Tattoo ideas

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

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Fine line black tattoo of a small bird on a thin flowing line leading into the word Believe in script, on the inner wrist.
Bird and Believe script on wrist
Colour butterfly tattoo with black linework and blue and purple wing fill, sitting above swirled script reading Live Laugh Love on a lower leg.
Butterfly and Live Laugh Love script on a calf
Black and white photo of a woman wearing a stormtrooper helmet, showing black and grey tattoos on her forearm, upper arm, hands, abdomen and legs, including a script lettering piece on the stomach.
Script and rose tattoos with stormtrooper helmet
Small black fine line script tattoo reading Smile on the side of the torso below the arm, with a couple of moles nearby.
Smile script on the side ribs
Fine line black script tattoo reading La vita è bella across the collarbone and upper chest.
La vita è bella script across the collarbone
Red handwritten script reading I must not tell lies across the back of a fist, a fine line lettering tattoo on the hand.
Handwritten quote on the back of a hand
Colour tattoo of orange poppies, green vines and a large decorative letter with swirling scrollwork on a person's limb, in a botanical style.
Poppies and a decorative letter on a limb
Black script tattoo reading Mrs across a finger, beside a diamond engagement ring and wedding band.
Mrs script tattoo on a finger
Fine black Greek lettering reading agape on the inner wrist, with the hand raised against a red background and a striped sleeve.
Greek word agape on the inner wrist
Two stacked photos of black script lettering on a forearm, one reading I'll love you forever and I'll like you for always, the other reading As long as I'm living and My baby you'll be.
Script love quotes on a forearm
Two matching fine line black tattoos of the Deathly Hallows symbol with the word Always, one on each foot near the ankle.
Matching Deathly Hallows and Always tattoos on feet
Black handwritten script lettering reading I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Script quote: I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild
Close-up of a small black fine line script tattoo reading iloveyou on the upper back near the shoulder.
Script phrase below the shoulder
Black and grey fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the script words Curiouser and Curiouser and playing card suit shapes, shown on skin.
Infinity script with playing card suits
Black ink drawing of an ornate capital letter D with acanthus leaf flourishes, shaded with fine hatching in a lettering style.
Ornate capital letter D with acanthus leaves
Black and grey photo of two forearms, each with a line of serif lettering tattooed on it: a quote about understanding and destroying oneself on the left, and one about fixing oneself on the right.
Two serif quotes on both forearms
Three feet side by side, each with a fine-line black script tattoo of the word sisters beside a small outlined heart, placed on the ankle.
Matching heart and sisters script on three ankles
Two fingers with matching black script lettering reading 'til death, a fine lettering style tattoo on the finger joints.
'til death lettering across two fingers
Fine line black script tattoo reading choose joy with a small cross on the inner wrist, shown with the palm facing up.
Choose joy script on inner wrist
Black and grey photograph of a fine cursive script tattoo running along the inner upper arm, with the person's face not shown.
Cursive script quote along an upper arm
Two wrists with matching black fine line script tattoos of the word nourish, each with a swirl flourish at one end.
Matching nourish wrist tattoos
Black fine line script tattoo on the inner wrist reading Live by the sun above Love by the moon, with a horizontal arrow under each line.
Live by the sun and love by the moon wrist script
Black ink tattoo of the Deathly Hallows triangle symbol above a lettered quote on the inner forearm.
Deathly Hallows symbol and quote on a forearm
Flash-style drawing of a cartoon woman with black bob hair and glasses, her arms raised, framed by hatched gold banners reading Smart, Strong, Sensual, Woman.
Cartoon woman with Smart Strong Sensual Woman banners
Black and white photo of both forearms covered in lettering and collage-style tattoos, including outlined MY LIFE text, a skull, and a rose on the hand.
Forearm lettering and sticker-style collage tattoos
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
A woman in a standing split yoga pose shows a small black script lettering tattoo on her ribs, in black and grey ink.
Standing split pose with small rib lettering
Close-up of a small black fine line script tattoo on a woman's ribs, with a tiny star-like tattoo on her upper arm, taken on a sunny beach.
Fine line script tattoo on the ribs at the beach
Two inner wrists show matching black serif lettering reading home, one upright and one upside down, as a lettering tattoo on the wrist.
Matching home lettering on two wrists
Black fine line anchor tattoo with a small heart at its base and script lettering reading Hebrews 6:19, on the outside of an ankle.
Anchor and scripture reference on an ankle
Black serif lettering reading "but without the dark, we'd never see the stars" tattooed across the upper back below a dark strap.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Black and grey infinity symbol tattoo on the ankle with tribal patterns in the loops and the word ohana in script across the centre.
Infinity symbol with ohana script on ankle
Close photo of the word Riddikulus in thin black script lettering across the inner forearm near the wrist, shown against a dark blurred background.
Riddikulus lettering on a wrist
Small black script tattoo on the side ribs of a woman in a white crochet bikini top, with foliage and pale stone behind her.
Script tattoo on ribs in white crochet bikini
Black kanji lettering tattooed along the inner forearm in a lettering style, photographed on pale skin with light freckles.
Black kanji lettering on a forearm
Black and grey realistic tattoo of a weathered wooden cross with a ribbon banner reading To Live Is Christ in script, on the upper arm.
Wooden cross with To Live Is Christ banner
Fine line script tattoo reading focus with a long swash line on the inner forearm, beside a gold clover bracelet.
Focus script on a forearm
Close-up of a small fine line script tattoo reading it is well in black ink on the inner forearm.
Fine line script reading it is well on forearm
Fine line black tattoo of an outlined heart joined to a heartbeat line and the word love in script, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Heart and heartbeat love script on chest
Black and white photo of the words send and me in small script lettering tattooed on the heels of two bare feet.
Send and me script tattoos on two heels
Pen and ink lettering design of an ornate numeral five with dotwork shading, hatching and swirling flourishes, drawn on paper beside pens and a ruler.
Ornate numeral five lettering design
Back view of a person with a hair updo of rose-like braids, showing a small fine line script lettering tattoo across the upper back.
Small script line on upper back
Black block lettering reading I'VE BEEN MOVING MOUNTAINS THAT I ONCE HAD TO CLIMB, with a fine line mountain range and an orange sun, on a forearm in a lettering style tattoo.
Mountain quote and sun on a forearm
Two people hold hands, showing matching black fine line infinity symbol tattoos with the word love inside on their inner forearms.
Matching infinity and love tattoos on wrists
Black outline lettering spelling NICE, one letter on each finger of a hand, in a lettering style with ornate, decorative letterforms.
NICE lettered across four fingers
Black script lettering tattoo on a forearm, with the arm holding a red tennis racket and a yellow ball.
Script lettering on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Dance like nobody across the top of a foot, with a smaller line of writing near the toes.
Dance like nobody script on a foot
Black and red outlined heart tattoo on a forearm, with a black heartbeat trace and the script words Until I see you again.
Heartbeat heart with script quote on forearm

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