Tattoo ideas

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

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Two hands with colourful unicorn head tattoos on the fingers, plus a small black skull and crossbones on a third finger.
Unicorn head tattoos on two fingers
Colour tattoo of pink cherry blossoms and black swirling vines with script lettering and falling pink petals on the thigh.
Cherry blossom vine with script on a thigh
Two matching feather tattoos on a forearm, one teal with the words Her Mother and one pink with the words Her Daughter, in a colour illustrative style with dotwork stippling.
Pair of colour feather tattoos with script
Colour sunflower tattoo with black outlines and a dotted centre, in a botanical style, on a leg resting in bath foam.
Sunflower tattoo on a thigh
Black line flash sheet of ornate paisley motifs, mandala roundels, a lantern, an elephant and a floral border, shown on a white background.
Paisley, mandala and elephant flash sheet
Black linework alphabet sheet of capital letters A to Z in a decorative lettering style with solid dark fills, shown as a design rather than on skin.
Decorative uppercase alphabet lettering sheet
Black and grey realism tattoo of a standing wolf in front of a moon, clouds and mountains, across the upper arm.
Wolf and moonlit mountains on upper arm
Realistic colour tattoo of a ribcage bursting through pink flesh on the top of a foot, with blue bones and dark shadowed tissue.
Ribcage tearing through skin on the foot
Black line drawing of a rearing unicorn with ornate swirling linework in its mane, tail and body, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Rearing unicorn with swirling mane line drawing
Black lettering on a woman's ribs reading 'she believed she could so she did' in a typewriter-style font, set in a stacked, left-aligned block.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Traditional style tattoo of a grinning panther head and an umbrella with eyes and lightning on the inner forearm.
Umbrella and panther on a forearm
Black tribal-style flash design of two swooping S-shaped bands with outlined and solid stars, shown on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Tribal swirl with stars design
Black and grey botanical tattoo of a chrysanthemum, small blossoms and dark leaves on the upper arm, in fine line with soft shading.
Chrysanthemum and blossom sprigs on upper arm
Two forearms in black and grey showing matching heart outline tattoos with the words lil sister and big sister written in script on the forearms.
Matching big and lil sister heart tattoos
Black script lettering reading Always across the side of a finger, shown in a fine, handwritten lettering style.
Always script tattoo on a finger
Blue pen sketch of a lotus flower with dotwork beads hanging beneath it, drawn as a tattoo design on paper.
Lotus flower sketch with dotted chain
Black ink flash drawing of an ornate dreamcatcher with a star mandala centre and five decorated feathers hanging below, on a white background.
Dreamcatcher with feathers design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a woman with closed eyes wearing a wolf head, flanked by two roses and a skull within an ornate frame.
Woman with wolf headdress, roses and skull
Colour tattoo of two sunflowers, a black arrow and pink angular panels on an upper arm, in a neo-traditional style with geometric elements.
Sunflowers and geometric shapes on upper arm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are enough, with small birds, on a forearm.
Quote and birds on a forearm
Colour tattoo of Mater, the tow truck character from Pixar's Cars, with big green eyes and a toothy grin, on the upper arm.
Mater from Cars on the upper arm
Colour tattoo of sunflowers, Celtic knots, a seated fairy and a butterfly across a person's upper back, in a neo-traditional style with black outlines.
Sunflowers, Celtic knots and a fairy on a back
Small daisy tattoo with black outlines, white petals and an orange centre on the middle toe of a foot, in a botanical style.
Small daisy tattoo on a toe
Black line drawing of two birds kissing beneath a small heart, a flash-style tattoo design shown on plain white with no body placement.
Kissing birds beneath a heart
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a torso in a bold, rounded typeface, reading a six-line quote about togetherness, placed on the ribs.
Quote lettering tattoo along the ribs
Traditional style tattoo of two black cats peeking over a red heart with daisies and leaves, on a limb of skin.
Two black cats peeking over a red heart
Black and grey geometric tattoo of two overlapping downward triangles, one outlined and one shaded with dotwork, on the inner forearm.
Overlapping triangles on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork drawing of ornate scissors whose handles and blades form butterfly wings, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Butterfly-winged scissors design
Black ink dotwork drawing of a walking bear whose body is filled with pine trees, with birds flying above, shown on white paper beside a gel pen.
Bear silhouette filled with a pine forest
Black ink tattoo of a silhouetted figure rowing a boat over wavy lines, with a line of script beneath, on an upper arm.
Rowing boat over waves with script quote
Black and grey realism tattoo of a demon and an angel embracing beneath bat and feathered wings, placed on the upper back.
Demon and angel embrace with wings on back
Black fine line outline tattoo of a peach with a leaf and stem, with the words Georgia Peach in script beneath it, on skin.
Georgia Peach outline tattoo
Fine line tattoo of three small outlined triangles on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a woman in a white blouse raising her hand to her hair.
Three triangles on the forearm
Black Greek script lettering tattooed diagonally across the back of a hand, in a thin, hand-drawn style.
Greek word lettering on the hand
Black and white photo of a fine line outlined triangle tattoo on a calf, with a dark garment edge visible at the left.
Small outlined triangle on a calf
Fine line black tattoo of a sitting cat with its tail curling into a heart and a trail of paw prints on the calf, shown as a matching pair.
Matching cat and paw print calf tattoos
Black and grey shaded tattoo of an ornately decorated elephant with its trunk raised, on the side of a person's ribs.
Ornate elephant on the ribs
Black fine line tattoo of a thin botanical sprig with small clusters of tiny flowers, placed on the upper back near the shoulder of a woman with red hair tied back.
Fine line sprig tattoo on a shoulder
Black and white photo of two clasped hands, with a small cross tattoo on one finger and an infinity symbol with a cross on another, in fine line style on the hand.
Cross and infinity finger tattoos
Vivid watercolour-style koi fish with green lily pads and blue ink splashes tattooed on the side of the ribs.
Koi fish and lily pads on the ribs
Black and grey sketch-style tattoo of a seated cat in profile on the outer thigh, with loose linework and soft grey shading.
Sketchy cat outline on a thigh
Close-up of two interlaced hands with black script lettering across the fingers, reading forever his and forever hers.
Forever his and forever hers finger tattoos
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo running vertically along the side of a person's ribs.
Fine script along the ribs
Black and grey realistic pirate skull tattoo wearing a bandana, shown in a close photograph of the skin.
Realistic pirate skull with bandana
Black fine line script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Walk by faith script on the foot
Black and grey realism tattoo of a lion's head with a flowing mane on the side of a torso, above the waistband.
Lion head tattoo on the side ribs
Colour realism tattoo of a peacock feather with a detailed eye, running down the outer lower leg of a person seated on a teal carpet.
Peacock feather tattoo on a lower leg
Black and grey drawing of a sugar skull flanked by roses, with an ornate heart and lotus, shown as a neo-traditional tattoo design on paper.
Sugar skull with roses and heart design

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