Tattoo ideas

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

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Fine line black script tattoo reading 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, above a grey waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design on lined paper, showing the word Hope in flowing script combined with an anchor, with no body placement shown.
Hope script entwined with an anchor
Black and grey fine line script reading Ella Grace, crossed by two arrows with flourishes, on the inner upper arm.
Script name and arrows on an arm
Three pairs of bare feet resting together, each with a fine line black script word Sisters joined to a heartbeat line and heart near the ankle.
Matching sisters tattoos with heartbeat lines
Several arms show matching black fine line script tattoos reading Ohana with a small heart flourish, placed on the inner wrist and lower forearm.
Matching Ohana script tattoos on wrists
Colour lettering tattoo reading Do what you LOVE What you do, with a yellow basketball replacing the O, a blue butterfly and a music note, in a mixed black and colour style.
Do what you love lettering with basketball
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words I am love with an arrow and feather on the ankle, with a coin beside it for scale.
I am love script, arrow and feather on ankle
Fine line black script reading Forever in my heart with a small heart motif on the side of a torso, ribs placement.
Forever in my heart script on ribs
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading 'There is a light that never goes out', running diagonally along the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Small black block lettering reading FRECKLE with a thin arrow pointing to a real freckle on bare skin.
Word FRECKLE with arrow to a real freckle
Black fine line script reading La Vita e Bella on a plain white background, a lettering design drawn without any body placement shown.
La Vita e Bella in fine line script
Black script lettering reading To The Moon with a long underline swash on a plain grey background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.
To The Moon script lettering design
Black and grey fine line script reading nothing gold can stay with a small flower sketch, tattooed on the upper back beside the shoulder blade, with hair falling across the skin.
Nothing gold can stay script on upper back
Two palms turned up showing a small black fine line arrow with feathered fletching, a single eye, and the words THE DEVIL WON'T KEEP TIL MORNING in black lettering.
Arrow, eye and quote on palms
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading werde, der du bist across the inner forearm, on a plastic-covered table.
Small German text on the forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading Memento Mori across the ribs in a black and white photo.
Memento Mori script on a rib cage
Two black and grey tattoos on forearms: an arrow with the script words Her Guardian on the left, and feathered wings with script lettering between them on the right.
Arrow and wings tattoos on two forearms
Black fine line script tattoo reading Fearless with a small solid heart, on the top of a bare foot resting on sand.
Fearless script with heart on foot
Hand-drawn flash design of two closed eyes with radiating dotted lines, above and below the words 'AND YOU SEE YOUR GYPSY' in dark brown lettering on a pink textured background.
Hand-lettered eyes design on pink
Close photo of the word persevere in fine black cursive script across the inner forearm.
Persevere script on an inner arm
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Two women show matching black script tattoos of the word love inside an infinity heart, placed on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Matching love heart tattoos on two backs
Black lettering tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story across the side of the torso, above a grey fabric top, in a sepia-toned photo.
Quote tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story
Colour tattoo on an upper arm showing the word Hope in black script above a black heart outline and a pink and blue awareness ribbon.
Hope script with heart and ribbon on arm
Four shaded footprints in brown and black beside a script quote reading when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you, tattooed on skin.
Four footprints with a script quote
Black ink tattoo of a looping ribbon shape above the word love written in script, photographed on skin in a fine line style.
Looped ribbon and love script tattoo
Black script lettering tattoo reading Fall down seven times, stand up eight, on the side of a ribcage.
Script quote on the ribs
Back of two thighs with purple and pink shaded script tattoo reading Booty on the left and licious on the right, with black outlines and swash flourishes.
Bootylicious script across both thighs
Fine line blue eye tattoo on the side of a finger and dark script reading kisskillkiss on the inner wrist, with gold bracelets worn over it.
Eye on finger and script on wrist
Black script lettering reading 'Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered' across the upper thigh.
Script quote across the upper thigh
Fine line tattoo of a butterfly and the word love within an infinity symbol on the upper back, near the neck, with small star shapes around it.
Butterfly and love infinity on upper back
Fine line tattoo of an arrow with pink and lilac feather details and the word resilient in script, on the inner forearm.
Arrow, feather and resilient script on a forearm
Black ink script lettering flash sheet with flourished phrases, scroll borders and a small ornament, shown on white with no body placement.
Script lettering flash sheet
Black and grey fine line script lettering on the side of the ribs, shown in a black and white close-up photograph.
Fine line script word on the ribs
Fine line tattoo of the words Dance alone to the beat of your heart in black script on the inner wrist, with a red heartbeat line forming a heart.
Script quote with red heartbeat on wrist
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a globe showing continents, with the words Isaiah 6:8 and Here I am, Lord. Send me. across the upper back.
Fine line globe with Isaiah 6:8 on upper back
Black and grey feather quill with shaded plumes above the script words Who will tell the story of your life, tattooed on the side of the ribs.
Feather quill and script quote on the ribs
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading wonderfully made across the upper thigh, with the start of the phrase partly hidden by a pink garment.
Script quote across a thigh
Small black script tattoo reading Freedom with a tiny bird silhouette on the side of a finger, shown against a beige background.
Freedom script and bird on a finger
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo with red poppies, a bird, a skull and German text, shown from two angles on an arm.
Bird, poppies and skull full sleeve
Black script reading sempre con voi with a simple bird outline on the upper arm, shown in two stacked photos.
Sempre con voi script and bird on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of the words She believed she could so she did in script, beside a shaded feather on the forearm.
Feather and quote on a forearm
Black linework tattoo of a tree with a leafy canopy, two long trunks and grass, beside the quotation 'and she loved a little boy very, very much even more than she loved herself', with grey shading at
Tree and quotation tattoo on the side of the body
Two arms crossed together, each with the word 'always' in thin black cursive lettering on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Matching 'always' script tattoos on two forearms
Black stylised lettering reading LOVE on the inner forearm, with a looping swash finishing the final letter, shown beside a wine glass.
LOVE lettering on a forearm
Two wrists held together, each with a fine line script tattoo in black ink, one reading to with an infinity symbol and the other reading and beyond with small birds.
Matching infinity and beyond wrist tattoos
Small black script tattoo reading Love with an ellipsis and a tiny heart, on the side of a finger, in a lettering style.
Love script with heart on a finger
Black and grey realistic feather tattoo with the script Isaiah 40:31 and a verse about soaring on wings like eagles, on the torso above a grey top.
Feather with Isaiah 40:31 script

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