Tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo of Captain America's shield with a torn skin effect on the shoulder.
Captain America shield tearing through shoulder skin
Two bare legs resting on white sheets, covered in colourful traditional tattoos of roses, a dagger and a lantern on the calves and thighs.
Traditional tattoos on legs against white bedding
Black and grey angel wings tattoo across the upper back of a woman who is seen from behind, wearing a loose white off-shoulder top.
Angel wings tattoo across upper back
Black and grey photo of a woman seen from behind, with a small black script tattoo on the nape of her neck and her hair held to one side.
Small script tattoo on the nape of the neck
Colour traditional-style tattoo of Homer Simpson biting a sprinkled donut while Bart Simpson peers out of it, on a calf.
Homer and Bart in a donut on a calf
Four hands stacked together in the centre, each wrist showing a small black compass rose tattoo in Geometric style on the forearm.
Matching compass tattoos on four wrists
Watercolour-style jigsaw puzzle pieces in red, yellow and teal with the words Define and Normal in black script on a forearm.
Jigsaw pieces with Define Normal lettering
Close-up of a multicoloured rose tattoo on a forearm, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink and red with loose black sketch lines around its edges.
Watercolour-style rose on a forearm
Realism tattoo of a shaded grey skull with pink roses on the outer thigh.
Skull and roses on a thigh
Pink flash-style design of a heart with a banner reading FEMINIST and two roses with leaves, drawn in bold outlines with no body placement shown.
Feminist banner, heart and roses flash
Black and grey ornamental sleeve tattoo with geometric panels and dotwork shading covering a forearm and upper arm.
Ornamental geometric sleeve on an arm
Black and white photo of a small fine line tattoo of a triangle with a circle and vertical line on the inner wrist, with a grey cardigan and floral dress visible.
Fine line triangle and circle on a wrist
Realistic wolf head design with amber eyes and blue-grey fur shading, drawn on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Realistic wolf head design
Two pencil-and-ink tattoo designs on pale paper, one showing a small bird with a crescent moon and leaves, the other a bird among large flowers, in a botanical neo-traditional style.
Birds and flowers tattoo designs on paper
Black fine line cursive script quotation running diagonally across the inner forearm.
Cursive quotation on forearm
Black and grey scrollwork tattoo with small flowers and dots wrapping around an upper arm.
Scrollwork and flowers on an upper arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a stitched cartoon dog with wide eyes and patched body on the calf.
Stitched dog on a calf
Black and grey realism rose and scrollwork sleeve tattoo covering both upper arms from the shoulder to the forearm, photographed from behind.
Black and grey rose and scrollwork sleeve
Small black fine line butterfly tattoo on the nape of a person's neck, with hair pulled up and a hand visible at the top left.
Butterfly on the nape of the neck
Solid black blackwork tattoo of a heart enclosing a stylised face with dark hair, lips and a vertical pin, placed on the calf.
Heart-framed lips and pin on calf
Black line drawing of an ornate dragonfly tattoo design with scrollwork above and dotted chains hanging from the wings.
Ornate dragonfly design with dotted chains
Black line drawing of a steaming coffee cup on a saucer with two coffee beans and a heart shape beside it, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Coffee cup with steam and heart design
Black line flash drawing of two long-nailed hands with stylised flames, sparkles and the words Fire Walk With Me above a chain.
Hands with flames and Fire Walk With Me
Black fine line script lettering of the word forgiven with a full stop, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design.
Forgiven script lettering design
Small fine-line black tattoos of crosses and dots on a forearm, beside a black leather handbag and a silver cuff.
Tiny fine-line crosses on a forearm
Black fine line anchor tattoo with script lettering curling around it on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Anchor and script on inner forearm
Colour tattoo of a cartoon cat in a pink patterned dress holding a plush bear, set inside an ornate gold frame on the thigh, in a neo-traditional style.
Cartoon cat in ornate frame on thigh
Dark botanical fern leaf tattoo on the outer forearm of a person wearing a grey top and olive trousers.
Fern leaf tattoo on a forearm
Back view of a person with the words MICHAEL JACKSON in black serif capitals running vertically down the spine, with a grey ornamental tattoo on the right shoulder.
Name lettering down the spine
Colour tattoo of a video game style emblem with two keyblades, a golden crown and a star charm on a thigh.
Keyblade emblem on a thigh
Fine line black ink tattoo of a small flower with a thin stem on the inner forearm, shown in a Botanical style.
Small flower tattoo on a forearm
Black line tattoo of an ornamental mandala with dangling chains and a feather on the side of the thigh, in a fine line style.
Ornamental mandala with chains and feather on thigh
Black and grey nautilus shell tattoo with fine engraved shading on the upper chest near the collarbone of a woman with a dark bob.
Nautilus shell on upper chest
Hand with black lettering across the fingers reading Don't ask me about my tattoos, with teal diamonds, a bow and small pink and grey motifs in a traditional style.
Finger lettering reading Don't ask me about my tattoos
Watercolour and ink tattoo design on paper showing Big Ben, a flying Peter Pan silhouette, a moon with a ship and a dark ink circle around the scene.
Big Ben and Peter Pan watercolour design
Fine line black tattoo of an open book with a script quotation on the upper back of a woman with her hair pinned up.
Open book with quote on upper back
Close-up of a small fine line tattoo of a woman's face in profile with a bird, in black ink on the side of a hand.
Fine line face and bird on the hand
Traditional colour tattoo on a forearm showing a planchette with a moon, a yellow rose and a spider, above a hand with a jewelled ring and spiders crawling near a red cuff with a web.
Planchette, hand and spiders on a forearm
Colour tattoo on a lower leg showing the words My Hope in black script lettering over green and blue splashes and drips, on the calf below the knee.
My Hope script with green splashes on calf
Black and grey tattoo of a sun and crescent moon with carved faces, set in an ornate diamond frame with scrollwork, on a person's upper back.
Sun and moon with faces on upper back
Black lettering reading Once you go black you never go back sits above an outline of Africa with a heart and the words I AFRICA inside, tattooed across a person's upper back.
Script quote and Africa outline on upper back
Two colour lion tattoos on forearms: a seated orange and yellow lion on the left, and a walking blue and purple lion on the right.
Two stylised lions on forearms
Black and grey mandala tattoo with dotwork shading covering the upper arm, with a dark top and blurred background behind it.
Symmetrical mandala on an upper arm
Three fine line heartbeat tattoos, one blue on the forearm, one red with a small heart on the chest, and one pale white on the shoulder.
Heartbeat line tattoos in three placements
Black fine line botanical sprigs with small flowers and the word empathy on the inner upper arm.
Fine line botanical sprigs with 'empathy' on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a cartoon fairy in a pin-up pose with blue wings and a purple dress, on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Fairy pin-up tattoo on upper back
Close-up of a small fine line black lotus flower with a curling swirl tattooed on a person's lower abdomen, above a dark waistband.
Small lotus and swirl tattoo on the lower abdomen
Colour tattoo of an open book with a pink cover and a script banner reading Loving on the Edge, on the inner forearm.
Open book with Loving on the Edge banner

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