Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey realism tattoo of a vintage twin-lens reflex camera with the word Rolleicord on its top plate, on the upper arm.
Twin-lens camera on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a dreamcatcher with purple flowers, black feathers and teal beads on the outer thigh, in a soft realistic style.
Dreamcatcher and purple flowers on a thigh
Colour tattoo of a pumpkin with a green stem and orange splashes on the upper back near the shoulder, seen from behind.
Watercolour pumpkin on a shoulder
Painted illustration of a pink head covered in black tattoo designs, including a skull and crossbones, a dagger, a winged cross and church domes on the neck and chest.
Painted head with skull, dagger and church tattoos
Black and grey winged emblem tattoo with a central figure, spread across the left ribs of a bare torso.
Winged emblem on the ribs
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm showing a winged sun, a cactus in a circle, and a vertical arrow with a feather at the top.
Geometric cactus and winged sun on a forearm
Black fine line script quote tattooed along the upper thigh, with a small outlined bird and a red heart below the text.
Quote and bird on a thigh
Fine line black sailboat tattoo on the inner wrist, shown against a nautical chart with a raised hand.
Small sailboat on the inner wrist
Solid black tribal dragon design with interlocking knotwork body and swirling tail, shown on a white background as a flash drawing.
Tribal dragon design
Black and grey hatched drawing of an eye inside a cloud-shaped diamond, a flash design on paper with no body placement shown.
Eye within clouds in a diamond shape
Realism tattoo of a grey wolf with green eyes inside a dreamcatcher with feathers, on the upper arm.
Wolf head with dreamcatcher on upper arm
Realistic blue and green butterfly tattoo with black outlines and yellow spots on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Blue butterfly on a shoulder
Black and grey tattoo of a snake skeleton wrapping around the outer thigh, with the skull near the front and the spine curling round the leg.
Snake skeleton wrapped around a thigh
Small black fine line cross tattoo on the side of a finger on a hand with long pale nails.
Small cross on a finger
Neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh of a skull in an ornate oval cameo frame, with red roses, a beaded chain and a pendant.
Skull in cameo frame with red roses on a thigh
Three people in white underwear lie on a bed under pink light, with a black and grey botanical rose tattoo on one thigh and a fine line tattoo on a hip.
Black and grey rose tattoo on a thigh
Black and white flash sheet showing six drawn forearms and hands, each with a different traditional and blackwork tattoo design including a mandala, rose, dagger and horseshoe.
Six forearm and hand flash designs on drawn arms
Traditional colour tattoo of a red and white lighthouse by the sea inside a rope-edged heart, with a pink flower and green leaves below.
Lighthouse and flower in a rope heart
Black lettering tattoo reading I swear we were infinite across the top of a bare foot on sand, in a lettering style and placed on the foot.
Quote tattoo across the top of a foot
Small black ship's wheel tattoo in fine line style on the inner ankle, with white trainers and grey leggings.
Ship's wheel tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey realism tattoo of an hourglass with a tree and roots on the upper arm of a person wearing a striped top.
Hourglass and tree on an upper arm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of peonies and leaves with stippled dotwork shading on the forearm of a person wearing a grey top.
Peony cluster on forearm
Black and grey botanical tattoo of open flowers, cornflowers and leaves on the outer thigh of a person in denim shorts.
Floral bouquet on a thigh
Black and grey shaded lotus flower with a curving stem on the side of a torso, above the waistband of a dark garment.
Shaded lotus flower on the side ribs
Two hands clasped together in black and white, each wrist with a small fine line infinity symbol tattoo.
Matching infinity symbols on two wrists
Black and grey blackwork tattoo of a lighthouse under a starry night sky, enclosed in a teardrop shape on the forearm.
Lighthouse in a teardrop on a forearm
Black and grey realistic fawn tattoo with a spotted coat on the upper back, with hair visible above and a beaded necklace at the lower edge.
Fawn tattoo on the upper back
A tattoo artist uses a machine to add purple and black linework to a client's back, with a second tattoo visible on the artist's forearm.
Tattooing in progress on a client's back
Close view of a forearm with two solid black bands tattooed around it, a simple blackwork armband design.
Two solid black bands on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a clothes hanger outline with the word fashion in cursive script and a small heart, on the inner forearm.
Clothes hanger with script fashion on forearm
Black and grey tattoos, including a feather and a heart, on the upper arms and forearms of a woman wearing a black tank top with white printed lettering.
Black and grey arm tattoos under a printed tank top
Black and grey sketch-style tattoo of mountain peaks inside a circle with construction lines, on the upper arm.
Mountain peaks in a circle on an arm
Black and grey tattoo of two shaded roses with outlined petals on a shoulder, beside a dark top and a light fabric edge.
Two roses on a shoulder
Black lettering tattoo reading </head> and <body> in a bold sans-serif font on the back of a neck, with a person wearing a khaki cap.
HTML head and body tags on the neck
Fine line botanical tattoo of wildflowers and grasses in red and green with black dotwork on the inner forearm.
Wildflower sprig on a forearm
Black and white photo of tattooed forearms and hands gripping a skateboard, with a traditional rose and a woman's portrait on the left forearm and a heart design on the back of the right hand.
Tattooed hands and forearms gripping a skateboard
Black and grey Batman mask tattoo on a forearm, with bats, a bat logo and the typed quote Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman mask and quote on a forearm
Small black silhouette tattoos of a bowler hat, a pipe, a top hat and a bow tie on the inside of a wrist.
Hat, pipe and bow tie on a wrist
Black script lettering tattoo reading 'He is jealous for me' across a forearm, set against a blue background.
Script quote 'He is jealous for me' on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a songbird perched on a branch with red breast and yellow wing markings, with leaves, on the calf.
Perched songbird and leaves on a calf
Gold lips design above the words Kiss Here in gold script on a plain white background, shown as a flat design with no body placement.
Gold lips with Kiss Here script
Small black outline diamond tattoo on an ankle, above the buckled straps of a brown snakeskin-effect sandal, in a geometric style.
Diamond outline tattoo on ankle
Realistic red rose tattoo on a forearm, with a black linework rose stem and leaves below it and striped black shading above.
Realistic red rose on a forearm
Neo-traditional tattoo of a brown cat wearing a red bow tie, with coloured flowers below, shown on a limb in a three-panel photo.
Cat in a bow tie with flowers
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a tabby cat with wide amber eyes, wearing a sailor cap with an anchor and a navy collar with a red neckerchief, on a forearm.
Sailor cat on a forearm
Realistic pocket watch with gold hands, Roman numerals and exposed movement, flanked by poppies, tattooed on a forearm.
Pocket watch and poppies on a forearm
Black silhouette design of two facing deer bucks forming a heart shape, with the script words Forever Together beneath them, on a white background.
Two bucks forming a heart with Forever Together
Colour tattoo of a brown tree with rainbow heart-shaped leaves and four swallows in flight, in a neo-traditional style, on the back.
Rainbow heart tree with swallows

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