Text tattoo ideas

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Black script lettering reading Fall down seven times, Stand up eight across the side ribs of a woman wearing denim shorts and a black lace thong.
Quote tattoo on the side ribs
Black script lettering reading twentysix.two on the side of the ribs, photographed on skin with white paper towel above.
Script lettering reading twentysix.two on ribs
Black and grey stippled drawing of an anchor wrapped in two banners reading Reckless and Brave, held up on a white card in a hand.
Anchor with Reckless and Brave banners
Black script lettering reading Live by faith, not by sight runs across the nape of the neck, just behind the ear.
Live by faith script on the neck
Traditional colour tattoo of a stacked sandwich with a toothpick and olive, with a banner reading 'We finish each other's sandwiches', on a limb.
Stacked sandwich with banner tattoo
Black lettering tattoo of a four-line quote across the upper back, set in a serif typeface on a shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across a shoulder blade
Two legs resting in a bath showing black and grey rose and compass tattoos on one thigh and a long block of script down the other thigh.
Rose and script leg tattoos in a bath
Black script tattoo reading 'May your song always be sung' across the side of a bare back, against a dark red warm-toned room.
Script quote on a bare back
Black script lettering tattoo reading With pain comes strength across a patch of skin, in a fine line style.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength
Black script lettering reading 'You are free to sever the chains of fate that bind you' across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black and grey neo-trad tattoo of a sleeping sloth with three banners reading nap all day, sleep all night and party never, on a limb.
Sleeping sloth with banner text
Black linework tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market on the top of a foot, in a simple hand-drawn lettering style.
Gone to Market hanging sign on foot
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading mad to live on the side of a ribcage, in a fine lettering style.
Mad to live lettering on the ribs
Fine line black tattoo of mountain peaks above the word adventure in script on the inner forearm.
Mountain peaks and adventure script on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo on the side of the ribs, with the words HAPPY ENDING? above a four line poem and a handwritten style signature below.
Poem and signature on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading 'but without the dark, we'd never see the stars' across the outer thigh.
Quote tattoo on the thigh
Fine line black script lettering reading The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow, tattooed across the lower back above a grey waistband.
Quote tattoo across the lower back
Two-panel photo of black script lettering on a forearm, reading "I'm fine" above and "save me" upside down below.
I'm fine and save me lettering on a forearm
Colour tattoo on an upper arm of a blue cartoon character smoking a hookah while sitting on a red spotted mushroom, with "Feed Your Head" script lettering beneath.
Blue cartoon character on a mushroom, upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose set within a coin-style medallion with banner text, across the back of a hand.
Black and grey rose in coin on hand
Several sheets of gold script temporary tattoo designs reading team Bride, arranged on a bright pink background.
Team Bride gold script temporary tattoo sheets
Black flowing script lettering reading it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, drawn on a plain white background in a lettering style.
Script quote lettering design
Black script lettering reading learn to love yourself and never hide the scars, with a small butterfly outline, tattooed across the upper back.
Script quote and butterfly tattoo on the back
Black and white photo of the words BE THE CHANGE in black lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with beaded bracelets worn above and below it.
Be the change lettering on a wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading With pain comes strength across skin, with the body part not clearly shown.
With pain comes strength script tattoo
Temporary tattoo on a wrist reading I'M WITH MEGAN'S BACHELORETTE PARTY above two martini glasses, in a typewriter-style lettering design with pink accents.
Bachelorette party temporary tattoo on a wrist
Black script lettering reading "How long is forever? Sometimes just one second" across the outer upper thigh.
Handwritten quote on an upper thigh
Black script lettering of the Serenity Prayer with two small red flowers and black vines, tattooed along the side of the ribs.
Serenity prayer script with red flowers on the ribs
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a ship's wheel enclosing a sailing ship, a flower below, and the words DARLIN IM NOT above and COMIN HOME below.
Ship's wheel and flower sketch with lettering
Lettering tattoo on the inner wrist and forearm reading I'm with Megan's bachelorette party, with two pink martini glasses beside a line about buying a drink.
Bachelorette party text with martini glasses
Close-up of the inner forearm near the wrist showing the words learn to fly in dark fine-line script lettering.
Learn to fly script on a wrist
Black script tattoo reading Today is a gift on the upper back of a person with short dark hair, in a Lettering style.
Script quote tattoo on upper back
Black ink script lettering in a cursive hand across the side of the ribs, reading a four-line romantic quote.
Black script quote along the ribs
Two black swallows above the words we only part to meet again 5-17-12, set in a small typewriter-style font on the side of the ribs.
Two swallows and a quote on the ribs
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
Lettering-style temporary tattoo on the inner wrist reading I'm with Robin & Ashley's Bachelorette Party, with two rainbow martini glasses in red and black ink.
Bachelorette party quote with rainbow martini glasses
Black serif lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading in the end, i want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.
Four-line quote tattoo on a forearm
Black linework tattoo on the upper back reading "Do you suppose she's a wildflower" in lettering framed by swirling vines, leaves and two coloured flowers, in a lettering and botanical style.
Wildflower quote with vines on back
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, with swirl flourishes on the outer side of a foot near the ankle.
Quote lettering with swirls on a foot
Black tribal-style scorpion tattoo design on a white background, with a bold printed quote beneath it.
Tribal scorpion design with quote
Close photo of a small, fine-line black lettering tattoo in a non-Latin script running across the upper thigh.
Thin black script tattoo on the thigh
Black and white photo of a fine line cursive script lettering tattoo running diagonally across a woman's shoulder and upper back.
Cursive script lettering across a shoulder
Black traditional tattoo of a dagger piercing a heart with the words YOU ARE O.K. inside, on a forearm.
Dagger through a heart reading you are OK
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a sitting cat with the words The cat did it and a small arrow pointing to the cat, on the wrist.
Sitting cat with The cat did it text on a wrist
Black handwritten lettering tattoo across a person's upper back reading I'll be stuck fixated on one star when the world is crashing down.
Handwritten lyric lettering on upper back
Close-up of black handwritten lettering reading i'm fine on a person's skin, with a hand wearing a silver ring and pale nail polish pointing at it.
"i'm fine" lettering on skin
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line quote across the ribs, with a hand with red nail polish resting at the top of the frame.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm reading (500) This is not a love story. This is a story about love, in a script and serif style.
Quote lettering on a forearm