Tattoo ideas

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Realistic coloured sunflower tattoo with yellow-orange petals and a dark brown centre, placed on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Sunflower tattoo on upper back
Black and grey sunflower tattoo with shaded petals and leaves covering the shoulder and upper arm, with a second smaller bloom lower down the arm.
Sunflowers on a shoulder and upper arm
Black and grey wolf head tattoo on the outer thigh, half in geometric linework and half in realistic shading, with blue eyes.
Half geometric, half realistic wolf on a thigh
Realism-style tiger tattoo wearing an ornate armoured collar, with swirling clouds and a scroll panel of characters across a man's chest.
Snarling tiger and clouds across the chest
Woman with a full arm sleeve of red rose and grey shaded tattoos on her upper arm and forearm, with a red flower reaching onto her hand.
Red roses and grey sleeve tattoo on an arm
Realism tattoo of a face's eyes, one blue and one amber, framed by black swirling ornamental linework on the upper arm.
Realistic eyes within swirling linework on arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open pocket watch with exposed gears and a shaded rose with leaves on a forearm.
Pocket watch and rose on a forearm
Colour tattoo of red poppies, green vine and a green frog climbing up the side of the ribs, in a botanical realism style.
Red poppies and frog on a ribcage
Black and grey realistic rose and pocket watch with Roman numerals and a chain, tattooed on the front of a thigh.
Rose and pocket watch on a thigh
Pencil sketch of a bee in flight above a faint geometric pattern of overlapping circles and hexagons, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Bee sketch over geometric circles
Pencil drawing of three roses with shaded petals and leaves on a sepia background, a design suitable as a black and grey tattoo flash.
Three shaded roses with leaves
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm of an anatomical heart over a fanned hand of playing cards, including an ace of spades and hearts.
Anatomical heart and playing cards on upper arm
Black and grey realism tiger head tattoo wrapped around the middle finger of a hand resting on a wooden table.
Tiger head on a finger
Black and grey fine line tattoo of five teacups on saucers running diagonally down the inner forearm of a woman with long auburn hair.
Five teacups stacked on a forearm
Realistic colour tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder showing a girl on a swing against a starry night sky above a glowing planet.
Girl on a swing over a starry planet
Four angled views of a full arm sleeve in black and grey realism with red roses, skulls, a clock and women's faces, covering the upper arm and forearm.
Black and grey realism sleeve with skulls and roses
Black and grey realism leg sleeve on a thigh and calf showing a lion, daisies, a pocket watch and a scroll banner with lettering.
Lion, daisies and pocket watch leg sleeve
Black and grey realistic sunflower tattoo with curling swirls and leaves on the lower back.
Sunflower with swirls on the lower back
Black and grey realism tattoo of a kitten face wearing a beaded jewelled necklace, covering the back of a hand.
Cat face with jewelled necklace on the hand
Four side-by-side views of a black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an arm, with geometric gears and circles, a dotwork sky, and a shaded landscape of trees on the forearm.
Full sleeve with gears, trees and dotwork sky
Black and grey realistic calla lily tattoo with shaded petals and leaves running vertically down the side of a person's back.
Calla lilies running down the back
Black and grey realism tattoo of two soft shaded feathers on the inner forearm, one larger and one smaller and angled.
Two shaded feathers on a forearm
Realistic colour tattoo of an adult male lion, a lioness and a cub on skin along the side of the torso.
Realistic lion family tattoo on the side
Realistic colour tattoo of a mask emerging through torn skin on the forearm, shown in shades of tan, red and black.
Torn skin revealing a mask on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a horse head wearing a bridle with a windswept mane, placed on the upper back.
Horse head with bridle on upper back
Forearm tattoo of a grey wolf with red splatter accents, with block lettering above reading Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared and humble when you are victorious.
Wolf and motto on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of an eye with long lashes and a small hand inside the iris, with Chinese-style characters above it, on the inner forearm.
Realistic eye with characters on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of the Big Ben clock tower and a clock face across the back of a hand, with numerals tattooed on the fingers.
Big Ben clock tower on the back of a hand
Black and grey botanical thigh tattoo with a pink poppy, grey daisies, berry sprigs and draped chains with a pendant.
Poppy and chain thigh tattoo
Black and grey realism sleeve on a forearm and upper arm, showing classical figures in drapery above a geometric labyrinth pattern near the wrist.
Classical figures and labyrinth sleeve
Realistic black and grey back tattoo of a bearded older man smoking a pipe, with hands holding a tin below, covering the back.
Bearded man with pipe on full back
Realistic blue butterfly tattoo on the upper chest, with black wing edging and white spots, shaded to look as if it is lifting off the skin.
Blue butterfly on upper chest
Black and grey realism tattoo of a steampunk cat wearing a top hat and goggles, surrounded by gears, on the upper thigh.
Steampunk cat in top hat and goggles on thigh
Realism colour tattoo of a red cardinal perched on a grey branch, placed on a forearm.
Realistic cardinal on a branch on a forearm
Shaded grey Buddha head with pink lotus flowers and cherry blossom on an upper arm and shoulder tattoo.
Buddha, lotus and cherry blossom on upper arm
Colour botanical sleeve tattoo on an arm and shoulder, with a monarch butterfly, roses and asters, and a blue butterfly on the upper back.
Butterfly and floral sleeve on an arm
Realistic eye tattoo with a blue iris on the back of a hand, with grey script lettering above it.
Realistic blue eye tattoo on the hand
Black and grey realism tattoo on a back showing a screaming woman whose hair breaks into flying birds, with handwritten script lyrics beside her and a tribal ornament at the top left.
Screaming woman with birds and handwritten lyrics on back
Realistic pink butterfly tattoo with black edging and a dark drop shadow on a woman's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Pink butterfly on upper back
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a vintage car front with a grille and headlights, placed centrally on the stomach above the navel.
Vintage car front tattoo on the stomach
Greyscale pencil drawing of a human skull blending into a rose with curling petals, shown as a tattoo design on paper with no body placement.
Skull and rose pencil drawing
Black and grey realism sleeve on a forearm and upper arm showing a wolf head, a tiger face and a rose on the hand.
Wolf, tiger and rose arm sleeve
Black and grey shaded daisy tattoo with outlined petals and a dotted centre, shown on the back of the skin.
Black and grey daisy tattoo
Colour tattoo on an upper arm showing the Wizard of Oz, with the Emerald City, the Wicked Witch, a flying monkey and a crystal ball of characters, in a realistic painted style.
Wizard of Oz scene on upper arm
Black and grey realistic full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and forearm, showing a deer head among leaves with an animal head and ribbon-like lines below.
Realistic deer and foliage full sleeve
Colour tattoo on a thigh of pink and purple lady's slipper orchids and green leaves in front of a red and blue sunset, all inside a black state outline.
Orchids and sunset in a state outline on a thigh
Colour realism tattoo on a forearm showing the Millennium Falcon, the Death Star, an Imperial emblem and a green lightsaber against an orange explosion.
Star Wars forearm with Death Star and Falcon
Black and grey realism style rose tattoo with leaves, a bud and a thorny stem running down the inside of a forearm.
Black and grey rose on a forearm

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