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Top 100 Best American Traditional Tattoo Ideas For Women – Old School Designs

Top 100 Best American Traditional Tattoo Ideas For Women – Old School Designs

Get bold and iconic styles in your body art with a classic American Traditional tattoo. With a minimal color palette and shading, you’ll have a clean tattoo that will stand the test of time.

One of the most popular and identifiable tattoo styles out there, American Traditional is perfect for an individual tattoo or a more adventurous piece in a sleeve or full back ink.

While you can turn anything into an American Traditional tattoo with the right artist, there are some symbolic tattoos that have been around and continue to be popular choices for novices and vets of this style tattoo.

Flowers, especially roses, are quite popular for both men and women. A deep red in the rose can represent love or desire, and look fabulous with a thick outline to define the flower beautifully.

Animals are another subject you’ll see a lot in traditional ink. Tigers are a top predator and represent that strength. Just because this animal is powerful doesn’t mean a woman can’t get it, show your inner strength with this impressive creature.

For a more feminine tattoo, butterflies are naturally beautiful and represent transformation as they transition into a colorful and wonderful creature.

No matter what the dagger means for you, it’s an iconic symbol for American Traditional tattoos. Add a flower or leave it alone, either way you’ll have a statement piece that people will want to know more about.

A true old school tattoo, the gypsy girl represents the gypsy way of life while portraying a the portrait of a gorgeous woman. In general, portraits of women are quite popular and some of the most amazing traditional tattoos, but the gypsy girl is freeing and independent for women who are the same.

Check out other iconic symbols and ideas from this classic and old school style for a perfect choice on your next tattoo.

 

American Traditional Sleeves Tattoo Women

This woman’s sleeve of American traditional tattoos is bright and bold. She wears a blue rose on her wrist, below a little bee and a bright red heart with an arrow piercing through it. A pastel sparrow carries a daisy above the cursive name of a loved one. A colorful butterfly floats below a horse’s face framed in a horseshoe below a woman’s profile.

American Traditional Smoking Tea Cup Tattoo Womens Legs

How cute is this little tea cup drawn up in cool old school, American traditional style! The cup is adorned with little flowers in red and yellow. The tag from the tea bag hangs from the cup, decorated with a red heart. Curls of dotted steam evaporate from the hot tea. Placed above the ankle on the leg, this cute teacup could also look wonderful on the bicep of the arms or inner forearm.

American Traditional Womens Crying Heart Tattoo

This woman’s sad heart tattoo design is bright and bold. Colored with striking pastel red, the heart is crying fat blue tears from her big green eyes. A black frowny mouth and round little nose complete the despairing face. Most of us know the feeling of such a sad and broken heart.

American Traditional Butterfly And Flower Tattoo Women

This bright, colorful butterfly tattoo design idea is surrounded by a background of sunset colors. A setting sun is depicted in the lower wings of the butterfly. The insect hovers above a couple flowers in blue and purple. Clean black line work makes this girly design pop.

Anchor And Flower American Traditional Tattoo For Women

This traditional anchor wrist tattoo is a colorful spin on a classic design. The Anchor is black and red, with a decorative blue flower wreathed with light and dark green leaves. Lines and dots embellish the pointed anchor.

Awesome Blue Floral Tattoo Womens American Traditional

The colors in this traditional style tattoo are so rich and saturated! A bright blue rose on a thorny stem winds around a shockingly red heart. Negative space between the bold black lines and the blue of the rose makes the color really pop. Yellow accents along the thorns make them look even more vicious.

Baby Leopard Tattoo American Traditional Women

This black and grey leopard leg calf tattoo is dynamic and really beautiful. The big spotted cat saunters through tropical palm fronds and leaves. The shading is expert, and I love the details in the wide paws with long pointed claws. The Leopard appears to be walking right out of the design.

Beachy American Traditional Tattoo For Women

The cute tropical scene portrayed in this pastel retro tattoo is situated within a heart, and surrounded by pink and blue flowers. The scene depicts a tiny island with a single palm tree, heavy with coconuts, leaning over the ocean. The sun is setting over the water in the background, as a couple seagulls fly overhead.

Beast And Violets Tattoo Womens American Traditional

I really love this unique bat tattoo design for women! The purple, black and grey bat hangs upside down from a cherry blossom branch, full of pink flowers. The bat’s wide, round eyes are yellow and striking. The bat’s wings are folded around its body, and the animal appears to have just been awoken.

Beautiful Flower Vase Tattoo Womens Hands American Traditional

The color palette used to create this American traditional tattoo design is just gorgeous! The tattoo depicts a black, red, white and forest green vase, full of flowers in the same colors. The textures the artist achieved in petals and leaves of the flowers, as well as the smooth surface of the vase are very skillful.

Black And Red Flying Beings Tattoo Womens Sleeves American Traditional Design

This woman’s American traditional tattoo sleeve is both colorful and dark. I love the consistent color palette used throughout. There’s a scene of Rio de Janeiro above a red rose and below the word “Home.” A black, blue and red butterfly soars above that, below a couple of sparrows, one carrying an olive branch.

Black Inked American Traditional Tattoo Women

This black and grey tattoo depicts a black heart, blooming with grey and white flowers and leaves, divided by a banner proclaiming “stay weird” in uppercase letters. White accents along the leaves catch the eye. The line work is clean and beautiful.

Black Snake And Roses American Traditional Tattoo Women

This woman’s American traditional tattoo sleeve is done in black and grey. A white snake, curving down the stem of a jet black rose, hovers above a floral skull. A subtle little dagger floats nearby. An envelope, surrounded by white flowers it’s etched with the words “It’s ok.”

Black Tattoo Womens Back American Traditional

This woman has a whole back and sleeve of American traditional tattoos! There’s a huge moth across her shoulder blades in black and grey, a woman’s profile, a cowboy scene on her lower back, a lion on her wrist, another month (this time in color,) a spider web around her elbow, and a woman’s face peering out of the center of a red rose.

Bright Cactus And Flowers Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This female pastel tattoo idea is bright and cheerful. The tattoo depicts a bright green cactus, fading from dark to light, in a mustard yellow pot beside two pink and purple flowers. The background is sunset red, and contrasts the green cactus, really making it pop.

Butterfly On Red Florals Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This traditional women’s tattoo design idea depicts a soft butterfly perched upon a bright red budding rose. The thorny stem has been severed short. The butterfly is green, red, and orange, with yellow accents on the tips of its antenna. This color palette continues throughout the design.

Cherries Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This simple, classic girl’s tattoo is fun and cute. A couple of cherries dangle from a shared stem. Two green leaves sprout from the tip of the stems. Light reflects off the red cherries, and simple little black stars twinkle in the background. A pair of red lips smiling with white teeth float nearby.

Crescent Colored American Traditional Tattoo Womens Hands

This simple moon tattoo design for girls is really well done. The crescent moon is adorned with a red flower, and cascading leaves. A lovely pink flower, with a second set of pointed petals, rises from the inside curve of the crescent. The red, blue, yellow green and black ink is rich and saturated.

Cute Moon American Traditional Tattoo Womens Hands

This colorful tattoo depicts a crescent moon with a face, smiling above an orange sunset scene of white clouds over pine trees. Stars twinkle in the sky, and outside the scene, a pink cherry blossom adorns the design.

Drums And Lady Face Tattoo Womens American Traditional On Sleeves

This woman’s American traditional tattoo sleeve has lots of rich, dark, muted tones and whimsical illustrations. There’s a brown frog sitting up to eat a fly. There’s a couple of yellow lemons on the branch, a stairway framed inside a black heart, and a fat moth. On her upper arm she has the side profile of a lady’s face, gently smiling. Large sea shells decorate the lady’s black hair.

Feathered Tribal Womens Tattoo Traditional American Designs

This tattoo depicts the side profile of a Native American woman’s face. She wears three feathers in her hair, attached to a patterned headband. She stares up into the sky with green eyes. She has rosy cheeks and red lips.

Flexible Lady American Traditional Tattoo Women

This awesome contortionist themed tattoo design is really fun! The tattoo portrays a slender woman with black hair in a tiger striped leotard, doing a handstand with her legs curved back behind her head. Her body is covered in blue tattoos. Pink flowers complete the design.

Flowers And Anatomical Heart American Traditional Tattoo Women

This American traditional tattoo portrays an anatomical heart, in black, white and red. Red and black flowers with cascading leaves pour out of the severed veins and arteries. Small line work details adorn the different sections of the hearts.

Gemmed Heart And Floral Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This bright, colorful gemstone tattoo depicts a large, faceted purple stone heart. The heart stone is set into a bright blue background. Two yellow flowers with round orange centers float on either side of the gem heart.

Gorgeous American Traditional Tattoo Women

This abstract flower design is really unique and aesthetic. A budding mandala flower with saturated color and bold line work buds from a jagged, thorny stem. The stem is severed short and close to the flower, bearing a single leaf. The color pallet is striking, and consists of turquoise, pink and orange.

Grey Bird Rose Tattoo American Traditional Women

This classic tattoo design shows a black and grey sparrow soaring over a bright, cherry red rose. Deep forest green leaves surround the rose, and a thorny stem is cut close to the flower. Negative space near the tips of the petals adds dimension and depth.

Grey Floral American Traditional Tattoo For Women Art

This simple, black and grey flower tattoo is classic and very pretty. The petals of the flower are striped with white accents. There are white dots encircling the round center of the flower. Lots of slender leaves grow in a circle around the flower, and two little buds peek out from behind the leaves.

Hand With Bouquet American Traditional Tattoo Womens Back

This graceful and colorful tattoo depicts a woman’s hand with red nail polish, daintily holding an arrangement of flowers. The flowers are all different varieties and colors, with a big red peony in the center. Foliage in various shades of green decorates the arrangement as well.

Helium Balloon Ride American Traditional Tattoo For Women

This bright, hot air balloon tattoo is really cheerful and uplifting! The balloon is striped with red, pink, yellow and blue, and decorated with banners and bows. A red flag flies overhead. A golden yellow basket swings empty below. Blue Flowers peek out from behind the balloon.

Lady And Cat Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This sweet portrait tattoo depicts a young woman with rosy cheeks and freckles holding an orange cat. The girl wears a green sweater, and her black hair is up in two buns on either side of her head. She has big, heart shaped hoop earrings, and a small smile. The orange cat wears a friendly expression.

Lady With Rose Tattoo For Women American Traditional

This fun, trapeze woman tattoo has a traditional red, green, yellow, and black color palette. The woman swings on one leg from the flying trapeze. She gazes into a red, long stem rose that she holds daintily by her fingertips. A big orange flower is tucked into her black, flowing hair, and her body is covered with tattoos.

Long Haired Tribal Women Tattoo American Traditional

This American traditional style tattoo portrays a woman’s side profile. A peacock is nestled in her thick, black hair that cascades down her shoulders. She wears eyeshadow blush and red lipstick. She has big gold hoop earrings and an angular silver necklace. She stares upwards, forlorn.

Lovely Full Sleeves American Traditional Tattoo For Women

This woman’s American traditional tattoo sleeve is bright and fun. She has a hand of playing cards on her wrist, a globe, a small red flower by her elbow, and a wine glass of red liquid containing a skull with a smoking cigarette in the background. On her upper arm, she has a compact, a tube of red lipstick, and a mirror reflecting a woman’s face.

Lovely Full Sleeves Womens American Traditional Tattoo

I love the largely black and red color pallet used in this American traditional tattoo sleeve. This woman has red roses tattooed on her wrist and shoulder. Between the roses, there’s a flying bald eagle reaching for a moth, two small flowers, and a wolf face with a dagger piercing through the back of the head.

Magnet And Flower Grey Tattoo Womens American Traditional Art

This black and grey horseshoe tattoo is a real classic. The horseshoe is positioned toe down, to ensure the luck doesn’t drain out of it. Three flowers, wreathed in leaves, decorate the design. The black ink is really saturated, and the shading is minimal.

Multi Layered Red Flower Tattoo American Traditional Women

This abstract flower tattoo is bright and vibrant. A stylized, rainbow colored flower grows on a long, thorny stem. The flower has layers of patterned petals, growing out like a mandala. Green leaves grow up the stem, and the thorns are bright red.

New Moon And Flowers American Traditional Tattoo For Women

This silver crescent moon tattoo is decorated with a pink flower and lots of green leaves. A red flower bud reaches up behind the moon. The word “lunatica” is written in simple, uppercase letters along the curved edge of the moon.

Piercing Eyes American Traditional Tattoo Womens Hands

This unique female traditional tattoo depicts a curling banner in front of two, shaded pink flowers. Upon the banner is a detailed set of eyes, belonging to a woman. She has suspicious eyebrows, brown eyes, and you can just see a hint of her blushing cheeks.

Plant In The Lips Tattoo Womens American Traditional

This strange, surreal tattoo design is whimsical and really fun to look at! The tattoo portrays a set of red lips with white teeth, biting down upon a very unusual flower. The center of the red and white flower contains a narrow yellow eye. Green leaves and other smaller flowers of different colors all grow from the same, thorny stem.

Pretty American Traditional Tattoo Womens Hands

This surreal, traditional rainbow flower tattoo design for females is really bright and colorful. The abstract flower grows in layers of patterned petals from a thorny stem. A drop of red blood drips from the short cut stem. The design is very sharp and angular with a dangerous sort of beauty.

Pretty Butterfly Tattoo Women American Traditional

Rising Sun Beach And Tree American Traditional Tattoo For Women

Ship With Sails American Traditional Tattoo Womens Hand

Simple Flower Ankle Tattoo Womens American Traditional

Skull And Blossoms American Traditional Tattoo Women

Skull With Floral Headcover Tattoo Womens Hands American Traditional

Spider Webs American Traditional Tattoo Womens Full Sleeves

Steaming Brew Cup Tattoo Womens American Traditional

Sun With Stars And Blooms Tattoo Womens American Traditional Art

Teethy Blue American Traditional Tattoo Women

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Womens American Traditional Lady With Feather Tattoo

Womens Arms Cubical Colored Hair American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Arms Glam American Traditiona Tattoo

Womens Arms Mandala Art American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Arms Orange Hibiscus American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Back American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Back Dark American Traditional Tattoo

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Womens Banner And Floral Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Black Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Bottoms American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Calves American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Chest Blooms And Butterfly Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Fingers American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Floral American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Flower Vase Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Full Legs American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Full Sleeves American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Full Sleeves Gorgeous American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Full Sleeves Webbed American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Grand Full Sleeves American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hand Holding Flower Tattoo

Womens Hands American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hands Black Cat American Tattoo Traditional

Womens Hands Brilliant American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hands Butterfly American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hands Floral American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hands Flower American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Hands Grey Flower Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Hands Single Rose American Traditional Tattoo

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Womens Knees American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Leg American Traditional Art Tattoo

Womens Musical Red Flowers Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Pretty Full Sleeves American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Red Roses Full Sleeves American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Shoulder Blooms American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Sleeves Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Thighs Lovely American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Thigh Snake And Rose Tattoo American Traditional

Womens Thigh Traditional American Tattoo Vase Flower

Womens Upper Arms Grey Floral American Traditional Tattoo

Womens Upper Arms Traditional American Tattoo

Womens Yellow And Black American Traditional Tattoo

Wonderful New Moon Tattoo Womens American Traditional

Woodpecker Tattoo Womens American Traditional

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