Word tattoo ideas

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

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Fine line black tattoo of a small swallow in flight above the script word free, on the upper back beside a grey top.
Swallow and script word free on upper back
Close-up of a fine line black tattoo of the word Believe in cursive script with a small dragonfly, on the top of a foot.
Believe script with dragonfly on foot
Black handwritten script tattoo reading "You are what you love, not who loves you" across the upper chest, with a silver chain and grey top in view.
Handwritten quote across upper chest
Black italic script lettering reading 'If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful?' on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Italic quote lettering design
Close-up of a lettering tattoo reading 13.elieve on the forearm, with the 13 in pink and outlined and the rest in dark navy.
13.elieve lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Life is a beautiful struggle, Never let it define you, across the upper back near the shoulder.
Script quote across upper back
Fine line script tattoo reading family with a small heart, on the side of a finger on a hand resting on a fluffy white blanket.
Family script and heart on a finger
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading believe in yourself across the top of a shoulder.
Believe in yourself script on shoulder
Black script lettering reading Never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering tattoo across the forearm.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'There is a light that never goes out' across the upper back, shown in two photos.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Black ink tattoo of the word hope in cursive script running along an arrow with feathered fletching, on a forearm.
Hope script and arrow on a forearm
Black block lettering on the inner wrist reads 'Destroy what destroys you', a lettering tattoo on the forearm beside a grey knit sleeve.
Destroy what destroys you lettering on a wrist
Back view of a woman with a long fishtail braid showing a black fine script lettering tattoo running vertically down the spine, placed on the upper back.
Vertical script tattoo along the spine
Black fine line script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story, tattooed on a section of skin in a close-up photo.
Script quote reading The struggle is part of the story
Close photo of the word "breathe." tattooed in a typewriter-style font in black ink across the inner wrist of a hand.
Breathe lettering on the inner wrist
Two wrists with fine line black script tattoos reading just and breathe, placed on the inner wrists.
Just and breathe script on wrists
Two hands pressed together showing black script lettering reading Inhale love and Exhale hate across the fingers and back of the hands.
Inhale love and exhale hate on the fingers
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fear is the mind-killer across the inner wrist and forearm, shown in a close photograph.
Quote reading Fear is the mind-killer on a wrist
Teal script reading forgiven laid over a black line drawing of a cross, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script word forgiven over a cross
Black ink handwritten script design reading Happiness on a white background, drawn as a tattoo lettering sketch with no body part visible.
Happiness handwritten script lettering
Two forearms pressed together show black script lettering reading Forgive my sins and Touch my soul, with a red and multicoloured woven bracelet on one wrist.
Matching script quote tattoos on forearms
Black script lettering reading Smile across a finger, with the hand gripping a Canon camera.
Smile lettering on a finger holding a camera
Black fine line script tattoo reading miles to go, sitting along the side of the torso below a dark garment hem.
Miles to go in script on the side
Black ink lettering design reading Long Live the Adventure, set in a circle on white paper beside a camera, passport and pens, in a lettering style.
Long Live the Adventure lettering design
Black script lettering tattooed along a thigh, reading a four-line quote in a fine line style, with denim shorts rolled at the top of the frame.
Script lyric quote along a thigh
Fine line black script reading always with a small pink heart at the end, on the outer side of a foot near the ankle.
Always script with heart on foot
Close-up of a woman's shoulder and collarbone with the words "with every heartbeat" in black fine line script tattooed along the collarbone.
Script quote tattoo on the collarbone
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading dance on the side of a heel, in the Fine line and Lettering style.
Dance script lettering on the heel
Black outline heart tattoo made from the words unity, hope, faith and love, placed on an ankle in a lettering style.
Word heart tattoo on an ankle
Close-up of a black cursive tattoo spelling the word faith on the inner forearm of a woman in a white top.
Script word "faith" on a forearm
Black script lettering reading 'To live is just to fall asleep, to die is to awaken' across the upper chest, in a lettering style.
Script quote across upper chest
Black and red script lettering reading Money over Men with swirling flourishes, tattooed along a forearm.
Money over Men script lettering on a forearm
Close-up of a woman's inner forearm with a small black fine-line script tattoo of a few words, placed near the wrist.
Small script tattoo on a forearm
Small black script lettering reading Love with a tail swash, tattooed on the side of a finger in a Lettering style.
Script love lettering on a finger
Black script lettering reading Fai brillare la tua luce across the lower back, above a white lace waistband.
Italian script phrase across the lower back
Close photo of a small fine line script tattoo reading "free" across the back of a hand resting on a shoulder, in black ink.
Fine line word "free" on the hand
Close-up of a wrist with a small fine line script tattoo reading alive in dark ink, shown in a soft focus film photograph.
Script word alive on a wrist
Close-up of a small black fine line script tattoo running along the inner side of a foot, with blue sandals and a floral trouser hem visible above.
Fine script line tattoo on the foot
Fine black line tattoo of the word Love in looping script inside a heart outline, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Looped Love script in a heart on upper back
Black and grey photograph of the word Promise in a typewriter-style font tattooed along the side of a finger, with a heart-shaped ring on the neighbouring finger.
Promise lettering along a finger
Fine white ink script reading Still I Rise across the wrist, shown as a lettering piece on pale skin.
Still I Rise script on a wrist
Close view of two hands with blackletter lettering spelling RECKLESS across the finger segments in teal ink, with small cross marks above the knuckles.
Reckless lettering across knuckles
Black lettering tattoo reading think POSITIVE on the forearm, with a cross in place of the letter T in POSITIVE.
Think positive lettering with a cross on the forearm
Close-up of a fine line white ink script tattoo reading Love on the inner forearm near the wrist.
White ink script word Love on a wrist
Back view of a woman in a black top showing a small black fine line script tattoo on her upper arm, near the shoulder.
Fine line script tattoo on upper arm
Close-up of a dark serif lettering tattoo on a wrist reading 'It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live', in Lettering style on the forearm.
Serif quotation tattoo on a wrist
Thin black script reading fearless across the upper back, just below the neck, in a fine line lettering style.
Fearless script on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of the word lumos beside a four-pointed star on the inner wrist.
Lumos word and star on a wrist