Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white photo of a black script quote tattoo on a lower leg, with a Lord of the Rings paperback held above it.
Quote lettering on a calf
Colour tattoo on a forearm of pink roses and green leaves with black outlines, wrapped by a ribbon banner carrying lettering, in a neo-traditional style.
Roses and ribbon banner on a forearm
Purple line drawing of a leaping lion pierced by two arrows, with a banner reading BE NOT AFRAID across its body, in a traditional tattoo flash style.
Leaping lion with arrows and banner
Black linework tattoo on an upper leg showing the words BAD LUCK IS BETTER THAN NO LUCK, a skull and crossed bones, with a hand touching the skin.
Skull, bones and quote tattoo on a thigh
Line drawing design of a pink heart balloon with a fine line string forming the words love you, shown on a plain cream background with no body placement visible.
Heart balloon with love you script
Colour tattoo of an ornate hot air balloon with the word Freedom in black script below it, on the outer thigh.
Hot air balloon and Freedom script on a thigh
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a hanging wooden sign reading Gone to market, placed on the top of a foot.
Gone to market sign on a foot
Hand-drawn black ink lettering reading Ph 1:6 with a semicolon-like mark and a cross, circled on lined notebook paper, shown as a tattoo design sketch.
Hand-drawn Ph 1:6 lettering with a cross
Black cursive script lettering tattoo wrapping diagonally around the outer thigh, shown in a close photo of a bare leg in shorts.
Black script lettering around a thigh
Handwritten black script reading "with you, I am home." in a fine line lettering design on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Handwritten "with you, I am home" script
Sketchy black linework winged bird with a red heart and red and black lettering tattooed along the side of a ribcage.
Winged bird and lettering on ribs
Fine line black script lettering with a small aeroplane silhouette tattooed across the ankle and lower leg.
Script lettering and aeroplane on ankle
Black and grey lettering tattoos across the fingers and back of both hands of a man in a tweed suit and tie.
Lettering tattoos on fingers and hands
Black ink script lettering reading wibbly wobbly timey wimey on the calf, with a small word tattoo on the ankle above a black high-top trainer.
Lettering tattoo on a calf
Two matching black tattoos on the inner wrists: the word Beauty in flowing script on one wrist and BEAST in angular blackletter capitals on the other.
Beauty and Beast wrist lettering
Fine black cursive script tattoo curving along the outer thigh, with lettering that reads she laughs without fear of the future.
Script quote tattoo along the thigh
Black fine-line script tattoo reading With faith comes hope, ending in a small heart, on the side of a woman's ankle and foot.
With faith comes hope script on ankle
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded balloon and the script quote Sometimes you need to let things go, running diagonally across the upper back.
Balloon and quote across the upper back
Black lettering design of three Chinese characters with the English words live, laugh and love printed beneath them, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Live laugh love in Chinese characters
Black fine line lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of a person's upper back, from the nape of the neck.
Vertical script tattoo down the spine
Fine line fairy outline with sparkles and the word Believe in script tattooed on the forearm near the wrist.
Fairy and Believe script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Forever 18 with a small butterfly beside it, on the lower abdomen of a person wearing a yellow swimsuit.
Forever 18 script and butterfly on the abdomen
Hand-drawn grey lettering design reading IF NOT NOW WHEN, with the words stacked and shaded in pencil on paper.
If not now when lettering design
Black script quote tattoo across the outer thigh, with denim shorts visible above it.
Script quote tattoo on a thigh
Black script lettering reading Blood Makes You Related and Loyalty Makes You Family runs across a forearm, with a white star on black behind it.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo in a typewriter font on the inner forearm, reading 'And in that moment, I swear we were infinite', set against a dark sleeve.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Two matching fine line black infinity symbol tattoos with a small cross and script words sister and love, with Proverbs 3:15 beneath each, shown on the inner wrists.
Matching infinity wrist tattoos with script
Black script reading Tale as old as time runs across the fingers of a hand, with a small pink rose and green stem below it on the back of the hand.
Tale as old as time script and rose on hand
Close-up of the word hope in thin, lilac-toned script tattooed along a finger, a fine line lettering piece on the hand.
Hope lettering on a finger
Dark-outlined tree tattoo with green leaves and red and green lettering reading Money, the root of all evil, on a person's upper back.
Tree with money lettering on upper back
Black and grey shaded blackletter lettering reading Semper Fidelis across the upper back, with a 3D ribbon effect.
Semper Fidelis lettering across upper back
Colour tattoo of a pink cherry blossom branch with a black script quote above it, placed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Cherry blossom quote on upper back
Black and grey fine line script reading Hakuna Matata across the forearm.
Hakuna Matata script on a forearm
Collage of four couple tattoos in fine black and blue linework, including script reading to and beyond on wrists, Mickey and Minnie on hands, MRS and MR on forearms, and a kissing silhouette on a
Matching couple tattoos in a four-photo collage
Close photograph of fine script lettering reading Psalm 23:4 on skin, in a fine line lettering style.
Psalm 23:4 script lettering on skin
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading isaiah 46:4 across the inner forearm.
Isaiah 46:4 script on a forearm
Black ink script lettering reading BRAVE with a small arrow above the first letter, tattooed on an ankle.
Brave lettering with arrow on an ankle
Close photo of a black and grey crown above the words Keep Calm and Carry On, a lettering tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Crown and Keep Calm lettering on a wrist
Forearm tattoo of a purple, blue and teal feather with black cursive script reading When you left me behind you see me free.
Feather and quote script on a forearm
Black block lettering reading MADE IN ENGLAND on a forearm, with a small dark design above it.
Made in England lettering on a forearm
Flash-style drawing of a large key wrapped in two banners reading Courage is the Key, with a heart-shaped lock, a compass and bubbles, in traditional-style colour outlines.
Key with Courage is the Key banners
Black handwritten script reading Once Upon a Dream on the inner side of a bare foot, resting on a textured grey carpet.
Once Upon a Dream script tattoo on a foot
Black script lettering quote running across a forearm tattoo with a small red and pink flower with a green stem on the left.
Script quote and flower on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost, tattooed along the ribs of a person wearing a black top and leopard print band.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black script reading Love me for who I am across the upper chest, with a small butterfly above the text and a larger shaded butterfly on the shoulder.
Script quote and butterflies on collarbone
Close-up of a thin black cursive script quote tattooed along the side of a person's ribs, with denim shorts and a white crop top visible.
Cursive quote tattoo on the ribs
Grey-shaded lotus flower with pale blue swirls and black Hebrew lettering across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Lotus and Hebrew script on a foot
White line drawing of two crossed arrows with the word adventure written in script along the shaft, on a black background, as a tattoo design.
Crossed arrows with adventure script

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