Tattoo ideas

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

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Colour traditional-style tattoo of a grey seagull perched on a rope-wrapped anchor, with the words fall out boy in black script below, on a forearm.
Seagull perched on an anchor with script
Black serif lettering on an inner forearm reads may I never be complete, may I never be content and may I never be perfect.
Three-line quote in serif lettering on an arm
Gold metallic brush-script lettering reading bride tribe on the inner wrist, with a pink paper flower in the background.
Gold bride tribe script on a wrist
Black and grey fine line script lettering runs along the side of two bare feet near the ankles, one line reading Maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Script quote tattoos along two feet
Black lettering tattoo in a handwritten script reading Chase your dreams but always know the road that leads you home again, placed along the ribs.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Flash sheet of tattoo designs photographed on a gift box, including a blue owl, a koi fish, a realistic eye, three BELIEVE lettering designs and a feathered headdress, all shown without a body
Traditional flash sheet with owl, eye and lettering
Black and white photo of two hands clasped together, showing a small fine line K with a heart on one finger and a Q with a heart on the other, with script-style tattoos across the back of the hand.
King and queen card tattoos on fingers
Black script lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with small bird silhouettes, tattooed on the top of a bare foot on wet sand.
Script quote and birds on a foot
Two black fine-line script tattoos with a Deathly Hallows triangle symbol on the soles of a pair of feet, one reading Mischief Managed and the other I solemnly swear.
Deathly Hallows and script quotes on two feet
Black serif capital lettering tattooed vertically down the centre of a person's lower back, shown in a Lettering style on the Back.
Vertical lettering down the spine
Black lion tattoo on the forearm, its body formed from the words Hakuna Matata in a bold tribal-style lettering design.
Lion formed from Hakuna Matata lettering
Black and grey realism tattoo of orchids and flower buds with cursive script across the shoulder and upper arm.
Black and grey orchids and script on upper arm
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a wolf head beneath pine trees with the words Winter is coming curved around it, on the upper thigh.
Wolf head and pine trees on a thigh
Close-up of a fine script lettering tattoo reading Diabetic, with the 1 in teal, on the inner wrist.
Diabetic script lettering on inner wrist
Fine line black script reading We Are Wild? on a person's arm, shown beside a handwritten copy of the same phrase on paper.
We Are Wild script on an arm
Black script lettering reading 'what the heart once owned, it shall never lose' on the outer forearm of a person standing indoors.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Two forearms held side by side, each with black serif lettering tattooed along the inner arm, forming part of a quote.
Matching lettering tattoos on two forearms
Black fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the words life and love in script on the lower back, with an anchor hanging from the loop.
Infinity anchor with life and love script
Two panels show black and grey script lettering on an upper arm: the word Cursed in shaded lettering above, and the word Blessed in solid black script with swirling flourishes below.
Cursed and blessed script lettering on an arm
Black ink drawing of the word free in cursive script inside a circle wrapped with fine line leaves and vines, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Free script inside a vine wreath
Back of a person's neck below a khaki cap, showing a black lettering tattoo of the HTML tags </head> and <body> in a plain sans-serif typeface.
HTML head and body tags on the neck
Black script tattoo of the word Hope with a thin green stroke through the H, on the inner wrist.
Hope script on the inner wrist
Fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with the words One and Love in script on the side of a torso.
Infinity symbol with One Love script
Black handwritten script reading be brave, framed by green leaves and small orange, yellow and pink flowers, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Be brave script with flower wreath
Black and grey rose with leaves on the outer leg beside a script tattoo on the other leg, both photographed in bathwater.
Rose and script tattoos on legs in a bath
Black and grey script lettering runs down a man's side over the ribs, while another man's arm shows a realistic skull sleeve from upper arm to forearm.
Script on ribs and skull sleeve on arm
Black script lettering tattoos on both ankles, shown above black leather brogues and rolled dark jeans on mossy ground.
Script tattoos on both ankles
Two hands held together, with the word FRIENDS in black lettering tattooed across the fingers and dark nail polish on the nails, a Lettering tattoo on the hand.
FRIENDS lettering across fingers
Two people sit side by side showing black fine line script tattoos on their upper backs, one reading Together forever, never apart and the other reading maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Matching script quotes on two upper backs
Black and grey photo of two matching script lettering tattoos reading Always and Forever on the hips, one reversed in order, with a leopard print bikini bottom visible.
Always and Forever script tattoos on two hips
Black script reading dream by day with a bird perched on a branch on the upper back, beside a Celtic knot tattoo on the upper arm.
Dream by day script and bird on shoulder
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a purple haunted castle, orange moon and bats on a forearm, with a script word along the bottom.
Haunted castle and moon on a forearm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading In Christ Alone across the upper arm, in a lettering style.
In Christ Alone lettering on an upper arm
Black fine line tattoo of a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol with the word always in script beneath it, on the inner wrist.
Deathly Hallows symbol with script on wrist
Two wrists held together showing matching black script lettering with a crown above each word, reading Queen on the left and King on the right.
Matching Queen and King wrist tattoos
Black script lettering reading 'I am not a gun' on an inner forearm, with a red splash and a thin underline swoosh, photographed inside a car.
Script phrase 'I am not a gun' on a forearm
Colour realism tattoo of a faceted diamond filled with a galaxy and a dark planet, with ...and beyond script beneath it, on the upper arm.
Galaxy diamond with ...and beyond script
Black and grey script lettering with scrollwork tattooed along the side of the ribs, reading a line of scripture across several lines.
Scripture lettering along the ribs
Small solid black ampersand tattoo in a lettering style on the upper forearm of a person wearing a grey vest top, against white bedding.
Small black ampersand on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo reading Keep fighting, stay strong and live with hope, running along a forearm resting on a white textured blanket.
Keep fighting script quote on forearm
Watercolour-style world map tattoo in pink, yellow and teal with black script reading Life's a Journey not a Race, on the forearm.
World map and script quote on forearm
Close-up of a fine-line black script tattoo reading Today is a gift on the upper back of a person with short dark hair.
Today is a gift script on upper back
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Expecto Patronum on the upper arm of a person wearing a white dress.
Expecto Patronum script on upper arm
Close photo of a realistic eye tattoo with a blue iris and black and grey script above it, on the inner wrist and hand.
Realistic blue eye tattoo on the wrist
Back of a woman with a fine line tattoo running down the spine from the nape, ending in small lowercase lettering that reads october, in the Fine line and Lettering style.
Thin spine line ending in the word october
Gold metallic temporary tattoo of brush lettering reading Bride's bitches on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Gold foil lettering on the inner wrist
Black ink tattoo of Roman numerals XXVI XI XC with a looping script line above it, on the inner wrist beside a gold watch.
Roman numerals and script on a wrist
Fine line design of a cross with the word faith written in cursive along its upright, drawn in black ink on a scratched sepia background, with no body placement shown.
Faith script on a cross design

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