Star tattoo ideas

3,037 photos and flash · 21% Fine line, 18% Geometric · Forearm most common

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Red anchor drawing with a ring at the top, five small stars above and the word HOPE in sage green letters below, on a pale background.
Anchor with stars and HOPE
Traditional style flash of a jumping sailor pin-up in red shorts and red heels, with blue tattoo designs on her upper arm, thigh and calf.
Sailor pin-up with tattooed arm and legs
Black and white skull design with purple and green accents, crown, spade and star motifs, and red teeth outlines, drawn on a black background.
Joker skull with playing card motifs
Black and grey flash drawing of a mermaid sitting on rocks beneath a full moon, with a sailing ship, stars and roses, designed as a traditional style tattoo.
Mermaid on rocks with moon and ship
Black and white line drawing of a compass rose with two scroll banners reading a quote, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Compass star with quote banners
White line design of a wizard hat with scattered stars and spiral swirls on a plain black background.
Wizard hat with stars and spirals
Traditional flash design of a one pint bottle holding two sailing ships, with a banner reading A Sailor's Grave over a skull and crossbones, flanked by red stars and green leaves.
Bottle with ships and a sailor's grave banner
Hand-drawn mandala flower design in dark ink on cream paper, with layered petals, dotwork fills and a central geometric rosette.
Hand-drawn mandala flower design
Flash sheet of seven rows of hand-drawn moon phases, crescents and full moons, some joined by thin branching linework, over a pink and blue galaxy backdrop.
Moon phase flash sheet on a galaxy background
Black and grey drawing of a compass rose with N, E, S and W points and a feather hanging below, a geometric tattoo design shown without skin.
Compass rose and feather design
White line drawings on a black background of traditional tattoo flash, including a skull with a dagger, a horseshoe, an anvil, roses, an envelope reading I HATE YOU and a spider web.
Traditional flash sheet with skull, dagger and horseshoe
Fine line ink drawing of a seated elephant whose trunk releases a cluster of butterflies, with the word Always written beside its hind leg.
Elephant blowing butterflies with the word Always
Black ink linework drawing of a sun with a closed-eyed face and a crescent moon, with dotwork rays and stars, drawn on paper as a tattoo design.
Sun and crescent moon face design
A black and grey flash sheet of dotwork tattoo designs including a rabbit, a squirrel in a star, a bicycle, a camera, a hot air balloon and a flower bouquet.
Black and grey flash sheet of animals, objects and flowers
Black line drawing of a flying saucer beaming down over mountains, a moon, stars, pine trees and a small house with a wavy hatched field.
UFO beam over a mountain landscape
A flash sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, including a leaf, feathers, a dreamcatcher, stars, a moon, an arrow and a daisy, with no placement shown.
Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs
Black line drawing of a triple moon design, with two crescents flanking a pentagram inside a circle, shown as flash on a white background.
Triple moon with pentagram design
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a shaded butterfly and rose, stars, swirls and the script words No Place Like Home.
Butterfly, rose and script design sketch
Flash design of a pin-up woman in a red polka-dot bikini with cherries, stars and CHERRY BOMB banners, in traditional style, with no body placement shown.
Cherry Bomb pin-up with cherries and banners
Drawing of tattoo designs on paper showing the words Love and Faith in script with infinity symbols, a star-filled heart and a small dandelion, beside coloured pencils.
Love and faith script designs with a heart
Flash sheet of black kanji characters in a brush script style, each labelled with its English meaning such as beauty, courage, love and star, with no body placement shown.
Kanji flash sheet with English meanings
Three black line designs stacked vertically on a white background: a branching tree with small stars above, an angular script-like glyph with dots, and a symmetrical star pendant motif.
Tree, script glyph and star motif flash
A flash sheet of twenty black and white sugar skull designs in a grid, each with different patterned eyes, foreheads and teeth.
Twenty sugar skull tattoo designs
A grid of black line geometric designs on a white background, including triangles, circles, stars and overlapping polygons, shown as a tattoo flash sheet.
Geometric line design sheet
Line drawing of a sequence of nested triangles that grow into a layered geometric star design, with no body placement shown.
Stacked triangles building to a geometric star
Four black line drawing designs of the Deathly Hallows triangle, circle and line symbol paired with the word Always in script lettering, with one version adding small stars.
Deathly Hallows symbol with Always lettering designs
Four black line drawings of stylised beetles stacked vertically on a cream background, in a fine line and geometric flash style with dot and star accents.
Four stylised beetles in black line
Pencil sketch on paper of a tattoo design showing a circle set inside an upright triangle, with a vertical rod above, feather-like wisps and small stars, shown with no body placement.
Pencil sketch of a triangle and circle design
Black and grey flash sheet with a pair of feathers above the script words expecto patronum, the Deathly Hallows symbol with scrollwork, and an hourglass within rings decorated with stars.
Three Harry Potter themed flash designs
Line drawing of a rayed sun with a dark centre above a crescent moon, joined by dotted lines and small star motifs, on a black background.
Sun and crescent moon with stars design
Pencil drawing of a vertical floral scroll tattoo design with roses, acanthus-style swirls and small sparkle motifs, suited to a long placement such as the arm or back.
Vertical floral scroll tattoo design
A grid of twenty-one white line drawings of geometric designs on a black background, including hexagons, triangles, circles and overlapping arcs, in a fine line style.
Grid of geometric sacred geometry line designs
Line drawing of a lotus flower with black outlines and tan shading, above swirl motifs and a dotted line with a circle and a star, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Lotus flower with dotted line ornament
Black tribal-style dragon design with swirling wings and a spiral tail wrapped around a pentagram inside a circle, drawn on white.
Tribal dragon with pentagram circle
Hand-drawn tattoo design sketch in black ink reading I love you to the moon and back, with a moon, clouds and stars, lettering style, shown on paper with no body placement.
I love you to the moon and back design
Flash design of a cascading cluster of outlined blue and teal stars on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Cluster of blue outlined stars flash design
Flash sheet of six stacked colour designs with swirling flourishes, including butterflies, apples with leaves, a cloud with lightning bolt and a pink star.
Six colourful swirl and motif flash designs
Traditional style flash sheet of red and black heart designs, including a dagger through a heart, a rose with a MOM banner, and swallows with LOVE ALWAYS lettering.
Traditional heart flash sheet
Black and white line drawing of a piston and connecting rod decorated with three roses, a heart with a star and a flower motif, with no body placement shown.
Piston with roses and heart design
Black line-drawn and solid black stars of varying sizes arranged in a flowing vertical trail on a white background, shown as a tattoo flash design.
Scattered star trail flash design
Packaged sheet of gold and silver metallic Batman temporary tattoos, including bat symbols, stars, a chain bracelet design and a butterfly motif, on a white backing.
Batman temporary tattoo sheet in gold and silver
Black linework tattoo design of a winged fairy beside a crescent moon, with flowers, stars, swirling ribbons and jellyfish, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Fairy with moon, jellyfish and flowing swirls
Character map sheet of black tribal tattoo-style designs, including butterflies, hearts, dragons, suns and scorpions, arranged in a grid of labelled cells.
Tribal tattoo design font specimen sheet
Traditional style flash design of a tarot card with three swords, a watchful eye, a heart and roses, with no body placement shown.
Three of Swords tarot flash design
Three black line drawings of infinity symbols, each with star and swirling vine motifs, shown as tattoo design options on a plain white background.
Three infinity symbols with stars and swirls
Flash design of a cream ribbon banner with black script reading a quote about stars and returning, set on a purple background with black stars, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
Ribbon banner with a star-scattered quote
Pen drawing flash sheet of tattoo designs in a neo-traditional style, showing a steampunk gas mask with a top hat above a Legacy banner, a Photo Factory banner, and a Union banner over a compass and
Steampunk mask and banner flash sheet
Black ink drawing of a geometric compass rose with a lotus-like centre, flanked by the letters N, E, S and W, with the quote Listen to your inner compass running up the page.
Compass rose design with inner compass quote