Tattoo ideas

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

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Two small black yin yang tattoos on the forearms of two people whose hands are clasped together on a bed.
Matching yin yang tattoos on forearms
Two hands with white and turquoise geometric diamond and chevron designs on the skin in a geometric style, across the back of the hands and wrists.
White and turquoise geometric designs on hands
Two colour cartoon creature tattoos on forearms, a purple one on the left arm and an orange one on the right, shown side by side.
Two matching cartoon creatures on forearms
Small colour tattoo of a red ladybird beside a white daisy with a black swirling stem, on the top of a foot.
Ladybird and daisy on a foot
Woman on a sandy beach with a silver metallic ornamental design running from the wrist up the forearm, placed on the forearm.
Silver metallic arm design on a beach
Woman seen from behind with a row of colourful planets and a sun tattooed across her upper back, in a painterly style.
Solar system planets across a upper back
Two black silhouette tattoos on the backs of a person's calves, one showing a man in a suit with a red tie, the other an abstract dark figure.
Silhouette figures on both calves
Fine line tattoo of a thin black outlined circle with a short black stroke and a red diagonal stroke inside, on the inner wrist.
Small circle tattoo on a wrist
Black ink tattoo of a smiling stick figure running, with the word 'RUNNING' above and 'SUCKS' below, on a area of skin.
Stick figure runner with 'Running sucks' text
Sheet of twelve small temporary tattoo designs, each showing the four playing card suits in red and black on a white background.
Playing card suits tattoo design sheet
Small colour mandala tattoo with orange, peach and teal petals on a woman's lower abdomen, just below the navel.
Small mandala tattoo on the lower abdomen
Pencil tattoo design of a Roman numeral clock framed by two shaded roses and leaves, drawn over faint grid lines.
Clock and roses pencil design
Two small black crown tattoos on the wrists of two people whose hands are held together, one crown solid and one outlined.
Matching crown tattoos on wrists
Colour tattoo of a sunflower with green leaves and curling stems on the side of the neck, behind the ear.
Sunflower and leaves behind the ear
Small black fine line tattoo of the word warrior in a typewriter-style font with a single arrow beneath it, on the inner forearm.
Warrior word and arrow on a forearm
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tall, thin stem with seven daisy-like flowers in a vertical line, suitable as a flash design.
Vertical stem of daisy-like flowers
Black and grey line tattoo of a horse head with a flowing mane and a separate swishing tail on skin.
Horse head with flowing mane and tail
Fine line drawing on tracing paper of a bow with radiating arrows and feathers, with a small mandala flower above, shown as a tattoo design.
Bow and radiating arrows line drawing
Colour tattoo of an ornate hot air balloon with a trailing freedom script on the outer thigh, in a neo-traditional style.
Hot air balloon and freedom script on thigh
White line drawing on black of a winged cherub with curly hair holding a heart-shaped banner that reads Clarence Alabama, in a traditional flash style.
Cherub with heart banner
Black ink script lettering reading Always, beside a triangle, circle and vertical line symbol, tattooed on the wrist in a fine black line style.
Always script lettering with Deathly Hallows symbol
Fine line tattoo of a cat's head tilted to one side with a small bow at the neck, placed on the inner forearm.
Cat head with bow on inner forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a fish outline with letters inside, placed on the side of a person's ankle in a greyscale photo.
Fine line fish outline on ankle
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a woman wearing a striped Egyptian nemes headdress with a feather ornament, on an arm.
Egyptian woman in striped headdress
Fine black script reading everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote on a shoulder blade
Two hands with small black dotwork tattoos of a circle and a dotted triangle on the side of the fingers.
Dotwork circle and triangle on two fingers
Black and white engraved design of a face split down the middle inside a rope-twist circle, with Valar Morghulis and Valar Dohaeris lettering around the edge.
Split face emblem with Valar Morghulis lettering
Traditional-style tattoo of a red snake coiled around a blade with a green hilt, on the inner forearm of a hand raised in a pink glove.
Snake and blade on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo of a Bible verse running from the ankle along the top of a foot towards the toes.
Scripture quote in fine script along a foot
Black and grey drawing of an anatomical heart with branching tree limbs rising above it and a honeycomb hemisphere with spikes beneath, on aged paper.
Anatomical heart with branches and honeycomb
Colour tattoo of a nebula with bright red and white stars across the upper arm, shaded in purple, blue and green.
Nebula and stars on an upper arm
Realistic colour tattoo of a sugar skull woman with red and grey roses, plus grey butterflies and leaves, running down a woman's ribs and side back.
Sugar skull and roses down the ribs
Black linework tattoo of a skull with a serpent coiled beneath it on the forearm, in a traditional style.
Skull and serpent on a forearm
Fine line black outline of the state of Massachusetts with a small red heart near its eastern coast, tattooed on the inner forearm.
Massachusetts outline with red heart
Full colour tattoo on the upper arm showing Mufasa among clouds and stars above Simba sitting on Pride Rock at sunset.
Mufasa and Simba on Pride Rock
Black script quote tattoo on the upper arm reading All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them, with a small Mickey Mouse silhouette below.
Disney quote lettering on upper arm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a vertical row of moon phases, from crescent to full moon, on the upper arm.
Moon phases down the upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of cartoon Mickey Mouse steering a steamboat inside a bottle, with a red flower and green leaves, on the outer thigh.
Steamboat Mickey in a bottle on a thigh
Two photos of a fine line black sunflower tattoo with small script lettering, one on the ankle above a checkered shoe and one behind the ear.
Sunflower tattoos on ankle and behind ear
Black dotwork hamsa hand tattoo with an eye, an om symbol and leaf motifs, placed on the upper back.
Hamsa hand with eye and om symbol on upper back
Black script lettering reading Highlife across the side of the ribs, with a hand holding a rolled cigarette beside it.
Highlife script tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of a small outlined heart on a wrist, with a thin line running across the wrist on either side of it.
Fine line heart on a wrist
Black and white photo of the word Superwoman in handwritten-style lettering tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Superwoman lettering on upper back
Small black fine line tattoo of a cat in a single continuous outline, sitting on the ankle above a red canvas sneaker.
Fine line cat on an ankle
Realistic colour tattoo of a smiling baby sloth clinging to a branch that curves into a peacock feather, on a limb of the body.
Sloth on a branch with peacock feather
Realistic biomechanical tattoo on a forearm, showing torn skin peeling back to reveal grey metal mechanical parts with rivets and pistons.
Biomechanical forearm tattoo with torn skin
Colour tattoo of Baby Groot wearing headphones and sitting in a red pot beside a cassette player, on a calf, in a neo-traditional style.
Baby Groot with headphones on a calf
Black and grey botanical tattoo of wildflowers, buds and leaves with roots, shaded in fine lines, on the middle of a person's back.
Black and grey wildflower sprig on the back

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