Tattoo ideas

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Colour traditional style tattoo of a TARDIS and a Dalek with red roses and a banner reading Remember, on a forearm.
TARDIS and Dalek with roses on a forearm
Colour Traditional-style tattoo of a blue columbine flower with pink petals and a red C-shaped centre, on a forearm.
Columbine flower on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo on a calf showing two cartoon figures, one in a dark cloak and one in a cap, inside a vine wreath with the words Ain't that just the way.
Cartoon pair and lettering on a calf
Black and grey seahorse tattoo with shaded scales and spiny fins on the forearm, in a traditional style.
Seahorse on a forearm
Black and grey traditional arm sleeve tattoo with a skull in a bottle, a lady portrait and roses across the upper arm and forearm.
Traditional black and grey arm sleeve
Traditional style tattoo of an acoustic guitar wrapped in a script banner, with two red roses, on the forearm.
Guitar, roses and lyric banner on a forearm
Colourful Hogwarts house crest tattoo on a forearm, with a lion, serpent, badger and eagle around a central H, a banner reading DRACO and a Latin motto, in a traditional style.
Hogwarts house crest on a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of a blue-black raven head above a red banner reading the hardest thing in this world is to live in it, on the upper arm.
Raven and quote banner on an arm
Traditional style red heart tattoo with black outlines and pins stuck through it, on the inner wrist of a hand with red nail polish.
Red pinned heart on a wrist
Colour traditional tattoo on skin showing Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a grey Zuul dog, with the red no-ghost logo and a yellow and black ghost trap below.
Ghostbusters characters and logo on a thigh
Traditional-style mermaid, anchor, stars and flowers design printed on a black t-shirt, shown flat with no body placement.
Mermaid and anchor design on a black t-shirt
Small solid red lightning bolt tattoo with a thin blue edge on the inner wrist, shown against a black background.
Red lightning bolt on inner wrist
Traditional style tattoo of a grey and black anchor wrapped with a brown rope, shown on a limb.
Anchor with rope on skin
Traditional style colour tattoo of a sunflower with orange petals, a dark brown dotted centre and green stem and leaves, on a lower leg.
Sunflower on the lower leg
Black and grey tattoo of a boar built from Celtic interlace and spirals, shaded to look raised, sitting on the upper arm near the shoulder.
Knotwork boar on upper arm
Black and grey traditional flash sheet showing six dagger designs, each with a ribbon banner curling beneath the blade.
Six traditional dagger designs with banners
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a blue police box with yellow windows, with banners reading Wibbly Wobbly and Timey Wimey, on a calf.
Blue police box with banners on a calf
Two traditional-style tattoos on a woman's thighs, an ornate hand mirror with pink flowers on the left and a dagger with a red heart and butterfly on the right.
Mirror and dagger thigh tattoos
Traditional style colour tattoo of a poison bottle with a skull and crossbones, a 'Life is Poison' banner and a flower, on an upper arm.
Poison bottle and banner on an arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a brown bird with a red breast and musical notes on the inner forearm.
Brown bird with music notes on a forearm
Traditional style upper arm sleeve tattoo showing Darth Vader, Boba Fett, a stormtrooper, R2-D2 and a red rose.
Star Wars sleeve with roses on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a black and red umbrella under a grey storm cloud with yellow lightning bolts and blue raindrops, on the inner forearm.
Umbrella and storm cloud on a forearm
Black line drawings in a traditional style, including a heart with a cabin and pine trees, drawn on a wooden hand mannequin.
Traditional heart, cabin and portrait flash on a wooden hand
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around an anchor, placed on the outer thigh.
Octopus wrapped around an anchor on a thigh
Black and grey shaded swallows in flight with small star and dot accents, tattooed on the side of the ribs in a traditional style.
Two swallows with stars on the ribs
Colour traditional tattoo of a Kewpie-style doll in a hula skirt with a hibiscus in her hair, holding a pineapple drink, on the calf.
Kewpie doll in hula skirt with pineapple
Colour traditional tattoo on a calf of a rose over crossed baseball bats, with barbed wire above and the words Life's Swinging Hard and But I'm Swinging Harder.
Rose and crossed bats with barbed wire
Colour Traditional-style tattoo of a green shamrock framing a Claddagh hand-held heart with a gold crown, on the upper back.
Claddagh and shamrock on the back
Traditional style tattoo of a black coffin with a cross, a scythe and two flowers, with a banner reading Kill the hate within me, on a thigh.
Coffin, scythe and cross on a thigh
Colour tattoo of Lisa Simpson dressed as Wonder Woman with a lasso, inside a rope-edged oval above a pink flower, on a limb.
Lisa Simpson as Wonder Woman with a flower
Flash design of a green-tipped sonic screwdriver wrapped in three white ribbon banners reading Wibbly, Wobbly and Timey-Wimey, with a green halftone glow behind it.
Sonic screwdriver with Wibbly Wobbly banners
Traditional style flash drawing of a woman with curled hair and red lips, with outlined rose and butterfly tattoos on her upper arms.
Pin-up face with rose and butterfly tattoos
Small colour tattoo of a red strawberry with green leaves and black outlines, on the back of a person's neck.
Small strawberry on the back of the neck
Traditional style colour tattoo of a blue and red swallow in flight with an orange wash behind it, on a man's shoulder and upper chest.
Swallow with orange wash on the shoulder
Traditional style tattoo of a three-masted sailing ship inside a bottle-shaped outline with a red anchor, red clouds and flowers, on a limb.
Traditional sailing ship with anchor and flowers
Colour traditional tattoo of a dark-haired cartoon man in a suit with orange clouds behind him and a Danger Zone banner, on a forearm.
Cartoon portrait with Danger Zone banner on forearm
Black ink ornamental swallow tattoo in flight across the side of the ribs, with patterned wings and dotwork detail.
Ornamental swallow on the ribs
Colour traditional tattoo of red and orange flowers, rosebuds and brown-green leaves across a thigh.
Traditional floral piece on a thigh
Black and grey flash design of a dotwork-shaded rose with three arrows and the words "Love yourself so no one has to" curved around it.
Rose and arrows with "Love yourself" lettering
Black and grey tattoo of a cracked pocket watch with Roman numerals and two dotwork roses on a forearm, with a ribbon banner above.
Pocket watch and roses on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoo on an upper arm showing a blue TARDIS police box with tentacles, a gold Dalek, a silver Cyberman and a planet against a space background.
Doctor Who TARDIS, Dalek and Cyberman on upper arm
Traditional colour tattoo of an embracing couple in a rope heart frame, with a crescent moon, sun and red flower, on a forearm.
Embracing couple in rope heart on forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a Venus flytrap in a patterned red and yellow pot, with a MAN EATER banner, on the thigh.
Venus flytrap in a pot with banner
Black and grey realism rose tattoo with leaves on the upper arm, with a moth tattoo on the forearm below, shown in a two-panel photo of a person in a pink bralette.
Black and grey roses on an upper arm
Colour tattoo sleeve on a limb showing a Route 66 sign, a checkered flag, a hot rod, playing cards, dice, an eight ball and a flaming lighter, in traditional style.
Route 66 hot rod and cards sleeve tattoo
Flash design of two black tribal-style fish with dotted patterns curving around a red lotus flower on a white background.
Two tribal fish around a red lotus
Ceramic travel mug printed with traditional-style flash designs of a green-tailed mermaid with a crown and red roses, with a black lid.
Traditional flash designs on a travel mug
Traditional style colour tattoo of an orange peach with green leaves and a black banner reading JUST PEACHY, on the upper arm near the elbow.
Peach with Just Peachy banner on upper arm

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