Tattoo ideas

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

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Small black jack-o'-lantern face tattoo on the side of a finger, shown against a plain white background.
Jack-o'-lantern tattoo on a finger
Pastel purple and green butterfly tattoo on an ankle, surrounded by coloured stars, black swirls and dotted trails.
Butterfly and stars on an ankle
Colour tattoo of a faceted grey Totoro-style character with red poppies and small black soot sprites on a calf.
Totoro with red poppies on a calf
Black linework traditional flash sheet showing a perfume bottle, a potted plant with a banner, a sundae, a hand holding lipstick, a pin-up, cherries and a knife with banners.
Traditional flash sheet with pin-up and cherries
Black ink design of an elephant head formed into a heart shape, filled with dense ornamental patterns on a plain off-white background.
Ornate elephant head in a heart shape
Black and grey steampunk owl wearing a top hat and goggle-style eyepiece, with gears and smoke, tattooed on an upper arm.
Steampunk owl in a top hat on upper arm
Fine line tattoo of an oil lamp with a curved spout and handle on the inside of an ankle, with light grey shading at the base.
Small oil lamp on an ankle
Traditional-style moth tattoo with black outlines and soft pink and grey shading on the back of a hand.
Moth tattoo on the back of a hand
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoo with roses, leaves and a banner on a thigh.
Anchor, roses and banner on a thigh
Fine line black tattoo of three bird silhouettes perched on a curling vine with leaves, placed on the side of the ribs.
Three birds on a vine on the ribs
Neo-trad style flash sketch of a woman in a beaded headwrap with an Ouija board alphabet across her eyes, with long black nails and beaded bracelets.
Ouija board headwrap woman sketch
Neo-traditional tattoo of a black kitten in a blue patterned teacup with a pink bow and pink blossoms, on a limb.
Black kitten in a teacup with blossoms
Purple cross-stitch style lettering with a needle and thread tattooed across the upper back, in a lettering style.
Cross-stitch lettering with needle and thread
Black and grey blackwork and dotwork tattoo of a snow globe showing a ringed planet, stars and mountains, on the forearm.
Snow globe with Saturn and mountains on forearm
Black line drawing of a flying saucer beaming down over mountains, a moon, stars, pine trees and a small house with a wavy hatched field.
UFO beam over a mountain landscape
Fine line red script tattoo reading Love Yourself on a shoulder, with a floral top visible below and dark background behind.
Love Yourself script on a shoulder
Small black bare tree tattoo at the top of the back, just below the neck, on a woman with her hair in a ponytail and a blue-grey off-shoulder top.
Bare tree tattoo on the upper back
Six black and grey pencil-style drawings of potion bottles with Drink Me scrolls, presented as tattoo flash designs.
Drink Me potion bottle flash sheet
Black fine line script tattoo reading "You look so cool" on the front of a thigh, below a dark skirt.
Script quote on the thigh
Two matching black lettering tattoos on the inner wrists, each showing a crescent moon, two small stars and script reading to the moon and back, with two pairs of hands clasped.
Matching moon and stars wrist tattoos
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a thigh showing Sulley, Boo and Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc inside a pink beaded heart frame.
Monsters Inc characters in a beaded heart
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of an anatomical heart displayed under a glass dome on a stand, shown on skin.
Anatomical heart under a glass dome
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of two narwhals, a Roman numeral clock face, clouds and stars across an upper arm, shown from two angles.
Narwhals, clock and clouds on upper arm
Black and grey pencil drawing of a hooded woman with sugar skull face paint, with ornamental tattoo designs on her forearm and hand.
Hooded woman with sugar skull face
Neo-traditional colour tattoo of a Darth Vader helmet above a teal flower and green leaves, placed on the ankle.
Darth Vader helmet and flower on an ankle
Grid of twelve fine line pencil drawings of wildflowers and sprigs on a cream background, suitable as small flash tattoo designs.
Twelve fine line wildflower designs on cream
Fine line outline of an arrow running along the inner forearm, in black ink, while a hand holds leather key straps and keys.
Arrow tattoo on forearm holding keys
Watercolour-style tattoo on a forearm combining a black outlined triangle with a multicoloured brushstroke arc in blue, green, red and orange.
Watercolour brushstroke and triangle on a forearm
Black script lettering on an arm reads 'Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean', in a lettering style.
Wave quote lettering on an arm
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a smiling cat wearing round glasses, a ribbed beanie and a striped jumper, on the forearm.
Bespectacled cat in a beanie and jumper
Fine line tattoo of a hand making a finger heart gesture with two solid black hearts, on the inner arm.
Finger heart hand with small black hearts
Black fine line outline of a scallop shell tattoo on the lower leg, above a red and black cord anklet.
Scallop shell on a lower leg
A flash sheet of gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs, including a leaf, feathers, a dreamcatcher, stars, a moon, an arrow and a daisy, with no placement shown.
Gold and silver metallic temporary tattoo designs
Colour traditional-style tattoo on a forearm showing a split face, with a golden-haired woman on one side and a green-skinned horned woman on the other, a dragon head above and a pink rose below.
Split face portrait with dragon and rose on forearm
Black outline tattoo of a lotus flower with a curling stem, in fine line style, on a person's upper back.
Lotus flower with swirling stem on upper back
Small black fine line bird silhouettes in a row across two fingers of a hand, with a coloured tattoo partly visible on a forearm at the right edge.
Row of small birds across two fingers
Black line drawing of a triple moon design, with two crescents flanking a pentagram inside a circle, shown as flash on a white background.
Triple moon with pentagram design
Close-up of a fine line red tattoo of two thin lines crossing and wrapping around a person's wrist, shown against blue denim and a white cuff.
Red fine line wrap tattoo on a wrist
Bold black-outlined winged griffin tattoo with pink accents across the back of a person's neck.
Winged griffin on the back of the neck
Colour tattoo of a gold pocket watch with Roman numerals and pink lilies with green leaves on the inner forearm, in a traditional style.
Pocket watch and pink lilies on a forearm
Colour tattoo of Winnie the Pooh holding a blue balloon with three small bees, on the side of the ribs.
Winnie the Pooh holding a balloon on ribs
Fine line tattoo of a triangle, heart, peace sign, coat hanger, aeroplane and origami crane on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Small icons on the inner wrist
Small black script tattoo reading oops on the side of a finger, shown in a fine line lettering style on a hand with red painted nails.
Oops script tattoo on a finger
Black fine line tattoo of two elephants facing each other with their trunks meeting in a heart shape, on the inner forearm.
Two elephants with trunks forming a heart
Black ink tattoo of stars of varying sizes running up the outer ankle, with a larger outlined star at the centre.
Cascading stars on an ankle
Black script reading Be the change with small floral flourishes across the top of a foot, in lettering style, shown in a photo of a bare foot with red toenail polish.
Be the change script on the foot
Fine line black outline of the state of Minnesota on the outer forearm, shown in a close photo of bare skin.
Minnesota state outline on a forearm
Blue ink sketch of a woman wearing a wolf headdress with braids and a beaded necklace, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Wolf headdress woman design sketch

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