Tattoo ideas

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

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Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market on the top of a foot, in a simple fine line style.
Gone to Market sign on the top of a foot
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo in three vertical lines on the ribs, with the text set in a delicate lettering style.
Three lines of fine script on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo in Devanagari script arranged in a spiral around a central symbol, placed across a person's upper back.
Devanagari script spiral on upper back
Black and grey photo of the word dust in thin script lettering on the inner forearm, with a watch strap and an open book behind.
Dust script lettering on a wrist
Black script lettering reading "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell" across a patch of skin in a sepia-toned photo.
Script quote tattoo on skin
Black and grey photo of a small black lettering tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Coordinates tattoo across the upper chest
Black ink script quote reading Through Dangers Untold and Hardships Unnumbered on the inner wrist, beside a white dogwood flower on stone.
Quote on the inner wrist beside a dogwood flower
Fine line black script tattoo of a semicolon followed by the word live on the inner wrist.
Semicolon and live on a wrist
Close-up of two hands with red K and Q letter tattoos, each paired with a heart, on the fingers and hand, with a dark tattoo partly visible on the wrist.
K and Q heart tattoos on fingers
Black ink script lettering reading hallelujah with a long flowing tail, drawn on a plain white background.
Hallelujah in script lettering
Fine line black script reading let it be with three small birds in flight above it, tattooed on the side of a person's body.
Let it be lettering with birds on skin
Black line drawing flash design with the word Dreamer in script above a dreamcatcher and three feathers, with no body placement shown.
Dreamer script with dreamcatcher and feathers
Black and grey script lettering reading "one step at a time" across the top of a foot, in a lettering style, placed on the foot.
"One step at a time" script on a foot
Black and white ink flash design of a perfume atomiser, lipstick and hand-lettered text reading Let me get my girly shit, with small heart labels.
Perfume atomiser, lipstick and lettering flash
Dark ink tattoo of the word DANCE on the inner wrist, with the letters formed from small silhouetted dancing figures.
Word DANCE with dancer figures on wrist
Close-up of fine line black script lettering that appears to read Because I say so, on the side of a hip above dark lace underwear.
Script lettering on the hip
Black script quote reading 'Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live' on one forearm, with a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and heart on forearms
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Black script tattoo reading 'To have faith, is to fly' above a solid black silhouette of a flying figure, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote and flying silhouette on a wrist
Close photo of a black script tattoo reading live.out.loud across the inner wrist, with green painted nails and a silver watch strap.
Live.out.loud script on the wrist
Two forearms side by side with fine black script tattoos on the inner arms, reading Um coração on the left and Um amor on the right, in a black and white photograph.
Um coração and um amor forearm script
Two forearms with matching black lettering of latitude and longitude coordinates in a simple serif font, the lower line rotated upside down in the photo.
Latitude and longitude coordinates on two forearms
Flash sheet of black ink infinity symbol designs, each with a single handwritten script word such as love, family, music or faith, on white paper.
Infinity symbol lettering flash sheet
Close crop of a person in a white crop top and pink cardigan, with black script tattoo on the upper chest and a small tattoo at the side of the waist.
Devanagari script tattoo on the chest
Black lettering tattoo reading FRIENDS with a small coloured dot between each letter, on the inside of a wrist.
FRIENDS lettering on a wrist
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a scalloped heart reading BE BRAVE, framed by two flowers and dark leaves, on a forearm.
Be brave heart with flowers on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading No Regrets, tattooed on a person's back in a close, softly lit photo.
No Regrets script lettering on skin
Fine line script design reading carpe diem, drawn with one continuous black line that extends to both sides, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Carpe diem script line design
Colour tattoo on the back of a witch hat, black script reading Defy Gravity, and a wand ending in a yellow star, with scattered black stars.
Defy Gravity script with witch hat and wand
Two matching ankle tattoos of latitude and longitude coordinates set in blue lettering, one on each of two people's ankles.
Matching coordinate tattoos on ankles
Fine line black barcode tattoo with the word HUMAN beneath it, placed on the inside of a wrist.
Barcode with HUMAN on a wrist
Black ink hand-lettered word beautiful in flowing script on white paper, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Beautiful in flowing hand lettering
Two matching black script tattoos reading Post tenebras lux, one on each forearm, with flowing lettering and a small swirl at the end of the phrase.
Post tenebras lux lettering on forearms
Black ink design of the word Believe in flowing script lettering, framed by swirling flourishes on a white background, shown as a flash design without a body placement.
Believe script lettering with flourishes
Fine line tattoo of an infinity symbol with the word family in script and a small red heart on the upper loop, placed on the back of the neck.
Infinity symbol with family script and red heart
Black script lettering reading live without regrets, with a swirled flourish beneath, across the upper back.
Live without regrets script across upper back
Black fine script lettering reading Love with a football outline beside it, tattooed on the top of a bare foot.
Love script and football on a foot
Close-up photograph of thin black fine line Greek lettering reading φαμιλψ on skin, with the placement on the body not clear from the image.
Greek lettering tattoo on skin
Close-up of a fine black lettering tattoo reading 51°30'26"N 0°7'39"W in a single line across the upper chest below the collarbone.
Coordinates tattoo on the upper chest
Fine line script tattoo reading Believe, with a teal ribbon in place of the letters li, on a person's upper back near the shoulder.
Believe script with teal ribbon on shoulder
Black and grey realism tattoos of four women's portraits above Stay Gold lettering in blackletter across both thighs.
Four portraits and Stay Gold lettering on thighs
Black and grey fine line lettering on the inner forearm reading she has fire in her soul and grace in her heart, set in two lines.
Two-line quote on inner forearm
Black and white photo of a muscular man's back with a large grim reaper tattoo with a scythe, arched lettering reading Sons of Anarchy and California, and arm tattoos.
Grim reaper and lettering across a back
Two raised thumbs show matching small black script tattoos on the inside wrists, with a drink on a dark table behind.
Matching script tattoos on two wrists
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading amor vincit omnia in cursive script along the ribs, with a hand wearing a ring resting above it.
Amor vincit omnia script on the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading life doesn't stop for anybody across the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Line drawing flash design of three lilac-shaded roses with grey leaves beside the lettering "We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness" and the numerals I-XVII-MMXV, shown on a white
Roses with quote lettering design
Black single-line fine line script lettering spelling the word dream on a plain white background, shown as a design with no body placement visible.
Single-line script word reading dream

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