Tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo of a mermaid silhouette sitting on a rock with a green tail and red-edged hair, placed on the top of a foot.
Mermaid silhouette on the top of a foot
Woman seen from behind in a black bodysuit, showing a black and grey mandala tattoo across her upper back and neck.
Mandala tattoo on upper back and neck
Black linework flash design of a floating astronaut in a spacesuit, with a dotted planet and stars, set inside a circle of overlapping triangles.
Astronaut floating within a geometric circle
Flash-style drawing of a butterfly with turquoise, yellow and red wings on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Turquoise and red butterfly design
Realistic colour portrait tattoo of a man with dark swept-back hair and stubble on a forearm, with a small red rune-like symbol beside it.
Realistic portrait of a man on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a world map, with each continent filled with ornate mandala patterns, across a person's upper back and shoulder blade.
World map tattoo filled with mandala patterns
Two versions of a black ink botanical tattoo design showing a lotus flower with dotted chain drapes on a parchment-coloured background.
Lotus and dotted chain tattoo design
Close-up of an ear with small black numerals 269 tattooed inside the upper part of the ear, in a clean lettering style.
Numerals 269 inside the ear
Close-up of a small fine line botanical tattoo of a thin sprig with buds and leaves in black ink, sitting on the neck behind an ear.
Fine line sprig behind the ear
Black and grey tattoo of a Super Bowl XXXVII emblem with Hong Kong script above it, on an upper arm, with a finger pointing at it.
Super Bowl XXXVII emblem on upper arm
A man tying a red-laced boot, showing script lettering and linework tattoos on his forearm and the back of his hand.
Script and linework tattoos on forearm and hand
Dreamcatcher tattoo with flower of life circles, watercolour splashes and the words dreams unwind, love's a state of mind, on an upper arm.
Dreamcatcher with script on upper arm
Colourful tattoo copying a child's crayon drawing of stick figures and shapes on a shoulder, with the original paper drawing held up beside it.
Child's crayon drawing tattooed on shoulder
Black ornamental heart drawn from curling scrollwork and filigree swirls on a white background, a flash-style tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Black swirl heart design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a sea turtle with a mandala shell on the inner upper arm.
Mandala sea turtle on an upper arm
Fine line black heart and key tattoos on the fingers of two clasped hands.
Heart and key tattoos on clasped fingers
Black and grey realism tattoo of a figure in a gas mask with a ribbed hose and helmets on the forearm.
Gas mask soldier on a forearm
Black and grey mandala tattoo with petal-like layers centred on a person's chest, with surgical tape visible at the sides.
Black and grey mandala on the chest
Traditional style skull tattoo with heart-shaped eye sockets, a pink bow, crossed teal crochet hooks and two banners reading Hook Fast and Die Warm, on the inner forearm.
Skull with crochet hooks and pink bow on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of seven geometric solids in a row across the inner forearm, shading from purple and black through orange to red.
Row of seven geometric solids on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of a lit log cabin under snowy mountains and a crescent moon, with pine cones and branches below, on a limb.
Log cabin, crescent moon and pine cones
Black and grey bamboo leaves in a soft, brushed shading style across a person's side ribs.
Bamboo leaves on the ribs
Black and grey owl perched on a curling branch with leaves, tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade, in a shaded botanical style.
Owl on a branch across the upper back
Gold-brown line drawing of a crossed pickaxe and shovel with the numerals 1, 2, 8 and 0 placed around them, on a white background.
Crossed pickaxe and shovel with numerals
Black script lettering reading He walks with me... runs along the outer side of an ankle, with pink painted toenails visible at the edge of the frame.
Script quote along the ankle
Blue UV-reactive tattoo of the word Lumos with a star burst on the back of a hand, shown glowing under blacklight, in a lettering style.
Glowing UV lettering reading Lumos on a hand
Fine line infinity symbol tattoo with swirls and small red hearts on the inner forearm of a person wearing a white top.
Infinity symbol with swirls on forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a jar labelled FAIRYDUST with small stars, on the outer forearm near the elbow.
Fairydust jar on the forearm
Neo-traditional stag head tattoo on a forearm, with grey shading, bold black outlines, orange eyes and red blush accents.
Stag head tattoo on forearm
Geometric cat outline tattoo on a forearm, filled with red, orange and blue watercolour-style splashes.
Geometric cat with watercolour splashes
Close photograph of a cartoon Snoopy tattoo with black outline and blue detail on the upper arm, with the dog hugging a blue shape.
Snoopy hugging a blue shape on upper arm
Small black and grey dragonfly tattoo with shaded wings on the inner wrist and forearm of a person in a white top.
Small dragonfly on a wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a girl in a billowing dress holding a kite string, with the kite high above, on the inner forearm.
Girl flying a kite on a forearm
Black and white traditional-style flash sheet of sixteen designs, including playing cards, a dagger, dice, pizza, a skull with an eight ball, cobwebs, a coffin and a tombstone.
Black and white flash sheet with skulls and cards
Fine line black and grey tattoo of a rose with leaves and a curving line of script across the top of a foot, above lace stiletto shoes.
Rose and script quote across the top of a foot
Sketch-style colour tattoo of a grey top hat with a pink band and trailing pink ribbon across a person's upper back.
Top hat and ribbon on upper back
Black outline elephant tattoo with a patterned headdress and orange flowers across the shoulder and upper back.
Elephant and orange flowers on a shoulder
Black and grey realistic crown tattoo with ornate scrollwork on a person's upper back, with hands with pink nails resting on the shoulders.
Crown tattoo on upper back
A red heartbeat trace on a white background that loops into an outlined heart at its end, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Heartbeat line ending in a heart
Photo of a thin black single-line tattoo running diagonally from the upper arm down the forearm, with a dark cord at the wrist.
Single black line down an arm
Realistic coloured tattoo of a red rose with green leaves, black lace and beaded chain on the lower abdomen.
Red rose with lace and beads on the hip
Black and grey neo-traditional flash drawing of the Madonna with a halo, outstretched hands and a glowing sacred heart, drawn on tracing paper.
Madonna with sacred heart design
Fine line black outline of a heart with a looped tail and two small leaves on the forearm, photographed close up against a striped teal top.
Small heart outline on forearm
Close photo of a blue watercolour-style wave tattoo with splashes on the side of a person's ribs, below a black top.
Blue wave on the ribs
Fine line black script tattoo reading live fearless on the inner forearm, with a hand resting at the right edge of the frame.
Live fearless script on a forearm
Black dotwork mandala tattoo of concentric rings of dots radiating from a central point, across the outer shoulder and upper arm.
Dotwork mandala on the shoulder
Four linked arms, each with a small black swallow tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, against a brick pavement.
Four matching swallow tattoos on inner wrists
Black ink geometric mandala lotus tattoo with dotwork accents on the side of a person's ribs.
Mandala lotus tattoo on the ribs

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