Tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style tattoo of a black bull head with an orange eye, above a dagger, a candle and a star, on the calf.
Bull head with dagger and candle on a calf
Black script lettering tattoo on skin, reading Born to bleed, Fighting to succeed, Built to endure and What this world, running down a limb.
Black script quote across a limb
Black script lettering reading I am enough the way I am runs across the upper back near the shoulder, with a thin gold chain visible at the neck.
Script quote across upper back
Black ink line drawing of an outlined heart whose lower point flows into an infinity loop, with the word love in fine cursive script, shown as a fine line tattoo design on paper.
Heart with infinity loop and script love
Colourful traditional-style sugar skull tattoo with red roses on a woman's upper back, seen from behind.
Sugar skull and roses on upper back
Colour photo of a soft-edged rainbow gradient tattoo of overlapping circles on a woman's shoulder and upper chest, with her face cropped out of frame.
Blurred rainbow gradient on a shoulder
Traditional colour tattoo of a purple yarn ball with a knitting needle, green leaves and a red and white banner reading KNIT UNTIL DEATH, on a limb.
Knit until death banner over yarn ball
Two small black palm tree tattoos in fine-line style, one on the upper arm of a person in a patterned shirt and one on the ribs of a person standing beside them.
Matching palm tree tattoos on arm and ribs
Colour tattoo of a sunflower with a green stem and leaf on the side of a ribcage, shaded in yellow, orange and brown.
Sunflower tattoo on the ribs
Close-up photo of a colour tattoo of a zombified Hello Kitty head with a red bow, shown in bold black outline on the upper arm.
Zombie Hello Kitty tattoo on upper arm
Black dotwork and geometric lotus mandala tattoo on a woman's wrist, with part of another tattoo visible on the forearm above it.
Dotwork lotus mandala on the wrist
Black fine line tattoo of the word ohana in script, with a sun, sea horizon and palm tree above, on a person's ankle.
Ohana script with palm and sunset on an ankle
Black and grey geometric flower of life and mandala tattoos on a raised forearm and wrist, in a dimly lit photo.
Flower of life and mandala forearm tattoo
Black sketched stack of books with coloured watercolour splashes in pink, green and blue, tattooed on the back of a hand.
Stacked books with watercolour splashes on a hand
Traditional style tattoo design of an anatomical heart pierced by a blue and gold arrow, with a red and yellow rose and a banner reading El Corazon, shown as a cross-stitch style drawing.
Anatomical heart with arrow and banner
Black and grey realism tattoo on a shoulder and upper arm showing two helicopters, a pointing man's face and silhouetted figures rappelling from ropes.
Helicopters and rappelling figures on shoulder
Black fine line lettering spelling LOVE on a forearm, with the O replaced by a smiley face with X eyes and a small star cluster beside it.
LOVE lettering with a smiley face as the O
Black ink dotwork drawing of a cluster of succulents and trailing string-of-pearls stems on white paper, a flash design for a botanical tattoo.
Dotwork succulent cluster drawing
Black and grey fine line dreamcatcher tattoo with trailing feathers on a person's left side ribs, above light denim jeans.
Dreamcatcher and feathers on the ribs
Watercolour-style jellyfish tattoo in pink, purple and blue with thin black tentacle lines, on the outer upper thigh.
Watercolour jellyfish on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo design of a shaded rose over a ribbon banner, with scrolling vines and a small spider, drawn on a white background.
Rose with banner and scrolling vines
Black and grey realistic rose tattoo with script lettering on the abdomen, beside a hand holding a fan of banknotes.
Rose and script on abdomen with banknotes
Collage of four small black fine line tattoos: a cross on a finger, a swallow on the upper arm, a simple outline shape on the nape of the neck, and a sailboat on the wrist over a nautical chart.
Four small fine line tattoos on skin
Black and grey shaded flower tattoo on the wrist of a man wearing a brown strap watch, with a red sweatshirt and navy trousers.
Shaded flower tattoo on a wrist
Neo-traditional tattoo of a bear's head with a geometric mandala on its brow, framed by red and orange flowers and green sprigs, on the upper arm.
Bear head with flowers on an upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Always on my mind with two small hearts on a forearm, and a matching Forever in my heart tattoo on a shoulder.
Matching script quote tattoos on forearm and shoulder
Black and red lettering tattoo with swirling vines, a small purple butterfly and a red heart shaded on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script letters, vines and heart on a wrist
Coloured pencil flash design of an eye inside a triangle, crossed by a bloodied spear and a bone, surrounded by leaves and green highlights, drawn on kraft paper.
Eye in a triangle with spear and bone
Black fine line pine tree tattoo running vertically along the middle of a person's bare upper back, with long blonde dreadlocks over one shoulder.
Pine tree tattoo on upper back
Colour tattoo of a lavender sprig with purple flower spikes and green leaves on the forearm.
Lavender sprig on a forearm
Fine line flash design of the words Do small things with great love, with a stylised flower and leaves at each side.
Quote with flowers and leaves design
Colour tattoo of a cat filled with galaxy and nebula patterns, holding a ringed orange planet, on the forearm.
Galaxy cat holding a ringed planet on a forearm
Flash sheet of tattoo designs with Hopeless Romantic script, Fuck Love and Nah lettering, hearts, an arrow and a keyhole heart, with dotwork shading.
Hopeless romantic lettering flash sheet
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fa;th with the semicolon replacing the i, tattooed on a wrist.
Fa;th lettering on the wrist
Fine line black tattoo on a person's upper back reading PURSUIT OF, followed by a chemical structure drawing of a molecule.
Pursuit of text with molecule on upper back
Two black fine line arrow tattoos on forearms, one reading double and the other reading trouble, shown as a matching pair.
Matching arrow tattoos on forearms
Small black seahorse tattoo on the back of a person's neck, partly framed by dark hair pulled up, against a green background.
Seahorse tattoo on the nape of neck
Small colour tattoo of a songbird with a blue-grey head and wings and an orange breast, fine line style, on the inner forearm.
Small songbird on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a winged armoured knight holding a sword, covering a man's upper back.
Armoured winged knight with sword on a back
Two side-by-side photos of small black lettering tattoos on the wrist: a flower wreath reading Be Kind to yourself, and a plaster design reading I will feel better.
Wrist tattoos reading Be Kind and I will feel better
Black ink blackwork tattoo of wavy lines and a honeycomb of hexagons running down a person's thigh and calf, seated on a pale table edge.
Blackwork honeycomb tattoo on a leg
Fine line black script tattoo reading Forgiven with a small cross above the final letters, on a limb.
Forgiven script tattoo with small cross
Black line drawing of a treble clef and bass clef forming a heart shape, decorated with ornate swirling blackwork patterns on a white background.
Treble and bass clef heart design
Botanical tattoo of a dandelion with a red centre and seeds drifting up across the upper back and onto the arm, shaded in black and grey.
Dandelion seeds drifting across a back and arm
Colour realism tattoo of a red and gold crown with pearls and fleur-de-lis on the back of a clenched hand.
Realistic crown tattoo on the back of a hand
Black and grey realism lion face tattoo with a shaded mane across the side of a clenched hand, with gold rings on the fingers.
Lion face tattoo on a clenched hand
Black line tattoo of a hanging sign reading Gone to Market, sitting on the top of a foot in a hand-drawn lettering style.
Gone to Market sign on top of foot
Colour tattoo of a mermaid with a teal scaled tail on the ankle and top of a bare foot, standing on wet sand.
Mermaid tattoo on the ankle

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