The lipstick emoji is your digital swipe of confidence—a tiny tube that screams “I’m ready to slay” without smudging a thing. People drop it for glam moments, GRWM check-ins, date-night alerts, or to give a friend’s hot take a glossy seal of approval. It can flirt (subtle), flex (not subtle), or arrive with diva energy when you’re about to make an entrance bigger than your to-do list. Used ironically, it’s the “put on a lip and deal with it” meme in emoji form, or a wink when someone’s about to serve looks. Expect to see it paired with 💅, ✨, 👠, and a mirror selfie caption like “feeling cute, might delete never.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a vivid crimson bullet in a black-and-gold tube, cap off, tilted slightly upright with glossy highlights and clean 3D shading. The gold band around the middle and the shiny black base make it instantly recognizable—basically the red carpet of makeup emojis. Beauty creators use it to tag tutorials, shade matches, and launch teasers, while drag and theater folks use it to signal “full beat incoming.” It also nods to old-Hollywood glamour and the timeless “red lip, classic thing” era, serving bold, boss energy in two pixels flat. Drop it when you’re announcing a glow-up, calling for touch-ups, or sealing the chat with fashion-week-level confidence.
Definition
A tube of red lipstick open and ready to be applied. iEmoji old name: Red Lipstick.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
674 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:lipstick:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Personal Care Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Personal Care Symbols
Names & Annotations
LIPSTICK
Symbol Information
U+1F484 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-195
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#Exp.5 'Make-up' 化粧 U+E710 SJIS-F9B5 JIS-7664
KDDI
#295 口紅 U+E509 SJIS-F6E2 JIS-7664
Softbank
#231 #old298 口紅 U+E31C SJIS-F9BC
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e31c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E31C
Decimal Code Point(s)
58140
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x8C 0x9C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 8C 9C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 214 234
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE31C
UTF-16 Hex
e31c
UTF-16 Dec
58140
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E31C
UTF-32 Hex
E31C
UTF-32 Dec
58140
Python Src
u"\uE31C"
PHP Src
"\xee\x8c\x9c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE31C"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
💄
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
💄
Decimal HTML Entity
💄
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
💄
Hex Code Point(s)
1f484
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F484
Decimal Code Point(s)
128132
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x84
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 92 84
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 222 204
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC84
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc84
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56452
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F484
UTF-32 Hex
01F484
UTF-32 Dec
128132
Python Src
u"\U0001F484"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x92\x84"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC84"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
