Tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink flash sheet of Shakespeare quotes in script and typewriter lettering, with a small skull and a wreath design.
Shakespeare quote lettering flash sheet
Two black script tattoos on wrists, one reading Queen with a crown and one reading King with a crown, shown on hands held together.
Matching queen and king wrist tattoos
Black fine line script reading 1 Corinthians 16 14 with a cross running through it, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Corinthians reference and cross on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of a bird in flight above the words Free Bird in script on the back of a hand.
Bird in flight and Free Bird script on a hand
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below on a shaved scalp above an ear.
Text tattoo reading Leave a Coment Below
Dark lettering reading Let it be... in a simple script on the side of the torso, partly covered by a red and multicoloured patterned bikini bottom.
Let it be lettering on the side of the body
Fine line lettering reading 'this is the beat of my heart' above a heartbeat trace tattoo on the inner wrist, shown in pale ink.
Heartbeat line and quote on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading ELATION, ELEGANCE, EXALTATION and I LOVE SUPREME on a forearm, with a person in zebra-print shorts holding a cigarette in front of a brick wall.
Four-line text tattoo on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo design in continuous single-line script reading be happy, with the line running out to both sides on a white background.
Be happy continuous line lettering
Black script lettering tattooed on the upper thigh of each leg, with a phrase reading always on my mind on the left, above black lace stockings.
Script lettering on both thighs
Small black lettering tattoo reading stet on the side of a torso, with a red plaid shirt lifted beside it.
Small stet lettering on the side ribs
Black and grey drawing of an ornate capital letter R with curling scrollwork flourishes, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Ornate scrollwork letter R design
Black fine line tattoo of an anchor entwined with an infinity symbol, with the script words refuse to sink written beneath it.
Anchor and infinity symbol with 'refuse to sink'
Black fine-line script tattoo reading walk by faith, with the reference 2Cor.5:7 beneath it, on the side of an ankle and heel.
Walk by faith script on the ankle
Colour tattoo of a pink lotus flower with a yellow centre above black script lettering, on the upper arm, in a realism and lettering style.
Pink lotus with script quote on upper arm
Black and grey script lettering reading two lines of verse across a person's upper back, over the shoulder blade area.
Two lines of script lettering across upper back
Colour tattoo of a pink heart with a scalloped yellow, orange, green and blue border and the words BE KIND, in a traditional style, on the upper arm.
Be Kind heart on upper arm
Handwritten script reading don't worry, joined by a long thin horizontal line, in white on a black textured background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Don't worry script lettering design
Black and grey rose tattoo on the back of a hand, with a diamond and script lettering on the thigh above it.
Rose on hand and diamond and script on thigh
Fine line black tattoo on an upper arm showing a desert road, cactus, sun, mountains, bull skull and the words Doing time in the universal mind.
Desert road and cactus with lettering on an arm
Colour traditional tattoo of a pepperoni pizza slice with a banner reading NOT, flanked by RIOTS and DIETS lettering, on a person's upper back.
Pizza slice with Riots Not Diets lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading love never fails with an outlined heart, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Love never fails script with small heart
Black fine lettering reading 'I love you' and 'I KNOW', each paired with a Rebel Alliance style emblem, tattooed on two forearms in black ink.
Rebel emblem with 'I love you' and 'I know' lettering
Black fine line script lettering reading smile on the inner wrist, shown in a black and white photo.
Smile script on the inner wrist
Close photo of the words The best is yet to come in thin black script tattooed diagonally along the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Black monoline script lettering reading Dream without fear and Love without Limits on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Dream without fear and love without limits script
Small black semicolon tattoo on the outer ankle, shown in a close-up photo of a bare foot.
Semicolon tattoo on the ankle
Black fine line script reading be happy on the inner wrist, with bright pink nails and patterned fabric in the background.
Be happy script tattoo on a wrist
Black ink drawing of an ornate capital letter R with hatched shading and curling flourishes on white paper, with fineliner pens beside it.
Ornamental letter R pen drawing
Fine line black tattoo of the word lumos beside a four-pointed star on the inner wrist.
Lumos script and star on a wrist
Temporary lettering in gold and black on the inner wrist reads I belong with Bridget's Bachelorette Party, with a drink reminder beneath.
Bachelorette party slogan on a wrist
Red and black blackletter letter with the script phrase Your Pain Is A Gift tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote and blackletter letter on upper back
Close photograph of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' across the collarbone near the shoulder, with a white top below.
Script quote 'this too shall pass' on collarbone
Black script lettering reading Go and try you'll never break me, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Fine line black and grey heart tattoo filled with mandala and paisley patterns and a script word, on a person's upper back.
Heart mandala with script on upper back
Black lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed on a woman's upper back near the neck.
Quote and two birds on upper back
Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a heart frame with a black and grey mountain scene, red roses, a hand in a blue cuff and the words love and will tear us apart.
Heart frame with roses and lettering on upper arm
Black line flash design of a spiral shell built from brick-like segments, with the words There is no place like HOME running along the curve.
Spiral shell with 'There is no place like home'
Single unbroken black line drawing of the words i heart you in fine-line script on a white background, with a heart formed in the loop of the h.
Continuous line script reading i heart you
Black and grey typewriter-style lyric tattoo across the upper back of a woman with sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Typewriter lyric text across a woman's back
Thin black cursive script reading forever young on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Forever young in fine script
Several gold foil lettering designs reading bride tribe with an arrow, plus one bride design with an arrow, shown on white backing sheets with no body part visible.
Bride tribe gold foil temporary tattoo designs
Black script reading Don't Blink over a blue watercolour splash tattoo on the side of the ribs.
Don't Blink script over blue watercolour splash
A small black ampersand tattoo in a thin, flowing script on the inner wrist, with the hand resting palm up.
Small ampersand on an inner wrist
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background, reading a quote about ink and breath, styled as a lettering design.
Handwritten script quote about ink and breath
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a feathered arrow with a script word along the shaft, on the inner forearm.
Feathered arrow with script word on a forearm
Small black script lettering reading love on the side of a finger, with glitter nail varnish, against a plain white background.
Small script word 'love' on a finger
Black fine line script tattoo reading Meraki, with a swirling flourish above and a leaf sprig below, on the thigh.
Meraki script with leaf sprig on thigh

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