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💅Nail Polish Emoji
💅 is the nail polish emoji, U+1F485, one of 3 in the Hand Props set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for bored, care and cosmetics.
What 💅 nail polish means
Three hands holding something. ✍️ marks signing, taking notes, or writing anything at all; 🤳 selfie, added in 2016, covers photographing yourself and by extension vanity; 💅 has drifted furthest from its subject - it now mostly signals unbothered dismissal, the visual equivalent of examining your nails while someone complains.
Unicode tags this one bored, care and cosmetics and files it under People & Body → Hand Props.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F485 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💅 | |
| HTML decimal | 💅 | |
| CSS | \1F485 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F485} | |
| Python | \U0001F485 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC85 | |
| Rust | \u{1f485} | |
| Swift | \u{1F485} | |
| PHP | \u{1F485} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 85 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC85 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ShQ== | |
| Decimal | 128133 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 💅 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 💅
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “nail polish”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bored”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f485and Enter. - HTML — paste
💅.
How 💅 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 💅Apple
- 💅Segoe
- 💅Noto
- 💅System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 💅 nail polish emoji mean?+
💅 is the nail polish emoji, tagged bored, care and cosmetics. Three hands holding something. ✍️ marks signing, taking notes, or writing anything at all; 🤳 selfie, added in 2016, covers photographing yourself and by extension vanity; 💅 has drifted furthest from its subject - it now mostly signals unbothered dismissal, the visual equivalent of examining your nails while someone complains.
What is the Unicode code for 💅?+
nail polish is U+1F485. In HTML that is 💅, in CSS \1F485, and in JavaScript \u{1F485}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💅 emoji added?+
nail polish got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Hand Props in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 💅 nail polish.