Skull tattoo ideas

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Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh showing a cartoon couple kissing inside an ornate scrolled frame, with a red and blue poisoned apple skull and purple beads.
Snow White kiss in ornate frame on thigh
Four-panel view of a colour and grey realism sleeve on an upper arm, showing skulls with red roses and green leaves.
Skulls and red roses on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of a shaded skull with pink lilies, a daisy and green vines on the upper back, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Skull with pink lilies and daisy on upper back
Colour tattoo of a decayed zombie cat character with a pink bow and two bats on the upper arm, in a neo-traditional style.
Zombie cat with bats on upper arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of two skulls, one in a blue top hat smoking a pipe and one in a jewelled feathered turban, across a forearm.
Two coloured skulls in hat and turban on a forearm
Pencil drawing of two skulls meeting within an ornate heart-shaped frame with scrollwork, shaded in black and grey on a sepia background.
Two skulls within an ornate heart
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design showing a shaded skull, an ornate pistol and a red rose with white swirling flourishes, shown as a flash sheet with no body placement.
Skull, pistol and rose design
Neo-trad colour tattoo of a skull in a military helmet with crossed guns and an OVERKILL banner on a forearm, shown beside its printed design.
Skull helmet and crossed guns on a forearm
Colour leg sleeve tattoo on a calf showing a skeleton character, jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts and a full moon in a neo-traditional style.
Nightmare Before Christmas leg sleeve
Colour tattoo of a sleeping white rabbit with pink dripping icing, resting on a donut decorated with skulls, shown on a area of pale skin.
Sleeping bunny on a skull-topped donut
Flash design of a snarling wolf wearing a red cap with stylised lettering, beside a black circle with crossbones and paint drips, in a bold neo-traditional style.
Snarling wolf in a red cap
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
Neo-traditional flash design of a green zombie hand gripping a red rose, with two curled banners and a small skull at the lower left.
Zombie hand holding a red rose with banners
A neo-traditional skull design drawn on paper, framed by grey scrollwork and red panels with dotted borders, with pens lying nearby.
Skull with scrollwork in neo-trad style
Illustrated flash design of a grey skull with red roses, barbed wire and a sword across a cross shape, on a black background.
Skull, roses and barbed wire design
Colour tattoo of a spired castle under a green smoky sky with a skull cloud, set in an ornate gold frame with a Deathly Hallows symbol, on the outer thigh.
Castle in an ornate frame on a thigh
Black and grey sugar skull woman tattoo with a purple rose in her hair on a limb, with a partly visible blue skull tattoo beside it.
Sugar skull woman with purple rose
Flash sheet showing a colour floral skull with butterflies and ribbon, a black and grey skull with a spiked crown, and JANE lettering beside a deer silhouette.
Floral skull, misfit skull and deer flash sheet
Purple line drawing of a skull framed by a lotus mandala and scrolling ornament, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull with lotus mandala and scrollwork
Black ink drawing of two sugar skulls facing each other with pompadour hairstyles and a small heart between them, in a neo-traditional style.
Two sugar skulls with pompadour hair and a heart
Black and grey tattoos of ornate mirror frames on an upper arm and a thigh, one framing a seated woman and one framing a skull with roses.
Ornate frame tattoos in black and grey
Flash sheet of pastel tattoo designs including a horned skull, a crab, palm trees, watchful eyes and a seahorse in a bottle, in a neo-trad style.
Pastel flash sheet of skulls, eyes and palm trees
Black and grey drawing of a tattoo design showing a sugar skull with butterflies, roses and feathers, shown on paper with no body placement.
Sugar skull with butterflies and roses
Pen drawing of a neo-traditional design with two skulls, layered roses, leaves and ornate scrollwork inside a curved frame, shown on paper beside a black fineliner.
Skull and roses neo-traditional design sketch
Black and grey cameo tattoo on the forearm showing a skeletal woman with a pink rose in her hair, set in an ornate scrolled frame.
Skeleton cameo with rose on a forearm
Full back tattoo of a purple electric guitar framed by grey skulls, pink roses and wings, with banners reading Where words fail and music speaks, in Traditional and Neo-trad style.
Guitar, skulls and roses across a back
Coloured flash design on paper showing a half woman, half skull face framed by roses, flowers and feathers, in a neo-traditional style.
Woman and skull design with roses
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo of a multi-armed goddess in a jewelled crown, holding objects including a crescent, a dagger and a skull, across the chest.
Multi-armed goddess across the chest
Neo-traditional tattoo of a crescent moon with a sugar skull face, pink roses and small stars on a person's upper back.
Crescent moon sugar skull with roses on upper back
Pencil and coloured drawing of a shaded skull with a dagger, smoke wisps and a red rose with leaves, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Skull, dagger and red rose design
Full back tattoo in colour showing a white cat with pink ears, blue and red roses, daisies and skulls, in a Japanese-influenced style.
Cat, roses and skulls across a back
Two colour tattoos of sugar skull portraits, one on a calf and one on a forearm, with script lettering below the forearm piece.
Sugar skull portraits on calf and forearm
Black and grey flash design of a sugar skull wearing a top hat, with an ace of spades, dice, a star, roses, crossed pistols and an eight ball, with the numbers 1969 below.
Sugar skull in top hat with cards, dice and roses
Colour neo-trad tattoo of a sugar skull with pink flowers and green leaves on the upper thigh.
Colourful sugar skull with pink flowers on a thigh
Black and grey flash design of a woman wearing a wolf over her head, with a rose in her hair, skull choker, crossed arrows and a heart.
Wolf-headed woman with rose and arrows
Two people show matching grey skull tattoos on their upper backs, one with a pink bow and one with blue accents, in a neo-traditional style.
Matching skull tattoos on two shoulders
Pencil drawing of a shaded skull with feathers and roses in a neo-traditional tattoo design, shown as a sketch with no body placement.
Skull, feathers and roses tattoo design
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a thigh of a green zombie pony with pink mane, a skull on its head, bats, a moon and a gravestone.
Zombie pony with skull and gravestone on thigh
Flash design of a pink heart pierced by a dagger wrapped in a snake, with bat-like wings and a skull above and a Without You banner below.
Snake and dagger heart with Without You banner
Flash design of a woman in profile with a skull-shaped lower face, a green headscarf and a red poppy in her black hair, in a neo-traditional style.
Skull-faced woman with poppy flash
Neo-traditional flash design of a green pin-up bride of Frankenstein wrapped in bandages, with a skull, roses and a heart, drawn for a tattoo.
Bride of Frankenstein pin-up flash
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of an animal skull with red, yellow and blue roses and a ribbon banner, on the outer thigh.
Animal skull and roses on a thigh
Pencil drawing of a neo-traditional tattoo design with a skull, crown, flower, feathers, roses, death's head moths and an eye with a tear, shown on paper with no body part visible.
Skull, crown and moth flash design
Black and grey neo-traditional flash drawing of a woman wearing goat horns and two skulls, with a snake coiled around her arm, shown on paper.
Horned woman with skulls and snake flash
Colourful geometric skull tattoo with a green headband and black eye patch shape on a calf, in a neo-traditional style.
Geometric skull on a calf
Colourful neo-traditional tattoo on a leg of a grinning alien with an exposed brain and bulging eyes, beside red lettering reading ACK! ACK! ACK!, flying saucers, leaves and red flowers.
Alien with exposed brain and ACK! ACK! ACK! lettering
Neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh of a skull in an ornate oval cameo frame, with red roses, a beaded chain and a pendant.
Skull in cameo frame with red roses on a thigh
Neo-traditional tattoo of a skull in a knitted bobble hat with an eyepatch, crossed crochet hooks and a HOOKED banner, on a leg.
Skull in a knitted hat with crossed crochet hooks