Tattoo ideas

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

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Black calligraphy script reading still i rise with long flowing flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Still I rise script lettering design
Neo-traditional style tattoo on a calf showing two cartoon-style figures in jackets above the words I WANT TO BELIEVE, shown in two side-by-side photos.
Cartoon pair with 'I want to believe' on a calf
Close photo of the words 'This is not for you.' tattooed in black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back.
Typewriter-style quote on upper back
Close crop of a person in grey shorts showing a small black fine line script tattoo on the outer thigh.
Fine script line tattoo on a thigh
Close photo of a fine-line handwritten script tattoo reading everything I am, placed low on the abdomen above the waistband of patterned pyjamas.
Fine script lettering on lower abdomen
Fine line black script tattoo reading love, looped into an infinity shape, on the ankle of a leg in beige platform heels.
Love script with infinity loop on ankle
Black and white photo of two arms showing matching fine line script tattoos reading Ohana on the upper arm.
Matching Ohana script on upper arms
Black lettering tattoo reading love, life, death doesn't discriminate in a typewriter-style font on the inner upper arm, in lettering style.
Love, life, death quote on an upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo running vertically down the side of the ribs, above the waistband of denim shorts.
Script quote along the ribs
Fine line black script reading hakuna matata with small flying birds, tattooed on the top of a bare foot.
Hakuna matata script with birds on foot
Fine line black script reading most ardently on the side of the ribs, photographed on pale skin beside a green top.
Most ardently script on the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading Sometimes you gotta fall before you fly, with small birds in flight, on the side ribs.
Fine line quote with birds on the ribs
Black and grey photograph of a barcode tattoo with the word SLAVE beneath it, placed in the centre of an open palm.
Barcode and SLAVE on a palm
Black serif lettering tattoo of two lines of latitude and longitude coordinates on the inner forearm of a person in a white top.
Coordinates tattoo on a forearm
Black ink hand-lettered design reading love you to the moon and back, with an arrow, a crescent moon and small hearts, drawn on white paper in a lettering style.
Love you to the moon and back lettering with arrow
Overlapping sheets of gold foil temporary tattoo designs reading bride tribe in script lettering, with a small arrow motif above the word tribe.
Gold foil bride tribe temporary tattoo designs
Black ink tattoo of a shaded feather with birds lifting away and a handwritten quote in script, across the upper back and shoulder blade.
Feather and quote on a shoulder blade
Black script lettering reading Jesus tattooed on the wrist of a hand with black polka dot French nail art.
Script Jesus tattoo on a wrist
Pencil-style tattoo design of a shaded heart padlock with a small key and swirling script letters, in black and grey, with no body placement shown.
Heart padlock and key with script letters
Small black fine-line script tattoo reading "i do" across the side of a finger on a hand with red nail polish.
Small script "i do" on a finger
Colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing the words We're All Mad Here in dark script lettering beside a pink and purple Cheshire Cat, in a lettering style.
We're All Mad Here lettering and Cheshire Cat on a foot
Close crop of a woman's upper arm and shoulder showing a black fine line script tattoo running down the outer arm, in a lettering style.
Fine line script tattoo on upper arm
Pen sketch of a tattoo design showing a hand rising from ripples with a banner reading DON'T LET ME DROWN, in black and grey linework.
Hand rising from water with banner
Black script reading Only time with a shaded whale tail fin on the outer ankle and foot.
Only time script with whale tail on ankle
Small black Lettering tattoo of a single character on the inner wrist of a woman with a raised arm, in a black and grey style.
Small character tattoo on the inner wrist
Gold handwritten script reading 'dont fear.' on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Handwritten 'dont fear.' script design
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading imagine across the inner forearm, with the hand extended to the right.
Imagine script on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Rise and rise again until lambs become lions, tattooed along the inner forearm.
Script quote tattoo on the forearm
Close-up of a small black Roman numeral tattoo in lettering style on the back of a hand, with silver rings on the fingers.
Small Roman numeral tattoo on the back of a hand
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, with a small lettering tattoo of a two-line quote across her upper back.
Small quote tattoo on upper back
Small black lettering reading me with a trademark symbol on the inner wrist of a raised open hand against a plain light background.
Small me lettering on the inner wrist
Black bare tree silhouette above the lowercase words 'i am.' tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Bare tree and 'i am.' on a wrist
Shirtless torso with black script lettering across the chest, an eagle on the upper chest and neck, and tribal-style blackwork on the shoulder and upper arm.
Script lettering, eagle and tribal chest and arm tattoos
Black hand-drawn lettering tattooed across a person's back, reading a song lyric over several lines, shown in a lettering style.
Lyric lettering across a back
Two stacked photos of fine line black tattoos on skin, each showing an infinity symbol with a heart loop beside the script word Mom on top and Daughter below.
Infinity heart with Mom and Daughter script
Black fine line drawing of an infinity symbol joined to the cursive word family, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Infinity symbol with family script
Fine line black lettering of a quote arranged in a circle around an ankle, with two hands holding the foot against a wooden floor.
Circular quote tattoo around an ankle
Black fine line script tattoo running across an upper arm, ending with an Om symbol.
Devanagari-style script line along the upper arm
Black script numerals 23 with thin black and grey swirling outlines tattooed on the inside of a wrist, in a Lettering and Fine line style.
The number 23 with swirls on a wrist
Black script tattoo reading Who Says Dreams Have To Stay Just Dreams on the top of a foot, with grey bubbles and a shell.
Script quote with bubbles and shell on a foot
Black script lettering reading Dance like nobody's watching runs across the top of a foot on a red and white bedsheet.
Script quote on the top of a foot
Black fine line script tattoo reading Give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall, across the back below the shoulder blade.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Black and grey Roman numerals XXIV.X.VIII tattooed in a lettering style across a forearm.
Roman numerals on a forearm
Two wrists with matching fine script tattoos, one reading "to" with an infinity symbol and the other reading "and beyond" in blue with red accents, on the inner wrist.
"to infinity" and "and beyond" wrist script
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Heart of a Lion across the upper chest, shown in a close photo.
Heart of a Lion lettering on chest
Black and grey realism rose with cursive script lettering on the side of a torso, held beside a fan of banknotes.
Black and grey rose and script on ribs
Two matching fine line tattoos reading soulsister with an arrow, one on a forearm and one on a wrist, shown as two hands are held together.
Matching soulsister arrow tattoos on two wrists
Fine line script lettering in dark blue ink on the inner wrist of a woman wearing stacked bracelets.
Small script lettering on the inner wrist

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