Nail polish: light skin tone Emoji
People
A hand with a light skin tone holding a small brush, shown in the act of applying bright pink or red polish to the fingernails. The gesture captures a moment of personal grooming or a deliberate pause to focus on one's appearance.
Usage Context
Widely used in digital conversations to signal indifference, sass, or a 'don't care' attitude, similar to the vibe of 💁. It is also used to show off a fresh manicure or to suggest that the user is feeling confident, unbothered, or 'slaying' a particular situation.
History
The base nail polish emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to modify skin tones was introduced in 2015 as part of the expansion of the Unicode Emoji 1.0 update, allowing users to better represent their own appearance in messages.
Details
Glyph
💅🏻
Unicode
U+1F485 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f485_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-prop
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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