Skull tattoo ideas

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Colour sugar skull tattoo with a pink bow, teal flower eyes and heart details on the upper back, in a traditional style.
Sugar skull with pink bow on upper back
Black and grey traditional full arm sleeve in the old school style, with a skull, an hourglass, a dagger, a woman's head and a ship, on an arm worn by a person in a white t-shirt.
Traditional black and grey full sleeve
Traditional-style flash design of a colourful sugar skull with crossed bones, yellow and red roses and a banner reading Calavera.
Sugar skull with crossed bones and roses
Two hands with a colour nautical star on the back of one hand, LOVE on the knuckles, and Japanese-style dragon and koi tattoos on the arms and legs behind them.
Nautical star and Japanese sleeve on hands
Black and grey traditional rose tattoo on the back of a man's right hand, with a skull tattoo on his left hand, as he adjusts a tie.
Rose and skull tattoos on the hands
Traditional-style tattoo of a red cowboy-hatted skull with a red bandana and cigarette on a forearm, with a red arrow below.
Cowboy skull on a forearm
Two raised legs in black platform sandals show traditional tattoos of red roses, a skull and a sun on the thighs and calves, against floral wallpaper.
Traditional tattoos across both legs
Traditional style tattoo of a sailing ship with XXX beneath it on the back of a hand, with a skull and red flowers continuing up the wrist.
Sailing ship and skull on a hand
Pencil sketch of a winged skull with four roses and leaves, drawn as a neo-traditional tattoo design on a spiral sketchbook page.
Winged skull with roses sketch
Solid black traditional-style tattoo of a skull in profile, with the word HAHA inside the brain area, on a lower leg.
Skull in profile with HAHA on a calf
Traditional flash design of a madonna-style figure in a black cloak with stars and fishnet stockings, framed by red roses, two cherubs, a skull and a banner reading Our Lady of Derby.
Our Lady of Derby flash with roses and skull
Embroidered traditional-style design of a green cactus growing from a skull above a red sun and mesa silhouettes, with the words DON'T BE A PRICK, shown in a wooden frame against a brick wall.
Cactus and skull design in a wooden frame
Black and grey traditional tattoo of an owl above a sugar skull with flower eyes and diamonds, on the inner forearm.
Owl and sugar skull on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a coiled rattlesnake over a waving orange banner reading Don't Tread On Me, with a skull and rope on the upper back.
Rattlesnake and Don't Tread On Me banner
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a skeletal fox skull inside an orange ring, with green leaves and sprigs, on the arm.
Skeletal fox skull and sprig on the arm
Traditional style tattoo of a shaded skull merged with a red, orange and black moth with eye spots, on an upper arm.
Skull and moth on an upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a skull inside a large toothed mouth on the upper arm, just above the elbow.
Skull in a toothed mouth on an upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a swallow with orange and red swirls and a banner on the back of a hand, with a partly visible red and green design above it.
Traditional swallow with swirls on a hand
Black line drawing of a skull framed by rose blooms and leaves in a traditional flash style, with no placement shown.
Skull with roses and leaves line drawing
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional skull surrounded by roses, a crossbone and spider webs, designed as a tattoo.
Skull with roses and crossbones drawing
Engraved-style skull with red roses, blue flowers and a songbird on a woman's upper arm, shown in a vintage illustration style.
Skull with roses and bird on upper arm
Colour traditional-style sugar skull tattoo decorated with red, blue and purple roses and green leaves, on the outer thigh.
Sugar skull with roses on a thigh
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo with roses in the eye sockets and a diamond on the forehead, on the side of the thigh.
Sugar skull with roses and diamond on thigh
Black line drawing flash design of a winged pincushion with two skulls on pins and a curled banner reading Sew or Die, in a traditional style.
Winged pincushion with skulls and Sew or Die banner
Black linework tattoo of a skull with a serpent coiled beneath it on the forearm, in a traditional style.
Skull and serpent on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a sailing ship, eagle and skull on a thigh, framed by red clouds and lightning bolts above teal waves.
Sailing ship, eagle and skull on a thigh
Traditional style arm sleeve with a tiger head, an all-seeing eye, a skull, a snake and a rose on a forearm and upper arm, in black outline with red, green and blue colour.
Traditional sleeve with tiger, eye and snake
Colour traditional tattoo of a skeleton-faced black cat, a red rose and blue flowers above a banner reading Siempre en mi corazon, on the upper arm.
Skeleton cat and rose banner on upper arm
Two side-by-side photos of a colour traditional tattoo of a rooster standing on a shaded skull, with wheat stalks and an orange flower, on the upper leg.
Rooster, skull and flower on a thigh
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
Four black and grey traditional-style tattoos across the fingers of a hand, including a rose and a skull with dotwork shading.
Rose and skull finger tattoos
Pencil sketch of a winged hourglass topped with an eye, a winged skull and roses, drawn in a neo-traditional style for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Winged hourglass with roses sketch
Traditional colour tattoo of a woman with dark wavy hair holding a skull, framed by red roses, on the upper arm.
Woman, skull and roses on upper arm
Traditional tattoo sleeve on the upper arm showing a mermaid holding a bouquet, a red heart, pink roses, a skull and a blue rose, outlined in black.
Mermaid and heart sleeve on upper arm
Two close-up photos of a traditional style shark tattoo with open jaws and a skull wearing a top hat, on a leg.
Shark and top hat skull tattoo
Traditional-style tattoo on the outer forearm of a person, showing a yellow crescent moon, a small star and a woman's face beside a skull.
Crescent moon, skull and woman on forearm
Traditional colour tattoos of an owl on the upper arm, pink roses with green foliage on the thigh, and a skull on the forearm.
Owl, roses and skull tattoos on arm and leg
Traditional style tattoo of a grey skull with orange banners reading EVERYDAY IS HALLOWEEN, a bat and a spider on a web, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Skull banner with bat and spider on back
Black and grey traditional style tattoos on a forearm, including a feather, a sunflower, a lotus and a swallow on the hand, with a dagger and a heart nearby.
Forearm sleeve with feather and swallow
Flash design of a teal sugar skull with purple linework, dot details and red roses with thorny vines, in a neo-traditional style.
Teal sugar skull with red roses
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a cat character wearing a gold crown and red bow, set above a large pink rose on a forearm.
Cat character with rose on a forearm