Tattoo ideas

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

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Colourful neo-traditional sleeve tattoo on an upper arm showing a blue TARDIS police box, a Dalek and stormy sky with lightning.
TARDIS and Dalek full sleeve
Black fine line script reading brick by brick on the upper arm, with the arm raised and bent at the elbow.
Brick by brick script on upper arm
Full sleeve tattoo in colour showing a blue TARDIS, a Dalek and a helmeted astronaut among galaxies and tentacles, on an upper arm.
Doctor Who themed sleeve tattoo
Black and grey botanical sleeve with peonies, roses and small flowers covering a woman's shoulder, upper arm and forearm.
Black and grey floral sleeve on an arm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a smiling woman with an updo and purple headband, beside a blue rose and green leaves on an arm.
Woman portrait with blue rose on arm
Black and grey realism full sleeve on an upper arm and forearm, showing a helicopter, two faces and lightning, with small red accents.
Realistic sleeve with helicopter and faces
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pocket watch with a beaded chain and looping script lettering around it, on an upper arm.
Pocket watch with script quote
Colour photo of a black bat wing fading into red with scattered red, green and purple HA lettering on the upper arm.
Bat wing and laughing HA lettering on upper arm
Four-panel photo of a black and grey full arm sleeve with clouds, sunburst rays, doves, a pocket watch, an anchor and a compass rose, on the upper arm and forearm.
Black and grey cloud sleeve with doves and anchor
Colour tattoo of a three-dimensional lightning bolt in shades of orange, red and yellow with dark edges, on the upper arm.
Orange 3D lightning bolt on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo reading I am all made out of shipwrecks in a typewriter style on the inner upper arm, with a knitted sleeve pushed up above it.
Quote lettering on an upper arm
Colourful rainbow paint splash tattoo with black Born This Way lettering and an equals sign on an upper arm, in a painterly style.
Rainbow paint splash with Born This Way on upper arm
Watercolour-style skull tattoo in blue, pink, orange and green with black splatters, on the upper arm of a person wearing a yellow top.
Watercolour skull on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of open scissors with a dark blue ribbon and small stars on the upper arm, with pink shading.
Scissors and ribbon on an upper arm
Colour tattoo of feathers with orange and red accents and a black beaded band across the inner upper arm.
Feathers with a beaded band on the upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a grey flying saucer with a red glow and dotted tractor beam lifting a small green alien head, on the upper arm.
Flying saucer and green alien on an upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of orchid blooms and a closed bud trailing down the inner upper arm, with soft shading.
Orchid sprig tattoo on upper arm
Full sleeve tattoo of cartoon video game scenes with clouds, a green pipe and a red piranha plant, in traditional style on an upper arm.
Video game sleeve on upper arm
Black ink Polynesian tribal sleeve tattoo covering a man's upper arm and shoulder, with bold solid bands and geometric patterns.
Polynesian tribal full arm sleeve
Black ink sleeves of text fragments, grid lines and scribbled marks covering both forearms and upper arms.
Text and grid sleeves on both arms
Black script tattoo reading take your time don't live too fast, troubles will come and they will pass, with three bird silhouettes, on the inner upper arm.
Script quote and three birds on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a robin perched on a branch with red flowers and leaves, on the upper arm.
Robin and flowers on an upper arm
Neo-traditional colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a split portrait of a red-haired woman and a man in a dark suit, with a UFO and green beam.
Split portrait with UFO and green beam on upper arm
Dark ink scrollwork armband with draped chains and small crystal accents on a woman's upper arm.
Scrollwork armband with draped chains
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo of a horse head wearing a pearl-strung bridle and peony flowers, on the upper arm.
Horse portrait with peonies on upper arm
Close crop of a woman in a peach bikini showing a small black fine line tattoo on her upper arm and a few small marks on her hip.
Small fine line tattoos on arm and hip
Mirrored photo of a realism and abstract-style shoulder and upper arm tattoo with a clock face, a skull, a white wing, stars and the words 2nd Amendment, with red splashes.
Clock, skull and wing shoulder tattoo
Small black fine line tattoo of a hand with crossed fingers and a small flower, placed on the upper arm.
Crossed fingers and flower on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a woman with dark bobbed hair holding a cigarette, framed in a square, on the upper arm.
Woman with cigarette in a square frame
Black and grey honeybee tattoo on the upper arm, surrounded by berries, leaves and flowers, with the Latin phrase Alis volat propriis below.
Honeybee and botanicals on an upper arm
Colour and black and grey tattoo of a sailor in a cap embracing a figure, framed by a ship's wheel over a red circle, on the upper arm.
Sailor embrace inside a ship's wheel on an arm
Close-up of a small, fine line ankh tattoo in dark ink on the upper arm, with a hand with coral nails holding the arm.
Small ankh tattoo on an upper arm
Colourful watercolour-style tattoo of a cat face with blue eyes and splashes of blue, purple, green, orange and pink on an upper arm.
Watercolour cat face on upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a tied rosemary sprig on the upper arm, with a wasp near the shoulder and a moth below.
Rosemary sprig and insects on upper arm
Black and grey crucifixion tattoo with red accents on a shoulder and upper arm, showing a figure on a cross, a crown of thorns, birds and rows of crosses.
Crucifixion scene on upper arm
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quote set in typewriter-style type across the upper arm.
Typewriter-style quote on upper arm
Black tower silhouette with a red sun, two birds, a small cloaked figure and a red rose tattooed on an upper arm.
Tower silhouette with red sun and rose on upper arm
Woman seated with a realistic black and grey animal portrait on one leg and a colourful cat, ladybird and hummingbird sleeve on her arm.
Animal sleeves with cat, ladybird and bird
Realistic colour tattoo of a helmeted Roman warrior with a plume, eagle and lion armour details, on the upper arm against an orange background.
Roman warrior in armour on upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a large peony with small five-petalled flowers and leaves on the upper arm.
Peony and blossoms on an upper arm
Three-panel photo of a geometric full arm sleeve tattoo in red and black, with a red star motif on the upper arm and a dark rosette pattern on the forearm.
Geometric red and black full sleeve tattoo
Black and grey realism tattoo of a fluffy dog with a bow tie inside an ornate scrollwork oval frame on an arm, shown in three views.
Dog portrait in ornate frame
Black and white photo of a thin, handwritten quote in black lettering along a forearm, with shaded grey tattooing on the upper arm.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black tribal tattoo covering a shirtless man's shoulder and upper arm, with bold swirls and spiked solid lines.
Tribal shoulder and upper arm tattoo
Black band tattoo with white botanical linework of peonies, leaves and small flowers around the upper arm, shown in three photographs.
Floral band tattoo around the upper arm
Black and grey dotwork mandala tattoo covering the shoulder blade and upper arm of a person photographed from behind.
Mandala tattoo across shoulder and upper arm
Black and grey engraved-style rose with two buds and leaves tattooed across the upper arm.
Blackwork rose and buds on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a corked bottle holding a scroll with a red heart, flanked by two red roses with green leaves, on the arm.
Message in a bottle with roses

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