Tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine line drawing of an open heart outline with handwritten script wording curving around its upper right edge.
Open heart outline with script wording
Fresh-looking red script lettering across the back of a hand, shown as a lettering tattoo in a single line.
Red script lettering on the back of a hand
Black ink tattoo spelling Always on the upper arm, with the letters built from Deathly Hallows triangles, a wand and other symbols.
Always lettering with Deathly Hallows symbols
Black handwritten script quote tattooed along a man's forearm, with a brown leather bracelet on his wrist.
Handwritten quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Dad and a remembrance quote, tattooed on skin in a Lettering style.
Remembrance script quote reading Dad
Black and grey tattoo of a scroll banner reading Mischief Managed, with footprints and smoke wisps, on skin.
Mischief Managed banner with footprints
Two hands with black and grey tattoos on the knuckles: a dollar sign with the word never and a pocket watch with the word enough, both with ink swirls, in a realism style on the hand.
Dollar sign and pocket watch on hands
Black and grey realism tattoo sleeve on an upper arm showing a Roman numeral pocket watch, a scrolled banner with script lettering, leaves and stars.
Pocket watch and script sleeve on upper arm
Watercolour-style dragonfly tattoo in blues, greens and pinks on a person's upper back, with the words never give up in black cursive script beneath it.
Blue and green dragonfly with script on upper back
Black fine line script lettering reading follow your heart, drawn on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Follow your heart script lettering
Black flowing script calligraphy reading "it is well" on a white background, drawn as a lettering design in a lettering style.
"It is well" script lettering design
Black script lettering reading you are perfect to me, arched across the lower back in a fine lettering style.
Script quote across the lower back
Black lettering tattoo in a rectangular frame reading The Truth is rarely pure and never simple, placed on the back of a woman's neck.
Boxed quote on the back of the neck
Colour tattoo of overlapping blue block lettering with grey and white highlights across a forearm, in Lettering style.
Overlapping blue block lettering on a forearm
Black ink line drawing of a compass inside a tree branch ring, with banners reading Not all who wander are lost and an anchor below, styled as a tattoo design.
Compass and tree design with banner text
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading "we live with the scars we choose" across the ribs, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo design of a dandelion with drifting seeds above the script words Just Breathe.
Dandelion seeds with Just Breathe script
Collage of four photos showing small matching tattoos on wrists and ankles, including heart outlines, hash marks, a colour pinky-promise hands design and small lettering.
Matching small tattoos on wrists and ankles
Black compass rose tattoo with script lettering reading one love, placed centrally on the upper back.
Compass rose tattoo on upper back
Black script quote reading 'To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong' over rainbow watercolour splashes on a forearm.
Quote lettering with watercolour splashes on a forearm
Two wrists held together, each with a black and grey crown tattoo above an ornate letter, forming a matching pair.
Matching crown and ornate letter wrist tattoos
Close view of a small black fine line tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates on the upper back of a woman in an open-back floral dress.
Fine line coordinates tattoo on upper back
Black and white photo of a fine line script quote tattoo along the side of a ribcage, with a lace bra visible above it.
Script quote tattoo on ribs
Black script reading California with small hearts on a woman's forearm, with black line-work flowers on her upper arm and elbow.
California script on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a wave flowing into the word calm in script on the outer ankle, with a silver anklet worn above it.
Wave and calm script on ankle
Black ink outline tattoo of an open book with the word Escape in lettering beside it, on the skin of a foot or ankle.
Escape lettering with an open book
Black script lettering tattoo on a thigh reading Everything will be okay, In the end, If it's not okay, Then it's not the end.
Script quote tattoo on a thigh
Fine line black script tattoo reading free on the upper chest near the collarbone, with three small birds flying up from the end of the tail.
Free script with birds on the collarbone
Fine line blue script tattoo reading Love on the inner wrist and forearm.
Love script on a wrist
Two forearms resting on a white sheet, each with fine line black script tattoos, including the words always in flux and float, and a small arrow on the left forearm.
Fine line script and arrow tattoos on two forearms
Black fine line script lettering reading Live as if you were to die tomorrow, running vertically along the side of the ribs.
Script quote running down the ribs
Two black ink drawings of tattoo designs in Elvish Tengwar-style lettering, one labelled Always and one labelled Love, on a white background.
Always and Love in Tengwar script
Black fine line script tattoo reading inhale the future exhale the past, with four birds in flight, on a shoulder.
Script quote and flying birds on shoulder
Close view of the back of a woman's neck showing a small black lettering tattoo of the word freed in a typewriter style, placed at the nape below a hair bun.
Small word tattoo on the back of the neck
Two matching black crown tattoos on the inner wrists, one above the words One Life and the other above One Love, with the hands clasped together.
Matching crown tattoos reading One Life and One Love
Black and grey tattoo of the words not all those who wander are lost, set in a decorative script across two lines on skin.
Quote tattoo in decorative script
Black cursive script reading positivity on a plain white background, a lettering design for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Positivity script lettering design
Realistic blue TARDIS police box tattoo with the words Allons-y in black script beneath it, placed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
TARDIS and Allons-y script on upper back
Black and grey tattoo of four birds flying above an infinity symbol with the word faith in script, on the shoulder of a person seen from behind.
Four birds and infinity script on shoulder
Fine line black and grey feather tattoo with the word faith in script on the side of the ribs.
Feather and faith script on the ribs
Two wrists held together, each with a black fine line crown above script lettering, reading Queen on the left and King on the right.
Matching queen and king crown wrist tattoos
Small fine-line script reading Tu és casa on the side of a torso, above the hip, with black cut-out straps across the skin.
Tu és casa lettering on the side ribs
Black and grey flash sheet of ornate script and blackletter lettering designs, including words, numbers and month names, with no body placement shown.
Lettering flash sheet in black and grey
Pencil drawing of a tattoo lettering design with ribbon banners, French script, a heart, a pocket watch and a script word, shown without any body placement.
Pencil lettering banner with French script
Handwritten black script reading Us against the world with a swirled heart, shown as a lettering design on a beige background.
Us against the world script with heart
Black and grey serif lettering with small stars on the side of a torso, with a dark leafy tattoo partly visible at the top right.
Serif lettering with stars on side body
Small black fine-line script reading warrior with a bird silhouette in flight, tattooed on the inner wrist of a light-skinned hand.
Warrior script and bird on a wrist
Black and grey family tree tattoo with swirling leaves, script lettering and roots on the side of the ribs.
Family tree with roots and script lettering on ribs

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