Word tattoo ideas

2,200 photos and flash · 96% Lettering, 46% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black and grey photo of two forearms, each with a line of serif lettering tattooed on it: a quote about understanding and destroying oneself on the left, and one about fixing oneself on the right.
Two serif quotes on both forearms
Three feet side by side, each with a fine-line black script tattoo of the word sisters beside a small outlined heart, placed on the ankle.
Matching heart and sisters script on three ankles
Fine line black script tattoo reading choose joy with a small cross on the inner wrist, shown with the palm facing up.
Choose joy script on inner wrist
Two wrists with matching black fine line script tattoos of the word nourish, each with a swirl flourish at one end.
Matching nourish wrist tattoos
Black fine line script tattoo on the inner wrist reading Live by the sun above Love by the moon, with a horizontal arrow under each line.
Live by the sun and love by the moon wrist script
Two inner wrists show matching black serif lettering reading home, one upright and one upside down, as a lettering tattoo on the wrist.
Matching home lettering on two wrists
Close photo of the word Riddikulus in thin black script lettering across the inner forearm near the wrist, shown against a dark blurred background.
Riddikulus lettering on a wrist
Small black script tattoo on the side ribs of a woman in a white crochet bikini top, with foliage and pale stone behind her.
Script tattoo on ribs in white crochet bikini
Fine line script tattoo reading focus with a long swash line on the inner forearm, beside a gold clover bracelet.
Focus script on a forearm
Close-up of a small fine line script tattoo reading it is well in black ink on the inner forearm.
Fine line script reading it is well on forearm
Black and white photo of the words send and me in small script lettering tattooed on the heels of two bare feet.
Send and me script tattoos on two heels
Black outline lettering spelling NICE, one letter on each finger of a hand, in a lettering style with ornate, decorative letterforms.
NICE lettered across four fingers
Black script lettering tattoo on a forearm, with the arm holding a red tennis racket and a yellow ball.
Script lettering on a forearm
Close-up of the word Speranza in brown script with a small green and red heart on the upper back.
Speranza script with heart on upper back
Black serif lettering reading Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic, tattooed in a fine line lettering style across the upper back.
Serif quote tattoo on upper back
Black script tattoo reading Love on the inner wrist, in a fine line lettering style, photographed against a dark background.
Love script on a wrist
Two black script tattoos, one reading amica mea on the back and one reading soror mea on the inner forearm.
Amica mea and soror mea script on back and forearm
Black ink Deathly Hallows symbol with ornate swirls on a person's upper back, with the word Always in script hanging below it.
Deathly Hallows symbol with script on upper back
Black infinity symbol tattoo on skin with the words 'i feel infinite' set in a typewriter-style font inside the loops.
Infinity symbol with 'i feel infinite' text
Black and grey photograph of the words AWAKE AND UNAFRAID in block serif lettering across the inner wrist and forearm.
Awake and unafraid lettering on a wrist
Close up of the word explore in fine black script lettering on the inner forearm of a person wearing a black top.
Explore script tattoo on an inner forearm
Black serif lettering reading take a breath and be strong across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Take a breath and be strong on upper back
Black and white photo of a fine-line script tattoo reading Ohana with a small heart flourish on the inner forearm, near the wrist.
Ohana script with heart on forearm
Fine line black script tattoo of the word free on the back of a hand, with the wearer's hand resting on her opposite shoulder.
Free script word on the hand
Two feet showing matching black script lettering reading Dreaming The Dive, one set upright and one rotated, in a Lettering style on the Other placement.
Dreaming The Dive script on two feet
Fine line black tattoo of a small turtle above the word Trust in cursive script on the inner wrist.
Turtle and Trust script on inner wrist
Black script lettering reading Look alive sunshine across the inner wrist and forearm, in a lettering style.
Look alive sunshine script on wrist
Black and white photo of the words James 1:2 in cursive script tattooed on the back of the neck, with hair and a hand blurred in the foreground.
James 1:2 script on the neck
Two black typewriter-style words, Relapse and Recover, tattooed on a pair of wrists in a lettering design.
Relapse and recover wrist tattoos
Two black serif lettering tattoos on forearms, one reading enormous pocket (partly cropped at the edge) and one reading heavy boots.
Two word tattoos on forearms
Two matching black script tattoos on the inner wrists of a pair of arms, reading No Lies on the left and Just Love on the right.
No Lies and Just Love script wrist tattoos
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading faithfully along the inner forearm, shown in black ink on pale skin.
Faithfully script on a forearm
Small black block-capital lettering reading BE PRESENT BE LOVE on the inner wrist.
Be Present Be Love lettering on the inner wrist
Fine line black lettering reading mind above matter, split by a horizontal line, on the lower abdomen below the navel.
Mind over matter fine line lettering
Fine line black tattoo of an upside-down cursive word inside an outlined downward triangle on the inner forearm.
Upside-down script inside a fine line triangle
Small black capital letters spelling LOVE, tattooed vertically along the inner rim of an ear in a lettering style.
LOVE lettering on the inner ear
Black ink script lettering design reading Wild Heart above Gypsy Soul, with a double-headed arrow between the lines, on a white background.
Wild Heart Gypsy Soul lettering design
Black fine line infinity symbol with the word sisters written in script inside the loop, tattooed on skin.
Infinity symbol with sisters script
Fine line black script tattoo of the word enough on the upper chest, with a red and cream top strap visible at the right edge.
Enough in script on the upper chest
Pink fine line infinity symbol with the word run in script on the back of a person's neck, with hair pulled to one side.
Infinity symbol with 'run' on the neck
Fine line script tattoo reading love in dark ink on the side of a finger, against a blurred dark background with bokeh lights.
Love script on a finger
Black handwritten script on a white background reading And suddenly you were my everything, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Script quote: And suddenly you were my everything
Black lettering reading STRONG on one ankle and a small row of three solid dots on the other ankle, both in black ink.
Strong lettering and three dots on ankles
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading To Infinity and Beyond across the forearm, with a white sleeve and beaded bracelets at the wrist.
To infinity and beyond lettering on forearm
Close-up of a fine line tattoo on the inside of a wrist reading warr;or, with a teal semicolon and a thin black arrow pointing right beneath the word.
Warrior with semicolon and arrow on a wrist
Small black lettering in a typewriter-style font reading just breathe on the inner wrist of a raised hand, with a beaded bracelet and city buildings behind.
Just breathe lettering on the inner wrist
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo of the word unless on the side of the body, above a dark garment.
Fine line script word tattoo reading unless
Pale pink handwritten script reading Aries on a coral background, a lettering design with no skin or body part visible.
Aries handwritten script lettering