Tattoo ideas

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

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Two forearms rest side by side, each with a small black Roman numeral tattoo in a fine lettering style, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Roman numeral tattoos on two forearms
Black ink hand-lettered design reading never stop exploring, with a ribbon banner, shaded letterforms and swirling flourishes, drawn on white paper.
Never stop exploring lettering design
Fine line tattoo on the top of a foot, with a dashed line looping past the word allons-y to a blue TARDIS.
Dashed line, allons-y and TARDIS on a foot
Black script lettering in two lines runs across the outer thigh of a seated person in a grey hoodie holding a mug, with the tattoo partly cropped.
Two-line script quote on an outer thigh
Colour tattoo of a gold crown with purple jewels and the words Mommy's Princess in script, with pink swirls above, on the top of a foot.
Crown and script tattoo on a foot
Bold black Devanagari lettering reading prana above the transliteration and the English words Breath, Energy, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Prana lettering in Devanagari script
Black and grey caduceus tattoo with the word DIABETIC above and TYPE 1 below, in a traditional lettering style, on the forearm.
Caduceus with Diabetic and Type 1 lettering on a forearm
Black and grey dreamcatcher with two feathers, a flock of birds and the word Dream in script on the inner wrist.
Dreamcatcher, feathers and script on the wrist
Black lettering tattoo on the inner upper arm, with a three-line typewriter-style quote above the words Still I'll rise in script.
Two-line quote and script tattoo on upper arm
Two side-by-side photos from behind show black serif lettering on the back of the neck, reading you see all my light on the left and and you love my dark on the right.
Matching neck quotes in serif lettering
Two people standing side by side showing matching black script lettering on their ribs reading there is no better friend than a sister and and there is no better sister than you.
Matching sister quote tattoos on the ribs
Blue script lettering reading "She would certainly be a fearsome thing to behold" on a bare upper arm, beside a leopard print fabric.
Blue script quote on upper arm
Close-up of a dark serif lettering tattoo on a wrist reading 'It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live', in Lettering style on the forearm.
Serif quotation tattoo on a wrist
Close photo of a small, solid black semicolon lettering tattoo on the inner wrist of a person whose hand is raised to their hair.
Small semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist
Black ink infinity symbol tattoo with the words faith and family written in script lettering on skin.
Infinity symbol with faith and family script
Close-up of a black fine line anchor and the words I refuse to sink in script tattooed on the side of a woman's neck.
Anchor and script on the neck
Four-panel collage of bare feet with black script tattoos reading 'I am not worried, Harry' and 'I am with you', plus a triangle, circle and line symbol on the foot.
Quote script and triangle symbol on ankle and foot
Black and grey dandelion with drifting seeds and the script words love her but leave her wild across the ribs.
Dandelion seeds and script quote on the ribs
Thin black script reading fearless across the upper back, just below the neck, in a fine line lettering style.
Fearless script on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of the word lumos beside a four-pointed star on the inner wrist.
Lumos word and star on a wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading Wanderlust with an arrow passing through the word, on the inner wrist against a green fern background.
Wanderlust script with arrow on the wrist
Black script lettering tattoo reading The fear of suffering is far worse than the suffering itself, running down the upper arm towards the elbow.
Quote tattoo along the upper arm
Two wrists each show a fine line black infinity symbol tattoo with the word sister written in cursive inside the loop, placed on the wrist.
Matching infinity sister tattoos on wrists
Two matching black script tattoos on the inner wrists read Now you're my whole life and Now you're my whole world, with the hands held together.
Matching script quote tattoos on two wrists
Black ink tattoo on a calf of a banner scroll reading I WANT ALL OF THE CATS TO LOVE ME THE BEST, with cartoon cats, in traditional style with pink-red shading.
Cartoon cats on a banner across a calf
Two hands with small black serif lettering reading Mr. on one ring finger and Mrs. on the other, shown in a fine line style on the fingers.
Mr and Mrs lettering on two ring fingers
Black lettering tattoo of a four-line quote in a clean sans serif font, running diagonally across the side of the torso above the ribs.
Quote lettering along the side ribs
Black fine line calligraphic script tattoo running diagonally along the side of a person's ribs, against pale skin and a coral top.
Script tattoo running along the ribs
Black lettering reading I refuse to sink wraps around a black anchor with a pink heart, tattooed on the inner forearm.
I refuse to sink anchor on the wrist
Fine line pale script tattoo across the back of a hand, reading I must not tell lies, with black stiletto nails resting on a wooden table.
Fine line script quote on the back of a hand
Black cursive script lettering reading Hope on a wrist, with a purple awareness ribbon overlapping the letter o.
Hope script with purple ribbon on wrist
Black script lettering reading WITCH on the forearm, with thin, slightly uneven linework.
Witch lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script reading "It is well with my soul" runs vertically down the centre of a woman's back, seen from behind on a beach.
Script quote down the spine
Black lettering tattoo reading she believed she could so she did, set over a woman's thigh in a typewriter-style font, placed on the thigh.
Quote tattoo on a thigh
Colour tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, reading dad's angel in blue lettering with an orange halo and a small red sparkle.
Dad's angel script with halo on a wrist
Black and grey script tattoo reading When I am afraid, I will trust in you, with Psalm 56:3 beneath, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Psalm 56:3 script quote on forearm
Black ink drawing of an ornate decorative capital letter with filigree patterning and curling flourishes on white paper, shown as a tattoo design.
Ornate decorative letter in ink
Black outline of a heart with the words Bill Murray inside in a plain sans-serif font, tattooed on the back of a hairy leg below the knee.
Heart outline with Bill Murray lettering on a leg
Black fine line tattoo of a to do list with the heading To Do and rows of checkboxes and lines on a forearm.
To do list tattoo on a forearm
Fine line black tattoos of a slender sprig on the side of the torso, a small star on the upper arm and the words GIRL POWER on the inner forearm.
Fine line sprig, star and GIRL POWER lettering
Black boomerang shape with fine white dash texture and the word KARMA in white hand-drawn lettering, shown as a flat design on a white background.
Karma boomerang design
Two photographs of black hand-lettered script tattoos, one on the back of a thigh above the knee and one on a lower leg near the ankle, both shown upside down to the viewer.
Black script lettering on two legs
Close-up of a black serif Roman numeral tattoo in a single line on a person's upper back, near the shoulder blade.
Roman numerals on upper back
Close-up of a hand with the word grace in black script lettering on the back of the hand, beside a coffee mug and an open book.
Grace script lettering on the back of a hand
Red lettering spelling REDRUM on skin above the waistband of light patterned underwear, placed on the lower abdomen.
Redrum lettering on the lower abdomen
Black handwritten lettering design on a white background reading wild barefoot plus free, shown as a flash design for a lettering tattoo.
Handwritten lettering reading wild barefoot and free
Close-up of a small fine line black script word tattooed on the inner wrist of a light-skinned hand resting on a striped top.
Fine line script word on the inner wrist
Two matching fine line script tattoos on the inner wrists, one reading to with an infinity symbol and one reading and beyond with small birds.
Matching infinity and beyond wrist tattoos

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