Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey moth tattoo with teal accents and bold outlines on the forearm, with a peacock feather tattoo partly visible below.
Moth on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line black unalome style tattoo with dots and a spiral, placed centrally on the chest between the breasts.
Fine line spiral design on chest
Black fine-line lettering reading Enough with a semicolon before it, tattooed on the side of a person's ribs.
Enough lettering on the ribs
Black fine line drawing of a heartbeat trace on a heart rhythm line that flows into the cursive words forever and always, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Forever and always heartbeat line design
Grey circular medallion tattoo with a face-like figure on a person's upper back, beside colourful beaded straps and an embellished garment.
Circular medallion tattoo on upper back
Black-and-grey photograph of a clenched fist against a dark background, showing a small solid black abstract symbol tattoo on the inner wrist.
Small black symbol tattoo on a wrist
Grey shaded bat with spread wings above pink blossoms, white berries and green leaves, tattooed on the outer thigh in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Bat and blossom on a thigh
Small black-outlined cartoon cat face with a red bow and yellow nose tattooed behind a person's ear.
Cartoon cat with red bow behind ear
Black and grey tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder showing a chess piece with chains, tentacle-like linework and mechanical gears.
Chess piece and chains on upper arm
Black and grey realism style tattoo of two roses with leaves and trailing vines on a person's hip and thigh.
Black and grey roses with vines on a hip
Black fine line tattoo of an aeroplane with a dotted flight path and the script words life's a trip, on the side of an ankle.
Aeroplane and script quote on the ankle
Black tribal-style eagle head drawing in solid black ink on white, shown in profile with a sweeping blackwork frame behind it.
Tribal eagle head design
Traditional flash sheet showing a pin-up figure in black stockings with a Bring On The Crazy banner, surrounded by pink hearts, a teal flower and a Baby banner.
Pin-up flash sheet with hearts and banners
Black ink tribal dragon design on white paper, with a horned head facing left, spiked wings and a barbed tail, shown without any body placement.
Tribal dragon design in solid black
Black and grey blackwork and dotwork tattoo of a wolf head framed by a mandala ornament on the upper arm.
Wolf head with mandala ornament on upper arm
Close photo of a shaded grey snake tattoo with dark spots and a pink tongue on the upper arm, set against green foliage.
Coiled snake with green foliage on upper arm
Black linework tattoo of a grinning cartoon tiger with a striped tail and a spiky-haired boy making a V sign, placed on the side of the ribs.
Cartoon tiger and boy on ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm, with grass in the background.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey peony tattoo with leaves on the upper arm of a person in a black vest top, shown in a black and white photo.
Peony and leaves on the upper arm
Pencil sketch of a shaded winged heart with a banner reading Love and a treble clef, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Winged heart with Love banner
A cat silhouette tattoo filled with purple, pink, yellow and green galaxy-style colour and small stars, placed on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Galaxy cat silhouette on shoulder blade
Close photo of a small fine line script tattoo in black ink running across the inner forearm, with a hand and pink knit sleeve in the frame.
Fine line script tattoo on a forearm
Fine line black and grey geometric wolf tattoo walking across the upper arm, built from overlapping circles and straight construction lines.
Geometric wolf on upper arm
Black and white photo of two hands held out palms down, with knuckle lettering, a skull and banner, a spider web and a broken heart tattooed on the hands and forearms.
Knuckle lettering and skull banner on both hands
Black and grey line drawing of a vertical tattoo design with a sun, two crescent moons and an arrow, in a fine line and dotwork style.
Sun, crescent moons and arrow design
Colour traditional tattoo of a lion's head with a flowing orange and yellow mane on the back of a person's neck.
Lion head on the back of the neck
Flash sheet of metallic gold and silver temporary tattoo designs, including a pair of wings, dreamcatchers, crossed arrows and geometric borders.
Metallic flash sheet with dreamcatchers and arrows
Black and grey dotwork skull tattoo with a torn skin effect, placed over the elbow.
Skull with torn skin on an elbow
Small solid black airplane silhouette tattoo on the forearm of a person wearing a grey vest top.
Small airplane tattoo on a forearm
Small traditional-style tattoo of a corked bottle with a black silhouette and red outline inside, on pale skin.
Corked bottle with silhouette
Fine line black tattoo of round glasses and a lightning bolt on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Round glasses and lightning bolt on wrist
Solid black bat symbol tattoo shown in two photographs, one close up on the skin and one small tattoo on the lower abdomen above black jeans.
Bat symbol tattoo on skin
Small black bird silhouettes fly in a trail up the inner wrist and forearm, with a wooden floor behind.
Flock of birds up a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a butterfly with orange flowers, dark leaves and the word MUM beneath it, on an arm.
Traditional butterfly with flowers on an arm
Black cursive script tattoo along the ribs reading 'Never a failure, always a lesson', in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote on ribs: never a failure, always a lesson
Black fine line drawing of a large dahlia-style bloom inside a dotted circle, with buds and leaves, above the word VIRGO and the lines i worry, repeated three times.
Virgo flower line drawing with quote
Black and white line drawing of a skull wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Skull wearing a cowboy hat
Black and grey dotwork drawing of three feathers with beads, an arrow and a crescent moon, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Dotwork feathers with beaded crescent moon
Black dotwork drawing of an anchor wrapped in rope, with bubbles rising from it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dotwork anchor with rope and rising bubbles
Fine line black tattoo of two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing down, on a woman's upper back near the shoulder.
Two arrows on a shoulder
Colour tattoo of orange hibiscus and plumeria flowers with green leaves and black turtles on the top of a foot near the ankle.
Hibiscus, plumeria and turtles on a foot
Colour tattoo of a cartoon hedgehog holding a red heart balloon on the forearm, in a neo-traditional style.
Hedgehog holding a heart balloon on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering reading Philippians 4:13 over a dark anchor tattoo on the upper arm.
Anchor and Philippians 4:13 on upper arm
Flash sheet of ten black ink script name designs, including Evelyn, Alice, Sophia, Ella and Olivia, shown on a white background.
Ten script name designs on a flash sheet
Colour realism tattoo of a man with a wide-eyed, grimacing expression and a dark headband, on the upper arm.
Realistic portrait tattoo on upper arm
Close photo of a small fine line black geometric heart and triangle tattoo on the side of a finger, with silver skull rings nearby.
Geometric heart tattoo on a finger
Traditional style flash drawing of a woman's head with a red rose and green leaves in her dark hair, shown on a cream background with no body placement.
Traditional woman's head with red rose
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a shaded flower with a leaf and long stem on the forearm.
Shaded flower and stem on a forearm

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Flower 8,605 Script 6,821 Leaves 6,438 Rose 4,399 Heart 4,105 Lettering 3,720 Bird 3,605 Feather 3,392 Quote 3,385 Swirl 3,253 Star 3,037 Dot 3,012 Text 2,685 Mandala 2,563 Wing 2,537 Word 2,200 Circle 2,163 Hand 1,970 Skull 1,900 Cat 1,806 Petal 1,805 Stem 1,695 Triangle 1,678 Outline 1,574 Arrow 1,573 Ornament 1,552 Banner 1,537 Eye 1,508 Woman 1,494 Moon 1,451