's head moth on an arm
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including a skull with a snake, a wand, round glasses, a lightning bolt and script lettering.
Harry Potter themed flash sheet
Black and grey flash design of an all-seeing eye in a triangle above a skull, crossed bones, a candle and a twin-headed eagle, framed by scrollwork on a sunburst background.
All-seeing eye and eagle skull design
Black and white sugar skull flash design with a rose on the crown and floral patterns in the eye sockets, in a Day of the Dead style.
Sugar skull with rose and floral eyes
Two hands with black and grey traditional style tattoos, a large skull on the back of the left hand and a rose on the back of the right hand, with small finger tattoos including a cross, a letter P
Skull and rose tattoos on the hands
Traditional style tattoo of a black spider with a skull head, yellow legs and three stars above, on the forearm.
Skull spider on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoo on the upper arm showing a mermaid with a zodiac medallion, a red heart, pink roses, a skull and a blue rose.
Mermaid and heart upper arm sleeve
Traditional-style flash design of a pin-up woman with sugar skull face paint holding a red apple, with a swallow, roses and a banner reading Wash Your Fruits.
Sugar skull pin-up with swallow and apple
Traditional style flash design of a moth-winged woman with a skull and red roses in her hair, drawn in red, cream and black.
Moth-winged woman with skull and roses
Traditional style tattoo of a woman in a feathered headdress, with a skull in a teal circle, on the upper arm.
Woman with feather headdress and skull on arm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a wolf head with roses and pistols across the stomach, above rolled denim shorts.
Wolf head with roses and pistols on the stomach
Traditional colour tattoo of a pirate skull with a green bandana, eyepatch and crossed cutlasses on a calf, framed by red flowers and grey clouds.
Pirate skull with cutlasses on a calf
Japanese style flash drawing of a black and grey snake coiled around two blue peonies, with a small skull in grass at lower left.
Snake and peony flash design
Black ink tattoos on an arm in a traditional style, showing a hooded skull, crossbones, an eye and the words BYE BYE, with a spiral tattoo on the hand.
Skull, crossbones and BYE BYE on an arm
Black and blue line drawing of a cat covered in traditional-style flash designs, including a rose, a dagger, a razor, a skull and crossbones and a milk bottle.
Tattooed cat flash drawing
Black and grey cartoon cat with musical notes and a hot rod on an upper arm, in a neo-traditional style.
Cartoon cat driving a hot rod on an upper arm
Four-panel collage of tattoos: a cat with a skull and lotus in traditional colour, a cat with a red daruma doll in traditional colour, a black and grey Japanese lion on a back, and a black and grey
Four cat and Japanese motif tattoos
Traditional style forearm tattoo of a skull and crossbones inside a heart-shaped panel with red wash, framed by grey scrollwork and playing card spades.
Skull and crossbones in an ornate spade frame on a forearm
Close view of a tattooed forearm and hand resting on a gold guitar, with a traditional style skull and rose design on the forearm and small lettering on the knuckles.
Tattooed forearm and hand on a guitar
Traditional flash sheet on a cream background showing a hammer, a shield with banner, an Iron Man helmet with a rose, a spider with eye, an eagle with a cube, and a skull.
Traditional flash sheet of superhero designs
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red and white striped lighthouse with lightning bolts and waves on a man's upper arm, with a skull and nautical elements nearby.
Lighthouse and lightning sleeve on an arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a hand making an OK sign with a skull and spider web, two red roses with green leaves, and the words Shit's a OK, on skin.
Traditional hand, rose and lettering tattoo
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a skeletal-faced mermaid seated among roses and hibiscus flowers, with bones in her hair.
Skull mermaid with roses and hibiscus
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a skull with a snake coiling through it, on the forearm.
Skull and snake on a forearm