Tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering and symbol tattoos on a forearm, including a platform 9 3/4 roundel, the word always, a golden snitch, a lightning bolt and the Deathly Hallows symbol.
Harry Potter themed tattoos on a forearm
Black typewriter-style lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade, set out as two lines of text.
Two-line quote across the upper back
Colour traditional tattoo of a teal house with a yellow roof inside a pink scalloped heart, with a home sweet home banner and red flowers on a lower leg.
Home sweet home house and heart on a calf
Black and grey infinity symbol tattoo with a shaded feather and the script words Faith and Love on the inner forearm.
Infinity feather with Faith and Love on a forearm
Black and white photo of a hand with the word MONSTER in hand-drawn black lettering tattooed on the inner wrist.
Monster lettering on inner wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading 'we accept the love we think we deserve' in a typewriter-style font across the upper back below the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Small black fine line lettering tattoo on the back of a neck, with hair pulled up and a blue checked shirt visible.
Small lettering on the back of the neck
Black script tattoo of the lyrics The girl was Bad and The girl was dangerous, with music notes and a red Bad accent, across the top of a foot.
Lyric script and music notes on a foot
Fine-line black script lettering tattoo on the back of a person's neck, just behind the ear, with dark hair pinned up.
Fine script lettering on the back of the neck
Colour tattoo of pink cherry blossoms and black swirling vines with script lettering and falling pink petals on the thigh.
Cherry blossom vine with script on a thigh
Two matching feather tattoos on a forearm, one teal with the words Her Mother and one pink with the words Her Daughter, in a colour illustrative style with dotwork stippling.
Pair of colour feather tattoos with script
Black linework alphabet sheet of capital letters A to Z in a decorative lettering style with solid dark fills, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Decorative uppercase alphabet lettering sheet
Black lettering on a woman's ribs reading 'she believed she could so she did' in a typewriter-style font, set in a stacked, left-aligned block.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Two forearms in black and grey showing matching heart outline tattoos with the words lil sister and big sister written in script on the forearms.
Matching big and lil sister heart tattoos
Black script lettering reading Always across the side of a finger, shown in a fine, handwritten lettering style.
Always script tattoo on a finger
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are enough, with small birds, on a forearm.
Quote and birds on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a torso in a bold, rounded typeface, reading a six-line quote about togetherness, placed on the ribs.
Quote lettering tattoo along the ribs
Black Greek script lettering tattooed diagonally across the back of a hand, in a thin, hand-drawn style.
Greek word lettering on the hand
Close-up of two interlaced hands with black script lettering across the fingers, reading forever his and forever hers.
Forever his and forever hers finger tattoos
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo running vertically along the side of a person's ribs.
Fine script along the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Walk by faith script on the foot
Two women seen from behind, each with the word Sorella in black script tattooed on the back of the neck.
Matching script word tattoos on the nape
Black dotwork and linework tattoo on a person's upper back showing a circular emblem with the numerals 042 inside a ring of angular script, with a small ornamental chain running up the spine.
Circular script emblem on upper back
Small fine line black script tattoo reading create on a woman's upper arm, photographed from behind at the beach.
Create script tattoo on upper arm
Black script lettering running along a forearm, with the hand resting on a laptop keyboard beside it.
Thin script word on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo on a forearm beside a gold wristwatch, with a fan of banknotes held up in front of the face.
Small script tattoo on a forearm
Woman seen from behind with a small black lettering quote tattoo across the lower back, above the waistband of black trousers.
Small lettering quote on lower back
Watercolour-style drawing of the cartoon character Stitch sitting beside the word OHANA in thin handwritten lettering on a cream background.
Stitch sitting beside the word Ohana
Close photo of a fine line black ink tattoo of the word free on the back of a hand, with a woman's shoulder and turquoise jewellery visible.
Free word tattoo on the back of a hand
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading Beloved on the side ribs, with a grey t-shirt lifted beside it.
Beloved script on the ribs
Two clasped hands show a black fine line script tattoo reading smile on each wrist.
Script word smile on two wrists
Black and grey script lettering reading it is what it is, with a looping flourish, tattooed on a lower leg above a sneaker in a black and white photo.
Script lettering reading it is what it is
Close-up of a fine-line black script tattoo reading smile across the inner wrist, with a grey sleeve and soft pink blurred background.
Smile script tattoo on a wrist
Black ink tattoo of two swallows above the words We Only Part To Meet Again in a typewriter-style font, on the side of the torso.
Two swallows above a quote on the side
Black ink tattoo of a circular flower inside a ring of block-capital text, placed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Circular flower and quote on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading La vie est faite de petits bonheurs on the inner forearm, with a lace fabric background.
French script quote on a forearm
Man in a white striped shirt and black tie with black and grey forearm tattoos, geometric linework on the left arm and leaves with script on the right forearm.
Linework sleeves on both forearms
Gold metallic temporary tattoo reading bride tribe in script with a small diamond above, on the forearm near the wrist.
Bride tribe script with diamond on forearm
Black ink flash design of a feather dissolving into small birds, with the words stay strong in fine script looping through an infinity symbol.
Feather, birds and infinity script reading stay strong
Black handwritten script reading "you can do this" in a brush lettering style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
"You can do this" script lettering design
White ambigram lettering reading witch on a black background, a design that also reads the same when turned upside down.
Witch ambigram lettering design
Black line drawing of the words you are my anchor in handwritten lettering, above an anchor whose shank forms a heart, suitable as a lettering and anchor tattoo design.
You are my anchor lettering with anchor and heart
Black and grey forearm tattoo of a vintage microphone and two roses, with a banner reading The best is yet to come, in a realistic shaded style.
Microphone and roses banner on forearm
Black fine line script reading Family within an infinity loop, with three small birds, tattooed on the top of a foot.
Family script with infinity loop and birds on a foot
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading here and now on the inside of a forearm near the wrist.
Here and now script on a wrist
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Sketchy black and red linework tattoo of three faces on a man's upper back, with vertical lettering running down the left side of the spine.
Three faces and vertical lettering on a back
Black script lettering reading "You have no power over me" with fine vines and three small pink and blue shaded orbs, on the side of a thigh.
"You have no power over me" script on thigh

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