Woman getting haircut: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin sitting in a chair while a pair of shears cuts her hair. The design depicts a standard salon visit, capturing the specific moment of a trim or a complete style change.

Usage Context

Used to signal a trip to the salon, a fresh new look, or a general desire for a makeover. It is frequently sent as a life update before or after posting photos of a new hairstyle, often accompanied by emojis like 💇 or ✨ to emphasize the transformation.

History

This emoji was created by combining the base woman getting haircut emoji with a Fitzpatrick modifier to represent light skin tone. The base character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, at a time when platforms were expanding to include more specific depictions of human activities and professional services.

Details

Glyph

💇🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F487 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f487_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC87;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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