Tattoo ideas

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

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Black hand-lettered text reading WHATEVER YOU DO in three lines on the inner upper arm, against a pink background.
Whatever you do lettering on an upper arm
Two side-by-side photographs of black lettering tattoos: I'm fine on the upper arm and save me on the shoulder.
I'm fine and save me script tattoos
Black and grey handprint and footprint tattoo with script name and Roman numerals on an upper arm.
Handprint and footprint with name on upper arm
Black and grey script lettering reading Est. 1986 on the outer upper arm.
Est. 1986 lettering on upper arm
Fine-line French script tattoo running along the upper arm of a person lying on a bed, with a blue-grey feather tattoo near the elbow.
French script and feather tattoos on an arm
Shirtless torso of a man with colour traditional-style sleeve tattoos on both arms, including a woman's head with flowers on the upper arm and a pocket watch, and black lyric text on the ribs.
Colour sleeves and lyric text on ribs
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a snow globe with an aurora sky, pine trees and snowflakes on an upper arm, with the word Dreamer beside it.
Snow globe with aurora and the word Dreamer
Traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with a pompadour hairstyle, a cigarette and red flowers on an upper arm, with the words Rockin N Rollin and N What Not.
Sugar skull with pompadour on upper arm
Two arms pressed together showing fine line black lettering reading GIRL ALMIGHTY on a forearm and SHE'S NOT AFRAID on an upper arm.
Girl Almighty and She's Not Afraid lettering
Two script lettering tattoos with small orange sun designs, one reading You are my sunshine on the upper back and one reading My only sunshine on the upper arm.
Matching sun and sunshine lyric tattoos
Two arms flexed toward the camera, each with a colour pizza slice tattoo with pepperoni and HOME-SLICE lettering in traditional style, with roses and banners on the upper arm.
Matching pizza slice tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey realism tattoo of feathers and a rose on an upper arm and forearm, with Roman numerals X II MCMXLIX in a line on the forearm.
Feather wing and rose on an arm
Fine line black tattoo of angular letterforms and chevron shapes on the inner upper arm.
Angular letterforms on the upper arm
Black Devanagari-style script lettering tattoo on the outer upper arm, shown in close view with a dark sleeve at the shoulder.
Devanagari-style script on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo of many words arranged in a flowing shape across a person's upper arm, with the text running down toward the elbow.
Words arranged in a flowing shape on upper arm
Fine black script lettering reading love is patient and love is kind on the inner upper arm, with a denim sleeve above.
Love is patient, love is kind lettering on arm
Black and grey semicolon tattoo with a swirled shaded dot and tail, above the words Our story isnt over yet, on an upper arm.
Semicolon with quote on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of orchids with flowing script lettering across the shoulder and upper arm.
Orchids and script on an upper arm
Close-up of a bare arm with black lettering reading LUCE in capitals on the upper arm and a small script line on the forearm near the elbow.
Luce and script lettering on an arm
Colour tattoo on an arm of the word Hope in black script above a pink and teal ribbon looping through a black heart outline.
Hope script, ribbon and heart on upper arm
Colour traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a T-rex, a raptor and a sunburst beside roses, leaves and two banners with lettering.
Dinosaurs, roses and banners on an upper arm
Black and grey arm sleeve with a rose on the shoulder and a script tattoo on the ribs, on a reclining woman in a black lace bralette.
Arm sleeve and side script tattoos
Close view of a black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font on an upper arm, with the text cropped at the edge of the frame.
Partly visible lettering tattoo on upper arm
Black and white photo from behind of a woman in a white vest top and patterned underwear, showing a script tattoo on the neck and rose tattoos on the upper arms.
Rose and script tattoos on arms and neck
Close-up photo of a grey-black lettering tattoo on the upper arm, with the letters a, r and m stacked vertically in a serif font.
Stacked serif letters spelling arm on upper arm
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a tree in a circle, an engraved hand and printed French text in a vintage style.
Vintage engraving sleeve with tree and hand
Colour neo-traditional style tattoo on an upper arm with two ribbon banners bearing a quotation above a geometric emblem in red, blue and cream.
Ribbon banner quote and emblem on upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo of three words on the upper arm of a woman with long dark hair.
Script lettering on an upper arm
Black script lettering reading Let me be on the upper arm and a solid black cross on the ribs, both in a simple lettering and bold outline style.
Script on upper arm and cross on ribs
Small fine line tattoo reading The END, with script The above block capitals END, in dark ink on an upper arm.
The END lettering on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Thy will be done, running diagonally across the upper arm.
Thy will be done script on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading 'Though she be but little, she is fierce' in mixed block capitals and script on the upper arm, in a lettering style.
Quote lettering on upper arm
Small fine-line black tattoo of a letter P with a single dot beneath it on the upper arm.
Small letter P with dot on upper arm
Woman in a lace bra and open plaid shirt, showing a traditional-style rose and bird tattoo on her ribs, script lettering on her upper chest, and a rose and portrait design on her thigh.
Rose and bird tattoos on torso and thigh
Black line tattoo of the words How strange it is to be anything at all inside a looping scroll frame, shown on an arm.
Quote in a swirl frame on an arm
Collage of five black tattoos in fine line and lettering, including a quote on the ribs, the number 9 3/4 on a wrist, a cat on the hip and a face on the forearm.
Five small black tattoos: quotes, a cat and a face
Black and grey botanical tattoos with an arrow and script lettering on a woman's upper arm and forearm, in a photo where she wears a white dreamcatcher-print t-shirt.
Floral and leaf tattoos on upper arm and forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading 'for a minute there, I lost myself' in a typewriter-style font on an upper arm, shown in a close-up beside a photo of a person in a knitted jumper.
Typewriter-style quote tattoo on an upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo spelling the word faith across the upper arm near the elbow.
Faith script tattoo on the upper arm
Black lettering tattoos, including KEEP GRL PWR, on a forearm beside a red floral tattoo on an upper arm, with a mandala owl printed on a white T-shirt.
Lettering tattoos with an owl print tee
Black fine line eye within a triangle with small lettering on the upper arm, and the words be strong girl with small stars on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and strong girl lettering
Black fine line tattoo of Tengwar Elvish script running across the inner upper arm of a person with the arm raised.
Tengwar script lettering on inner upper arm
Woman lying on sand in a black hat and white crochet top, with a small black script tattoo on her upper arm and a small dark design near her shoulder, in fine line style.
Small script tattoo on upper arm
Black and white photo of a Latin phrase, OMNIA CAUSA FIUNT, set in serif capitals across the upper arm in lettering tattoo.
Latin lettering on upper arm
Colour tattoo on the upper arm of green and teal yarn balls, a red yarn skein and pink flowers, with the words Keep Calm arched above and Carry Yarn below.
Yarn balls and flowers with Keep Calm Carry Yarn
Close view of the words In Christ Alone in black typewriter-style lettering on the upper arm of a person wearing a knitted sleeve.
In Christ Alone lettering on an upper arm
Close photo of a small black lettering tattoo reading tattoo on the upper arm, just below a grey t-shirt sleeve.
The word tattoo on an upper arm
Black fine line lettering reading BABE IS BUSY on the outer upper arm of a woman in a grey t-shirt seated in a salon chair.
Small black lettering on an upper arm

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