Star tattoo ideas

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

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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
Colour traditional-style tattoos on an upper arm and forearm, showing a rocket, snowflakes, stars, a mandala and a dark grey animal.
Rocket, snowflakes and mandala on an arm
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
Colour tattoo of the state of Texas filled with the Texas flag, showing a blue panel with a white star and white and red stripes, on the upper arm.
Texas flag filled state outline on upper arm
Pastel purple and green butterfly tattoo on an ankle, surrounded by coloured stars, black swirls and dotted trails.
Butterfly and stars on an ankle
Black and grey blackwork and dotwork tattoo of a snow globe showing a ringed planet, stars and mountains, on the forearm.
Snow globe with Saturn and mountains on forearm
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
Two matching black lettering tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing a crescent moon, two small stars and script reading to the moon and back, with two pairs of hands clasped.
Matching moon and stars wrist tattoos
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two narwhals, a Roman numeral clock face, clouds and stars across an upper arm, shown from two angles.
Narwhals, clock and clouds on upper arm
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
Black ink tattoo of stars of varying sizes running up the outer ankle, with a larger outlined star at the centre.
Cascading stars on an ankle
Two black and grey forearm tattoos in a stippled style: a songbird on a branch with stars and a rose on the right arm, and a honeycomb-filled vessel with leaves on the left arm.
Bird and honeycomb forearm tattoos
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
Realistic chest tattoo of a five-point star with torn skin edges revealing the verse Daniel 12:3 inside, with red accents at the tears.
Torn-skin star with Daniel 12:3 on the chest
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
Colour tattoo on a calf of a small green-clad boy standing on a pale blue planet among stars, a comet and a ringed green planet.
Little Prince on a planet on a calf
Black and grey dotwork mandala sleeve covering a full arm, with geometric star and flower motifs from shoulder to wrist.
Geometric mandala sleeve on an arm
Black and grey outline stars above the word RISE in serif script on the inner wrist, with a lower panel showing the same arm with no tattoo.
Three stars and RISE on a wrist
Three tattoo photos: a galaxy-filled crescent moon, a black line moon with stars and a rocket on the hand and fingers, and a galaxy-filled diamond outline on the calf.
Galaxy moon, rocket and diamond tattoos
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
Two side-by-side photos of a man's torn-skin tattoo revealing an American flag across his upper chest and shoulder, and across his upper back.
American flag torn-skin design on shoulder and back
Red and black nine-pointed star inside a circle tattooed on a lower leg, in a geometric style.
Nine-pointed star in a circle on a calf
Forearm tattoo of five blue-shaded stars linked by black and grey swirling ribbons that wrap up the arm.
Blue stars and swirling ribbons on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a woman in a blue robe with flowers in her hair, in an art nouveau style with swirling yellow stars, on the calf.
Art nouveau woman on a calf
Black ink sak yant tattoo across a woman's back, with a vertical line of Thai script, a star, two tigers at the lower back and a tribal design on the left side.
Sak yant back piece with two tigers
Colour tattoo of Wonder Woman in a comic book style on an upper arm, with a lasso, stars and a dove around her.
Wonder Woman portrait on an upper arm
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
Black swirling scroll tattoo with small black and teal star shapes on the back of a neck, below the hairline.
Swirls and stars on the back of the neck
Black fine line compass tattoo with N, E, S and W markings and curved arrows, on the inner upper arm.
Fine line compass on an upper arm
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
Fine line black script reading Take these broken wings and learn to fly, curving down the ribs beside a small bird silhouette.
Script quote and bird on ribs
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
Colour tattoo of a blue owl with black wings perched on a dark oval with stars, on the forearm, in a traditional style.
Blue owl perched on a starry oval
Traditional style tattoo on a calf showing a sailing ship and lighthouse in a rope frame, with an anchor, stars and a red heart.
Lighthouse and sailing ship with heart on a calf
Fine line tattoo of two elephants outlined in orange, green and blue with small sparkle stars, on the side of a person's torso near the navel.
Two fine line elephants with stars on the side
Close crop of a light-toned compass rose design with radiating points and dotted rings on a shoulder, geometric in style.
Compass rose on a shoulder
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a dog in a blue hooded robe with clasped hands, framed by yellow and red roses and a winged skull.
Dog in hooded robe with roses and skull
Collage of five small fine line tattoos in black ink: a crescent moon on the wrist, a sprig on the upper arm, a star constellation on the upper back, a botanical sprig on the ribs and a dotted line
Fine line moon, sprig and star tattoos
Two photographs: a colour spiral galaxy tattoo on the back of a hand in blue and orange, and a black and grey dotwork galaxy with a pink core on a shoulder.
Spiral galaxy tattoos on a hand and a shoulder
Traditional tattoo of a swallow above a compass with chain links and orange and purple flowers on a forearm.
Swallow, compass and flowers on a forearm
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
Close-up of a fine line black arrow tattoo on the forearm and a scattered cluster of small dots on the upper arm, both in black ink.
Tiny arrow and dot constellation on an arm
Colourful wolf head tattoo with a galaxy background of stars and nebula shades in blue, pink and purple, placed on the forearm.
Galaxy wolf on a forearm
Shaded tattoo on an upper arm showing a VW campervan, a palm tree and a Route 66 sign over a California state outline, with script lettering reading California.
California campervan and palm tree on upper arm
Three small black star tattoos in a fine line style on the forearm of a person wearing a knitted grey sweater.
Three small stars on a forearm
Black and grey realism sleeve on an arm, with roses, wings, stars and script reading Family and Angel, shown below a black t-shirt.
Black and grey sleeve with roses and wings