Tattoo ideas

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

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Collage of six colour cartoon tattoos from The Simpsons, with lettering in banners and speech bubbles, shown on skin in traditional style.
Six Simpsons character tattoos in a collage
Traditional style tattoo of a grey anchor with a yellow and orange flower, red accents and swirls, on the top of a foot.
Traditional anchor and flower on a foot
Traditional style colour tattoo of an eye with radiating rays inside a ring of red, yellow and teal stars, set above an ornate pedestal on skin.
Eye within a ring of stars
Two lower legs in black boots show traditional tattoos on the calves, including a swallow, a black heart with an eye, a ship's wheel with roses and a small line of script.
Traditional leg tattoos with swallow and ship's wheel
Traditional style colour tattoo of a cherubic face with closed eyes and a red flower on the inner forearm, beside a yellow crescent moon and red star.
Cherub face with flower on forearm
Colour tattoo on an arm of a ball of teal and grey yarn crossed with two knitting needles, above and below the words KNIT FAST DIE WARM in traditional-style lettering.
Yarn ball with knitting needles and lettering
Traditional style colour tattoo of overlapping profile faces above a collared bust, with a star ornament, shown on a lower leg.
Stacked profile faces in a bust on a calf
Black and white flash drawing of an anchor wrapped in tentacles with a banner reading LOVECRAFT and H.P., in a traditional engraved style with no body placement shown.
Anchor with tentacles and banner design
Black and grey script reading Daddy's Little Girl with two swallows and small stars, tattooed on the back of a neck in Traditional and lettering style.
Script and swallows on the back of neck
Black and grey traditional rose tattoo with hatched and stippled shading wrapping around an arm, with leaves and a bud at the top.
Blackwork roses wrapping an arm
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a calf showing a hut with an onion dome, a crescent moon, pine trees, flowers and a skull.
Hut, crescent moon and skull on a calf
Black and grey ornate teapot tattoo with floral scrollwork pouring a stream of bleeding hearts into a teacup on the upper back.
Ornate teapot pouring bleeding hearts onto a shoulder blade
Traditional colour tattoo of Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse at a ship's wheel above a red rose with green leaves, on the lower leg.
Steamboat Willie Mickey and rose on a lower leg
Colour tattoo of a yellow and orange sunflower with green leaves and a red ladybird, in a traditional style on the thigh.
Sunflower and ladybird on a thigh
Black and grey traditional style rose tattoo design with shaded petals and hatched leaves, drawn on a grey background with no body placement shown.
Black and grey rose with leaves
Traditional colour tattoo of a crescent moon filled with orange, teal and red flowers, on the inner forearm.
Crescent moon with flowers on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a forearm showing a log cabin among pine trees, a mountain, a moon and clouds, with a scroll banner of lettering beside it.
Cabin, pines and mountain on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a sailing ship in a bottle with a rope and anchor on a forearm, in red, teal and black ink.
Ship in a bottle and anchor on a forearm
Black and grey swallow tattoo with cloud-like patterned fills on the side of the ribs, with a coloured sleeve tattoo partly visible at the left edge.
Swallow tattoo on the ribs
Traditional swallow tattoo holding a leafy sprig, with a red rose and rosebud on a forearm, shaded in grey with red and yellow accents.
Swallow and rose on a forearm
Colourful tattoo on the upper arm of a woman wearing a rust denim vest over a striped top, outdoors.
Coloured upper arm tattoo under a denim vest
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of an elephant head wearing a jewelled headdress with teal leaves, placed on the outer thigh.
Elephant head with jewelled headdress on thigh
Colour traditional tattoo sleeve on an upper arm and forearm showing a red and white striped lighthouse, orange roses, an anchor and rope.
Lighthouse, rose and anchor sleeve
Traditional style tattoo of a red and yellow flower with an eye inside a heart across the back of a hand, with a chrysanthemum on the forearm above.
Eye in heart flower on the back of a hand
Traditional style colour tattoo of a grey Dalek with red and yellow lightning bolts beneath a red banner reading To Victory, on the lower leg.
Dalek with lightning bolts on a calf
Black and grey snarling wolf head tattoo on a forearm, built from fine linework and dotwork shading.
Snarling wolf head on forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a tooth inside an oval frame with red flowers, a pink heart and a red bow, on a forearm.
Tooth in a frame with flowers and bow
Colour traditional tattoo of a cat wearing a teal collar in an ornate gold frame, with a red rose and black leaves below, on the thigh.
Cat in an ornate frame above a red rose
Back of a woman's neck showing a red rose bud on a thorned stem with three grey shaded leaves, in a botanical style.
Red rose with grey leaves on the neck
Traditional tattoo of a red rose and an open gold pocket watch with a script banner, shown on an arm.
Rose and pocket watch on an arm
Black ink illustration of a woman with a hair bun and tattoos of a swallow, skull and Darth Vader helmet on her upper arm, traditional style.
Tattooed woman with blaster illustration
Traditional style tattoo design of a black anchor, red heart and banner reading SORRY MOM, shown printed on white fabric with no body part visible.
Anchor and heart with SORRY MOM banner
Colour traditional tattoo on the chest of a C-shaped emblem with red and blue stripes and stars, with a blue bear standing on a baseball bat.
Bear on a bat within a C emblem on the chest
Pencil flash sheet of traditional-style tattoo designs including a boxing glove, a swallow, a dagger, an anchor, an arrow and lettered banners.
Pencil flash sheet with boxing glove, swallow and banners
Black ink Japanese-style tiger design climbing downward with a curled tail, beside the kanji 虎, printed on orange textured paper.
Tiger with kanji on orange paper
Close view of a heavily tattooed arm with a bold traditional rose and other coloured designs on the forearm, and dark tattooed knuckles and hand resting on a bare thigh.
Traditional rose sleeve with hand tattoos
Colour traditional tattoo of a woman in a feathered headdress holding a tomahawk, with red flowers below, on an upper arm.
Feathered headdress woman with flowers on an upper arm
Black and grey traditional-style anchor tattoo with a rope wrapped around the shaft, sitting on the neck just behind a person's ear.
Small anchor tattoo behind the ear
Traditional style red rose with a bud and green leaves, outlined in black, tattooed on the side of a woman's neck.
Red rose and bud on the neck
Traditional tattoo of a shaded skull with a green cobra and a second snake coiled around it, with red drips, on a forearm.
Skull with cobra and snake on a forearm
Both legs covered in traditional style tattoos on the thighs and calves, including a fox, a butterfly, a nutcracker and a mandala, with a plate of strawberries resting on the thighs.
Traditional leg sleeve with fox and nutcracker
Traditional tattoo on a forearm showing an eye in a dark shape, red roses and a banner reading Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Eye, roses and banner quote on a forearm
Close view of a woman with crossed hands showing traditional tattoos with dark outlines and red and orange colour on the back of both hands and wrists, plus small black symbols on the fingers.
Traditional hand tattoos with finger symbols
Black and grey swallow tattoo with dotted shading on the inner forearm, above a silver and turquoise bracelet, with rocks and sea behind.
Swallow tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a pocket watch with a rope border and shaded roses on the forearm, shown in three views.
Pocket watch and roses on an arm
Traditional style tattoo of a stag head with antlers and leaves on a forearm, with a green and grey leaf rosette above it.
Stag head and leaf rosette on a forearm
Black and grey rose tattoo with shaded petals and green-grey leaves on the inner wrist of a hand with turquoise nails.
Black and grey rose on a wrist
Black and grey flash sheet with four designs: a cracked tombstone reading HOPE, a dagger with Sad Truth, a noose with Sweet Dreams, and a rose with a basketball centre reading Still Ballin.
Four flash designs on a light background

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