25 Bold and Beautiful Rose Hand Tattoos to Inspire You

This Rose Hand tattoo is New School style in all its glory. We can see the style’s characteristic heavy outlines and vivid color palette. There’s also just the right amount of shading and use of negative or uninked space to make it appear as if light is glistening off the petals and leaves. Beautiful. With minimal white detailing and the tips of the leaves extending towards the fingers, this is one gorgeous piece.

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You can see the simple color palette, simple shading and bold black outlines of Old School style here, but this isn’t your Grandpa’s tattoo of a pin-up girl or flag. Although this style has been around for years, it remains very popular, and as you can see here very fresh. It’s obviously not just for sailors anymore.

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Hand tattoos, by virtue of their location, are often bold, in-your-face designs. This Rose Hand tattoo though makes a statement due to its absolutely gorgeous subtle shading. The dotwork shading serves to add depth and detailing to this piece. Incredible how such a delicate, beautiful tattoo looks so perfect on this super masculine hand. Props to the Artist IG: @enfasi_tattoo from Taio, Italy.

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I wonder if the bird was part of the original design or added at a later time. Regardless, the bird and the Rose come together to create one cohesive piece. With block-like shading, this bird has a realistic look yet not the photo-realistic look associated with realistic style.

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There are definitely elements of Old School style seen in this Rose Hand Tattoo, from the floral theme to the well defined black outlines. Which btw, are amazingly crisp! The shading is subtle and delicate, and if this piece doesn’t look awesome on this dude, I don’t know what does.

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If you’re looking for a super masculine Rose Hand tattoo, and you gotta love this one. Inked in Trash Polka style, there’s an abundance of black ink offset by splashes of red. Negative or uninked space is also used to create the varying patterns seen. And those shapes then draw the eye from the hand to the forearm. Powerful

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Like fine fabric draped over the hand and arm, this is one stunning piece. I love how the Rose is centered over the hand, mirroring its contours while the leaves mark and highlight each finger. Extending midway up the forearm, the leaves here gracefully curve, creating a beautiful counterbalance to the Rose hand tattoo. Crisp even lines, touches of white ink and smart use of negative or uninked space; you couldn’t ask for more.

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Hand tattoos notoriously fade due to their constant exposure and the high rate of skin shedding here. That’s much less likely to occur with this piece though, thanks to the ink being so well packed. That also results in the rich color palette seen here. As you can see, New School is Old School all grown up; and very sophisticated indeed.

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Black ink alone is used in this piece and then watered down to create varying tones of gray. They’re then used to create the beautiful dotwork shading, giving this Rose a texture that reminds me of gray flannel. It’s clean, neat and very tailored looking. White highlights are then… The Icing On The Cake

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Like Old School style, this Neo-Traditional piece has a simple color palette and solid black outlines. Here though, there’s a more precise application of color and more shading that’s employed. This renders the Rose more realistic looking, but there’s still an absence of the 3D associated with realistic style.

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I love the muted color palette seen in this tattoo. The small areas of negative or uninked space, along with the block shading, create an iridescent-like quality to the surface of the petals and leaves. The leaves accenting the two fingers are like punctuations marks saying “Look At Me”.

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This is one awesome tattoo, from the beautiful black outlines of the petals to the gradients of color detailing them. The shading is equally skilled as is the linework seen on the leaves and the snake. Everything about this tattoo is sheer perfection. Props to the Artist IG: @swan_tattooer from the powerhouse center of tattooing; Seoul, South Korea.

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A skull and rose tattoo often symbolizes life and death, good vs evil, or new beginnings. The color palette here is muted and dark, and very powerful. Just look at the dark inking on the fingers, interspersed with a metal-like band of gold. Add in some spikes and I’m definitely not messing with you.

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Often people fall in love with a specific tattoo style and stick with it, case-in-point this pair of Rose Hand tattoos. Like the client’s previous tattoos, these newer ones are inked in Old School style. These two newer ones are well packed and hopefully won’t fade as much as the older ones have.

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We’ve come to the end of our list and have a pair of of Rose Hand tattoos. These two are matching, but not identical, and that makes them so interesting. The one inked in Blackwork style has a more unusual orientation, running horizontal across the top of the hand. I absolutely love how it gracefully accents the hand and knuckles, despite its lack of curves.

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We hope you found what you were looking for and had as much fun looking at these tattoos as we had writing about them. Until next time, happy inking!

This is such a beautiful graceful design. The skilled shading of the tiger provides contrast with the surrounding flowers allowing the tiger to “peek” out. Of course the thin lines of the flowers are equally impressive. And the finishing touch – the sweep of the florals towards the shoulder and elbow. Beautiful

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The heavy black ink of the Crescent moon is such a nice dramatic touch. It also creates the sense that the tiger is out in the open under the sky. Of course that’s also achieved by the use of negative space surrounding the design. The finishing touch: the tail which serves to anchor the tiger to the land. Or in this case your arm

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Tiger tattoos can often come out as menacing, but that’s not the least bit true here!

Don’t you get the sense that there’s a tiger cub just playfully rolling around or maybe sleeping? Thanks to great shading and contrast this little cub looks so real; I just want to reach out and pet the soft fur on the belly. Additionally it’s the negative space around the design that really makes it pop. Yes, go ahead and touch it.

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This tattoo will have you looking twice. A butterfly outline depicts this awesome looking tiger eyes tattoo. The gentleness of the butterfly is contrasted with the fierceness of our feline friend. 

This is a change from the more commonly seen realistic depictions done in Black and Gray style. What I don’t see here, and would expect, is a high degree of shading. I think the shading would actually add more realism to this tattoo. Hopefully though this is exactly what this guy wanted.

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Tiger tattoos come in all different styles. Here we have the over-the-top flourishes of the New School style make this such a cool tattoo. Suggestive of graffiti I could see this as street art. With black outlines, minimal shading and vibrant colors this design is a standout. While the Minimal style promotes a “Less Is More” attitude, with New School it’s “More is More”

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