Tattoo ideas

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

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Dark blue-grey tattoo of a flock of birds rising across the upper back, with the script words Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly beneath them.
Flock of birds and script quote on upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading she will run and not grow weary with a small cross on the inner forearm near the wrist, shown against a patterned fabric.
Text quote and cross on a forearm
Black serif lettering reading 'we are all earthlings' across a forearm, with a green top and a studio chair in the background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Close photo of a small black script tattoo reading family with a heart, on the side of a finger, in a Lettering and Fine line style.
Family script with heart on a finger
Black script lettering tattoo reading an Irish phrase across the ribs, shown on skin with a shirt lifted to the side.
Irish script lettering on the ribs
Black ink script lettering reading Allonsy, decorated with fine line swirls, on the inner upper arm of a woman with long wavy hair.
Allonsy lettering with swirls on upper arm
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading history will be kind to me, running down the inner forearm near the wrist.
Typewriter quote on the inner wrist
Black lettering tattoo of the HTML tags </head> and <body> in a simple sans-serif style, placed on the upper back below the nape of the neck.
HTML head and body tags across upper back
Colour tattoo of the blue cartoon character Stitch above a black handwritten quote about family, on an upper arm.
Stitch character with quote on upper arm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I write for fear of silence across the inner wrist of a light-skinned arm.
Quote in typewriter lettering on the wrist
Black script lettering tattoo reading strength across the inner wrist, in a fine line lettering style.
Strength script on the inner wrist
Navy line drawing of a bearded sailor in a striped top and cap, with tattooed arms, anchor and rope, and the lettering A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Sailor flash with smooth sea lettering
Black and grey serif lettering reading past on one inner wrist and future on the other, shown in a black and white photograph.
Past and future lettering on two wrists
Black script lettering reading Keep Moving Forward with a long arrow running along the forearm in a fine line tattoo.
Keep Moving Forward arrow on a forearm
Fine line black script lettering tattoo across the upper back, spread over several lines of text beside the shoulder blade.
Script quote tattoo across the upper back
Black and grey paw print tattoo on the top of a foot, with the script words "You will never walk alone" written above and below it.
Paw print and quote on the top of a foot
Black ink tattoo of a bird silhouette beside Hebrew lettering on the inner wrist, in a lettering style with a simple silhouette motif.
Bird and Hebrew lettering on a wrist
Fine-line script tattoo reading love is enough across the forearm, shown in a close-up and a full-arm photo in black ink.
"Love is enough" script on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' running along the outer edge of a foot on sand, with a pink nail polish visible.
Script quote reading 'this too shall pass' on a foot
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo reading Blessed across the inner ear, with a stud earring below.
Blessed script tattoo on the ear
Black line design of the word love in cursive script, with a small outlined heart before it and the letter o replaced by a winged emblem with a central star, shown on a plain white background.
Love script with heart and wings
Black serif lettering on the top of a foot reads She has no idea. The effect she can have., beside cuffed jeans and black glitter flats.
Quote tattoo on the top of a foot
Black line tattoo of an angel wing beside the script words Angels never leave, They're always at your side, in fine lettering on the side of a body.
Angel wing and script quote on the side of the body
Hand-drawn ornate script lettering reading New York with fine line flourishes on white paper, sketched in progress with a pen.
New York ornate script lettering design
Woman seen from behind with a fine black script tattoo running down her upper back between the shoulder blades, below a braided updo with a white flower.
Script tattoo down the upper back
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading be happy with a small outlined heart on the inner wrist, in a greyscale photo.
Be happy script with heart on wrist
Fine line black tattoo on the inner forearm showing a polo rider on horseback with mallet, above the script word Lauren, with Ralph in script above the rider.
Polo rider and script names on the wrist
Close-up photo of a fine line black tattoo reading Ohana with a small outlined heart, placed on the inner side of a foot near the ankle.
Ohana lettering with heart on foot
Two open palms, each with the words Place Boob Here tattooed in black block lettering on the palm.
Place Boob Here lettering on both palms
Black script tattoo reading No half measures across the inner forearm, set against a dark background.
No half measures script on forearm
Black ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Non ducor duco across the side of a person's ribs.
Non ducor duco in fine script on the side
Two photos of fine black script lettering reading you are the smell before rain and you are the blood in my veins, both on the side of the ribs.
Script quote tattoos on the side ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself" across a forearm, in a lettering style.
Typewriter quote on a forearm
Black and white photo of two people's side rib tattoos in script lettering reading Part of me and Apart from me, with a dressing over one fresh tattoo.
Matching "Part of me" and "Apart from me" rib tattoos
Thin black lettering reading STAY ALIVE, with the letters crossed by a single horizontal line, tattooed across the inner wrist beside a line-art design sheet.
Stay Alive lettering on a wrist
Black tattoo of a silver fern frond with a line of marching figure silhouettes and the words Lest we forget in script.
Silver fern with marching figures and script
Black and grey script tattoo reading Forever 18 with a small butterfly, sitting on the lower torso above a yellow bikini bottom.
Forever 18 script with butterfly on lower torso
Close photo of the word Believe in black cursive lettering tattooed on the upper chest below the collarbone.
Believe script on upper chest
Pencil sketch of the words Stay a little longer in flowing script lettering with swirled flourishes, drawn on paper beside a stencil and an eraser.
Stay a little longer script lettering sketch
Black script tattoo reading friends forever, looping through an infinity symbol, on a person's side ribs below a lace waistband.
Friends forever script in an infinity loop on ribs
Black and white photo of a shirtless torso showing fine line Chi-Rho symbols on both shoulders, a small cross on the abdomen and letters on the upper arms.
Chi-Rho symbols, cross and letters on torso
Two hands with traditional tattoos: a red-eyed wolf head on the back of one hand, a woman in a beanie on the other, and black lettering across the fingers.
Wolf and portrait hand tattoos with lettering
Black tribal-style butterfly with a purple awareness ribbon in its centre and the word Hope in script beneath it, tattooed on an upper arm.
Butterfly, ribbon and Hope script on upper arm
Black and grey script lettering reading Fleur Rebelle across the ribs, with a hand with long nails resting beside it.
Fleur Rebelle script on ribs
Close view of the word Patience in thin black fine line lettering on the inner wrist, with a gloved hand supporting the arm.
Patience lettering on a wrist
Black lettering reading faith set inside a fish outline, tattooed on the lower back above a pair of jeans.
Faith script inside a fish outline on lower back
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading je ne regrette rien in black ink on the inner forearm, against a dark background.
Fine line script reading je ne regrette rien on a forearm

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