Text tattoo ideas

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Colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a green tent beneath pine trees and stars, with the words HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS arched above and below the scene.
Camping tent and quote on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading don't let your fears win along the inner upper arm.
Script quote on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading 'she wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword' in a serif script.
Quote tattoo: she wasn't looking for a knight
Two arms crossed over each other, each with matching black lettering reading (it's alright), one on the upper arm and one on the forearm.
Matching (it's alright) lettering on two arms
Black lettering tattoo reading YES I'M CHANGING in a plain sans-serif typeface across the inner upper arm, with a striped sleeve and beach behind.
Yes I'm Changing quote on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Quote tattoo on the upper arm
Black ink tattoo on an upper arm reading I'm a LUMBERJACK AND I'M OK, with a hand-drawn axe and tree stump, in a Lettering style.
Lumberjack slogan with axe on upper arm
Black and grey script lettering reading You Only Live Once with soft shading behind the letters, tattooed on an upper arm.
You Only Live Once lettering on an upper arm
Colour realism rose tattooed on the upper arm beside black script lettering running down the forearm, on a person outdoors.
Red rose and script quote on arm
Close-up of a small black tattoo of the words It All Works Out in a serif lettering style on the upper arm.
Words tattooed on the upper arm
Black and grey traditional-style US Navy emblem tattoo on the upper arm, with a NAVY banner, eagle, anchor and the words We Own The Seas.
US Navy emblem on upper arm
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering across a woman's upper back, with shaded floral tattoos on both upper arms, seen from behind in sepia tones.
Typewriter text across a upper back
Fine line lettering reading TOUGH ENOUGH in orange, teal, purple, green and yellow on the upper arm of a person in a striped top.
Multicoloured TOUGH ENOUGH lettering on upper arm
Back view of a woman with platinum blonde hair and a fine black lettering tattoo running vertically down her upper arm, with a lace-up satin dress.
Fine lettering on upper arm, back view
Black ink script lettering on an upper arm showing a crossed-out name above the words oops and I meant Hollie, in a freehand script style.
Crossed-out name with 'oops I meant' lettering
Black script reading sempre con voi with a simple bird outline on the upper arm, shown in two stacked photos.
Sempre con voi script and bird on upper arm
Black brush lettering tattoo reading "Much virtue in if" in a loose, hand-drawn style on the upper arm.
Much virtue in if lettering on upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of a lollipop with the words SUCK IT above it, placed on the upper arm.
Lollipop and SUCK IT lettering on upper arm
Close-up of a small black fine line script tattoo on a woman's ribs, with a tiny star-like tattoo on her upper arm, taken on a sunny beach.
Fine line script tattoo on the ribs at the beach
Black and grey realism sleeve with a pocket watch and roses on the left arm, and script lettering across the ribs of a woman in a black bikini.
Pocket watch sleeve and script lettering on torso
Black and grey photograph of a fine black script quote tattooed along the upper arm of a person whose face is not shown.
Black script quote along an upper arm
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind, with typewriter-style lettering tattooed across her upper back and sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Typewriter text tattoo across upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading 'bold as love' on the upper arm, seen from behind in soft natural light.
Bold as love lettering on an upper arm
Back view of a woman with a small black lettering tattoo on her upper arm, partly legible French text, with her hand on her hip.
Small text tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on the upper arm showing two figures with bird skulls for heads, with the words NEVER TRUST THE LIVING between them.
Two bird-skulled figures with Never Trust the Living
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a mountain landscape with a cabin and pine trees in a circle, with the words Home is where the mountains are, on an upper arm.
Mountain landscape with Home is where the mountains are
Black linework tattoo of a police box outline on the upper arm, with a block of capitalised lettering quoting nine hundred years of time and space.
Police box quote on upper arm
Two arms pressed together in black and grey, one with fine line lettering reading GIRL ALMIGHTY on the forearm and one with SHE'S NOT AFRAID on the upper arm.
Girl Almighty and She's Not Afraid text tattoos
Black lettering tattoo reading "If you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough" in a typewriter font across the upper arm, with a camera held over the face.
Typewriter quote on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading "fairest of them all" across the upper arm, shown in close up against blurred skin.
Script quote "fairest of them all" on skin
Black fine line tattoo of an open mouth with teeth and a dripping outline on the upper arm, with the words What's love got to do with it inside.
Dripping open mouth with lyric quote
Black script lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading: our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.
Wave quote lettering on an upper arm
Black script lettering on an arm reading Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed, set over two lines.
Script quote across the upper arm
Black and grey tree of life tattoo on a person's upper arm and shoulder, with family names written across the branches and roots.
Family tree with names on upper arm
Black script lettering reading It's More Than Just A Game above and below a shaded grey hockey trophy and a red winged emblem, tattooed on an upper arm.
Hockey trophy and red wing with script quote
Fine line script tattoo reading be happy, with a thin wavy line beneath it, on the upper arm.
Be happy script on upper arm
Two black script lettering tattoos on the upper arms, one beginning Remind me and the other reading When everything else is gone.
Matching script quote tattoos on upper arms
Black ink lettering tattoo reading know your own happiness, with scrolled flourishes above and below, on the upper arm of a person in a denim vest.
Know your own happiness quote on upper arm
Black fine-line tattoo of three arrows above the words for you, a thousand times over, on an upper arm.
Three arrows and a quote on an arm
Realism-style tattoo on the upper arm of a flag blowing in the wind, with stars and red and blue shading behind the black script reading We the People of the United States.
We the People script over American flag on arm
Six-panel grid of arms with black serif lettering quotes, such as Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, tattooed on the forearms and upper arms.
Literary quotes in serif lettering on arms
Black handwritten lettering tattoo reading its is my life with Jon Bovi beneath it, placed on the upper arm.
Handwritten quote tattoo on upper arm
Small black fine line lettering reading don't panic on the upper arm, with a green knit sleeve pushed up above it.
Don't panic lettering on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm showing a Winnie the Pooh quote in serif lettering, with a sketched Winnie the Pooh and Piglet and a trail of footprints below.
Winnie the Pooh quote and Piglet on upper arm
Thin black fine line lettering reading WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the letter I, on the upper arm below a pink sleeve.
Warrior lettering on upper arm
Black ink Roman numeral lettering in five lines, with hyphens between the numerals, tattooed on an upper arm.
Roman numeral dates on upper arm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading In Christ Alone across the upper arm, in a lettering style.
In Christ Alone lettering on an upper arm
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo reading my hope is in god on the upper arm of a woman lying on white bedding.
Fine line script quote on upper arm