Star tattoo ideas

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

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Colour realism tattoo of a lit castle beneath a crescent moon and starry night sky, covering the upper arm and reaching towards the shoulder.
Castle under a crescent moon on an upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a vintage film camera with reels and small stars, shown on a limb in two side-by-side photographs.
Vintage film camera with stars
Close-up of a fine line dotwork tattoo of a dotted line with small star marks running across the collarbone on a light-skinned neck and chest.
Dotted line with star marks across collarbone
Colour full arm sleeve tattoo with a Sailor Moon character, a red rose, a cat, a heart and crescent moons over a galaxy background, on the upper arm and forearm.
Sailor Moon galaxy full sleeve
Colour tattoo of a fairy with pink wings above a flower, with two butterflies and a trail of stars across the lower back.
Fairy, butterflies and stars on lower back
Two-panel photo of small tattoos on a forearm: the word geronimo above a red bow tie, and the word Allons-y above grey 3D glasses with blue and red lenses, with small stars nearby.
Geronimo bow tie and Allons-y 3D glasses
Traditional style flash drawing of Pikachu smiling inside a black and teal laurel wreath, scattered with small stars on a parchment background.
Pikachu in a laurel wreath flash
Watercolour style willow tree with green weeping foliage, blue sky and a black silhouette on a swing, tattooed on the outer thigh.
Willow tree and swing on thigh, watercolour look
Black and grey geometric snowflake tattoo with a teal outline and dotted border on the forearm.
Geometric snowflake with dotted border
Flash sheet of ten numbered black ink mandala designs, several with stippled dotwork shading and floral, lotus-like centres, drawn on white paper.
Ten black ink mandala designs on a flash sheet
Colour tattoo of a decorated Christmas tree with a star topper, baubles, candy canes and wrapped presents on the upper arm.
Christmas tree with presents on a limb
Outline of a triangle on the inner forearm, filled with purple, blue and pink galaxy-style shading, with a white sleeve pushed up above it.
Galaxy-filled triangle on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading To live would be an awfully big adventure runs down the centre of a woman's back, with small stars above it.
Quote tattoo running down the spine
Watercolour-style tree tattoo with black branches and green, blue and yellow washes on the upper thigh.
Watercolour tree on a thigh
Black and grey geometric mandala tattoo covering the forearm, shown from the front and side in a two-panel photo.
Black and grey mandala on a forearm
Two purple line drawings of ornate hearts, a perfume-style bottle, stars and clouds on translucent sheets, with a glowing crystal behind them.
Ornate heart and bottle line designs on stencil sheets
Traditional style tattoo of a cat in a space helmet and suit floating beside a ringed planet, on the forearm.
Cat astronaut with ringed planet
Black and grey traditional sleeve on a forearm and upper arm, featuring a tiger head, an eagle, a feathered chief, a snake and roses.
Black and grey traditional sleeve with tiger, eagle and
Flash design of a hand making a V sign, filled with a galaxy pattern, with the word SHAMBLES across the palm and a black cross motif, on a white background.
Galaxy hand with Shambles lettering
Two matching neo-traditional tattoos of a night camping scene with mountains, pines, a tent and a campfire, sitting on the upper arms of two people.
Matching camping scene on two upper arms
Colour tattoo of a seated fox with orange and purple watercolour-style shading, surrounded by dotwork circles and line flowers, on the outer forearm.
Fox and flowers on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of three red roses and a rosebud with green leaves on the side of a person's body, with black star tattoos on the arm beside it.
Red roses with green leaves on the side
Traditional style flash sheet showing swallow, rose, padlock heart, anchor, cupcake and diamond designs with stars on a beige background.
Traditional flash sheet with swallows, roses and hearts
Traditional style colour tattoo of a brown coffin with fishnet-clad legs and gold sparkles, framed by red flowers, on the forearm.
Coffin with fishnet legs and red flowers
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red classic car with black tyres and teal windows, surrounded by orange and purple flowers and blue swirls on an upper arm.
Red classic car with flowers on an arm
Black and white photo of a small black circular emblem with a six-pointed star and flame-like swirls on the side of a woman's torso below her raised arm.
Star and flame emblem on a side torso
Black and grey geometric mountain tattoo with a crescent moon and four stars on the inner upper arm.
Mountains, crescent moon and stars on upper arm
Fine dotted-line constellation tattoo in black ink on the inner forearm, with a navy dress and green leaves in the background.
Constellation tattoo on forearm
Colour tattoo of three butterflies with black outlines, one pink, one teal and one pink, trailing small dots on the side of a torso.
Three butterflies with stardust on the ribs
Close-up of a hand near a mouth showing small fine line tattoos on the fingers, including a crescent moon, an outlined star and dotted bands, in black ink.
Small finger tattoos of a moon, star and dotted bands
Traditional colour tattoo of an elephant in an ornate saddle cloth, standing on a red ball with hearts, with a peacock feather and flowers on a limb.
Elephant on a heart ball with peacock feather
A symmetrical purple and red mandala tattoo with knotwork and petal shapes, placed in the centre of a person's upper back.
Mandala tattoo across the upper back
Flash sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs, including feathers, a swallow, a crescent moon with stars, a diamond and arrows.
Metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo flash sheet
Black script lettering reading Allons-y with a sonic screwdriver drawn across it, surrounded by swirling flourishes and small stars on a cream background.
Allons-y script lettering with sonic screwdriver
Black and grey tattoo of a winged fairy seated on a crescent moon beside a small star, on the upper back.
Fairy on a crescent moon across the upper back
Small black fine line star and crescent moon tattoo on the inner wrist, with the hand clenched above.
Small star and crescent moon on a wrist
Blue and teal Celtic knotwork crescent moon beside a small knotted five-pointed star, shown as a stencil design on a pale fabric background.
Celtic knot crescent moon and star stencil
Traditional style tattoo of an owl perched on a branch with red flowers and small stars, on the outer thigh of a kneeling person.
Owl on a branch tattoo on a thigh
Split image: a colour botanical tattoo of roses and flowers on an upper arm, beside a black and grey dotwork whale and moon inside a triangle on a calf.
Floral upper arm and whale calf tattoos
Photo of a red butterfly swirl tattoo with a soft pink wash and small stars on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Red butterflies and pink wash on shoulder
Three views of a colour full sleeve tattoo of a space scene with a red sun, ringed planets, stars and nebula clouds, on an arm against a black background.
Space scene full sleeve
Four side-by-side views of a black and grey tattoo on an upper arm, showing a raised fist with radiating lines, banknotes, swirling smoke and a star.
Raised fist with rays and banknotes on upper arm
Black linework flash design of a dragonfly with outstretched wings, surrounded by grey stars and ending in a looping swirl tail, with no body placement shown.
Dragonfly with stars and a swirling tail
Hand with three fingers raised showing a small red star with black outline on one finger, the word fob in black script on the next, and a black semicolon on the third, in a fine line style on the
Star, word and semicolon on fingers
Two fine line constellation tattoos in black ink on the upper arms of two people whose arms are pressed together.
Matching constellation tattoos on upper arms
Black ink butterfly with a dotted trail and four-pointed stars on a person's upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Butterfly and stars on a upper back
Fine line constellation tattoo of dark dots and small star shapes on the hip, shown in a close up and in a photo of a bare midriff wearing a black thong.
Constellation tattoo on the hip
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm of two large stars and a small star, one filled with a night sky and the other with a mountain scene and a bicycle.
Stars with night sky and mountain bicycle scene