Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and white photo of a man in a suit and polka dot tie, with a traditional swallow and leaf tattoo on his neck.
Swallow tattoo on the neck
Black and grey traditional style tattoo sleeve on a forearm, showing a rose, barbed wire, clouds and a dagger, with the man crouching in black jeans and a pink t-shirt.
Rose, barbed wire and dagger forearm sleeve
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a globe with a compass rose, a sailing ship, clouds, leaves and a flower, photographed on skin.
Globe, ship and compass tattoo
Black line drawing of a sealed envelope with a monogram wax seal, two roses and script reading No post on Sundays, in a traditional flash style.
Envelope and roses with No post on Sundays lettering
Traditional style colour tattoo of an open lighter decorated with a red rose and green leaves, with a small flame above it, on a lower leg.
Lighter with rose and flame on a calf
Traditional style colour tattoo of a dagger with a red gem hilt, a winged moth above and a red rose with green leaves on a forearm.
Dagger and rose on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a black and grey fleur-de-lis with two red and yellow roses and green leaves, placed on the centre of a person's chest.
Fleur-de-lis and two roses on the chest
Colourful seahorse tattoo with black outlines and green seaweed fronds on a forearm, against a vintage map print.
Striped seahorse tattoo on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a bundle of red arrows tied with a rope, with red drops around it, on a calf, beside a partly visible pin-up tattoo.
Red arrow bundle tied with rope on a calf
Traditional colour tattoo of the Millennium Falcon spaceship between two red roses with green leaves, on a limb resting on a chair.
Millennium Falcon and two roses
Close view of a black-ink traditional-style swallow and rose tattoo on the back of a man's hand and wrist, with his arm crossed over a tweed jacket.
Swallow and rose on a hand
Traditional flash sheet on a cream background showing a hammer, a shield with banner, an Iron Man helmet with a rose, a spider with eye, an eagle with a cube, and a skull.
Traditional flash sheet of superhero designs
Traditional style colour tattoo of a red and white striped lighthouse with lightning bolts and waves on a man's upper arm, with a skull and nautical elements nearby.
Lighthouse and lightning sleeve on an arm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a calf of a black cat with sugar skull face paint and skeletal ribs, above a red rose with orange flowers.
Sugar skull cat and rose on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a grey gramophone releasing hearts, with a small house below and one red heart, on the front of a thigh.
Gramophone releasing hearts on a thigh
Neo-traditional tattoo of a moustached man in a bowler hat and a woman with pearls and earrings, beside a red rose, on an upper arm.
Man and woman portrait with rose on upper arm
Traditional style colour tattoo of two pink roses with green leaves, a bud and a curling stem on the side of a ribcage.
Two pink roses on the ribs
Black and grey traditional roses with bold outlines and leaves tattooed in a row across the stomach, above the navel.
Three black and grey roses across the stomach
Colour traditional tattoo of a pepperoni pizza set within a pink petalled flower and dark green leaves, with small dotted hearts, on a calf.
Pizza in a pink flower on a leg
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing an anchor, a heart with a cross, three roses and a dotted rope over a lace-like mesh, in a traditional style.
Anchor, heart and roses tattoo design
Small blue swallow tattoo in flight with a black outline and blue shading on skin, in a traditional style.
Small blue swallow in flight
Traditional style tattoos of red roses, a panther head and a sun with a face cover the thigh and calf of a person's legs, with a small tattoo on one finger.
Traditional roses, panther and sun on legs
Black linework traditional-style tattoo of a money bag with a dollar sign, coins and stacked banknotes on the palm of a hand.
Money bag and banknotes on a palm
Traditional style tattoo of a black umbrella with red roses and grey shading above a banner reading Come What May, on the upper arm.
Umbrella and roses with Come What May banner
Traditional style tattoo of a glossy red bow on a grey lace garter band wrapped around the thigh, with a red stripe along the band.
Red bow garter tattoo on a thigh
Neo-traditional tattoo of a snarling grey wolf with a third eye and a gold-hilted dagger on an upper arm, with blue water swirls.
Wolf head and dagger on an upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a red rose with green leaves and a gold beaded chain ending in a fleur-de-lis pendant, across the back of a hand.
Red rose and beaded chain on the hand
Colour and grey tattoo of a winged cross with a red rose and an In Loving Memory banner on the outer thigh, in traditional style.
Winged cross with red rose on thigh
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with N, E, S and W letters and a dotted outer ring, shown on the forearm.
Compass rose on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of an owl with teal eyes and a keyhole on its chest, perched on a branch above a crown key, on the thigh.
Owl and crown key on a thigh
Traditional style tattoo of a solid black heart with a dotted border, two red flowers and an orange flower with dark green leaves, on the inner forearm.
Black heart with red flowers on forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a heart with a HOPELESS banner, a dagger, two flowers and leaves, on the forearm.
Traditional heart banner with flowers on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a sugar skull shaped like a cat face with a pink bow, in traditional style, on the top of a foot.
Sugar skull cat face on the top of a foot
Traditional black and grey tattoo of a mermaid holding a shell beside a moon, placed on the outer thigh.
Mermaid with shell on a thigh
Traditional style colour tattoo of Pikachu above a pink flower with green leaves, on the forearm near the elbow.
Pikachu and flower on a forearm
Colourful traditional butterfly tattoo on an upper arm, with a lighthouse, sunset, sailing ship and flowers in its wings.
Traditional butterfly with lighthouse and ship
Traditional style colour tattoo of a snow globe showing a castle under a purple night sky, with a witch on a broom, on a leg.
Castle snow globe with a witch on a broom
Colour tattoo of a stylised Mesoamerican-style face with an eye and red circles, in traditional style, on the outer thigh.
Aztec-style eye motif on a thigh
Colour traditional tattoo of a green cactus with a pink flower in a teal pot with striped bands, on a forearm surrounded by other tattoos.
Cactus in a striped pot on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a hand making an OK sign with a skull and spider web, two red roses with green leaves, and the words Shit's a OK, on skin.
Traditional hand, rose and lettering tattoo
Traditional style colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a banner reading CAN'T KEEP UP, a red rose and green leaves.
Pocket watch and rose with banner
Traditional flash design of a fanned hand of playing cards, including the ace of spades, above a scroll banner reading Born to Lose and Live to Win.
Playing cards and Born to Lose banner
Traditional style flash drawing of a black butterfly wings filled with red roses, green leaves and blue and orange swirls, shown on a white background.
Butterfly with roses flash design
Black and grey traditional style rose tattoo with leaves, flowers and a shell on the neck and upper chest, with script lettering below.
Large rose with shell and flowers on neck and chest
Black and grey traditional style flash design of a skeletal-faced mermaid seated among roses and hibiscus flowers, with bones in her hair.
Skull mermaid with roses and hibiscus
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a skull with a snake coiling through it, on the forearm.
Skull and snake on a forearm
Black and grey poppy tattoo with stems and a bud running down a woman's upper arm, with a small skull and trumpet below, in a botanical and traditional style.
Poppies with skull and trumpet on upper arm
Traditional flash drawing of a three-masted sailing ship with grey sails and a red pennant, set in a rope oval with grey clouds, a red sun and blue waves.
Sailing ship in a rope frame with setting sun

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