Tattoo ideas

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

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Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards', with a red trident and gold ring tattooed beside it on the back.
Typewriter quote with red trident
Black and white photo of a bare upper back with a vertical column of black Asian-style characters and a small eye motif, in lettering style on the back.
Vertical characters on a upper back
Black script lettering reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' tattooed across the inner wrist and forearm of a hand held up against greenery.
Black script quote on the inner wrist
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded crown above a flowing script letter B on the side of the torso.
Crown above a script letter B
Fine line black tattoo on the inner wrist showing the word love in script, with a heart outline and a fingerprint inside the heart.
Love script and fingerprint heart on wrist
Black cursive script lettering of the word agape on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Agape in cursive script lettering
Black and grey italic script tattoo on a man's forearm, reading 'to thine own self be' with the end cut off by the frame, above a sketched line motif.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black ink drawing of an ornate capital letter A decorated with swirls, dots and leaf shapes on crumpled white paper, in a lettering design style with no body placement shown.
Ornate letter A with flourishes
Black and white photo of matching fine-line script lettering on the inner forearms of two people, one hand holding a coffee cup.
Matching script lettering on two forearms
Black script lettering of a poem verse tattooed across the ribs on a side of the torso, in a lettering style.
Poem verse in script across the ribs
Black and grey crown tattoo with script reading Her King on the back of a hand, paired with a crown and His Queen script on the chest.
Matching crown tattoos reading Her King and His Queen
Black handwritten script on a white background reading Better an oops than a what if, shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Better an oops than a what if script
Fine line black tattoo of a small bird with a thin trailing line leading to the word Believe in script, on the inner wrist.
Bird and Believe script on a wrist
Close photograph of a pink awareness ribbon tattoo looped into an infinity shape with black script lettering reading faith, on the inner wrist.
Pink ribbon infinity with faith script
Fine line tattoo of a pastel house lifted by coloured balloons, with the words Adventure is out there above it, on a person's upper back.
Balloon house with Adventure is out there
Black silhouette of a small figure holding a bunch of balloons, with blue and pink watercolour washes and French script, tattooed on a upper back.
Silhouette figure with balloons and script
Black line tattoo of the Deathly Hallows symbol with the word Always in script on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Deathly Hallows and Always script on forearm
Black ink line drawing of a heart whose single flowing line loops into an infinity shape, with cursive script inside the heart.
Heart with script and infinity loop design
Two photos of script lettering on skin: top reads To infinity beside a small blue ringed planet, bottom reads and beyond beside a red and orange rocket, both in a lettering style.
To infinity and beyond with planet and rocket
Black lettering tattoo of a plain cross joined to the word Blessed in script, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Cross and Blessed script on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a shaded balloon and the words Sometimes you need to let things go, running diagonally across a person's upper back.
Balloon and quote on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of the word Dream in script with small sparkles and a shaded Mickey Mouse ears silhouette on a foot.
Dream lettering with Mickey Mouse ears on a foot
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading LOVE HER and I LOVE HIM across two fingers in a lettering style, with a small motif above the first word, photographed on a wooden surface.
Love her and love him finger lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading jì'e'toh in a thin cursive script on the back of a person's neck, with dark hair pulled back.
Word tattoo on the back of the neck
Black and grey realism rose with leaves above a line of Roman numerals running diagonally down the inside of a forearm.
Rose and Roman numerals on a forearm
Black tattoo on the inside of a wrist showing three flying bird silhouettes above the script words Let it be.
Three flying birds and Let it be on a wrist
Fine line black script lettering running along the inner forearm of a raised arm, with a small dark tattoo on the wrist of the other arm.
Fine script lettering on a forearm
Fine line black script design of the word infinite written in a loose handwritten style on a plain white background, with no body placement visible.
Infinite in fine line script
Back of a woman's neck with her hair in a bun, showing a fine line black script tattoo reading Stay Gold running vertically down the neck.
Stay Gold script on the back of the neck
Black ink lettering reading John 3:30 and He > I on a forearm, shown in a black and white photograph.
John 3:30 lettering on a forearm
Two side by side sepia photos of black ink lettering on the inner wrists, reading too WEIRD to LIVE and too RARE to DIE in a plain serif style.
Too weird to live and too rare to die wrist script
Black Roman numerals in a fine line lettering style tattooed along the side of two fingers, one on each of two hands.
Roman numeral finger tattoos on two hands
Two women seen from behind, one with the word DUDE in black blackletter script across her upper back, the other with sweet in black script above her shoulder blade and a colour lily tattoo on her
Dude and sweet lettering with a lily on two backs
Black handwritten script reading let it be, running vertically up the right side of a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without skin.
Let it be in handwritten script
Black and white photo of a thin-lined BRAVE lettering tattoo on the upper arm near the elbow.
BRAVE lettering on an upper arm
Black script word Believe with a small shaded bird flying above it, tattooed on a wrist.
Believe script and dove on a wrist
Black script tattoo reading Thug Life on the back of a hand, with a grey floral outline near the wrist, in a lettering style.
Thug Life script on the back of a hand
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading be still with a small cross, on the inner wrist.
Be still script tattoo on the wrist
Black fine-line script tattoo reading "We'll all float on anyway" across two fingers of a hand, shown against a dark surface.
Script quote across two fingers
Fine line script tattoo reading free on the back of a hand, resting on a shoulder in a denim shirt.
Free script on the back of a hand
Black lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol joined to the word strength in script, on the lower back of a woman.
Infinity symbol with strength script
Black ink ampersand with an arrow passing through it, a lettering style tattoo on the lower abdomen above the waistband of jeans.
Ampersand with arrow on the lower abdomen
Two forearms with matching black script lettering, one reading All that you are is and the other reading all that you ever need, in a lettering style on the forearm.
Matching script quote on two forearms
Black ink tattoo of the script quote After all this time, a Deathly Hallows triangle symbol, the word always and 687 between asterisks, on the side of the torso.
Script quote with Deathly Hallows symbol
Fine line black tattoo of the word faith in cursive script, with a cross running through the letters, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Faith script and cross on a wrist
Black fine line script reading Remember who you are and what you stand for, tattooed along the inner forearm of a person wearing a grey top and a teal scarf.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black ink lettering tattoo on the inner wrist showing a Cheshire Cat grin above the words We're All Mad Here.
Cheshire Cat grin and We're All Mad Here on wrist
Black and grey tattoos on a hand and forearm, including the word forever in script across the back of the hand, with a star on a finger, shown through a barred hatch with handcuffs and a chain.
Forever lettering on the hand and forearm

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