Person getting haircut: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium skin tone sitting in a chair while scissors trim their hair. The image shows a classic salon or barbershop setup, focusing on the act of grooming and hair maintenance.

Usage Context

Used to tell friends you are heading to the salon, getting a fresh look, or simply updating your style. It is frequently sent alongside ✂️ to signal a haircut in progress or a post-appointment reveal.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of the broader rollout of skin tone modifiers. Before this update, the hair-cutting person was restricted to a single default color, limiting the representation of diverse hair textures and styling experiences across different cultures.

Details

Glyph

💇🏽

Unicode

U+1F487 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f487_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC87;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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