The person getting haircut: medium-dark skin tone emoji is pure “new era unlocked.” It’s the go-to when you’re heading to the barbershop or salon, planning a big chop, or announcing a fresh fade with main-character energy. People drop it for post-breakup reinventions, pre-vacation glow-ups, or when they finally booked that shape-up they’ve been talking about since last month. It can be sincere (“self-care day!”) or spicy (“cutting off bad vibes and dead ends—both kinds”).
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a calm, front-facing figure in a light salon cape with sleek, silver-black scissors floating just by the hair—no visible stylist hand, minimal fuss, very Apple. The facial expression is neutral-to-content, like they trust the process, and the medium-dark skin tone shows clearly on the face and neck. The pose reads seated-in-chair without showing the chair, and the design leans flat and clean so the scissors and cape instantly pop. Across platforms, hair length and color can shift, but that hovering scissor and cape silhouette are the dead giveaways.
Online, this emoji doubles as a mood: “snip snip” for trims, “new hair who dis” for dramatic reveals, or ironic chaos when someone admits to 2 a.m. impulse bangs. It’s also barbershop-and-salon culture in a tiny square—edge-ups, taper season, and that sacred gossip only the stylist knows. Expect it in before-and-after posts, rebrand announcements, and playful thirst captions like “Looking sharp, literally.”
The Haircut emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3964 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Haircut woman getting haircut: medium-dark skin tone Woman Getting Haircut: Medium-Dark Skin Tone person getting haircut: medium-dark skin tone |
| 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) | 1f487, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F487, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128135, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 87, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 207, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC87, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc87, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56455, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F487 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F487, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128135, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F487\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC87\uD83C\uDFFE" |