Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line and dotwork tattoo of intersecting elliptical orbits around a solid central circle, on the inner forearm.
Orbital ellipses on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of the sun and a row of planets, including Saturn, linked by fine dotted geometric lines down a forearm.
Solar system dotwork on a forearm
Forearm tattoo in a realistic botanical style, with a large shaded pink rose, pink blossoms and black lace-like patterns running down toward the wrist.
Pink rose and lace patterns on a forearm
Black and grey photo of a geometric bear outline tattoo made of angular single lines on the inner forearm, with a grey sleeve pushed up at the left.
Geometric bear outline on a forearm
Colour tattoo of the Deathly Hallows triangle with a wizard silhouette in a teal forest, above a script quote, on a forearm.
Deathly Hallows and quote on a forearm
Black cursive tattoo reading Faith with a small heart beside it, on the inner wrist of a raised hand, in a black and white photo.
Faith script with heart on wrist
Three matching black ink tattoos of the ILY sign language hand shape combined with a heart, placed on the wrists of three people holding hands.
Matching ILY hand sign and heart wrist tattoos
Black and grey geometric wolf head tattoo with faceted linework and dotwork shading, running along the inner forearm.
Geometric wolf head on a forearm
Small black fine line sunburst tattoo of a open circle with radiating rays on the inner wrist, against white bedding.
Sunburst circle on the inner wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a heart outline with a semicolon beside it, on the inner wrist.
Heart outline and semicolon on the wrist
Black and grey traditional full arm sleeve in the old school style, with a skull, an hourglass, a dagger, a woman's head and a ship, on an arm worn by a person in a white t-shirt.
Traditional black and grey full sleeve
Black and grey tattoo of the words I love you to the moon and back in handwritten lettering, with a small crescent moon below, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
"I love you to the moon and back" lettering with moon
Black text tattoo of a fatal exception error message running along a raised forearm and upper arm, set in a monospaced typewriter-style font.
Blue screen error message tattoo on arm
Fine line black tattoo of a crescent moon with a leaf and closed bud on the inner wrist.
Crescent moon and bud on the wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a spread-winged bird above stacked triangles and circles, on the forearm.
Geometric bird over stacked triangles on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoos of a bird, a sailing ship and an anchor on a man's forearm, with a rolled patterned shirt sleeve above.
Bird, ship and anchor on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Remember that I love you" running along the inner forearm near the wrist.
Handwritten quote along the inner forearm
Fine line black tattoo of two small geometric arrows running down the inner forearm near the wrist.
Two geometric arrows on the inner forearm
Black fine line script lettering reading Sorella sits on a forearm near the wrist, photographed in warm orange light.
Fine line script word on forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of two daisy-style flowers with shaded petals and leaves on the inner forearm.
Two daisies on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of two reaching hands in dark ink on the inner wrist and forearm, with a bare hand with red nail polish and silver rings extended beside it.
Two reaching hands on an inner wrist
Full arm sleeve tattoo in a realistic style showing an astronaut helmet on the upper arm, a nebula and planet in the middle, and an astronaut on a red desert landscape near the wrist.
Space sleeve with astronauts and planets
Two matching blue circle tattoos with black vertical bars and blue wavy lines, one on each inner forearm.
Matching blue circle emblems on two forearms
Fine line black ink tattoo on the inner forearm showing the script words The sun will rise and we will try again above a line drawing of a rising sun.
Sunrise and quote on a forearm
Black fine line geometric tattoo of a wireframe cube shape on the inner forearm, above two thin black wristbands.
Geometric wireframe shape on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a palm tree on a forearm, set against a blue watercolour-style sky with sea and sand at the base.
Palm tree and blue sky on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of the word friend above a simple outlined ship and the word ship below, on the inner forearm.
Friend and ship script on forearm
Realistic red poppy tattoo with a green centre and dark stem, shaded in soft gradients on a forearm.
Red poppy on a forearm
Black linework circles inside a ring with a blue and purple watercolour wash, tattooed on the inner forearm.
Circle glyph tattoo on forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of Hello Kitty with a red bow, pink and yellow flowers and a banner reading HELLO KITTY on a forearm.
Hello Kitty banner tattoo on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo on the forearm showing a crescent moon, a small bow and a long curling line.
Crescent moon and bow linework on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of three snarling dog heads in orange and black with flames and a diamond frame, on the forearm.
Three snarling dog heads on a forearm
Close photo of a faint brown dotwork tattoo of wavy lines on the inner wrist and forearm, held by another person's hand.
Dotted wave lines on a wrist
Man in a white tank top with a black handwritten slogan, showing colourful sleeve tattoos of owls and flowers on both arms.
Colourful sleeve tattoos with a slogan tank top
Close-up of a small black Roman numeral III lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, worn beside stacked gold and silver bracelets.
Small Roman numeral III tattoo on the wrist
Close-up of a fine-line black script tattoo reading light on the inner forearm, with a rainbow of sunlight falling across the skin.
Light script on a wrist
Two black lettering tattoos in a typewriter font sit on a pair of forearms, one reading Do or die you'll never make me and the other reading Because the world will never take my heart.
Two forearm quote tattoos in typewriter lettering
Realism tattoo of a woman's face behind a black lace masquerade mask with white flowers, placed on a forearm.
Masquerade mask portrait on a forearm
Two stylised face tattoos on a person's forearms: a colourful painted-style face with red shading on the left arm and a simple black line face on the right.
Two stylised face tattoos on forearms
Black ink tattoo of a seated cat seen from behind, filled with swirling ornamental linework, on a forearm against a dark background.
Ornamental cat silhouette on a forearm
Three-view photo of a full arm sleeve in neo-trad comic book style showing the Joker, Batman, and HA HA and BANG lettering on the upper arm and forearm.
Batman and Joker comic book arm sleeve
Fine white-ink cursive script reading breathe deep on a forearm, with a small dark script tattoo on the wrist.
Breathe deep script on forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a crescent grin above the script words We're All Mad Here on the inner wrist.
Cat grin and script quote on the inner wrist
Legs covered in colour traditional tattoos including a tiger head and a rose on the thigh and calf, shown in denim shorts outdoors.
Traditional tattoos covering legs
Neo-traditional skull tattoo with pink, teal and yellow shading, a cigarette in its teeth and a smoke scroll on black, on the forearm.
Gradient skull smoking a cigarette on a forearm
Small white ink anchor tattoo in a fine line style on the inner wrist, photographed against a black background.
Small anchor tattoo on the inner wrist
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a grey wolf head in profile with a yellow-brown eye, set against green and pink crystal shapes on the forearm.
Wolf head in profile with green crystals
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a songbird standing on a wireframe octahedron, placed on the inner forearm.
Songbird standing on an octahedron on a forearm

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