Tattoo ideas

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

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Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading You'll be in my heart always, across the upper chest near the shoulder.
Script quote on upper chest
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace with fine script lettering along its length, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Heartbeat line with script wording
Woman seen from behind with a thin fine line script tattoo running vertically down the centre of her back.
Script line tattoo down the spine
Small black Chinese characters tattooed in a vertical column between the shoulder blades on a woman's upper back, in a lettering style.
Vertical Chinese characters across upper back
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a lower leg showing mountains, pine trees and a crescent moon inside a circular compass frame, with the words 'You are home' beneath.
Mountain and moon badge with 'You are home' lettering
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow with the French script words Vous etes belle along its shaft, on the top of a foot.
Vous etes belle arrow on the foot
Black fine line feather tattoo joined to an infinity symbol with script lettering on the side of a finger.
Feather and infinity script on a finger
Colour lettering tattoo reading Mischief Managed in a circle, with a purple smoke trail, green and yellow stars and a wand on an arm.
Mischief Managed lettering with purple smoke trail and wand
Handwritten script lettering reading I'll love you 'til the end in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Handwritten I'll love you 'til the end lettering
Black fine line script tattoo reading Smile with a swirling flourish on the inside of a wrist, viewed from the palm side of a hand.
Smile script tattoo on a wrist
Black fine line script reading keep going, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone, shown in a black and white photograph.
Keep going script on the chest
Fine line black infinity symbol on a forearm, with the script words hakuna matata written inside the loop.
Infinity symbol with script wording on a forearm
Black fine line handwritten tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a small crescent moon below, on the inner wrist beneath a metal watch.
Quote and crescent moon on a wrist
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Close photo of a black serif lettering tattoo reading bad circumstances good jokes on an upper arm, with an office background.
Text tattoo reading bad circumstances good jokes
Fine line infinity symbol tattoo on the top of a foot, with the words Faith, Love and Hope, a grey feather and small red hearts.
Infinity tattoo with Faith, Love and Hope on a foot
Black script lettering reading "When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you" beside a column of footprint outlines, a fine line lettering tattoo on the side of the body.
Footprints and script quote on skin
Black script lettering reading Saved by Grace Ephesians 2:8, tattooed on skin in a lettering style.
Saved by Grace lettering
Black and grey photo of the word Angel in script on one inner wrist and Devil with a tail flourish on the other, both in a lettering style.
Angel and devil wrist lettering
Black script lettering on a forearm reading Blood Makes You Related and Loyalty Makes You Family, against a dark table with a white star.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of the word choice in fine line script lettering on the forearm, near a woven bracelet.
Script word choice on the forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a shaded feather with script lettering and a flock of birds, on the side of the ribs.
Feather with birds and script on the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a winged fairy beside the word Believe in script with swirls and a star, on the skin of the back.
Fairy and Believe script on the back
Black script tattoo reading To live is to love along the outer side of a bare foot, with coral painted toenails against a pale wall.
Script quote tattoo on a foot
Two bare feet, each with a matching black cursive lettering tattoo arranged in a heart outline across the top of the foot.
Matching heart lettering tattoos on two feet
Black script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back with a black crescent moon below it, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Quote and crescent moon on the inner wrist
Black arrow tattoo on a forearm with the words endure and survive set along the shaft in typewriter lettering.
Endure and survive arrow on a forearm
Black compass rose tattoo with a dotted ring and script reading "The horizon is my home" on the upper back.
Compass rose with "The horizon is my home" on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of an outlined heart with the word love inside and little sister written along its lower right edge, on the top of a foot.
Heart with love and little sister script on foot
Dark script lettering reading through every dark night, there is a brighter day, tattooed across the upper chest in a black lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of a woman's back, photographed from behind in an open-back dress.
Script lettering down the spine
Hand-drawn black lettering design in a sketchbook reading 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now and this bird you cannot change, with decorative letterforms and shading.
Lettering design with a bird lyric
Dark blue-black silhouettes of birds in flight rise across the upper back toward the shoulder, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Close photograph of a fine line script tattoo reading Let It Be in white ink on the inner forearm, set against a leopard print background.
Let It Be script on the inner forearm
Black and grey traditional swallow tattoo on the upper back, with a banner reading it's just a spark but its enough beside a starburst.
Swallow with spark quote on upper back
Fine line black tattoo of a teepee with the word HOME beneath it, a crescent moon, a ringed planet and stars on the calf.
Teepee, planets and HOME on a calf
Black and grey photo of a fine line script tattoo reading love on a wrist.
Love script on the wrist
Black script lettering reading Wanderlust across the top of a bare foot, with dark jeans visible at the sides of the frame.
Wanderlust script on the top of a foot
Black handwritten lettering on an upper arm reads its is my life with the attribution Jon Bovi beneath it.
Handwritten quote on upper arm
Black script tattoo reading Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your Heart, with two black paw prints, on the side of a torso.
Paw prints and quote on the ribs
Black ink drawing of the word elephant in hand-drawn lettering, with the letters shaped to form an elephant's body, trunk and legs on a grey background.
Elephant lettering design in black ink
Black fine line infinity symbol with the word Mamma written in script through the loops and a small heart on the right, tattooed on a torso.
Infinity symbol with Mamma script and heart
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading family in flowing script, with the words where life begins and love never ends in small capitals beneath it.
Family script with quote lettering
Black and grey photograph of a small solid airplane silhouette above the handwritten words home, where i wanted to go, tattooed on the inner wrist.
Airplane and quote on a wrist
Colour tattoo on an arm of a ball of teal and grey yarn crossed with two knitting needles, above and below the words KNIT FAST DIE WARM in traditional-style lettering.
Yarn ball with knitting needles and lettering
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded feather with a looping script quote reading Behind every happily ever after there's an extraordinary story, across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Feather and script quote on upper back
Black and grey blackletter alphabet flash sheet from A to Z inside a chain border, with no body placement shown.
Blackletter alphabet flash sheet
Black cursive script reading As I breathe, I hope across the inner forearm, in a fine line lettering style.
As I breathe, I hope script on a forearm

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