Tattoo ideas

49,007 photos and flash · 24% Fine line, 17% Lettering · Forearm most common

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Black lettering tattoo reading ELATION, ELEGANCE, EXALTATION and I LOVE SUPREME on a forearm, with a person in zebra-print shorts holding a cigarette in front of a brick wall.
Four-line text tattoo on a forearm
Black fine lettering reading 'I love you' and 'I KNOW', each paired with a Rebel Alliance style emblem, tattooed on two forearms in black ink.
Rebel emblem with 'I love you' and 'I know' lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading smile on the inner wrist, shown in a black and white photo.
Smile script on the inner wrist
Close photo of the words The best is yet to come in thin black script tattooed diagonally along the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of the word lumos beside a four-pointed star on the inner wrist.
Lumos script and star on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Go and try you'll never break me, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote on the inner wrist
A small black ampersand tattoo in a thin, flowing script on the inner wrist, with the hand resting palm up.
Small ampersand on an inner wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a feathered arrow with a script word along the shaft, on the inner forearm.
Feathered arrow with script word on a forearm
Black and grey photo of the word dust in thin script lettering on the inner forearm, with a watch strap and an open book behind.
Dust script lettering on a wrist
Black ink script quote reading Through Dangers Untold and Hardships Unnumbered on the inner wrist, beside a white dogwood flower on stone.
Quote on the inner wrist beside a dogwood flower
Fine line black script tattoo of a semicolon followed by the word live on the inner wrist.
Semicolon and live on a wrist
Dark ink tattoo of the word DANCE on the inner wrist, with the letters formed from small silhouetted dancing figures.
Word DANCE with dancer figures on wrist
Black script quote reading 'Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live' on one forearm, with a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and heart on forearms
Black script tattoo reading 'To have faith, is to fly' above a solid black silhouette of a flying figure, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote and flying silhouette on a wrist
Close photo of a black script tattoo reading live.out.loud across the inner wrist, with green painted nails and a silver watch strap.
Live.out.loud script on the wrist
Two forearms side by side with fine black script tattoos on the inner arms, reading Um coração on the left and Um amor on the right, in a black and white photograph.
Um coração and um amor forearm script
Two forearms with matching black lettering of latitude and longitude coordinates in a simple serif font, the lower line rotated upside down in the photo.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on two forearms
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Two matching black script tattoos reading Post tenebras lux, one on each forearm, with flowing lettering and a small swirl at the end of the phrase.
Post tenebras lux lettering on forearms
Black and grey fine line lettering on the inner forearm reading she has fire in her soul and grace in her heart, set in two lines.
Two-line quote on inner forearm
Two raised thumbs show matching small black script tattoos on the inside wrists, with a drink on a dark table behind.
Matching script tattoos on two wrists
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading life doesn't stop for anybody across the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Colour lettering tattoo reading Mischief Managed in a circle, with a purple smoke trail, green and yellow stars and a wand on an arm.
Mischief Managed lettering with purple smoke trail and wand
Fine line black infinity symbol on a forearm, with the script words hakuna matata written inside the loop.
Infinity symbol with script wording on a forearm
Black fine line handwritten tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a small crescent moon below, on the inner wrist beneath a metal watch.
Quote and crescent moon on a wrist
Black and grey photo of the word Angel in script on one inner wrist and Devil with a tail flourish on the other, both in a lettering style.
Angel and devil wrist lettering
Black script lettering on a forearm reading Blood Makes You Related and Loyalty Makes You Family, against a dark table with a white star.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of the word choice in fine line script lettering on the forearm, near a woven bracelet.
Script word choice on the forearm
Black script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a black crescent moon below it, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Quote and crescent moon on the inner wrist
Black arrow tattoo on a forearm with the words endure and survive set along the shaft in typewriter lettering.
Endure and survive arrow on a forearm
Close photograph of a fine line script tattoo reading Let It Be in white ink on the inner forearm, set against a leopard print background.
Let It Be script on the inner forearm
Black and grey photograph of a small solid airplane silhouette above the handwritten words home, where i wanted to go, tattooed on the inner wrist.
Airplane and quote on a wrist
Colour tattoo on an arm of a ball of teal and grey yarn crossed with two knitting needles, above and below the words KNIT FAST DIE WARM in traditional-style lettering.
Yarn ball with knitting needles and lettering
Black cursive script reading As I breathe, I hope across the inner forearm, in a fine line lettering style.
As I breathe, I hope script on a forearm
Close-up of a wrist with gold metallic temporary tattoos: a watch, a bangle and the words be happy and love in script on the forearm.
Gold metallic wrist tattoos with script and watch
Black fine line tattoo of a heart-shaped cross with the script lettering 'by grace, through faith' on the inner forearm.
Heart cross and 'by grace, through faith' lettering
Close photograph of a blue flower tattoo with black script reading Ohana on the inner wrist and forearm, in a lettering and botanical style.
Blue flower and Ohana script on a wrist
Two matching black and grey realism tattoos of a shaded feather looped by an infinity line, with the word Sisters in script, on two forearms.
Matching feather and infinity tattoos reading Sisters
Black and white photo of a fine line tattoo on the inner wrist, a heart outline with the word Love written in looping script inside it.
Script love heart on a wrist
Black and grey outline tattoo of a banner reading GRRRL on a forearm, with part of another tattoo visible above it.
GRRRL banner tattoo on forearm
Black ink tattoo on a forearm showing a handwritten quote, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate, beside a simple stick figure holding a briefcase.
Quote and stick figure on a forearm
Thin black lettering tattoo reading beloved on a forearm, beside an open Bible and brown leather case on a brown surface.
Beloved script on a forearm
Fine line black script reading if you're a bird, I'm a bird, with three bird silhouettes, tattooed on the wrist.
Script quote with three birds on a wrist
Black lettering reading Anam Cara in a flowing script across the inner wrist, with the hand visible below.
Anam Cara lettering on the wrist
Three raised wrists with gold metallic lettering: bride on the centre wrist and SQUAD with rules on each outer wrist, against a beach backdrop.
Gold bride and squad wrist tattoos
Colour tattoo of a pink coffee mug with teal leaves and the words death before decaf in teal script on a forearm, in a neo-traditional style.
Death before decaf mug on a forearm
Black script lettering reading que sera sera along the inner forearm, with the hands clasped over the knees in warm sunlight.
Que sera sera script on a forearm

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