Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey script lettering reading All God's Angels Come To Us Disguised across the ribs, in a lettering style with a fine, even stroke.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Realistic tattoo design of a large skull framed by an ornate silver scrollwork border of roses, with sunflowers, butterflies and a lake landscape inside, shown as a flat design with no body placement.
Skull and roses in an ornate frame
Pencil sketch of a geometric rose with faceted petals, leaves and dotted chains ending in diamond drops, drawn as a tattoo design.
Geometric rose with dangling chains
Black and pink nautical stars scattered across an upper arm and shoulder, with two larger black stars shaded in the centre.
Scattered stars on upper arm
Black serif lettering tattoo reading 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness' on the upper body.
Serif quote tattoo on skin
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of three roses in a descending row along a thin line on the forearm, with small cross marks at each end.
Three roses on a forearm
Two pen drawings of lotus and mandala-style band designs with dotted and triangular borders, drawn on cream paper beside two pens.
Lotus and geometric band designs on paper
Realism colour tattoo of two dachshund heads, one red-brown and one black and tan, on a lower leg against a blue and green background.
Two dachshunds portrait on a calf
Colourful botanical tattoo of a tree with a rose-like canopy and black roots across the upper back, in a neo-traditional style.
Tree with rose canopy on a upper back
Close-up of a colour botanical tattoo of pink and yellow flowers with green leaves and buds on a woman's forearm, with a gold bracelet and a black and gold bangle nearby.
Pink and yellow flowers on a forearm
Black silhouette flash design of a fairy with butterfly wings sitting on a crescent moon, with stars drifting from her hand.
Fairy silhouette on a crescent moon
Black and white photo of two inner wrists, each with a small lettering tattoo, the word past on the left and future on the right, in a LALetter style on the wrist.
Past and future words on two wrists
Two-panel photo showing a small black outline heart tattoo on the inner forearm and a black scorpion tattoo on skin, with a coin beside it for scale.
Heart outline and scorpion on forearm
Black and grey photograph of a geometric circuit board style tattoo with stepped lines across a forearm.
Circuit board pattern on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of a golden rectangle with a Fibonacci spiral and rows of numbers on a person's inner forearm.
Golden ratio spiral and digits on forearm
Small fine line black tattoo of an ampersand with an arrow piercing it, placed on the inner forearm.
Ampersand with arrow on a forearm
Small fine line cherry blossom tree tattoo with pink blossom on the upper arm, just above the elbow.
Cherry blossom tree on an upper arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of stacked teacups with pink flowers and a purple fan on an arm, with grey shaded flowers below.
Stacked teacups and flowers on an arm
Black and grey floral sleeve tattoo of roses, a large flower and daffodil-like blooms with leaves, covering an arm from the upper arm to the wrist.
Black and grey floral sleeve on a forearm and upper arm
Two forearms showing a colour padlock tattoo on the left and a black and grey skull-headed key tattoo on the right, both on the forearm.
Skull key and padlock tattoos on forearms
Fine line black outline of a small bow tattoo on a finger of a clenched hand, with leopard print nails.
Small bow outline on a finger
Black and grey realistic rose cluster tattoo on a person's forearm, with the hand resting on a tan car door panel.
Rose cluster on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a peacock feather shaped into a heart, with an orange, green and blue eye, on the ankle.
Peacock feather heart on an ankle
Colour tattoo of a branch with cream and red berries and green leaves in a botanical style, running down the forearm.
Berry and leaf sprig on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of tall pine trees fading downwards along the side of a person's ribs, shown in a side view and a close-up.
Pine forest tattoo on the ribs
Black and red fine line ornamental sleeve tattoo with keys, diamonds and lace patterns across the forearm, shown in three photographs.
Ornamental lace-style forearm sleeve
Colour realism tattoo of red lilies and a blue butterfly on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Red lilies and blue butterfly on a shoulder
Fine line tattoo of a brown yarn ball pierced by two knitting needles on the upper arm.
Yarn ball and knitting needles on upper arm
Close-up of a fine line feather tattoo on the neck behind an ear, in black ink on pale skin.
Feather tattoo behind the ear
Black ink tattoo of a circular postmark reading Buffalo NY 142, PM and 15 JUL 2005, beside wavy cancellation lines, on the side of a torso.
Postmark stamp tattoo on the ribs
Colour tattoo of a crab with a brown, pink and blue mandala-style flower for its body and blue and purple claws, in a neo-traditional style on a limb.
Crab with mandala body in colour
Close-up of a black ink lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates on a shoulder, above a grey top.
Coordinates tattoo on a shoulder
Black and grey realism style rose tattoo with leaves and a long stem behind a person's ear, placed on the neck.
Black and grey rose behind the ear
Black ink lettering tattoo on a lower leg, styled as a handwritten list of short phrases in a post-apocalyptic theme.
Handwritten list tattoo on a calf
Sheet of twelve black tribal-style zodiac designs on white, including a ram, bull, crab, lion, scales and goat, in flowing swirled linework.
Twelve tribal zodiac designs in black
Colour tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a roaring bear above a watercolour landscape with a small black bear silhouette below.
Roaring bear watercolour arm sleeve
Black fine line design of a central runic emblem inside a spiked ring, surrounded by dots and radiating dashes, shown as a flash drawing on a pale background.
Radiating runic symbol in fine line
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Blood makes you related and Loyalty makes you family, with smoke-like shading above the text.
Lettering quote on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading let go, with an arrow running through the lettering, on the inner forearm.
Let go script with arrow on forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading One foot in the grave on the calf of a leg, shown next to a prosthetic leg with a trainer on the foot.
Quote lettering on a calf beside a prosthetic leg
Black and grey realism tattoo of a lioness face on the middle finger of a hand, with shaded tattoo work visible on the forearm.
Lioness face on a middle finger
Two bent legs lying on a bed showing an intricate ornamental filigree pattern running from the thigh down the calf, in a dark ink.
Ornamental filigree pattern across thigh and calf
Engraved illustration of a mechanical heart with gears, a speedometer dial and flames, flanked by crossed spanners on a black background, shown as a tattoo design.
Mechanical heart with crossed wrenches
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose and pocket watch with a banner reading never give up and never back down, on the outer thigh.
Rose and pocket watch on a thigh
Left panel shows a pale bone-shaped tattoo on an arm under blue ultraviolet light; right panel shows the same arm in ordinary light with no visible design.
Bone design under UV light on an arm
Close-up of a black script quote reading Tale as old as Time above a colour rose with a green stem and small bud on the back of a hand.
Script quote and rose on the back of a hand
Black and grey dotwork mandala and geometric full sleeve tattoo covering a person's arm from the upper arm to the wrist.
Mandala and geometric full arm sleeve
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a fish with a bold black and red outline, grey-blue shading and yellow and orange markings, beside a skeleton tattoo on skin.
Fish tattoo with a red outline

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