This is a delicate way of adding the biggest source of inspiration to a meaningful spot on your body. If you’re looking for a new tattoo to honor your family, this minimalist design done with a single needle in black ink is perfect.

3. Black and Gray Small Neck Tattoo Ideas

This tattoo design is strategically positioned to accommodate the antler. The deer skull looks powerful with the dark and highly detailed antler. The skull’s details are haunting, sunken, and lifeless. This gentle and graceful animal is worn as a tattoo for spirituality, renewal, or to symbolize the balance or transition between life and death.

Small tattoos are intriguing, much more when placed on the neck. A bear paw is known to be a symbol of direction and power. It’s subtle in design and size but definitely larger in meaning.

This feather tattoo design looks delicate on a masculine neck. The feather is considered a powerful symbol that is deeply revered and a sign of high honor. In this piece, the feather details in black and gray provide a great contrast against the skin of the wearer. It is accompanied by two initials, customizing the design.

It’ll definitely take a guy with a huge personality to endure the pain and carry this cobra tattoo on his neck. This tattoo design is of Japanese tattooing style in black and gray. The inks are so deeply saturated that the brilliance of these muted inks brings this snake alive. It is full of details, the scales, the striped underbelly, fangs, and forked tongue.

4. Heavy Black Ink Small Neck Tattoo Ideas

This is a simple tattoo design of the Eye of Ra, a powerful Egyptian symbol. Ra, also known as the sun god whose eye literally mimics the sun, started out as Pharaoh and could be one of the original rulers. One myth has that the human Ra was old and very weak; because of this, his people began to ignore his laws and instructions. He sent his daughter, the eye of Ra, in the form of a lion to punish his people.