Nail polish: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a medium skin tone holding a bottle of bright red nail polish, captured mid-application on the index finger. It highlights the gesture of painting one's nails, showcasing a freshly groomed hand.

Usage Context

Widely used to convey an attitude of indifference, sass, or 'unbothered' confidence. It is the go-to response when someone wants to signal that they are finished with a conversation or unbothered by outside drama, often paired with emojis like 🙄 or 💁🏽 to emphasize the dismissive tone.

History

While the base nail polish emoji was added in 2010, the ability to choose skin tones arrived in 2015 as part of the expansion of the Unicode standard to better reflect the diversity of global users. It has since become a staple of internet slang, cementing itself as the universal sign for being over a situation.

Details

Glyph

💅🏽

Unicode

U+1F485 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f485_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC85;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-prop

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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