Tattoo ideas

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

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Colourful tree of life tattoo across a person's lower and upper back, with a striped orange trunk, leaves, fruit, birds and blue flowers in a botanical style.
Tree of life with birds and flowers across the back
Two black typewriter-style words, Relapse and Recover, tattooed on a pair of wrists in a lettering design.
Relapse and recover wrist tattoos
Traditional style tattoo of a grey bat with spread wings, surrounded by yellow lightning bolts and a red burst, on a forearm.
Bat with lightning bolts on a forearm
Black and grey flash design of an all-seeing eye in a triangle above a skull, crossed bones, a candle and a twin-headed eagle, framed by scrollwork on a sunburst background.
All-seeing eye and eagle skull design
Two black serif lettering tattoos on forearms, one reading enormous pocket (partly cropped at the edge) and one reading heavy boots.
Two word tattoos on forearms
Black and grey realism arm sleeve on a man's upper arm and forearm, showing a skull, a feathered wing, smoke and scrollwork.
Black and grey skull and wing arm sleeve
Close-up of a fine line outline tattoo of a scallop shell on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade, with faint pinkish marks on the skin.
Scallop shell on upper back
Black and grey geometric dotwork tattoos cover a man's arms, shoulders and upper chest, with mandala and hexagon patterns.
Geometric dotwork sleeves on arms and chest
Black ink blackwork back tattoo of symmetrical lotus and ornamental motifs, photographed from behind in a tattoo studio.
Ornamental full back tattoo
A woman holds her hands over her face, showing dark geometric ornamental tattoos on the back of one hand, the wrist and a finger.
Geometric hand and wrist designs in dark ink
Black handwritten script tattoo of a Galileo quote across the upper back, in a lettering style, on a person wearing a black top with the face not shown.
Galileo quote in script across upper back
Black and grey lace-style heart tattoo with a scalloped border, dotted lines and small flower motifs, placed across the upper chest.
Lace-style heart on the upper chest
Colour and greyscale tattoo on a forearm showing a shaded paw print, a red heart, the word SOULMATE in handwritten lettering and a purple heart below.
Paw print, heart and SOULMATE on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of stars and swirls trailing down the side of the lower abdomen, beside a navel piercing.
Star trail tattoo on the lower abdomen
Black and grey realism tattoo of a man's face in profile with a script signature reading Elvis Presley beneath it, on a limb.
Portrait and script signature on a limb
Two clasped hands showing matching black linework tattoos of flowers and leaves on each wrist, in a botanical style.
Floral wrist tattoos on clasped hands
Realistic colour tattoo of a pink lily with green stems and leaves on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Pink lily tattoo on upper back
Two matching black script tattoos on the inner wrists of a pair of arms, reading No Lies on the left and Just Love on the right.
No Lies and Just Love script wrist tattoos
Black and grey realistic portrait tattoo of a man in a pirate-style headwrap, shown on the upper arm.
Realistic pirate portrait on upper arm
Black ink floral tattoo of a bloom with swirling stems and leaves on a woman's ankle, with a black peep-toe heel worn on the foot.
Floral swirl tattoo on an ankle
Fine line black tattoo of a hand making a finger heart gesture with small sparkle marks above it, on the inner upper arm near the elbow.
Finger heart gesture on upper arm
Black and grey hibiscus flower with tribal swirl and chevron banding tattooed on the outer thigh.
Hibiscus and tribal swirls on a thigh
Photograph of a large back tattoo of a black bird in flight and red flower splashes, with loose grey wash and fine linework on the upper back and spine.
Bird and red flowers across a back
Two small solid black crown tattoos on the fingers of a pair of clasped hands, with a beaded bracelet on one wrist.
Small crown tattoos on clasped fingers
Black and grey dotwork fox head with a rose and flowing leaves tattooed on the upper back.
Fox head with rose on upper back
Three views of a black blackwork tattoo of pine tree silhouettes and flying birds on a calf, fading into dotwork at the base.
Pine forest and birds on a calf
Fine line dotwork tattoo on the back of a hand showing stars, crescent moons and a solid dot joined by dotted lines in black ink.
Celestial dotwork and crescent moons on the hand
Pink cartoon raptor peering over lilac banners that read CHAOS IS WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS, DARLING, on a pale pink background.
Pink raptor with lilac banner lettering
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading faithfully along the inner forearm, shown in black ink on pale skin.
Faithfully script on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork panther tattoo with geometric diamond patterns filling its body, walking across the side of a ribcage.
Geometric panther on the ribs
Two side-by-side photos of a black lace garter tattoo with a soft pink bow on the upper thigh.
Lace garter with pink bow on a thigh
Small black block-capital lettering reading BE PRESENT BE LOVE on the inner wrist.
Be Present Be Love lettering on the inner wrist
Black ink drawing of a figure wearing a balaclava with white eye and mouth openings, holding a cigarette with smoke rising from it, on white paper.
Balaclava figure smoking, ink drawing
Black and grey realism sleeve with a pocket watch and roses on the left arm, and script lettering across the ribs of a woman in a black bikini.
Pocket watch sleeve and script lettering on torso
Black line drawing of a teepee with the words Girls Have Cooties, a cactus, a sun and clouds, drawn on tracing paper beside pens and a hand with a tattooed forearm.
Teepee and cactus desert design sketch
Two small black fine line heart-shaped key tattoos on the inner wrists of two people holding hands, in a black and white photo.
Matching heart key tattoos on wrists
Fine line black lettering reading mind above matter, split by a horizontal line, on the lower abdomen below the navel.
Mind over matter fine line lettering
Black and grey realism tattoo of a mountain range wrapping around an upper arm, with shaded peaks above a dark ground line.
Mountain range band on upper arm
Watercolour style tattoo of a figure under a blue umbrella with coloured paint drips running down, on the calf.
Figure under an umbrella in watercolour rain
Black and grey tattoo of a panther and a spotted leopard split down the middle inside a circle, placed on a thigh.
Panther and leopard split face on thigh
Black infinity symbol tattoo with purple shading on one loop and a small numeral inside it, on the inner wrist.
Infinity symbol with numerals on wrist
Line drawing flash design of a dotwork-shaded snake coiled around two pink roses, with planetary symbols and the Latin phrase Omnia Vnvs Est beneath.
Snake with roses and planetary symbols
Small red and black koi fish tattoos swim diagonally across the back of a hand that holds a brass lantern charm.
Red and black koi tattoos across the back of a hand
Black script lettering on a forearm reads I am not afraid, I was born to do this, with a skull bracelet on the wrist and ripped denim behind it.
Script quote on a forearm
Black ink tattoo of a bare tree with branches over the shoulder and upper arm, with three birds in flight across the upper back, photographed from behind.
Bare tree and birds on a shoulder
Black and white sugar skull flash design with a rose on the crown and floral patterns in the eye sockets, in a Day of the Dead style.
Sugar skull with rose and floral eyes
Fine line black tattoo of an upside-down cursive word inside an outlined downward triangle on the inner forearm.
Upside-down script inside a fine line triangle
Black and grey peony tattoo with detailed leaves and a stem wrapping around the outer upper arm, in a botanical style with fine hatching.
Peony and leaves on an upper arm

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