Tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey lettering tattoo on the back with a bold cross, a flock of bird silhouettes and a script quote.
Cross, birds and script quote on the back
Hand-drawn design of the word Survivor in dark purple marker on cream paper, with a long swooping flourish rising through the first letter.
Survivor lettering with a long flourish
Black script lettering reading "faith" in a fine line style on the inner forearm.
Script word "faith" on a forearm
Two black and white pen drawings of flourished script lettering, one reading Fearless and one reading Écriture Manuscrite, with a marker pen beside the second design.
Fearless and Écriture Manuscrite script lettering
Two fingers on interlocked hands carry matching black script tattoos reading promise, against dark fabric with printed lettering.
Promise script tattoos on fingers
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a crouching hare with a small orange eye and the words WHAT IS, IS WHAT MUST BE arched above it, on the side of the body.
Crouching hare with arched quote
Black fine line script tattoo of a ribbon shape made of cursive words, sitting on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Script ribbon shape on the inner wrist
Black script tattoo of the word Faith with a small yellow ribbon above the letters, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Faith script on upper chest
Hand-drawn lettering design reading Scintillare in tall dark ink, with small four-point stars and the word shimmer written beneath on cream paper.
Scintillare lettering with stars
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading smile with a small smiley face on a finger, held near a Nikon camera.
Smile script and smiley on a finger
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'always' on the top of a foot, with red painted toenails and a grey trouser leg in view.
Script word 'always' on a foot
Black and grey shaded rose with script lettering on a forearm, with a circular inset showing a red lip print tattoo.
Shaded rose and script on a forearm
Black fine line script reading I hope you think of me across the side of the ribs, with a grey jumper partly covering the skin above it.
Handwritten quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of the phrase Stuff your eyes with wonder in a typewriter-style font on the upper back.
Quote reading Stuff your eyes with wonder
Black and white lettering flash sheet showing ten Paris metro station names in varied decorative script and block styles, with no body placement shown.
Paris metro station lettering sheet
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black and grey and colour tattoo on a person's upper back showing a yellow rose with green leaves, three black birds and the quote about the most poetical topic in the world.
Yellow rose, birds and quote on upper back
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a crown with pink and grey shading and black script lettering below it, on the upper thigh of a person in denim shorts.
Crown and script lettering on a thigh
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, with swirling flourishes, running along the outer foot near the ankle.
Quote script along the outer foot
Black and white flash sheet of small line tattoo designs, including an om symbol, a hamsa hand with an evil eye, script words and a crescent moon, in fine line and lettering styles.
Black and white flash sheet of small designs
Black script tattoo reading Believe with a small outlined star above the letters, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Believe script with a star on the wrist
Colour traditional tattoo of an open pizza box with a slice, a flame and two banners reading Can't Stop Won't Stop, with Hot-N-Fresh on the box, on the lower leg.
Pizza box and banners on a calf
Black and grey realism back tattoo of a crowned lion above a lamb, with the script Romans 1:16 along the bottom.
Lion and lamb back tattoo with Romans 1:16
Black ink Japanese lettering runs vertically down the centre of a person's bare back, photographed from behind.
Vertical Japanese script down the spine
Woman seen from behind with dark script lettering tattooed across her upper back and shoulder, wearing a red patterned dress with gold straps.
Script lettering across upper back
Black script lettering reading Don't be Delicate, Be Vast and Brilliant, with small flying birds trailing across a forearm, in lettering style.
Script quote with birds on a forearm
Black fine line script reading I will see you again, with three small bird silhouettes above it, tattooed on a person's upper back.
"I will see you again" script with three birds
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading Daddy's little girl across the wrist and back of a hand, with a jewelled ring on another finger.
Script phrase on the back of a wrist
Two matching fine line script quote tattoos in black ink sit along the collarbone and upper shoulder of two people, shown in a four-panel collage.
Matching script quotes along the collarbone
Black brush lettering tattoo reading "Much virtue in if" in a loose, hand-drawn style on the upper arm.
Much virtue in if lettering on upper arm
Two matching black infinity symbol tattoos with heart-shaped loops and script lettering on the ankles of a pair of feet.
Matching infinity heart ankle tattoos
Black and white photo of a foot with a fine script lettering tattoo reading Dance like nobody's watching running along the side of the foot.
Script quote tattoo along a foot
Fine line black script reading follow your heart, with a thin arrow and small heart below it, on a forearm.
Follow your heart script and arrow on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo of a crescent moon with the words I love you to the moon and back and small stars, on the inside of a raised wrist.
Crescent moon lettering tattoo on a wrist
Close photo of the word cont;nue in black serif lettering with a semicolon on the inner wrist.
Cont;nue lettering on the inner wrist
Black script lettering with red lips and a cocktail glass, a temporary tattoo style design on the inner forearm and wrist.
Bachelorette slogan with lips and cocktail on a wrist
Black fine line tattoo of a lollipop with the words SUCK IT above it, placed on the upper arm.
Lollipop and SUCK IT lettering on upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line Roman numeral lettering tattoo running down the centre of a woman's upper back.
Roman numerals down the upper back
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Close view of the back of a neck with the black lettering open at the close tattooed in a serif script, with a raised scar running down below it.
Open at the close lettering on neck
Black and grey photograph of a small tattoo of two flying swallows above the script phrase 'you can go now' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Two birds and script on the inner wrist
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading if i could fly on a shoulder, with a striped top at the edge of the frame.
Fine line script quote on the shoulder
Close-up of a small black script tattoo reading Jesus on the wrist of a raised hand, in a lettering style.
Jesus script on the wrist
Two wrists pressed together, each with a matching black fine line infinity symbol tattoo reading love sister on the inner wrist.
Matching infinity tattoos on wrists
Black and grey sans-serif lettering reading 'you get what anyone gets, you get a lifetime' across a person's upper back beside a tank top strap.
Quote lettering on upper back
Black crown above a triangle with the letters FOB tattooed on the back of a hand, held beside a black wristband with white lettering.
Crown and FOB triangle on the back of a hand
Black fine line tattoo of the Deathly Hallows symbol beside the word Always in script on a forearm.
Always script and Deathly Hallows symbol on forearm
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo in French running across the outer thigh, with a lace skirt and brown leather bag in the background.
Fine line French script on a thigh

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