Tattoo ideas

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

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Two wrists side by side with matching fine line script tattoos reading 'to' with an infinity symbol and 'and beyond', in navy ink with red accents.
Matching 'to infinity and beyond' wrist tattoos
Black line tattoo of a cat head and handwritten lettering reading 99% pizza, 17% angel, fuck math on a calf.
Cat drawing and text on a calf
Two photos of handwritten script tattoos on skin, the top reading DAD love you xoxoxox in black and the bottom reading love you always Mom with a heart in dark blue-black ink.
Handwritten DAD and Mom script tattoos
Black handwritten script tattoos reading Inhale love and Exhale hate across the fingers of two hands pressed together against a dark background.
Inhale love and exhale hate script on fingers
Black and grey script lettering reading You Only Live Once with soft shading behind the letters, tattooed on an upper arm.
You Only Live Once lettering on an upper arm
Black and grey fine line script lettering running into a feather tattoo across a forearm.
Script quote and feather on a forearm
Black and grey fine line lettering reading fighter in a typewriter style font on the inner wrist, photographed in black and white.
Fighter lettering on the inner wrist
Close-up of black script lettering reading 'it takes guts' and a small purple and black ribbon tattoo on a person's ankle.
Script phrase and ribbon on ankle
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Until the very end across the inner wrist, with the hand clenched in a fist above it.
Until the very end script on the wrist
Black and grey swallow tattoo in flight beside the script words "and in time, this too shall pass" on a pale area of skin.
Swallow with script quote
Black and grey flash design of a triangle with POWER, COURAGE and WISDOM on banners, with a sword and shield beside it.
Triangle with Power, Courage and Wisdom banners
Fine line black tattoos on both forearms, one reading peace will win and the other fear will lose, each with an arrow and tally marks.
Matching quote and arrow forearm tattoos
Close view of a hand holding a camera, with the word Smile in black script lettering tattooed on one finger.
Smile lettering on a finger
Black script lettering reading Fall Out Boy across the inside of a forearm, with a blurred salon background.
Black script lettering on a forearm
Two black ink thigh tattoos in traditional style, a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, each with script lettering, on a person wearing denim shorts.
Ship wheel and anchor thigh tattoos
Black and white photo of a blackwork-style lettering tattoo reading IT TAKES A BIT MORE on the side of a person's hip, above the waistband of their underwear.
Black stencil-style quote on the side of the hip
Black lettering reading Love Never Fails beside a star of interlocking hearts tattooed on a shoulder.
Love Never Fails script and star on shoulder
Black fine line infinity symbol with shaded script lettering inside the loop, tattooed on the inside of a forearm near the wrist.
Infinity symbol with script words on a wrist
Two side-by-side photos of black outline tattoos on a calf: a guillotine reading Keep your chin up, and a noose on a gallows reading Hang in there.
Guillotine and gallows with slogans on a calf
Fine line tattoo design of a woman in profile with flowing red and black hair, overlaid with grey script initials.
Woman in profile with flowing hair and script
Black and grey photograph of the word BELIEVE in block capitals tattooed vertically behind a person's ear, in a lettering style.
Word BELIEVE behind the ear
Black and grey crown tattoo with a heart above it and script lettering on the thigh, shown in two photos, one wider and one close up.
Crown and script quote on the thigh
Black ink script tattoo running vertically along the inner forearm of a hand holding a silver clutch bag.
Vertical script tattoo on a forearm
Pencil-style drawing of a fine-line botanical tattoo design with a curling vine, a pocket watch, a key and the words Life is what you make of it, shown on a pale pink background.
Vine, pocket watch and key design
Black and white tattoo design of bold italic script lettering set within a circular wreath of roses, peonies and a dahlia, with no body placement shown.
Script lettering in a circular rose and peony wreath
Black and grey blackletter script with a diamond lattice border tattooed along a forearm, against a dark background.
Blackletter text and lattice on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo on the side of the ribs, reading a quote with a feather at the left edge.
Feather and quote lettering on the ribs
Black ink tattoo on the inner forearm spelling the word always with Harry Potter symbols, including the Deathly Hallows triangle, a wand, round glasses, a lightning bolt and a snake.
Always lettering with Harry Potter symbols on a forearm
Two forearms with black script lettering reading Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as long as you live, and a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and outline heart on forearms
Colour tattoo of a blue TARDIS police box wrapped in pink banners with lettering, in a traditional style, on the lower leg.
TARDIS with banner lettering on a leg
Fine line black tattoo of a clothes hanger with the word fashion in cursive script, on a wrist.
Clothes hanger with fashion script on wrist
Fine line black tattoo of a heart that flows into an infinity loop, with script lettering and numerals along the left edge, on the side of a torso below a grey top.
Fine line heart with script and infinity loop
Black and grey flash design of a stylised phoenix in flight beside flowing calligraphic lettering on a cracked cream background.
Phoenix with flowing calligraphic script
Black and grey close-up photo of the word love tattooed in small letters across the upper ear, with a small star tattoo lower down.
Love lettering on the ear
Black infinity symbol tattoo on the inner wrist with 'be brave' in script on the lower loop and three birds in flight on the upper right loop.
Infinity symbol with birds and 'be brave' on wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt across the side ribs, with a star tattoo partly visible below.
Quote lettering and star on the side ribs
Black script tattoo reading Promise with a small heart on the side of a finger, styled as fine line lettering on the hand.
Promise script and heart on a finger
Close-up of black typewriter-style capital lettering reading ABBA FATHER across the inner forearm of a light-skinned arm resting on white bedding.
ABBA FATHER lettering on a forearm
Two matching forearm tattoos in black fine line script: the left reads I'll keep you wild above a small outlined triangle, and the right reads I'll keep you safe.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a walking cat with the word meow in serif capitals below it, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Walking cat and meow on a wrist
Colour flash design of a blue TARDIS police box with white banners reading Wibbly Wobbly, Police Box and Timey Wimey Stuff, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
TARDIS with Wibbly Wobbly banners
Black and grey script lettering with a small arrow tattooed on a woman's side torso above the waistband of her shorts, in a script lettering style, placed on the side of the abdomen.
Script lettering and arrow on side torso
Fine line black script tattoo reading family on the inner wrist, with a silver charm bracelet worn above it.
Script word "family" on a wrist
Black and grey shaded rose tattoo on the upper chest beside fine script reading Every flower must grow through dirt.
Shaded rose with a script quote on the chest
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading love is love across the top of a foot, resting on a dark leather surface.
Love is love script on the foot
Black script lettering reading The sun will rise and we will try again across the back of a leg, above the knee.
Script quote on the back of a leg
Two forearms with matching black script lettering reading Not Tired, with smaller capitals reading I GOT THIS beside it, on a forearm placement.
Matching Not Tired lettering on two forearms
Black script lettering tattoo reading 'never settle for anything less than butterflies' across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote across a shoulder blade

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