Tattoo ideas

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

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Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Two photos of script lettering reading Perfectly Imperfect on skin, one with a small red balloon in fine line and one with a shaded feather and birds in grey.
Perfectly Imperfect lettering with balloon and feather
Watercolour-style horse head tattoo on the top of a foot, with black script lettering reading live life beneath it.
Watercolour horse head and script on a foot
Black lettering tattoo reading 'And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...' in a serif font on the inner wrist.
Quote on the inner wrist
Black ink script reading Jeremiah 29:11 above an outlined Ichthys fish with a small cross inside, tattooed on the upper back.
Ichthys fish and Jeremiah 29:11 on upper back
Two women seen from behind, each with a fine line black script tattoo on the upper shoulder, reading 'One in the same' and 'two of a kind'.
Matching script quotes on two shoulders
Black lettering reading diabetic in a typewriter style, with a thin arrow below it that has a yellow tip, on the inside of a wrist.
Diabetic word and arrow on a wrist
Black script lettering on an arm reading Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed, set over two lines.
Script quote across the upper arm
Black script tattoo reading The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow, sitting along the lower back above a waistband.
Script quote tattoo on lower back
Black and grey fine line lettering reading love, with the letter o replaced by a small square containing a star, on the forearm near the wrist.
Love script with star tattoo on wrist
Two matching forearm tattoos show interlocked wedding rings above the lettering What God Has joined Together and Let no man Separate Matt 19:6.
Matching wedding ring tattoos with scripture
Two hands held together, each with a small red lettered tattoo on a finger: a K with a heart on one and a Q with a heart on the other, shown in a fine red line style.
King and queen of hearts finger tattoos
Black and grey tattoo design of an infinity symbol with a heart on one loop and script lettering running along the strokes.
Infinity heart with script lettering
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design showing a musical staff ribbon forming a heart, with a treble clef, notes, stars and the words Music is Life.
Music staff heart with treble clef and script
Black serif lettering reading "we're all mad here" across the inner forearm, in a fine-line style.
We're all mad here lettering on a forearm
Two matching black tattoos on feet, each with the word Always in flowing script and a solid stag silhouette with antlers.
Matching Always and stag tattoos on feet
Black typewriter-style lettering reading a short quote runs along a forearm, with a dark knit sleeve pulled over the wrist.
Quote in typewriter lettering on a forearm
Pink handwritten script reading shine on on a plain white background, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Shine on handwritten script design
Black script lettering reading Passion and Love with a pair of scissors tattooed across the fingers of a hand.
Passion and love with scissors on fingers
Colour tattoo of four stacked alphabet blocks spelling ISLA in Lettering style on the outer forearm of a person wearing a white t-shirt.
ISLA letter blocks on a forearm
Fine line script tattoo reading je t'aime across the side of a finger, with a ring on the next finger.
Je t'aime script on a finger
Pen sketch on graph paper of a single-line looped design with the word love in script beneath it, a possible fine line tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Looped line design with love script
Fine line script tattoo reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, with a trail of footprints, across the upper back.
Quote script and footprints across upper back
Fine line black ink infinity symbol tattoo on an ankle, with the word love in cursive in the left loop and the numbers 10-15-11 in the right loop.
Infinity symbol with love on ankle
Black script reading life is a beautiful struggle runs across the top of a foot beneath four bird silhouettes in flight, in black ink.
Four birds in flight and script quote on foot
Sunflower tattoo with grey leaves and the script "You are my sunshine" on the top of a foot, shown in two side-by-side photographs.
Sunflower and script on a foot
Black fine line cursive script tattoo running from the ankle down the outer side of a bare foot towards the toes.
Cursive script tattoo running down an ankle
Black single-line drawing of the word Love in flowing cursive script, with the letters forming the outline of a heart, shown as a lettering design on white.
Cursive Love script inside a heart outline
Woman in a white V-neck top and black lace bralette, with a thin outline heart tattoo on the upper chest and a blue letter A tattoo on the upper arm.
Outline heart and letter A tattoos
Black fine line cursive tattoo of the word saved across the forearm.
Saved in cursive script on a forearm
Fine line tattoo of the word Dad in black script with a thin red heart outline above it, on the inner wrist.
Dad script and red heart on wrist
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the word believe in cursive script, flowing into an open heart outline, drawn on white paper.
Believe script in a heart outline
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo with a small dot above it, on the inner forearm.
Fine line script lettering on a forearm
Colour and grey tattoo of a winged cross with a red rose and an In Loving Memory banner on the outer thigh, in traditional style.
Winged cross with red rose on thigh
Black fine script lettering tattoo of a Latin phrase across the lower back of a person wearing white shorts and a braided belt.
Latin script tattoo across the lower back
Black script tattoo reading Walk by faith, not by sight beside an ornate cross, inked along the outer side of a foot in black and grey.
Cross and script quote on a foot
Black script tattoo reading 'You only live once' across the side of the torso, near the ribs.
Script quote tattoo on the side
Close photo of a small black lettering tattoo reading "let it be" on a person's forearm, with a grey and red sleeve and a blurred background.
"let it be" lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering reading To Infinity on the top of one foot and And Beyond on the other, with painted purple and teal toenails on a grey carpet.
To Infinity and Beyond script across two feet
Black and grey script tattoo of the word Dad beside a shaded feather on the forearm.
Dad script with feather on forearm
Black fine line script reading Wanderlust on one ankle and a black compass rose on the other ankle, both in a lettering and compass style.
Wanderlust script and compass on ankles
Black fine line script tattoo reading Ad Astra on the inner wrist and forearm.
Ad Astra script on a wrist
Black ink tattoo on the inner wrist reading Believe in script, with a small fairy silhouette and sparkle dots beside it.
Believe script with fairy on wrist
Two small black finger tattoos on a hand, one with a red heart and the words I love you, the other with a Death Star and the words I know.
Matching Death Star finger tattoos
Black and grey script lettering reading The Good Times Are Killing Me, with looping flourishes, across the ribs.
Script quote across the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading love with a small cross, on the inner wrist and forearm, set against an open printed page.
Script love and small cross on the wrist
Close up of a thin black fine line script tattoo of a handwritten phrase running down the outer thigh, in a fine line style.
Fine line script quote on a thigh
Black fine-line script lettering reading What would Love do? along the forearm near the wrist, with a hand and gold bracelets raised beside it.
Script quote on the inner wrist

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