💄Lipstick Emoji
Generally, it just means lipstick. People often use it when they’re talking about wearing lipstick or discussing makeup in general.
The 💄 emoji is a tube of lipstick.
- Unicode
- U+1F484
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :lipstick:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💄 Lipstick emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Lipstick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F484 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your lipstick looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Lipstick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :lipstick:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F484.
How to type the 💄 Lipstick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Lipstick emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the lipstick as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Lipstick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around lipstick for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💄, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 💄 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💄 means in other countries
A plain beauty-and-makeup reference, with one notable extra layer as part of established LGBTQ+ community slang.
Part of self-descriptive terms like “lipstick lesbian”, an established piece of community language.
Literal makeup reference, coming up naturally in beauty or shopping chat.
Before you send it: Use it freely for beauty talk or as a nod to that community slang — both readings are positive.
What 💄 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 💄 Lipstick emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F484 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💄 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E710, KDDI au E509, SoftBank E31C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Lipstick was approved as U+1F484 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💄 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.