Tattoo ideas

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

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Realism-style tiger tattoo wearing an ornate armoured collar, with swirling clouds and a scroll panel of characters across a man's chest.
Snarling tiger and clouds across the chest
Fine line botanical design of a tree whose trunk becomes a DNA double helix, with roots, leaves and butterflies, drawn in maroon ink on a peach background.
Tree growing from a DNA helix
Small solid black cat silhouette tattoo on the top of a foot, close to the toes.
Cat silhouette on the top of a foot
Black and grey tattoo design of a bare tree with roots spreading over a hatched skull, with three crows and ink splatter around it.
Bare tree growing from a skull with crows
Woman with a full arm sleeve of red rose and grey shaded tattoos on her upper arm and forearm, with a red flower reaching onto her hand.
Red roses and grey sleeve tattoo on an arm
Black ink drawing of a stylised phoenix with sweeping wings and tail feathers, a flash design suited to a fine line tattoo.
Stylised phoenix in flowing linework
Fine black line tattoo of a lion built from overlapping circles, sitting on the left side of the ribs.
Geometric lion made of overlapping circles on ribs
Chest tattoo of a red heart with grey crossed bones and the script words Beautiful Tragedy running across the upper chest, in a lettering style with soft shading.
Heart and crossed bones with script on chest
Black and grey travel-themed tattoos on a forearm, including the word wanderlust at the wrist, a compass rose, aeroplanes, a heart map and an arrow.
Travel-themed tattoos on a forearm
Black and grey mandala tattoo with dotwork shading on the side of the ribs, with a person lying on grey bed linen.
Mandala tattoo on the side ribs
Black and grey butterfly wing tattoo with ornate swirling linework running from the shoulder down the side of a bare back.
Butterfly wing tattoo down a woman's back
Black and grey butterfly and flower vine tattoo running from the ankle onto the top of a foot, in a botanical fine line style.
Butterfly and flower vine on an ankle
Black line drawing of the words OFF WITH HER HEAD arranged in the shape of a playing card club, with a spiral in the top lobe, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Off with her head lettering in a club shape
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two skeleton hands meeting in a heart shape across the chest, worn by a person in a grey vest top.
Skeleton hands forming a heart on the chest
Black and red tree of life tattoo with spreading branches, roots and a central swirling knot across a person's upper back.
Tree of life tattoo on upper back
Black ink tattoo of a stylised zodiac glyph resembling the Capricorn symbol on the upper arm, with a grey sleeve visible behind it.
Capricorn-style zodiac glyph on upper arm
Colour cartoon tattoos of two slices of bread, a ham and a wedge of cheese across the knuckle fingers of a clenched hand.
Bread, ham and cheese finger tattoos
A seated woman with colour tattoos on her forearm and shoulder, outline stars on her thigh and a red and green snake on her calf, on a black leather sofa.
Star and snake tattoos on bare legs
Traditional style colour tattoo of a black witch hat with a purple ribbon on a broomstick, placed on the upper back.
Witch hat and broomstick on upper back
Realism tattoo of a face's eyes, one blue and one amber, framed by black swirling ornamental linework on the upper arm.
Realistic eyes within swirling linework on arm
Black ink tattoo of a crescent moon, stars and a cross running vertically across the top of a bare foot, with red toenail polish.
Moon, stars and cross on a foot
Black and grey tattoo of a bull wearing a rose crown, ribbon and ornate headpiece, shown on the thigh.
Bull with rose crown on a thigh
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open pocket watch with exposed gears and a shaded rose with leaves on a forearm.
Pocket watch and rose on a forearm
Shaded drawing of a shield crest topped with a Spartan-style helmet, framed by scrollwork and leaves, with a blue band across the shield, shown as a tattoo design.
Crest with helmet and blue stripe
Close view of a fine line tattoo of three red arrows pointing in the same direction, placed on the side of the ribs.
Three arrows on the side ribs
Fine line black tattoo of four stick figures holding hands in a row on the side of a ribcage, just below a dark bra band.
Four stick figures holding hands on the ribs
Black and grey Polynesian-style tattoo with tribal bands and two flowers across the back of a woman's neck and upper back.
Polynesian-style neck and upper back tattoo with flowers
Colour sleeve tattoo on the upper arm showing Care Bears on clouds beneath a crescent moon, with stars, a rainbow and a pastel castle, plus a grey Grumpy Bear in an inset.
Care Bears sleeve with moon and clouds
Black and grey feather tattoo on the lower back of a woman with her back to the camera, seated on a boat.
Feather tattoo on a lower back
Watercolour style tattoo on an upper arm showing a blue and yellow bird beside a lamp post, a moon and the words Next Stop Everywhere.
Bird, lamp post and moon on an upper arm
Vintage-style drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope and decorated with pink roses and teal flowers on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Vintage anchor with roses and rope
Colour tattoo of an outlined hand filled with a starry night sky, a planet with pine trees and an orange glow, on the outer thigh in a neo-traditional style.
Hand with starry sky, planet and pine trees
Black linework tattoo of a sun and crescent moon, each with a face, on the side of an upper arm, in a traditional style.
Sun and moon with faces on the side of the arm
Fine line black tattoo of a branch wrapping around the forearm, with a small perched bird, a sitting fox and leaves along the stem.
Bird, fox and branch on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a grinning Cheshire Cat with blue eyes and a purple and pink spiral body and striped tail, placed on the upper thigh.
Cheshire Cat with spiral body on thigh
Black script lettering tattoo reading every day is the start of something beautiful across the upper chest, near the collarbone, with a grey patterned fleece worn open.
Script quote across the upper chest
Two fine line black ink tattoos on ankles, a small circled globe on one ankle and a small aeroplane outline on the other, shown on sand.
Globe and aeroplane ankle tattoos on the beach
Small black fine line lotus flower tattoo with two dots above and below it, placed on the inner wrist.
Fine line lotus on the wrist
Small black fine line script lettering on a woman's side ribs, shown with a white bralette and open blue shirt.
Small script lettering on the ribs
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh showing the Lumpy Space Princess character from Adventure Time above a banner reading LUMP OFF, framed by pink roses.
Lumpy Space Princess and roses on a thigh
Fine line black tattoo of a treble and bass clef forming a heart, with the script words Where words fail, Music speaks below it.
Clef heart and quote tattoo on skin
Close photo of a bent arm with a sketchy winged creature in blue and purple on the upper arm, with script lettering and a pink rose on the forearm.
Winged creature and script on an arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a hedgehog curled in a circle beside lupin flowers, with dotted geometric lines, on the upper thigh.
Hedgehog and lupin on a thigh
Illustration of a hummingbird in flight, trailing teal and purple paint splashes on a white background.
Hummingbird in flight with paint splash
Small blue butterfly tattoo with dark outlines on the upper back near the shoulder blade, with a thin gold chain visible at the neck.
Blue butterfly on upper back
Black fine line tattoo of a looping ribbon design with the word love in script on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Looping ribbon and script love on a forearm
Black and grey eagle, globe and anchor tattoo across a man's upper back and shoulder blade, photographed from behind.
Eagle, globe and anchor on upper back
Colour tattoo of red poppies, green vine and a green frog climbing up the side of the ribs, in a botanical realism style.
Red poppies and frog on a ribcage

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