Nail Polish emoji
Type :nail_care: · People & body
Unicode name Nail Polish · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 💅 means
Nail polish, and almost never about nails. It signals unbothered confidence: a mic drop delivered while examining your manicure.
If you are trying to read into it
Nail polish, and almost never about nails. It signals unbothered confidence, a point made while examining your manicure. It carries a specific queer and Black cultural lineage that is worth knowing before using it.
How to type 💅 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :nail
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 💅 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:nail_care::nail_polish:Search terms
Also found by searching bored, care, cosmetics, done, makeup, manicure.
Skin tones for 💅
Nail Polish comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 💅 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default💅🏻light💅🏼medium-light💅🏽medium💅🏾medium-dark💅🏿dark💅 in HTML, CSS and code
Nail Polish is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F485
- HTML
- 💅
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F485}'
- CSS content
- "\1F485"
- Python
- '\U0001F485'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%92%85
Related emojis
:person_tipping_hand:🤷:person_shrugging:💁♂️:man_tipping_hand:💁♀️:woman_tipping_hand:🤷♂️:man_shrugging:🤷♀️:woman_shrugging:👋:wave:🤚:raised_back_of_hand:🖐️:raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:✋️:high_five:🤙:call_me_hand:👊:punch:All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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