People & Body · Emoji 4.0
💇♀️Woman Getting Haircut Emoji
Basically, it’s just a fun way to represent getting a haircut. People use it in chats when they’re talking about hair, beauty, or going to the salon.
The 💇♀️ emoji shows a woman getting a haircut.
- Unicode
- U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
getting- haircut: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 💇♀️ Woman Getting Haircut emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
02 — Platforms
Woman Getting Haircut emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F487. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman Getting Haircut emoji skin tones
💇♀️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman Getting Haircut emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman-getting-haircut:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the woman getting haircut, code point U+1F487.
05 — How to type
How to type the 💇♀️ Woman Getting Haircut emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman Getting Haircut emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman getting haircut as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Getting Haircut emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman getting haircut for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 💇♀️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman getting haircut and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 💇♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F487, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
💇♀️ vs 💇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-getting-haircut:
Basically, it’s just a fun way to represent getting a haircut.
Unicode name: Person Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 · added 2010
Shortcode: :haircut:
It usually just means someone is talking about getting their hair cut or is interested in hair/beauty.
12 — History
Where the 💇♀️ Woman Getting Haircut emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the woman getting haircut has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Getting Haircut was approved as U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💇♀️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ