Tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo reading love, life, death doesn't discriminate in a typewriter-style font on the inner upper arm, in lettering style.
Love, life, death quote on an upper arm
Close crop of a woman with long wavy hair in a black leather jacket, touching her chest, with a black geometric mandala tattoo across the back of her hand.
Geometric mandala tattoo on the hand
Black and grey stippled drawing of a crescent moon with cratered detail on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a placement.
Crescent moon design
Blue watercolour-style deer tattoo with a Deathly Hallows triangle symbol and the word Always on a woman's shoulder.
Watercolour deer and Deathly Hallows on shoulder
Fine line black script tattoo running vertically down the side of the ribs, above the waistband of denim shorts.
Script quote along the ribs
Black and grey botanical tattoo of flowers, leaves and a tied bundle of herbs across an upper arm.
Botanical flowers and herb bundle on upper arm
Realistic colour tattoo of a seated cat within an ornate gold and teal scrollwork frame on the thigh.
Cat portrait with gold scroll frame on thigh
Two people hold hands, showing small fine line tattoos on their forearms: a red letter K with a heart on one arm and a red letter Q with a heart on the other.
Matching king and queen heart tattoos on forearms
Realism colour tattoo of an adult elephant and calf walking through green grass across a man's upper arm.
Elephant family on an upper arm
Fine line black constellation tattoo of small stars joined by dotted lines, on the top of a foot near the ankle.
Star constellation tattoo on a foot
Close photo of a black heart outline beside a shaded blue puzzle piece tattoo on skin.
Heart and blue puzzle piece
Black ink drawing of a cartoon owl with yellow beak and talons, perched beside a small bird on a branch, in a flash-style design.
Cartoon owl and small bird on a branch
Fine line black script reading hakuna matata with small flying birds, tattooed on the top of a bare foot.
Hakuna matata script with birds on foot
Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose merged with a skull on the inner forearm of a person wearing a light t-shirt.
Rose and skull on a forearm
Black ink tattoo of a chemical structure with NH, NH2, HO and OH labels, shown on an arm.
Chemical structure tattoo on skin
Black and grey tattoo of a perched bird, half solid black and half dotted shading, crossed by thin triangle and square lines on a forearm.
Bird with geometric triangles on a forearm
Solid black silhouette tattoo of three orcas arranged in a circle on the inside of a wrist, against a plain white background.
Three orcas on a wrist
Black outline tattoo of loops, ovals and curved shapes arranged in a vertical column on the inner forearm.
Black outline loops and ovals on forearm
Vintage-style anchor design with coiled rope and pink, peach and teal roses and leaves, drawn in fine black linework on a cream background.
Anchor with rope and vintage roses
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a full skeleton with a skull and laurel wreath, on the inner forearm.
Skeleton and laurel wreath on a forearm
Five small grey bird silhouettes flying in a loose diagonal line across a shoulder, in a close phone photo.
Five small birds on a shoulder
Black blackwork-style flash design of a stylised tree with curling branches, dots and a swirled trunk, shown on a white background.
Swirling black tree design
Bold black ink tattoo of a striped cat with a curled tail on the shoulder blade area of a person's upper back.
Striped cat with curled tail on a shoulder
Black ink line drawing of a woman's face framed by knotted, flowing hair and feathered wings, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Winged woman with knotted hair
Black and grey ornamental dragonfly tattoo with patterned wings and swirling filigree, across the upper back.
Dragonfly with swirls across the upper back
Neo-traditional flash drawing of a woman's face framed by flowers, a large key and a red sun, inked in black and red on paper.
Woman with key and flowers flash design
Black and grey shaded roses with leaves tattooed on the outer thigh, with denim shorts visible at the top of the frame.
Black and grey roses on a thigh
Small black and grey fine line tattoo of an elephant with its trunk raised, on the calf.
Small elephant tattoo on a calf
Black fine line geometric tattoo of a vertical symmetrical ornament running down the centre of a person's upper back.
Vertical ornamental motif down the spine
Black and grey tattoo of a raven in flight holding hanging chains with pendants, on the side of a ribcage.
Black and grey raven with chains on ribs
Fine line heart outline tattoo in grey ink on the side of a finger, with pale pink nails and a grey knit background.
Small heart outline on a finger
Fine line black script reading most ardently on the side of the ribs, photographed on pale skin beside a green top.
Most ardently script on the ribs
Watercolour style tattoo of a pink flower with black ink linework and blue and pink wash splashes, on the ankle and top of a foot.
Watercolour flower on ankle and foot
Two raised forearms with fine line black tattoos of small bare trees, branches and conifers, one arm with four stacked sprigs and the other with a long, thin branch ending in a fir.
Tree sprigs along both forearms
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a hand gripping a straight razor with eye motifs on the blade, on the calf.
Hand holding a straight razor with eyes
Preserved piece of skin in a glass jar, with grey ink figures of two people and the date 1915 on a pale background.
Preserved tattooed skin in a glass jar
Two small black tattoos on adjacent fingers of a hand, a feather quill on one finger and an inkwell on the other, in a fine line style.
Feather quill and inkwell on fingers
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading Sometimes you gotta fall before you fly, with small birds in flight, on the side ribs.
Fine line quote with birds on the ribs
Black and grey linework tattoo of two sunflowers and sprigs of lavender running down a person's thigh, in a botanical fine line style.
Sunflowers and lavender on the thigh
Black and grey photograph of a barcode tattoo with the word SLAVE beneath it, placed in the centre of an open palm.
Barcode and SLAVE on a palm
Coloured pencil drawing of a crescent moon shaded blue to green, with a black double spiral symbol inside it, shown as a tattoo design.
Crescent moon with spiral symbol
Black serif lettering tattoo of two lines of latitude and longitude coordinates on the inner forearm of a person in a white top.
Coordinates tattoo on a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of a black and red umbrella with a red heart, yellow beads and teal and black raindrops, on the arm.
Umbrella and raindrops on an arm
Black and grey barn owl tattoo with falling raindrops and stippled shading, placed on the forearm.
Barn owl under rain on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a rainbow rose with bold outlines and dark wash shading, on the shoulder.
Rainbow rose on a shoulder
Black and grey dotwork drawing of two hairless sphynx cat heads interlocking inside a stippled circle, shown as a tattoo design.
Two hairless cats in a dotwork circle
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a winged anatomical heart above an oval frame holding two cats, on the forearm.
Anatomical heart with two cats
Close photograph of a small black and grey skull tattoo at the base of a finger, with a fading wavy line running along the finger.
Skull and wave line on a finger

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