Sugar skull tattoo ideas

320 photos and flash · 33% Neo-trad, 27% Traditional · Upper arm most common

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Two matching colour sugar skull tattoos with roses on the inner forearms, in a traditional style, shown on a person wearing a black top.
Matching sugar skull tattoos on forearms
Flat teal sugar skull design on a coral background, with flower-shaped eyes, scrolled forehead detail and a fleur-de-lis between the brows.
Sugar skull design in teal and coral
Colourful sugar skull design with pink flower eyes, a blue heart nose, yellow teeth and ornate swirls, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Colourful sugar skull design
Colourful full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm showing a sugar skull woman with roses, skulls and a church, in a neo-traditional style.
Day of the Dead sugar skull full sleeve
Traditional style tattoo of an ornately decorated cat face with swirls, a diamond and red accents, on the forearm.
Ornate cat face tattoo on an arm
A sheet of gold metallic temporary tattoo designs on white, including a sugar skull, a peacock feather, an arrow, a palm tree and geometric motifs.
Gold temporary tattoo design sheet
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo design with rose-filled eye sockets, flowers, a cross and scrollwork, shown as a drawing with no body part visible.
Black and grey sugar skull with roses
Colour traditional tattoo of a sugar skull with a red rose across its forehead and pink flower eyes, on a forearm.
Sugar skull with red rose on a forearm
White ink outline tattoo of a sugar skull with heart-shaped eyes and nose on the ankle, in a fine line style.
White ink sugar skull on ankle
Black and white sugar skull flash design with a rose on the crown and floral patterns in the eye sockets, in a Day of the Dead style.
Sugar skull with rose and floral eyes
Traditional-style flash design of a pin-up woman with sugar skull face paint holding a red apple, with a swallow, roses and a banner reading Wash Your Fruits.
Sugar skull pin-up with swallow and apple
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo design of an owl with a sugar skull face, flanked by small flowers on a plain background.
Owl and sugar skull design
Black and grey sugar skull tattoos with ornate scrollwork on two fingers of a hand, with a silver ring on another finger.
Sugar skull tattoos on two fingers
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint, flowing hair and a crescent ornament on the forearm.
Sugar skull woman portrait on a forearm
Two bare feet with colour tattoos of scales of justice on the left foot and a sugar skull on the right, with lettering reading Tread Lightly across the tops and Heisenberg along the soles.
Scales and sugar skull on both feet
Colour tattoo of a pink cupcake topped with a sugar skull wearing a red bow, in a neo-traditional style with bold black outlines.
Sugar skull cupcake with pink frosting
Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman with sugar skull face paint and flowing hair, with a rose below, on an upper arm.
Sugar skull woman with rose on an arm
Realistic forearm tattoo of a sugar skull woman with red eyes, smoke swirls and a skull below, shaded in grey with red accents.
Sugar skull woman and skull on a forearm
Four colourful sugar skull designs with floral patterns, hearts and a red rose, arranged on a beige background.
Four colourful sugar skull designs
Four sugar skull designs in teal, magenta, purple and green, each decorated with flowers, scrolls and hearts on a white background.
Four coloured sugar skull designs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a sugar skull woman with roses and a skull on the upper arm.
Sugar skull woman and roses on upper arm
Black and grey pen drawing of an ornate sugar skull wreathed in flowers and leaves, a flash design suited to a fine line or botanical style.
Ornate sugar skull with flowers
Black and white photo of a man with a large rose tattoo sleeve on his raised forearm and a rose on the back of his hand, his face turned away.
Rose tattoos on a raised forearm and hand
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a calf of a black cat with sugar skull face paint and skeletal ribs, above a red rose with orange flowers.
Sugar skull cat and rose on a calf
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull shaped like a cat face with a pink bow, in traditional style, on the top of a foot.
Sugar skull cat face on the top of a foot
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull with a red rose on top, on the back of a lower leg above a glittery high-heeled shoe.
Sugar skull and rose on a calf
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull in profile with orange roses and green leaves, shown on skin in a close photograph.
Sugar skull with roses
Colourful sugar skull design with round ears, floral patterns, heart-shaped eyes and roses on a black background, drawn as a flash-style illustration.
Sugar skull with round ears and roses
Pink line drawing of a sugar skull woman with curled hair in an oval floral frame, with a peony at the base, shown as a tattoo design.
Sugar skull portrait with peony
Black ink drawing of a sugar skull skeleton woman with a hair bun, hand fan and cigarette, on a parchment-coloured background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Sugar skull skeleton lady with fan
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of an owl above a sugar skull with floral ornament, on the upper arm, shown in a three panel collage.
Owl and sugar skull on upper arm
Flash sheet of a sugar skull face design with a red rose, orange flowers, teeth and eye petals, intended for placement on the face.
Sugar skull face design sheet with rose and flowers
Black and grey neo-traditional sugar skull woman tattoo with a flower in her long hair, running down the upper arm.
Sugar skull woman on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo on the calf showing a figure in a sombrero, a bullet bandolier, a skull and a sugar skull style woman with a skull face.
Skulls and a sombrero figure on a lower leg
Colourful illustration of three decorated sugar skulls with pink roses, leaves and scrollwork on a black background, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Three sugar skulls with roses
A grid of colourful sugar skull flash designs with bows, hearts, wings, roses and crossbones, shown as drawings rather than tattoos on skin.
Sugar skull and bow flash sheet
Realism tattoo on a calf showing a woman with sugar skull face paint, a red rose in her hair and a lace mandala behind her.
Sugar skull woman with red rose on calf
Black and white drawing of Jack Skellington and Sally with sugar skull patterns on their faces, framed by a pumpkin, roses and a coffin outline.
Jack and Sally sugar skull design
Colour tattoo of a Hello Kitty style face decorated with sugar skull flowers, a pink and orange bow and cobweb details, on skin.
Sugar skull Hello Kitty tattoo
Neo-traditional tattoo of an owl with a sugar skull beneath it, shaded in black and grey with blue accents, on the outer thigh.
Owl and sugar skull on a thigh
Black and grey dotwork sugar skull surrounded by mandala and lotus florals on the outer thigh.
Sugar skull with mandala florals on thigh
Black and grey sugar skull tattoo with a curled handlebar moustache, decorated with paisley and floral patterns, on skin.
Sugar skull with a moustache
Collage of four tattoos: a red and black sugar skull woman on the upper arm, a white cartoon robot on purple splashes, an owl's amber eye, and a black and grey woman holding banknotes on the forearm.
Collage of four tattoos: sugar skull, Baymax, owl and money
Two matching colour tattoos of cat faces with bows and sugar skull decoration, placed on the thighs, in a neo-trad style.
Matching sugar skull cat tattoos on thighs
Black and grey realism tattoo of a sugar skull woman in a hood, with a keyhole above her brow and roses at the lower left, photographed on skin.
Sugar skull woman with keyhole and roses
Black and grey sugar skull tattoos with floral and lattice detail on the middle and ring fingers of a hand, worn alongside silver rings.
Sugar skulls on two fingers
Colour tattoo of a Hello Kitty style sugar skull with a pink bow and floral details, traditional style, on the top of a foot, shown in two photos.
Sugar skull Hello Kitty tattoo on the foot
Greyscale pencil drawing of a woman with sugar skull face paint and a large flower in her hair, drawn as a realistic portrait tattoo design.
Sugar skull woman portrait with flower