Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose with musical staff lines and notes fading into its petals, on the forearm.
Rose with sheet music petals on a forearm
Flash sheet of green lettering designs with two-word phrases such as Hold Fast, Home Sick and Open Eyes, headed Knucks, drawn for knuckle tattoos.
Knuckle lettering flash sheet, mix and match
Black and grey photo of a hand holding scissors through the handles, with a small black looped symbol tattooed on the side of the finger.
Small symbol tattoo on a finger
Thigh with a coloured portrait of a woman framed by flowers, a black and grey sailing ship in a rope border, and a small teal lotus with pink characters above it.
Portrait, ship and lotus tattoos on a thigh
Traditional-style flash design of a blue teacup with a skull and crossbones, coffee spilling out, framed by two scroll banners of lettering on a red splash background.
Skull teacup with coffee banners
Colour tattoo of yellow and orange flowers with green stems and leaves in a Art Nouveau style on a person's shoulder and upper arm.
Yellow and orange flowers on a shoulder
Black and grey dotwork tattoo design of a mountain peak, zigzag ridges, a crescent moon and stars inside a diamond frame, with a small campfire and tent at the base.
Mountain camp under a crescent moon
A red and black butterfly tattoo with curling black swirls on the side of the torso, above a red waistband.
Red and black butterfly on the side of the torso
Fine black lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, running along the top of a bare foot on a sandy beach.
Quote and birds along a foot
Small black Hebrew script lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with a black and white French bulldog resting its head on the hand.
Small Hebrew script tattoo on a wrist
Black script lettering forms a treble clef spiral across the ribs, with the word love in red.
Lyric treble clef across the ribs
Small colour tattoo of Hello Kitty with a red bow on the inner wrist of a hand shown palm out against a purple background.
Small Hello Kitty tattoo on inner wrist
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the top of a foot showing a smiling flame sprite with bold eyes and a banner reading MAY ALL YOUR BACON BURN.
Fire sprite with banner on the foot
Black and grey tattoos of a compass, a pocket watch, flowers and a lettered banner on two upper arms.
Compass and pocket watch with banner on two arms
Fine line crescent moon with swirling scrolls and small stars, shaded in grey, tattooed on a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Crescent moon and stars on a shoulder
Black fine line tattoo on the wrist designed as a bracelet, with a dotted chain, a small diamond pendant and a crescent moon.
Fine line chain bracelet tattoo on the wrist
Two hands resting on a wooden table show fine line ornamental tattoos across the backs of the hands and fingers, in grey ink.
Ornamental tattoos across the backs of both hands
Colourful phoenix tattoo in orange, red, yellow and blue on a forearm, with a wrist full of bangles and a patterned top visible.
Phoenix tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey script tattoo reading Faith, Hope and Love with a small cross and heart, across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Faith, Hope and Love script on an ankle
Black and white photo of clasped hands with small linework symbols on the fingers and a larger dark design on the back of the hand, with a steel wristwatch on the wrist.
Tattooed hands clasped over a wristwatch
Two realistic blue bluebird tattoos on the inner forearms, one perched on a padlock engraved with a treble clef and one on an ornate key.
Bluebirds perched on a padlock and a key
Fine line black fern leaf inside a thin circle on the side of a woman's neck, with her dark hair falling across a white pillow.
Fern leaf in a circle on the neck
Back of a woman in a car showing a dark outlined tattoo of the word FUCK in blocky letters across her upper back, with a curled shape to the left.
Blocky word tattoo across upper back
Black and grey tattoo of stars cascading diagonally across the side ribs, with the largest star shaded to look three-dimensional.
Cascading stars on a side ribcage
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a daisy with curling vines wrapping from the ankle up the side of the leg.
Daisy and swirl vine tattoo on an ankle
Black and grey realism style tattoos of birds in flight on a forearm, with a hummingbird hovering above an open palm.
Black and grey birds on a forearm and hand
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a large open bloom and a smaller ruffled flower with buds and stems, running down the side of the ribs.
Black and grey flowers down the ribs
Black and grey traditional chest tattoo of a skull-faced woman cameo in a beaded frame, flanked by ornate scrollwork, on a chest.
Skull cameo with scrollwork on a chest
Two black and grey tattoos on forearms in realistic shading and script lettering, one showing a fishing rod and reel, the other a hook and heart.
Fishing rod and hook tattoos on two forearms
Traditional style swallow tattoo with red flowers on the upper arm, shown in black, grey, blue and red ink.
Swallow and red flowers on an upper arm
Japanese style red and orange koi fish tattoo with black swirling waves and white highlights, shown from two angles on a limb.
Red koi fish with black waves
Colour traditional tattoo on a forearm of a cartoon woman with glasses and auburn hair holding a book, framed by a heart, with a red rose below.
Cartoon character with book and rose on forearm
Black ink band tattoo of spirals and dots encircling a wrist, shown on a hand wearing a silver ring.
Spiral and dot band tattoo on a wrist
Colour botanical tattoo of a purple lily with a thin stem and buds running down the upper arm towards the elbow, in fine line style.
Purple lily and stem on upper arm
Dark blue-grey tattoo of a flock of birds rising across the upper back, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Close-up of a hand with tiny black fine line dots and a small fan of lines tattooed on the fingers, placed on the hand.
Small dots and fan marks on fingers
Black and white ink drawing of a skull wearing a top hat with a scrolled ornament on the band, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Skull in a top hat design
Two people's inner wrists side by side, each with a small black soundwave tattoo across the forearm.
Matching soundwave tattoos on two wrists
Forearm tattoo divided down the middle, with a cat skull on the left and a sphynx cat face on the right, set against a pink and purple galaxy with small stars.
Split cat skull and sphynx on forearm
Close-up of the back of a leg in pink running shoes, with black arrows and red block lettering reading PLEASE GO AROUND on the calf.
Please Go Around arrows on a calf
Small red steak cut tattoo with a thin dark outline on the side of a finger, on a hand wearing a beaded bracelet.
Steak cut tattoo on a finger
Black and grey botanical tattoo with ornamental shading across the top of a bare foot and up the ankle, next to a grey sock.
Black and grey floral tattoo on foot and ankle
Black and grey flash drawing of a vinyl record on a turntable framed by two traditional roses and ink swirls, shown on paper.
Record player with two roses design
Back view of a small solid black bare-branched tree tattoo at the base of a woman's neck, with her hair in a bun and a grey jumper.
Bare tree tattoo at the base of the neck
Colour tattoo of a white masked character face inside a pink, blue and green mandala of petals and leaves, on the upper thigh.
Masked face within a mandala on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading she will run and not grow weary with a small cross on the inner forearm near the wrist, shown against a patterned fabric.
Text quote and cross on a forearm
Close-up photo of a small black fine line tattoo of a simple cat outline with dot eyes on the side of a foot near the ankle, against green fabric.
Minimal cat outline on the ankle
Black serif lettering reading 'we are all earthlings' across a forearm, with a green top and a studio chair in the background.
Quote lettering on a forearm

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