Word tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey script words Live, Laugh and Love scattered with outline stars along the side ribs, in a fine line lettering style.
Live, laugh, love script with stars on ribs
Fine line black script tattoo reading live on the side of the ribs, with light wavy hair falling across the frame.
Small script word tattoo on the side ribs
Close-up of a fine-line black script tattoo reading light on the inner forearm, with a rainbow of sunlight falling across the skin.
Light script on a wrist
Black fine line script design of the word fabulous, with a long horizontal line running through and under the lettering, on a white background.
Fabulous script with flowing underline
Fine line black script tattoo reading free across the back of a hand, resting on a shoulder in a denim shirt.
Free script on the back of a hand
Fine white-ink cursive script reading breathe deep on a forearm, with a small dark script tattoo on the wrist.
Breathe deep script on forearm
Close view of a small black fine line script tattoo of the word sauvée on the inner upper arm, with a grey sleeve at the top of the frame.
Sauvée script word on upper arm
Small black script tattoo reading Wanderlust across the upper back, just below the neck, on a person with their hair tied up seen from behind.
Wanderlust script on upper back
Small black serif capital letters tattooed on the inner wrist, resting on a patterned fleece and a yellow blanket.
Small Greek capital lettering on wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a vertical row of short horizontal strokes on the upper back, with the word imagine in script on the nape of the neck in the left photo.
Vertical tally-style lines on upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading She has no idea. The effect she can have. across the top of a foot, in a lettering style, with jeans cuffed above and dark glitter flats below.
Quote lettering on the top of a foot
Black and grey shaded flower tattoos on the backs of both hands, with the words Stay True in black script across the fingers.
Flowers and Stay True script on hands
Two palms facing the camera with black block lettering on the fingers, reading COME on the left hand and HOME on the right, in a lettering style on the hand.
COME HOME lettering across fingers
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Never give up in ornate script with flourishes, sketched in pencil on paper beside a pencil.
Never give up lettering design
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow with two feathers and the word Serendipity in cursive script, placed on the upper shoulder near the neck.
Arrow, feathers and script on the shoulder
Close-up of a person's ear with a small black fine line script tattoo reading What and a symbol, placed behind the ear.
Small script word behind the ear
Close view of a small black lettering tattoo of a two-line quote across the upper back, with dark hair tied up above it.
Quote tattoo on upper back
Black script lettering beside a small cross on the top of a foot, reading the end of a phrase ending in 'walks with me...'.
Script quote with cross on foot
Two black ink tattoos of the word love in ornate script lettering, one on each wrist, shown side by side.
Matching love lettering on two wrists
Black script lettering reading Love on the side of a woman's neck, photographed from behind with the sea and a small island in the background.
Script love lettering on the neck
Black Lettering-style script tattoo reading "Only after disaster can we be resurrected" on the upper arm of a man with his arm raised behind his head.
Quote tattoo on upper arm
Fine line black ink infinity symbol with the words you and me in script on the back of a hand, with fingers clasped around it.
Infinity symbol with you and me on the hand
Fine line black tattoo of a heart outline with the word Internet in cursive script running across it, on the upper arm.
Internet script in a heart on upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'Open your mind, its beautiful inside' running along the inner forearm against a dark leather background.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine black capital lettering reading TONY HAWK on the lower back, in a black and white photo with a dark top and black thong visible.
Small TONY HAWK lettering on lower back
Black script lettering reading Dream, with a swirl across the D and two star bursts, on the inner wrist in a fine line style.
Dream script with star bursts on a wrist
Fine line black script tattoo reading Enjoy across the inner wrist, with a thin silver chain bracelet below it.
Enjoy script on a wrist
Two black script tattoos reading Be Brave, one on the inside of a wrist and one at the nape of the neck, in a lettering style.
Matching Be Brave script tattoos
Two matching fine line script tattoos on wrists, one reading 'to' with an infinity symbol and the other reading 'and beyond'.
Matching 'to infinity and beyond' wrist tattoos
Black script lettering reading Fidem habe across the upper thigh of a woman wearing a grey top.
Fidem habe script on a thigh
Close view of a small black script lettering tattoo on the lower leg just above the ankle, with a person wearing black wedge sandals.
Small script tattoo on an ankle
Black ink Arabic script lettering tattooed across the inner forearm, photographed with the arm raised against a gallery-style room.
Arabic script on a forearm
Fine line black script reading Love you more inside an infinity symbol, with a small red heart, on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with "Love you more" on a wrist
Black and grey serif lettering tattoo of a two-line quote running across the inner forearm.
Two-line quote across the forearm
Black and white photo of fine line cursive script lettering running diagonally along a forearm, with the hand relaxed below.
Cursive script lettering on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Strength on the inner wrist, with a sweater cuff visible below.
Strength script on a wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'spark' on the side of the ribs, shown under a loose white vest top.
Script word 'spark' on side ribs
Black fine script lettering reading Always on my mind and Forever in my heart, with two outlined hearts, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Script quote with two outlined hearts
Black blackletter script reading Daughter tattooed on the top of a foot, just above the edge of a dark shoe.
Daughter lettering on the foot
Fine line black tattoo on the inner wrist showing an infinity loop with the words life and hope in script, with a small anchor hanging below.
Infinity loop with anchor and script words on wrist
Fine line black script lettering tattoo on the outer thigh of a person in denim shorts on a sandy beach.
Small script tattoo on a thigh
Two photos of fine line black script lettering: the words amica mea on the upper back near the neck, and soror mea on the inner forearm.
Script lettering on upper back and forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Courage on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Courage script on a wrist
Close-up of a black serif lettering tattoo reading 'and to wonder what was going to happen next' across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Quote tattoo on the upper chest
Black serif lettering on a forearm reading so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive, in a Lettering style on the forearm.
Serif quote tattoo on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading part of a Latin phrase ending in audere semper, in a plain lettering style on the outer thigh of a leg.
Latin lettering along the thigh
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded rose with a stem and leaves, and the word Strenght in cursive script above it, on the side of a hip.
Script word and rose on a hip
Two people seen from behind showing matching black script tattoos across their ribs, with jeans and a belt visible below.
Matching script tattoos across two ribcages