Tattoo ideas

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

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Colour traditional tattoo of a red and white lighthouse with orange light beams, waves and clouds, framed by a rope border and banner on a forearm.
Lighthouse and waves with banner on a forearm
Black and blue winged emblem above the Roman numerals XXV, tattooed on a hairy lower leg.
Winged XXV tattoo on a lower leg
Blue glowing outline of a Mickey Mouse head tattooed on the inner wrist, photographed under ultraviolet light.
Glowing Mickey Mouse outline on wrist
Realistic black and grey tattoo of a misty pine forest wrapping around a forearm, with tall tree silhouettes rising towards the elbow.
Pine forest forearm tattoo
A flash sheet of nine black line drawings of cacti and succulents in pots, arranged in a three by three grid on a white background.
Nine potted cacti and succulents sheet
Small black fine line script lettering with a looping swash tail on the forearm near the wrist, in a black and white photo.
Small script lettering on a forearm
Watercolour-style poppy tattoo with black linework and orange, red and green washes across the ribs of a person's side.
Watercolour-style poppies on ribs
Small black fine line Libra scales symbol tattoo on the ankle, above a white sneaker standing on an orange basketball.
Libra symbol on the ankle
A small red heart with a black outline and radiating lines tattooed on a lower lip, with manicured fingers pulling the lip down.
Heart tattoo on the lower lip
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a cartoon lion with a black and green mane and green bubble detail, placed on the thigh.
Cartoon lion with green mane on thigh
Black and grey dotwork tattoo on a forearm showing a tarot-style card labelled LA MORT with a skull, a hand holding the card edge, and a mandala below.
La Mort tarot skull and hand on forearm
Back of a woman's neck showing the words No Day But Today in black script lettering tattooed across the nape.
No Day But Today script on the neck
Small colour tattoo of seven butterflies in pink, purple, teal and orange flying down the skin of the torso, with a partial star tattoo at the top left.
Trail of small coloured butterflies on skin
Close-up of a fine dark lace-style mandala design on the back of a hand, with dotted lines running down the wrist and simple bands on the fingers.
Lace mandala design on the back of a hand
Black and grey realism full sleeve tattoo on a woman's arm, showing flying birds, clouds and a forest, shown from two angles.
Birds and forest full sleeve
Black and grey engraved illustration of an anatomical heart with a vintage gramophone horn attached, on a white background.
Anatomical heart with gramophone horn
Colour tattoo on a woman's shoulder and upper arm showing a pink hibiscus, a Roman numeral clock face with a gear, yellow plumeria and butterflies, in a realistic painted style.
Hibiscus and clock face on a shoulder
Colour tattoo on a flank of skin, styled as torn skin revealing a blue sky with two swallows, grey clouds and a rainbow, in a realistic style.
Torn skin revealing sky and rainbow
Colour tattoo of Eeyore the donkey holding a small white flower, with a black outline, on the hip.
Eeyore with a small flower on skin
Close view of the back of a person's neck with three black Chinese characters tattooed vertically on the nape, in a lettering style.
Three Chinese characters down the nape
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading fear is the mind killer, running diagonally across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Fear is the mind killer script across the back
Black and grey traditional tattoo of an owl perched on a sugar skull with flower eyes, across the forearm.
Owl and sugar skull on a forearm
Greyscale realism tattoo of a sequence of moon phases running down the inner forearm of a person in a red t-shirt.
Moon phases down a forearm
Colour traditional tattoos on a woman's leg and forearm, including a heart, a chrysanthemum and a skull, shown against white bedding.
Traditional colour tattoos on legs and forearms
Small colour tattoo of a cartoon pizza slice with red pepperoni on the middle finger of a hand, resting on a white towel.
Pizza slice on a finger
Two forearms show matching geometric cat head tattoos in colour, one grey and green-eyed, the other purple and amber-eyed, on a Geometric style design.
Matching geometric cat heads on two forearms
Black and grey pencil drawing of a shaded skull with a rose growing from its jaw and a triangle grid below, shown on white paper as a tattoo design.
Skull, rose and triangle design on paper
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a shaded balloon on the upper back, with the handwritten script phrase Sometimes you need to let things go trailing from its string.
Balloon and script quote on upper back
Small black fine line tattoo of a camera with a heart-shaped lens on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Small camera with heart lens on forearm
Colour tattoo of a charging bull in red, orange and blue over a green and red stock chart on a chest, with an eye tattoo on the shoulder.
Charging bull over stock chart on chest
Close photo of a black fine line script tattoo reading dum spero spero along the ribs, worn beneath a black lace bandeau top.
Dum spero spero script on the ribs
Fine line black script tattoo of a quote framed by flowers and leaves, placed on the upper back over the shoulder blade.
Script quote and flowers on upper back
Colour traditional tattoo of a woman's face in a striped headscarf with black wings and red roses, on the back.
Winged woman with roses in traditional style
Black and grey tattoo of hibiscus-style flowers, leaves and branches wrapped around a female figure on the outer thigh.
Hibiscus flowers and a figure on the thigh
Stippled dotwork drawing of two open palms beneath a sunburst and a row of moon phases, with rosette shapes at the wrists, in black and ochre ink on cream paper.
Stippled hands with sun and moon phases
Black fine-line handwritten script design reading she who is brave is free on a plain white background, with no body placement visible.
Script quote reading she who is brave is free
Side-by-side photos of a traditional style tattoo of a peach with birds and arrows on a thigh, showing red linework on the left and finished black and orange shading on the right.
Peach with birds and arrows, before and after
Black and grey flash design of a skull on a banner reading Kustom Way of Life, with a pin-up girl, fuel can, eyeball and engine parts, with no body placement shown.
Kustom Way of Life skull and pin-up flash sheet
Black tribal-style wings with a central cross tattoo across a woman's upper back, viewed from behind.
Tribal wings and cross across a back
Black and grey flash sheet of insects including a stag beetle, a scarab beetle, a death's head hawkmoth, a spider, a dragonfly and two wasps, drawn in ink linework.
Insect flash sheet with beetles, moth and wasps
Fine line golden spiral inside nested rectangles on a forearm, with soft blue and red watercolour splashes and a Geometric linework style.
Golden spiral tattoo on a forearm
Black geometric blackwork tattoo of nested diamonds, crosses and dashed lines running down an upper arm.
Geometric diamond blackwork on upper arm
Sketch-style tattoo of three goldfish with black linework and orange wash, placed on the side of the torso over the ribs.
Three goldfish sketch on the side of the torso
Fine line black script tattoo reading live with an arrow running through it, on the side of a finger.
Live script and arrow on a finger
Small black botanical tree tattoo with leafy branches on the back of a person's neck, below dark hair.
Small tree tattoo on the nape of the neck
Black serif lettering reading Cheep Cheep runs along the outer side of a foot near the ankle, with a green book cover beneath.
Cheep Cheep lettering on a foot
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo of the name Manuela on the inner forearm of a person wearing dark jeans.
Name in fine line script on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a bicycle with a front basket on the upper chest, below the collarbone.
Bicycle tattoo on upper chest

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