Tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink hand-lettered word laugh joined to a heartbeat line and an open heart outline, drawn on a planner page.
Laugh script with heartbeat line and heart
Black handwritten script lettering on the inner forearm of a person, with a brush touching the skin near the start of the line.
Script quote on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a carved jack-o'-lantern with curling vines and the words Halloween Forever arched around it on a forearm.
Jack-o'-lantern with Halloween Forever lettering
Colour tattoo on an ankle showing two smiling cartoon characters holding hands in front of a yellow starburst, with script reading friends by chance and sisters by choice.
Friends by chance, sisters by choice lettering
Two matching fine line tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing the word Always, a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol, and small stars.
Matching Always and Deathly Hallows wrist tattoos
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
Colour tattoo of a butterfly with puzzle-piece patterned wings and black script reading I Will Fight above and Your Fight below, on skin.
Puzzle-piece butterfly with script lettering
Black lettering reading "send me" in a typewriter-style font across a forearm, with a faint blurred tattoo visible at the top left.
"send me" lettering on a forearm
Black and grey infinity tattoos with script reading My sisters protector and My brothers keeper on two inner forearms.
Infinity symbols with sibling script on wrists
Close photo of a thin black fine line script tattoo reading without struggle there is no progress, sitting on the side of the torso near a dark waistband.
Handwritten quote tattoo on the side torso
Hand-drawn tattoo design of a compass with pink flowers, leaves and a scroll banner reading Take Me Home, shaded in grey with coloured pencil accents.
Compass and flowers with Take Me Home banner
Black and white photo of two hands held together, with Mrs in script on one finger and Mr in block lettering on the neighbouring finger, both on the hand.
Mrs and Mr lettering on two fingers
Black script lettering tattoo across a woman's upper back and shoulder blade, with a long braid falling over her left shoulder.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading "to be loved; to be in love" in a typewriter-style font, placed on the side of the torso above a dark waistband.
"To be loved; to be in love" lettering on the side
Black and grey tattoo of a face with an open mouth on a calf, with the script words Run n tell that above and Homeboy below.
Portrait and script on a lower leg
Black fine line tattoo of a cross, a heartbeat line ending in a heart and the words Faith, Hope, Love across the upper back.
Cross, heartbeat and heart on upper back
Black fine line script tattoo reading We shall never part, running diagonally across a shoulder and upper back, shown in two close-up photographs.
We shall never part script on shoulder
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading love fearlessly on a woman's shoulder near the collarbone.
Love fearlessly script on a shoulder
A clenched fist with blue-grey blackletter-style lettering reading CATS MEOW across the knuckles, with a turquoise painted fingernail on the thumb below.
Cats Meow lettering across knuckles
Black and grey lettering design of a globe wrapped in botanical sprigs, with the words Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Globe with lettering and botanical sprigs
Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market on the top of a foot, near the toes, in fine line style.
Hanging sign reading Gone to Market on a foot
Fingers on a hand with black lettering reading 'me about my tattoo' in script, plus a small teal diamond tattoo, with white and glitter nail polish.
Finger script phrase and diamond on hand
Black script tattoo reading Follow your dreams with small birds beside the word dreams, on the top of a foot above a black high-heeled shoe.
Follow your dreams script with birds on foot
Black script lettering reading Bitch tattooed on the inside of a lower lip, with a teal painted fingernail holding the lip open.
Script word tattoo inside lower lip
Black ink tattoo of the word Ohana in script with a hibiscus flower and swirling linework on a forearm, set against a mandala patterned background.
Ohana script and hibiscus on a forearm
Fine line black script reading free with a small bird in flight beside the final letter, tattooed on the upper chest above a grey neckline.
Free script and bird on the upper chest
Black ink brush lettering of the verse perhaps you were born for such a time as this, with a line drawn crown above and a sceptre below, in a lettering style.
Hand-lettered verse with crown and sceptre
Woman seen from behind with a black lettering tattoo in Gurmukhi script across her upper back, between the shoulder blades.
Gurmukhi script across upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line rhyming poem across the upper back, close to the shoulder blade.
Four-line poem script on upper back
Black ink drawing of a flourished script letter K with swirling curls and a small letter N below, shown as a tattoo design on a pale background.
Flourished script letter K design
Black blossom branch tattoo with the script 'until we meet again' on the side of the ribs, with a small pink lip mark below.
Blossom branch and 'until we meet again' on ribs
Black ink sketch of a tree above the handwritten words I climbed the tree to see the world on a forearm.
Tree and quote on the inner forearm
Black script lettering reading je t'aime with long looping flourishes, shown as a flash design on a white background, with no placement on the body visible.
Je t'aime script lettering design
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 ink compass rose with N, E, S and W points above the words Explore, Dream and Discover in script on a forearm.
Compass rose and lettering on a forearm
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 fine line script reading 'i am enough' with an arrow below it, its fletching shaded in teal and lavender, on a person's thigh.
Script 'i am enough' with arrow on thigh
Black fine line script tattoo on the side of the ribs reading two lines of text, Live without the sunlight and Love without your heartbeat.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a Van Gogh quote set in a simple hand-drawn typeface, running down the shin or calf.
Van Gogh quote on a lower leg
Black script lettering reading Pain is inevitable suffering is optional, with fine flourishes, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote on upper back
Black fine line outline of a lion cub with the script words Remember who you are beneath it, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Lion cub outline and script quote on a wrist
Two matching forearm tattoos: a red winged heart with script text on the left, and a red and grey anchor with a rope coil and script text on the right.
Matching heart and anchor quote tattoos on forearms
Three wrists with gold metallic script temporary tattoos reading bride and the maids, with a partly visible word on the left, against a blurred beach background.
Gold foil temporary tattoos reading bride and the maids
Close photo of a small black fine line tattoo of Roman numerals X.VII.XV running diagonally across the inner wrist, with a silver ring on the hand above.
Roman numerals on the inner wrist
Black typewriter-font lettering tattoo of a quote running in stacked lines down the side of the ribs.
Typewriter-font quote down the side of the ribs
Black Arabic script lettering tattoo running down the middle of a woman's back, seen from behind in a black open-back top.
Arabic script tattoo down a back
Woman seen from behind with a fine line black script tattoo running down her upper back between the shoulder blades.
Fine line script tattoo across the upper back
Black and grey realism tattoo of praying hands wrapped in a rosary in front of a cross, with banners reading Only God Can Judge Me, on the back.
Praying hands, rosary and banner tattoo

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