Top hat tattoo ideas

180 photos and flash · 27% Traditional, 26% Neo-trad · Forearm most common

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Black line drawing of two sugar skulls, one in a veil and one in a top hat, framed by roses and a banner reading 'Til Death Do Us Part, in a traditional tattoo flash style with no body placement
Sugar skull couple with roses and banner
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of two skulls, one in a blue top hat smoking a pipe and one in a jewelled feathered turban, across a forearm.
Two coloured skulls in hat and turban on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a rabbit in a top hat, monocle chain, red tie and tan jacket, smoking a pipe, on a limb.
Anthropomorphic rabbit in top hat smoking a pipe
Side by side, a photo of a grey Persian cat and a colour traditional tattoo of a cat in a top hat, monocle and bow tie with hibiscus flowers and a banner reading You Sir Are The Cat's Meow.
Top hat cat tattoo beside a cat photo
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh of a smiling masked figure in a top hat, with two red roses and green leaves.
Masked figure and roses on a thigh
Two small skull tattoos on the hands, one wearing a red bow and one wearing a black top hat with a red band, shaded in black and grey with red accents.
Matching skull tattoos on two hands
Two clenched fists pressed together, each with a traditional style tattoo: a panther head in a top hat and a rose on the right, a skull and a cartoon figure with an axe on the left.
Traditional hand tattoos with panther and rose
Black and grey flash design of a sugar skull wearing a top hat, with an ace of spades, dice, a star, roses, crossed pistols and an eight ball, with the numbers 1969 below.
Sugar skull in top hat with cards, dice and roses
Two colour traditional tattoos on the ribs, left a sugar skull in a veil with flowers and right a skull in a top hat with flowers and the word DEATH.
Sugar skull bride and top hat skull on ribs
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of a cat wearing a top hat inside an ornate oval frame with flowers, on the outer thigh, with small amber accents on the eyes.
Cat in a top hat in an oval frame on thigh
Colour traditional tattoo on the back of a neck showing a top hat, teacup, pocket watch, playing card spades and a banner reading We're all mad here.
Mad Hatter top hat and teacup on a neck
Black and grey flash design of a pin-up skeleton woman and a top-hatted skeleton man holding hands, with a banner quote above and below them.
Skeleton couple with banner quote
Two matching black and grey tattoos of cats in top hats with small flowers, one on each thigh, in a traditional style.
Matching cats in top hats on two thighs
Black and white flash design of a cat in a top hat with a spade card, bow tie and cigar, flanked by roses and leaves, with the words Lie to the Liars and Steal from Thieves arced around it.
Cat in top hat with roses and slogan
Colour tattoo on a thigh showing a peeled banana wearing a top hat and monocle, with the script words I find this attire appealing, in a traditional style.
Peeled banana in a top hat on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a green-hatted skull with yellow shamrocks and a black hat band, on the upper arm, in a traditional style.
Green top hat skull with shamrocks on upper arm
Colour neo-trad tattoo of a sloth in a top hat, monocle, bow tie and smoking a pipe, framed by roses and swirling smoke on the upper arm.
Sloth in top hat and monocle on upper arm
Traditional-style winged heart tattoo with a teal top hat, red roses and a banner on the abdomen, above the waistband of blue jeans.
Winged heart and roses on the abdomen
Black linework flash sheet of Irish-themed tattoo designs, including a shamrock, harp, pipe, horseshoe, pot of gold and banner lettering, shown on a flat, unmarked white sheet.
Irish-themed traditional flash sheet
Colour tattoo of a green top hat with a red ribbon, feather and tag, beside the black lettering "We're all mad here", on the chest.
Top hat and "We're all mad here" on the chest
Traditional style tattoos of roses, a top-hat skull and a red heart on the arms and thigh of a person wearing a gingham shirt and black skirt.
Traditional arm and thigh tattoos on a woman
Traditional style tattoo of a cartoon rabbit in a top hat beside the script words I guess this is growing up, on the upper arm or thigh.
Cartoon rabbit in a top hat with script quote
Traditional flash drawing of a plague doctor mask with a black top hat, round glasses and a red hatband, with handwritten script beneath.
Plague doctor mask flash with script
Colour tattoo of a cartoon shark wearing a top hat and monocle, with blue waves, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Cartoon shark in top hat and monocle on upper back
Black and grey engraved flash of two skulls, one in a top hat and tailcoat and one in a feathered bonnet, drawn in fine hatched linework on a white background.
Two Victorian skulls in top hat and feathered bonnet
Black line flash sheet of traditional-style designs with banners, including a microphone, teapot, coffin, bear with dagger, and a rabbit in a top hat.
Traditional flash sheet with banner designs
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm of a grey cat wearing a top hat and sitting in a teacup beside a red flower.
Grey cat in a teacup on an upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo of a grinning shark in a top hat and tuxedo, inside a rope-edged circle on a red background, shown on skin.
Shark in top hat and tuxedo
Colour tattoo of Jiminy Cricket in a blue top hat holding a red umbrella, drawn in a bold cartoon style with dark outlines on skin.
Jiminy Cricket cartoon tattoo
Traditional style colour tattoo of a woman in a top hat and bow tie, with a SHOW GIRL banner, on the upper arm.
Show girl with top hat on upper arm
Two traditional style robot tattoos on a pair of calves, one pink with a heart above its head and one grey wearing a top hat with a heart on its chest.
Matching robot tattoos on calves
Black and grey traditional style tattoos on two feet, a pig in a top hat with a banner reading Friends and a rooster with a banner reading Not Food.
Pig and rooster with Friends and Not Food banners
Traditional style tattoo of a bulldog wearing a red top hat, with a banner reading Bitches above and Be Crazy below, on a limb.
Bulldog in top hat with banner
Colour traditional tattoo of the cartoon robot Bender wearing a top hat and monocle, set in an ornate gold frame on the upper arm.
Bender in an ornate gold frame on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a pin-up woman in a star and stripe outfit holding a top hat, with a banner reading Kiss My American Ass, on a forearm.
Pin-up in stars and stripes with banner
Traditional style flash drawing of a shark wearing a top hat, monocle and tailcoat inside a rope border, with no body placement shown.
Shark in top hat and tailcoat in a rope frame
Two close-up photos of a traditional style shark tattoo with open jaws and a skull wearing a top hat, on a leg.
Shark and top hat skull tattoo
Neo-trad style colour tattoo of a grinning clown with a striped top hat and red bow tie on the upper arm.
Clown portrait with top hat on upper arm
Two drawn sugar skulls, one wearing a top hat and one with roses and a veil, above the words till and death, in a traditional flash design.
Twin sugar skulls with 'till death' lettering
Black line drawing flash design of a bird-beaked plague doctor mask wearing a top hat, framed by leaves and a large flower in a traditional style.
Plague doctor bird with flowers flash
Traditional style tattoo of a bearded merman in a top hat and eye patch, with a blue and teal scaled tail, on a calf.
Bearded merman in top hat on a calf
Colour tattoo on skin of an anthropomorphic cat wearing a top hat, monocle and red bow tie inside an ornate oval frame, in a neo-traditional style.
Cat in top hat and monocle in an oval frame
Man seen from behind in a black Lucky 13 t-shirt, with traditional tattoos of a rose, an anchor and a spider web on his forearms and upper arms.
Traditional arm tattoos with a Lucky 13 tee
Black and grey flash drawing of a sugar skull couple, a woman with a flower in her hair and a man in a top hat and bow tie, framed by roses and leaves, shown without a body placement.
Sugar skull couple flash design
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a skeletal Uncle Sam in a striped top hat pointing forward, on the forearm.
Skeletal Uncle Sam on a forearm
Black and grey traditional skull tattoo wearing a top hat on skin, being worked on with a tattoo machine by a gloved artist.
Skull in top hat being tattooed
Traditional style flash sheet of repeating tattoo designs, including daggers through skulls, swallows, pin-up women, hearts, roses and a scorpion, on a tan background.
Traditional flash sheet with skulls, hearts and pin-ups
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a raccoon in a top hat and bow tie, with rose buds, on a calf.
Raccoon in top hat and roses on a calf