The nail polish: dark skin tone emoji is the internet’s universal sign for “I’m unbothered, moisturized, booked, and busy.” It shows a deep‑brown hand getting a manicure, often dropped into texts when you’re flexing quietly, dismissing drama, or announcing self‑care supremacy. On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a close‑up hand at a slight angle with a sleek brush hovering to paint a glossy hot‑pink coat—no bottle in frame, just that drip‑drip of glam and tidy, salon‑perfect nails. People use it when they’re tidying up receipts, finishing a glow‑up, or reacting to tea with a polite “anyway…” energy.
In stan and meme culture, it doubles as the “polished and unpressed” reaction: the digital equivalent of filing nails while the timeline combusts. It can read flirty (“getting ready, see you at 8”), sarcastic (“I’ll let the experts argue”), or triumphant (“task complete, nails intact”). The dark skin tone modifier makes the vibe feel personal and represented—because fresh sets look iconic on melanin, too. Bonus association: nail tech appointments, press‑ons vs. gels debates, and that oddly satisfying salon smell you pretend not to like.
The Nail Polish emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2562 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Black Nail Polish |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 💅🏿 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 💅🏿 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 💅 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 💅 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f485, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F485, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128133, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 85, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 205, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC85, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc85, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56453, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F485 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F485, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128133, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F485\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC85\uD83C\uDFFF" |
