Tattoo ideas

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

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Person seen from behind with black and grey tattoos covering the back, neck and both arms, including a winged figure on the back and a rose on the upper arm.
Heavily tattooed back and arms seen from behind
Colour traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with a pink flower on a man's forearm as he holds a tray of coffee cups.
Sugar skull tattoo on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of stacked toy pirate figure parts, including a skull hat, eyepatch head and sword torso, running down a forearm.
Stacked pirate minifigure parts on a forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a stack of books with lettered spines reading There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more, on a lower arm.
Stacked book spines with lettering on a forearm
Neo-traditional forearm tattoo of a compass rose in a round frame, framed by yellow flowers and pink banners with partly visible lettering.
Compass and flowers on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a tomahawk with a beaded handle and red and brown feathers on the forearm.
Tomahawk and feathers on a forearm
A seated woman with colour tattoos on her forearm and shoulder, outline stars on her thigh and a red and green snake on her calf, on a black leather sofa.
Star and snake tattoos on bare legs
Black and grey traditional style tattoo on the forearm showing a house with a scalloped roof, dotted smoke, a TAKE CARE banner and a rope knot.
House and rope knot with TAKE CARE banner
Black and white photo of a woman in a studded leather jacket showing a heart tattoo on her chest and sleeve tattoos on both arms.
Sleeved arms and heart chest tattoo
Black and grey tattoo of a light bulb containing a rising sun, rays and clouds, on a forearm, with framed traditional flash art in the background.
Light bulb with sunrise and clouds on a forearm
Traditional style colour tattoo of an eagle gripping a key, set against a red circle, on a forearm.
Eagle holding a key on a forearm
Traditional style flower tattoo with red petals and green leaves on a forearm, with a small dark tattoo on the back of the hand, and a wristwatch worn on the wrist.
Traditional flower forearm tattoo with wristwatch
Two people hold hands, showing full colour tattoo sleeves on their forearms and upper arms, with a dragon-style design on the woman's right arm.
Colourful tattoo sleeves on two clasped arms
Traditional style tattoo of an hourglass with a red blood drip, the words TO GET YOU OFF MY MIND and a blue flower below, on the forearm.
Hourglass with blood drip and blue flower
Traditional colour tattoo of a blossom patterned vase with a red rose, blue daisy and orange flowers on a forearm, with a small bee near the top edge.
Flower vase with rose on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoos of a pin-up woman on the forearm and a rose on the upper arm of a woman in a black patchwork-print t-shirt.
Pin-up and rose tattoos on arms
Two blue swallow tattoos in a traditional style, one on each inner wrist of a person with their hands clasped together behind the body.
Blue swallows on both wrists
Traditional-style rose tattoo on the upper arm and small star tattoos near the wrist of a person with raised arms, seen from behind with a bare back.
Rose and star tattoos with raised arms
Colour traditional tattoo of a grey elephant in a blue and orange ornate blanket, raising its trunk towards a red lotus, on a forearm.
Decorated elephant with lotus on forearm
Traditional style tattoos on a forearm, including a red rose, a spool of red thread and a bee, with the hand holding a white pot with a succulent against a plain white background.
Traditional rose and thread tattoos on a forearm
Man with crossed arms in a navy T-shirt showing a black and grey traditional-style sleeve, with a bird on the forearm and a rose on the lower arm.
Crossed arms with bird and rose tattoos
Traditional style tattoo of a green leaf rosette with gold dotted outlines and grey petals, surrounded by large leaves on a forearm.
Green leaf rosette on forearm
Close-up of a grey and red floral tattoo on a forearm, with a central pink flower surrounded by leaves and petals.
Red and grey floral tattoo on a forearm
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a crown-topped key with a twisted shaft and a small cross above, on the inside of a forearm.
Crown key tattoo on a forearm
Black and white photo of two people holding hands, both with tattooed arms, showing a dragon and clouds sleeve on the right arm and a dagger design on the left forearm.
Tattooed sleeves holding hands
Traditional style tattoo of a compass rose, red rose and pink and orange flowers with green leaves on the forearm.
Compass, rose and flowers on an arm
Pale white ink outline of a rose with leaves on the inner forearm, in a traditional style.
White ink rose on a forearm
Black and grey dotwork and traditional tattoos on a forearm and hand, including a large bee, planets, a dotted constellation and crystals.
Bee, planets and crystals on forearm and hand
Colour tattoo of a yellow crescent moon with a grid-patterned grin and a black sun motif on the forearm, outlined in black with red shading.
Yellow crescent moon with grinning face on forearm
Colour traditional tattoo of a purple rose with gold antlers above it and green leaves below, on the forearm.
Purple rose with antlers on a forearm
Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a teal scallop shell on a forearm, beside red peony and yellow flower tattoos above it.
Teal scallop shell with peony sleeve
Colour traditional tattoo on a forearm of a cartoon woman with glasses and auburn hair holding a book, framed by a heart, with a red rose below.
Cartoon character with book and rose on forearm
Black and grey traditional-style tattoo of three roses with leaves running up the inside of a forearm, with a gold watch on the wrist.
Three black roses with leaves on a forearm
Woman in a peach sleeveless blouse with a lace collar, showing colour tattoos of roses and a bird on her upper arms and forearms.
Colour roses and bird tattoos on both arms
Traditional style colour tattoo on a forearm showing a mascara wand, eyelashes, hearts, a rose in a bottle and script lettering.
Make-up motifs with script on a forearm
Colourful traditional-style tattoo on a forearm showing a teal yarn ball, scissors, a spool of thread, a measuring tape and a red pincushion.
Sewing notions and yarn ball on a forearm
Black and grey traditional-style tattoos covering a person's arms, with a ginger cat cradled against the right forearm and a small tattoo visible on the upper chest.
Black and grey tattoo sleeve with a ginger cat
Traditional style colour tattoo of a compass rose inside a scalloped medallion, framed by two red flowers and green leaves on a forearm.
Compass and flowers on a forearm
Traditional-style colour tattoo of a black and white striped lighthouse with a red light and swirling blue waves inside a porthole frame, on the forearm.
Lighthouse and waves in a porthole frame
Traditional style tattoo on an arm showing a woman with a cherry on her head, a Be Brave banner across her eyes and smoke curling from a cigarette.
Woman with cherry and Be Brave banner
Two hands with traditional tattoos: a red-eyed wolf head on the back of one hand, a woman in a beanie on the other, and black lettering across the fingers.
Wolf and portrait hand tattoos with lettering
Two forearms covered in small colour tattoos of Hello Kitty, a Smurf, roses, cherries and hearts, placed on the forearm.
Hello Kitty and cartoon tattoos on forearms
Black and grey tattoo of a three-masted sailing ship inside a bottle with a rope stopper, on the inner forearm.
Sailing ship in a bottle on a forearm
Traditional tattoo of a red rose with green leaves above a black banner with lettering, on the inner forearm of a person wearing a dark top and black trousers.
Rose and banner lettering on a forearm
Traditional style tattoo of a black umbrella with a green bird-head handle and a red banner reading Anything Can Happen, on a forearm.
Umbrella with banner on a forearm
Colourful traditional-style sugar skull tattoos with flowers and a rose on a person's forearm, in front of a white door.
Sugar skulls and rose on a forearm
Traditional colour tattoo of a three-masted sailing ship with a red hull, clouds and birds, above a banner reading Homeward Bound, on a forearm.
Sailing ship with Homeward Bound banner on a forearm
Black and grey traditional tattoo of a sailing ship in an ornate oval frame on the inner forearm, shown in two side by side photographs.
Sailing ship in oval frame on forearm

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