Skull tattoo ideas

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Two black and grey cartoon tattoos on the backs of two hands, one showing Sally with stitches and flowing hair and one showing Jack Skellington's head, in a bold traditional style.
Sally and Jack tattoos on the hands
Colour tattoo on a lower leg showing a maneki-neko cat with a raised paw, a skull-patterned moth and red petals, in a traditional style.
Maneki-neko cat and skull moth on a calf
Traditional colour tattoo of a red and grey owl holding two yellow skull-topped keys, with a crescent moon inside a red triangle, on the upper leg.
Owl holding skull keys beside a crescent moon
Black ink traditional flash sheet of butterflies and moths, including a central moth with a woman's face, skulls, tigers and a lantern, on cream paper.
Butterfly and moth flash sheet
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a tombstone reading WISH YOU WERE HERE with a flower and a leaf at its base, on the upper leg.
Tombstone reading Wish You Were Here
Black and grey poison bottle tattoo with a stippled skull and crossbones on a forearm, with a partial bird and rose at the left edge.
Poison bottle with skull and crossbones
Black line drawing of two sugar skulls, one in a veil and one in a top hat, framed by roses and a banner reading 'Til Death Do Us Part, in a traditional tattoo flash style with no body placement
Sugar skull couple with roses and banner
Black ink pen drawing of a skull and crossbones on paper, with hatched shading in a traditional tattoo style.
Skull and crossbones pen drawing
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
Traditional style tattoo of a blue cartoon baby figure with a dagger, heart, skull and flower design on the forearm.
Cartoon baby with dagger and flower tattoo
Two raised legs covered in traditional style tattoos of roses, skulls and banners, with a large rose on the calf and a foot tattoo near the ankle.
Tattooed legs with roses and skulls
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull with a yellow flower on its head, sitting on a pink frosted cupcake with a green striped wrapper, placed on the upper back.
Sugar skull on a cupcake
Black and grey photo of a shaded skull wearing a chef's hat over crossed knives on the upper back, with the script words Mise en Place and a small cupcake above it on the neck.
Chef skull and crossed knives with script on neck
Mixed-colour skull and butterfly tattoo with red eye sockets on the top of a foot, in a traditional style.
Skull and butterfly hybrid on the top of a foot
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
Collage of six traditional style tattoos on skin, including a rocket, a mouse head with a bow, a skull, a shotgun shell, a spider and a key with a heart, several marked with the number 13.
Six traditional flash tattoos with the number 13
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
Traditional style tattoo of a black raven perched on a grey skull, with red flowers and green leaves, on a lower leg.
Raven on a skull with red flowers on a calf
Traditional black and grey flash sheet showing four moth designs, two with skulls on their bodies, held up by a hand against a wooden floor.
Four moth designs on a flash sheet
Purple and teal illustration of a skull and crossbones filled with traditional tattoo flash motifs such as roses, swallows, stars and banners.
Skull and crossbones with traditional flash motifs
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
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
Black and grey traditional flash sheet with a skull and rose, crescent moon, anatomical heart, eye, horseshoe and clover designs.
Black and grey traditional flash sheet
Traditional style flash sheet of many small coloured tattoo designs, including hearts, roses, daggers, pin-ups and animals, all lettered with True Love and framed by TATTOO at the top and bottom.
True Love traditional flash sheet
Coloured flash design of a white skull wearing a red fez and bow tie, with a tattoo machine and the word Geronimo on a gold banner, on a pale blue background.
Skull with fez, bow tie and tattoo machine
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
Black and grey traditional flash design of an hourglass reading TEMPUS FUGIT, with a sailing ship in the top bulb and a skull in the bottom bulb.
Hourglass with skull and ship
Seamless black and white line pattern of traditional flash motifs, including hearts with banners, daggers, a skull, an eye, a diamond, an anchor and an eight ball.
Traditional flash pattern of hearts, daggers and skulls
White line drawings of traditional tattoo flash motifs, including a skull, rose, diamond and dagger, repeated across a black duvet cover on a bed.
Traditional tattoo flash print on black bedding
Two forearms held together showing a traditional style sugar skull with red roses and a swallow on one arm, and a woman's face with roses on the other.
Sugar skull, roses and swallow on forearms
Colour traditional-style sugar skull tattoo framed by red and black roses and green leaves, on the calf.
Sugar skull with roses on a calf
Traditional style tattoo flash of a red rose with green leaves, a gold banner reading LOVE and a small skull, shown on a teal painted background.
Rose, banner and skull design
Black and white line drawing of a skull wearing a spiked crown, with a cigarette in its teeth and oak leaves and acorns at its base, in a flash design style.
Crowned skull with cigarette and oak leaves
Black and grey skull surrounded by roses on a forearm, shown from two angles side by side.
Skull and roses on a forearm
Black and grey traditional flash of a skull above a trident and anchor rope, framing a ship, a whale and a banner reading Sea Shepherd.
Skull, trident and whale in a rope frame
Blue line drawing of a torso covered in traditional flash designs including a rose, skull, diamond, heart, anchor, snake, candle and ship.
Torso covered in traditional flash motifs
Two legs in a bath covered in traditional style tattoos of red roses, a skull, a bicycle, a sun and a mask, on the thighs and calves.
Traditional leg sleeve with roses and skulls
A grey shaded skull tattoo with pink, blue and green watercolour splashes on the outer thigh.
Watercolour skull on a thigh
Traditional-style tattoos cover both hands, with a skull on one palm, a blue and red mandala on the back of the other hand, and small finger designs including a spider and an anchor.
Skull and mandala hand tattoos with finger designs
Black and white drawing of six forearms and hands, each with a different traditional-style tattoo design including a mandala, skull, rose, eye in a triangle and crossed bones.
Six hands with black ink tattoo designs
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a grim reaper in sunglasses holding a scythe beside a palm tree and moon, on a forearm.
Grim reaper and palm tree on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo on a calf showing a turbocharger, a red rose, a spark plug with a DAD banner, flowers and a partly visible skull.
Traditional turbo, rose and spark plug on a calf
Traditional flash drawing of a skull and crossbones on a poison bottle, flanked by red flowers and a DRINK ME tag, shown on paper.
Skull and crossbones poison bottle flash
Black script lettering quote and a colour sugar skull tattoo with red roses on a bare thigh.
Text quote and sugar skull on a thigh
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
Seated person with bold traditional tattoos on the thigh and calf, including a red rose, a skull, a wolf head and a flower, with more tattoos on the forearm.
Traditional leg tattoos with skull and wolf
Two printed arm sleeves laid diagonally, covered in traditional-style tattoo designs including an octopus, a pin-up, a skull, a rose and a nautical star.
Printed tattoo-style arm sleeves