Tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style tattoo of a stack of books with red flowers and green leaves on a calf, with part of an owl tattoo visible to the left.
Stacked books and flowers on a calf
Close-up of black dotwork starburst rosettes covering a limb, with a blurred hand in the background.
Dotwork starburst pattern on a limb
Fine line black tattoo of the word Always beside a triangle and circle symbol and a small lightning bolt, on the side of the ribs.
Always script with Deathly Hallows symbol
Small solid heart tattoo in dusky pink ink on the side of a finger, with white painted nails.
Small heart tattoo on a finger
Black script tattoo reading take your time don't live too fast, troubles will come and they will pass, with three bird silhouettes, on the inner upper arm.
Script quote and three birds on upper arm
Black ink Ichthys fish tattoo with the word faith in script, sitting on the top of a foot beside pink painted toenails.
Ichthys fish with faith on a foot
Colourful geometric bear head tattoo in pink, purple and teal on the upper thigh of a person wearing a teal skirt.
Geometric bear head on a thigh
Black ink flash drawing of an ornate paisley and leaf mandala design with dotwork shading, drawn on white paper with no body placement shown.
Paisley and leaf mandala tattoo design
Traditional colour tattoos on a forearm show a hand holding a lighter labelled BEST, above a matching hand holding a joint labelled BUDS, with leaves and pink flowers.
Matching lighter and joint hand tattoos
Traditional style scorpion tattoo in teal, brown, red and yellow with bold black outlines on the thigh.
Traditional scorpion tattoo on a leg
Traditional style tattoo on a calf of a pair of legs in fishnet stockings and red heels, with banners reading Don't dream it, be it.
Fishnet legs and banners on a calf
Traditional style tattoo of a robin perched on a branch with red flowers and leaves, on the upper arm.
Robin and flowers on an upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading beloved on the inner wrist, with a thin bracelet just above it.
Beloved script on the wrist
Black and grey realism tattoo of several paintbrushes standing in a pot on the forearm, set against a soft smoky background.
Paintbrushes in a pot on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of an open compass with the words Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, surrounded by daisy, bell-shaped and holly flowers, on the side of the torso.
Compass, flowers and quote in grey realism
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with a shaded globe at the centre, N and S letters and tribal swirls, on the inner forearm.
Compass rose and globe on a forearm
Fine line black and grey geometric tattoo of stacked crescent moons and circles with dotted lines on the back of a neck.
Crescent moons and circles on the nape
Neo-traditional colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a split portrait of a red-haired woman and a man in a dark suit, with a UFO and green beam.
Split portrait with UFO and green beam on upper arm
Small geometric triangle tattoo in black and muted teal on a forearm, with the hand hanging open below it.
Geometric triangle on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a world map with soft watercolour-style fills, a paper plane and a dashed flight path, with the words Those who fly alone have the strongest wings beneath, on the side of the torso.
World map with paper plane and quote
Fine line black cross tattoo on a forearm, with the hand raised in a loose fist against a dark background.
Small black cross on a forearm
Colour Neo-trad style floral tattoo with blue scrolls, orange flowers and green leaves on the side of the torso, near the ribs.
Floral scrollwork on the side of the torso
Two wrists held together, each showing half of a matching black ink floral tattoo that joins across them.
Matching floral wrist tattoos
Small fine line tattoo of a black and white cat face with pink ears and yellow-green eyes on the inner wrist, beside a sleeping black and white cat.
Black and white cat face on a wrist
Black tribal tattoo with sweeping linework across the lower abdomen above the waistband of blue jeans, with the navel visible above it.
Black tribal design on lower abdomen
Fine line black tattoo of a snaffle bit on the wrist, shown against a dark grey background.
Snaffle bit on the wrist
Colour tattoo of a red rose and a teal and orange sugar skull on the outer thigh, with black ornamental linework to the left.
Red rose and sugar skull on thigh
Black lace-style tattoo with scrollwork and netting running down a woman's back from the upper back to the side.
Black lace tattoo across a back
Fine line black outline tattoo of Australia on the ankle, with a small red heart over the south-east coast.
Australia outline with red heart on ankle
Dark ink scrollwork armband with draped chains and small crystal accents on a woman's upper arm.
Scrollwork armband with draped chains
Colour tattoo of three small birds flying above a peacock feather with a purple and teal eye, on the upper back of a person lying face down.
Three birds above a peacock feather on a back
Black linework paisley motifs with small flower details running down a forearm, with a hand holding a phone at the lower edge of the frame.
Paisley tattoo running down a forearm
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo of a horse head wearing a pearl-strung bridle and peony flowers, on the upper arm.
Horse portrait with peonies on upper arm
Flash design of a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, with script lettering reading Be the one to guide me but never hold me down, in black ink on a pale background.
Ship's wheel and anchor with quote lettering
Black and white lettering design reading Harley-Davidson with a B and D emblem, a ribbon banner and ornate spires, drawn as a flash design with no body placement shown.
Harley-Davidson lettering with ribbon and emblem
Close photograph of a watercolour-style tattoo of orange, pink, purple and teal splashes with black ink spatter, running from the thigh over the knee onto the calf.
Watercolour-style splashes across a leg
Close crop of a woman in a peach bikini showing a small black fine line tattoo on her upper arm and a few small marks on her hip.
Small fine line tattoos on arm and hip
Black wolf silhouette tattoo standing on a rocky outline with one foreleg raised, placed on the upper chest near the shoulder.
Wolf silhouette on upper chest
Mirrored photo of a realism and abstract-style shoulder and upper arm tattoo with a clock face, a skull, a white wing, stars and the words 2nd Amendment, with red splashes.
Clock, skull and wing shoulder tattoo
Small solid black giraffe silhouette tattoo on the back of a hand near the wrist, against a dark background.
Giraffe silhouette on the back of a hand
Colour traditional-style tattoo of a doll-like face with black hair, swallows and orange flowers, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Doll-faced geisha with swallows on a forearm
Fine line black outline tattoo of Totoro, the forest spirit from My Neighbour Totoro, on the inner ankle.
Totoro outline on an ankle
Black and grey phoenix tattoo with cherry blossom flowers and eye-patterned feathers across a person's upper back.
Phoenix and blossom on a upper back
Small black fine line tattoo of a hand with crossed fingers and a small flower, placed on the upper arm.
Crossed fingers and flower on upper arm
Circular tattoo on the lower leg showing a blue Japanese-style wave beneath the black lettering I AM THE SEA AND NOBODY OWNS ME.
Wave and quote on a calf
Fine gold linework flash design of three stacked motifs, a lotus bud, an open lotus and a mandala, set within geometric triangles, hexagons and circles on a cream background.
Stacked lotus and mandala geometric design
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a rabbit with a bow, a bee and peony flowers inside a dotted geometric circle, on the thigh.
Rabbit, bee and peonies on a thigh
Colour tattoo of two sunflowers with green leaves on the upper chest near the collarbone, in a bold outlined neo-traditional style.
Two sunflowers on the upper chest

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