Woman: Curly Hair 👩‍🦱

This emoji shows a woman with distinctly curly or coily hair, depicted with texture and volume that bounces outward from her head. The curls are rendered with clear definition, celebrating natural curl patterns. The figure has a warm, approachable expression and typically medium to darker skin tone in most platform designs.

People use this emoji to represent themselves or describe women with curly hair—it's especially meaningful for communities where curly and textured hair is culturally significant and historically underrepresented in digital imagery. You'll see it in conversations about natural hair journeys, hair care routines, beauty discussions, and when someone wants to celebrate or identify curly-haired friends or public figures.

The inclusion of this variant in Unicode Emoji 11 (2018) was a significant moment for representation. Before dedicated curly hair emoji, people with textured hair had limited options for visual self-representation. This emoji acknowledges that hair diversity matters and deserves specific recognition in the emoji lexicon, alongside straight and wavy variants.