Skull tattoo ideas

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Person seen from behind with a traditional style back piece of a dark panther-like creature among flames, skull and goblet motifs, and tattooed arms on a plain wall background.
Full back and sleeve tattoos seen from behind
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull wearing a nurse's cap with a red cross, crossed syringes and script reading Registered Nurse est. 2013 on the upper arm.
Sugar skull nurse with crossed syringes
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull with red roses and swirling linework on a man's upper arm and shoulder, worn beneath a white vest top.
Sugar skull and roses on upper arm
Traditional style tattoos of a pin-up figure, a red rose and a skull on a woman's upper arm and forearm, with a black slogan tank top.
Pin-up, rose and skull tattoos on an arm
Four-panel photo of a black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an arm, with a skull, roses, a clock, a microphone and text banners, running from shoulder to wrist.
Black and grey skull full sleeve
Two arms covered in traditional-style tattoos, including a panther head, a feathered headdress, a skull, a snake and roses, placed on the forearms and upper arms.
Traditional sleeves with panther, skull and snake
Colour traditional tattoo of a pirate ship with a skull and crossbones sail, red flags and green waves across an upper arm.
Pirate ship and skull on upper arm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a winged skull with crossed daggers and a flame on the upper arm.
Winged skull with crossed daggers on upper arm
Traditional-style tattoo of the goddess Kali with a third eye and protruding tongue, wearing a skull necklace, on the upper arm.
Kali goddess with skull necklace on an arm
Woman seen from behind in grey lace lingerie, with a traditional daisy and skull tattoo across her lower back and a rose on her upper arm.
Traditional rose, daisy and skull tattoos on back
Back view of a person with hands on their shoulders showing a skull on one hand, small star and heart tattoos on the fingers, and neck and upper arm tattoos.
Hands and fingers with traditional tattoos
Woman in a blue dress with traditional tattoos on her thigh, including an eagle over a skull, and colourful designs on her lower leg and upper arm.
Eagle and skull on a thigh, traditional legs
Back view of a man in a white t-shirt showing a black traditional-style ship's wheel with a skull at its centre on his forearm, and a partly visible coloured tattoo on his upper arm.
Ship's wheel with skull on a forearm
Black ink illustration of a woman with a hair bun and tattoos of a swallow, skull and Darth Vader helmet on her upper arm, traditional style.
Tattooed woman with blaster illustration
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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 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
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
Black and grey poppy tattoo with stems and a bud running down a woman's upper arm, with a small skull and trumpet below, in a botanical and traditional style.
Poppies with skull and trumpet on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a green-hatted skull with yellow shamrocks and a black hat band, on the upper arm, in a traditional style.
Green top hat skull with shamrocks on upper arm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of an owl above a sugar skull with floral ornament, on the upper arm, shown in a three panel collage.
Owl and sugar skull on upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a hooded grim reaper skull with the words DEAD SERIOUS beneath it, on an upper arm.
Grim reaper with DEAD SERIOUS lettering
Two-panel photo of colour traditional tattoos on an upper arm and forearm, including a blue rose, a woman's face, a skull cross, a winged heart labelled Rocker and a shield reading Victory or Death.
Traditional rock-themed arm tattoos
Traditional tattoo on the inner upper arm showing a red rose, a hand holding an envelope marked R.I.P. and a skull on the wrist.
Rose, hand and envelope on upper arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a shaded skull and crossed swords within a flame-like black shape on the upper arm.
Skull and crossed swords on upper arm
Traditional style tattoos of roses, a top-hat skull and a red heart on the arms and thigh of a person wearing a gingham shirt and black skirt.
Traditional arm and thigh tattoos on a woman
Black and grey traditional skull and crossed swords tattoo on an upper arm, just below a dark sleeve, in a black and white photograph.
Skull and crossed swords on an upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of an hourglass filled with skeletons and skulls, beside a red rose and a coffin, on the upper arm, with a swallow tattoo at the edge of the frame.
Hourglass with skeletons and coffin on upper arm
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing an anchor, a skull, a ribbon banner with lettering and five-pointed stars.
Anchor, skull and stars on an arm
Colour tattoo of a stylised figure in an ornate headdress beside a small skull, in traditional style, on the outer upper arm.
Ornate figure with skull on upper arm
Two tattoos side by side: a black and grey Jack Skellington key on the upper arm, and a colour heart-shaped padlock with patchwork panels on the upper back, both in a traditional style.
Jack Skellington key and patchwork heart padlock
Coloured traditional-style illustration of a woman in profile with a swallow and diamond on her neck and chest and a skull on her upper arm.
Traditional-style woman with swallow, diamond and skull
Traditional style tattoos of a frog, an ice cream cone and a rose on the upper arm and forearm, with a skull on the other upper arm.
Frog, ice cream and skull tattoos on arms
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
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
Traditional style colour tattoo of a woman in a top hat and bow tie, with a SHOW GIRL banner, on the upper arm.
Show girl with top hat on upper arm
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