Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey lettering tattoo on a person's upper back, reading Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic, set in a serif typeface below the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo on the upper back
Black ink tattoo of a horned helmet with the quote 'Every villian is a hero in there own mind' in cursive script on the outer arm.
Horned helmet with quote on the arm
Black ink hand-lettered design reading Everything changes, with swirling flourishes on the capitals and tails, drawn on cream paper.
Everything changes lettering design
Black Roman numeral XIII lettering tattooed on the back of a bare ankle, above a dark trouser leg.
Roman numeral XIII on an ankle
Hand-drawn fine line arrow design with flowing script lettering reading follow your arrow wherever it goes, drawn in black ink on white paper.
Arrow with script quote design
Close-up of a small fine line black script tattoo reading 'i love you' on the inner wrist and forearm.
Small script 'i love you' on the wrist
Small black typewriter-style word oops tattooed on the top joint of an index finger, photographed on an open palm.
Small word tattoo on an index finger
Fine line drawing of a Wanderlust script word with an arrow and a blue watercolour planet with a ring, drawn as a tattoo design on white paper.
Wanderlust script with arrow and blue planet
Black lettering flash sheet of short phrases in assorted script and serif fonts, including Vampire, Love Bites, Bitten and Join the pack, with no tattoo shown on skin.
Lettering flash sheet of vampire and werewolf phrases
Black line drawing of flowing decorative lettering surrounded by clouds, a crescent moon and a small star, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Decorative lettering with moon and star doodles
Two forearms in a sepia photo: the upper arm has fine line script reading Be Enchanted, and the lower arm has a small outlined heart near the wrist.
Be Enchanted script and small heart on forearms
Black and grey fine line eye inside a triangle with small text around it on the upper arm, and 'be strong girl' lettering on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and 'be strong girl' lettering
Fine line black script tattoo reading until the very end across the upper chest just below the collarbone.
Until the very end script on collarbone
Black lettering design on a white background reading "to the moon and back" in English, with the Arabic translation above it, in a Lettering style.
Arabic and English "to the moon and back" script
Gold metallic temporary tattoos on a wrist and forearm, with script reading be happy, a watch face and a bangle, and the word love in fine lettering.
Gold metallic temporary tattoos on a wrist
Two wrists side by side with black lettering tattoos: the word Beauty in script on the left wrist and Beast in a bold blackletter style on the right wrist.
Beauty and Beast wrist tattoos
Chest tattoo of a red stitched heart with black script lettering, two cherries and small stars, placed across the centre of the chest.
Stitched heart with script and cherries on chest
Close photo of the words expecto patronum in fine black cursive script running along the upper arm, with a sleeve of light denim at the top edge.
Script phrase along an upper arm
Black fine line lettering tattoo wrapped in a circle around the ankle, with handwritten script words set around a blank centre.
Circular script quote on an ankle
Black and grey fine line script lettering reading Feminist Killjoy on pale skin, shown in a close black and white photograph.
Feminist Killjoy script lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading LOVE on the inner wrist, with the O replaced by a heart containing a wheelchair symbol.
Love lettering with wheelchair symbol heart on wrist
Black ink tattoo of the word faith in script inside an outlined fish shape, placed on the lower back above the waistband of blue jeans.
Faith script inside a fish outline on the lower back
Black script lettering reading If you're a bird, I'm a bird, with small flying bird silhouettes, tattooed on the back of a neck.
Bird quote script on the back of the neck
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading alis volat propriis along the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Latin script phrase along the ribs
Black and grey Roman numeral tattoo on a forearm beside a fine serif lettering tattoo on another forearm, outdoors in green grass.
Matching Roman numeral and lettering forearm tattoos
Black brush-script lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway on off-white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Brush lettering reading Feel the fear and do it anyway
Black ink hand lettering on white paper reading Grace wins, with flowing script for Grace and smaller capitals for WINS.
Grace wins hand lettering
Pencil flash design of an ornate compass rose with a fleur-de-lis point and True North lettering, shown in black and grey without any body placement.
Compass rose with True North lettering
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo reading familia on the back of a neck, with hair tied up.
Familia script tattoo on the back of the neck
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Two people stand side by side showing fine line black script tattoos on their ribs, reading "To infinity" and "and beyond".
Matching "To infinity" and "and beyond" rib script
A sheet of eight black line monogram designs in flourished lettering styles, with initials such as JM, CB, SB, AG, EJ and TS, shown on a plain white background.
Eight decorative monogram designs on white
Close-up of a fine line script lettering tattoo running along the inside of a forearm, with a crystal-encrusted bracelet worn on the wrist.
Small script line tattoo on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading Vildhjärta on the side of the ribs, shown from the side with a yellow lace bralette above it.
Script word tattoo on the ribs

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