Tattoo ideas

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

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Purple cross-stitch style lettering with a needle and thread tattooed across the upper back, in a lettering style.
Cross-stitch lettering with needle and thread
Fine line red script tattoo reading Love Yourself on a shoulder, with a floral top visible below and dark background behind.
Love Yourself script on a shoulder
Black fine line script tattoo reading "You look so cool" on the front of a thigh, below a dark skirt.
Script quote on the thigh
Two matching black lettering tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing a crescent moon, two small stars and script reading to the moon and back, with two pairs of hands clasped.
Matching moon and stars wrist tattoos
Black script lettering on an arm reads 'Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean', in a lettering style.
Wave quote lettering on an arm
Small black script tattoo reading oops on the side of a finger, shown in a fine line lettering style on a hand with red painted nails.
Oops script tattoo on a finger
Black script reading Be the change with small floral flourishes across the top of a foot, in lettering style, shown in a photo of a bare foot with red toenail polish.
Be the change script on the foot
Black ink infinity symbol with a feather across it and the word Dance in script, tattooed on the inner arm.
Infinity symbol and feather with Dance
Black and grey realism back tattoo of a crowned lion above a lamb, with Romans 1:16 script lettering across the lower back.
Crowned lion and lamb on back
Black and grey tattoo design of a crossed bow and arrow with scrolling flourishes, with the words Skin of a Lady and Heart of a Hunter running along the arrow shaft.
Crossed bow and arrow with quote lettering
Woman seen from behind with a small black fine line script tattoo between her shoulder blades, near the neckline of a white halter top.
Small script tattoo between the shoulder blades
Colour tattoo of purple and blue butterflies framing a script quote about wings and flying, shown in two photos of skin.
Butterflies with a script quote about wings
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with a shaded butterfly and rose, stars, swirls and the script words No Place Like Home.
Butterfly, rose and script design sketch
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading unfold your wings across the upper chest and collarbone area.
Unfold your wings script across upper chest
Black serif lettering reading peace will win and fear will lose across two lines on the forearm.
Peace will win, fear will lose on a forearm
White ink tattoo reading "We're all mad here" in decorative capitals across an arm, with a patterned fabric sleeve visible at the left.
"We're all mad here" lettering on an arm
Black ornamental lettering design with sweeping flourishes on a white background, in a lettering style with no body placement shown.
Ornate black lettering with flourishes
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow with the word hope in cursive script along its shaft, on a forearm.
Hope script and arrow on a forearm
Realistic chest tattoo of a five-point star with torn skin edges revealing the verse Daniel 12:3 inside, with red accents at the tears.
Torn-skin star with Daniel 12:3 on the chest
Black and white photo of the words All monsters are human in a typewriter-style font tattooed on the inner forearm, with a checked shirt sleeve rolled up above it.
All monsters are human lettering on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering reading Mangubat with long swirling flourishes, tattooed across the upper back between the shoulder blades.
Script lettering across upper back
Drawing of tattoo designs on paper showing the words Love and Faith in script with infinity symbols, a star-filled heart and a small dandelion, beside coloured pencils.
Love and faith script designs with a heart
Close-up of black and grey gothic lettering reading STAY TRUE across the knuckles of two hands, with shaded letterforms and a dark background.
STAY TRUE knuckle lettering
Black script reading Love me for who i am with two butterflies near the shoulder, in a fine line lettering style.
Butterflies and script on a shoulder
Black and grey flowing script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross, drawn on pale paper as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Script lettering arranged as a cross
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading We live with the scars we choose on the lower back of a person lying on a bed.
Script quote tattoo on lower back
Black lettering tattoo of the names Lance and Autumn, each inside a looping heart outline, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Two names in heart script on upper back
Black flash design of a coffee cup with swirling steam and the word coffee written in script, shown without a placement on the body.
Coffee cup with swirls and script
Fine line blue script reading in a world of my own with a daisy outline on the inner forearm, drawn in a lettering and botanical style.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading Peace will win on one thigh and Fear will lose on the other, shown on a person wearing denim shorts and a grey top.
Peace will win and fear will lose on thighs
Two arms intertwined, showing fine line script tattoos reading I walk the line on an upper arm and Because your mine on a forearm, in a sepia photo.
Script text on two forearms
Black fine script reading Someday over rainbow watercolour splashes on the upper back of a person with dark hair.
Someday script over watercolour splashes
Black flowing script reading Ohana with two small hibiscus flowers beneath the letters, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Ohana script with hibiscus flowers
Black ink tattoo of a volleyball on a heartbeat line above script lettering, placed on the upper back.
Volleyball heartbeat line with script quote
Pencil sketch of the Batman bat symbol with the word BATMAN in block lettering, shaded with hatching and cracked details, shown as a design with no body placement.
Batman logo pencil sketch
Black fine line script reading Lance and Autumn, each inside an outlined heart, on a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script names in two hearts on upper back
Two hands with small black fine line tattoos on the fingers, a Q with a heart on one hand and a K with a heart on the other.
Queen and king heart tattoos on fingers
Black lettering reading EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT, framed by green leaf sprigs on each side, shown on skin.
Quote lettering with leaf sprigs
Black and grey tattoo of a dreamcatcher with two shaded feathers, birds and the word Dream in script, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Dreamcatcher and feathers on a wrist
Black handwritten script lettering reading Do what you love. Love what you do. in a diagonal line on a white background, a fine line tattoo design.
Do what you love, love what you do script
Flash sheet of black kanji characters in a brush script style, each labelled with its English meaning such as beauty, courage, love and star, with no body placement shown.
Kanji flash sheet with English meanings
Black lettering tattoo on the thigh showing a buck symbol inside an outlined heart, with a quote about ducks, trucks and buck beneath it.
Buck heart and quote on a thigh
Tattoo on skin of a framed cartoon scene with pink-clad figures above black Latin lettering reading Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Latin lettering below a framed cartoon scene
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading Believe on the inner forearm near the wrist, beside woven coloured and beige bracelets.
Believe script tattoo on a wrist
Fine line black script tattoo reading heaven has taken my hero across the upper back, just below the neck, with hair in a bun above it.
Script quote across upper back
Black lettering tattoo across a woman's upper back, with an ornate decorative initial A and a four-line verse in a gothic-style serif, photographed from behind.
Quote lettering across a woman's upper back
Colour tattoo across a person's upper back showing a uterus with pink flowers, a banner reading My Uterus and the words Is Beautiful, with a rainbow vulva design below.
Uterus, flowers and banner on a back
Black lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates running along the outer side of a foot, with black toenail polish visible.
Coordinates tattoo along the side of a foot

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