Tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional-style colour tattoo on a calf showing a moustached man with a blue linework tattooed torso, beside a shaded black rose with green leaves.
Tattooed man portrait and black rose on a calf
Black and grey dotwork lace-style ornament tattooed on the top of a foot and ankle, with dangling drop details.
Black lace ornament on a foot
Black and grey tattoo of a seated Buddha above a lotus base on an upper arm, shown in a close view and a wider view.
Seated Buddha on a lotus
Solid black silhouette pine tree tattoo on an ankle, with a white paper stencil of the same tree beside it.
Pine tree silhouette on an ankle
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open pocket watch with ornate scrollwork, a key and looping chain, on the inner forearm.
Pocket watch and key on an arm
Back view of a man in a black beanie with two solid black armband tattoos on his upper arms, each with a small cross left in pale skin.
Cross armband tattoos on upper arms
Black fine line tattoo of a sailing ship on rolling waves with a dotted line descending to a small anchor, placed on the inner forearm.
Sailing ship and anchor on a forearm
Two hands with matching black lettering reading 5:1:13 on the ring fingers, in a fine, typewriter-style font.
Matching number tattoos on ring fingers
Black and grey drawing of a skull wrapped in octopus tentacles with a ship's anchor behind it, shown as a design on a dark background.
Skull, anchor and tentacles design
Black ink tree with a stippled canopy above the script quote 'i climbed the tree to see the world' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Tree and script quote on the inner wrist
Close-up of a Japanese style tattoo on a back and upper arm, showing a red and yellow serpent with a dark scaled head and orange eye among black and grey waves.
Japanese serpent and waves across back and arm
Colour tattoo of an artist's palette with two paintbrushes on the inner wrist, in a simple outlined style.
Artist's palette and brushes on a wrist
Black ink drawing of a dotwork-edged insect with delicate wings and a scrolled dagger, sketched on textured paper with no body placement shown.
Insect and ornate dagger design
Close-up of a pink watercolour-style poppy tattoo with a long thin stem on a person's calf.
Pink watercolour poppy on a calf
Back of a person in a white bikini bottom showing a large Japanese style peacock and orange chrysanthemum tattoo across the lower back.
Peacock and chrysanthemum on lower back
Black and grey neo-trad style tattoo on an upper arm showing a castle under a moon inside a globe, with a triangle and circle symbol and shaded leaves below.
Castle in a globe with leaves on upper arm
Black linework drawing of Medusa with snake hair and a pale teal wash, a design suitable for a neo-traditional tattoo.
Medusa with snakes, drawn design
Small black and grey fine line tattoo of a postage stamp with a cartoon dog, placed on the lower back above a waistband.
Cartoon dog postage stamp on the lower back
Two matching fine line black tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing a small figure on a swing beside the words Sisters and 92 95.
Matching sisters swing tattoos on wrists
Black and white photo of a dotwork tattoo of a scattered star cluster on the inner upper arm of a woman whose face is turned away.
Dotwork star cluster on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a blue cat in profile inside a black-edged diamond, with the words Expecto Patronum below it, on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Blue cat in a diamond with Expecto Patronum lettering
Colour traditional tattoo of a sugar skull hound with flowers and a paw print, placed on the calf.
Sugar skull hound with paw print on a calf
Colour photo of a bold black stylised symbol with two pink-red flowers and fine swirling vines, tattooed across the upper back.
Black symbol with pink flowers and vines on back
Traditional style tattoo of an open hand gripping a peony with a gold band and falling crystals, on the inner forearm.
Hand holding a peony on a forearm
Drawn tattoo design of a barn owl with stippled red roses, geometric lines and watercolour splashes on cream paper.
Owl and roses design with watercolour splashes
Black and grey upper back tattoo of a grey companion cube with a pink heart, flanked by black angel wings and a halo, with slight redness around the skin.
Companion cube with wings and halo on upper back
Small black fine line tattoo of a rose hanging from a thin stem with leaves, sitting on the inner upper arm.
Rose sprig on upper arm
Botanical neo-traditional tattoo of cream hellebore flowers, holly, dark berries and pine sprigs in a bouquet on an upper arm.
Hellebore and holly bouquet on upper arm
Handwritten script lettering reading Even so, it is well with my soul in navy ink on white, a lettering design in a Lettering style with no body placement shown.
Script lettering of a hymn phrase in navy
Two wrists held together, each with a small black yin yang tattoo on the inner wrist, one outlined and one solid.
Matching yin yang wrist tattoos
Fine line yin yang tattoo on the inner forearm, with a black sun ringed by yellow rays in the light half and a speckled moon in the shaded galaxy half.
Yin yang with sun and moon on a forearm
Black and grey wing tattoo on an ankle, seen from behind, with red tartan platform boots below.
Wing tattoo on ankle above tartan boots
Black banded tattoo on the upper arm of a man in a white t-shirt, standing beside a man in a grey top on a city pavement.
Dark banded tattoo on upper arm, street style
Black and grey fine line tattoo on the top of a foot, showing the script words I'll remember for you beside a simple cartoon animal.
Script phrase and cartoon animal on top of a foot
Colour tattoo of a red and yellow Volkswagen campervan with a VW roundel on the front, shown on the upper arm in a neo-traditional style.
Orange and red campervan on an arm
Fine line tattoo of three thin black parallel lines encircling a wrist, sitting on the forearm near the hand.
Three fine lines wrapped around a wrist
Colour peacock feather tattoo with a small grey lion and handwritten script along the side of the ribs.
Peacock feathers and lion on the ribs
Black and grey Japanese-style tattoo of a roaring tiger with clouds and flowers across a person's chest and shoulder.
Roaring tiger tattoo on chest and shoulder
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a brain, an eye and an anatomical heart stacked down the inside of a forearm.
Brain, eye and heart on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow above the words 'this too shall pass' in script, on the side of a person's ribs.
Arrow and script lettering on the ribs
Realism tattoo of a shaded human skull in brown and grey tones across the upper arm and shoulder.
Realistic skull on upper arm
Realistic mechanical eye tattoo with a blue iris, brass-style gears, screws and filigree detail, placed on the upper back.
Mechanical eye with gears on the back
Black tribal-style flash design showing two turtles, a gecko, a lizard and a small spiral motif on a white background.
Tribal turtles, gecko and lizard flash sheet
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm spelling LOVE, with the letters formed by a hairdryer, hand mirror, scissors and a curling iron cord.
LOVE lettering made from salon tools on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of two skulls, one in a blue top hat smoking a pipe and one in a jewelled feathered turban, across a forearm.
Two coloured skulls in hat and turban on a forearm
Black and grey feather tattoo on the side of a woman's neck beneath a loose updo, photographed from behind in soft, dim light.
Feather tattoo on the side of the neck
Blue pencil sketch of a faceted teardrop gem with swirling ribbon and leaf flourishes and a row of beads, drawn as a tattoo design.
Sketch of a faceted gem with ribbon swirls
Black ink sun with a solid circle centre and wavy rays, tattooed on the inner wrist of a light-skinned hand.
Black sun tattoo on the inner wrist

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