Calling all curly haired queens, silver foxes, bald babes, and my redheaded sisters! The emoji gods have finally heard our cries for representation! According to Mashable, the Unicode Technical Committee (those all-powerful emoji gods I was just ranting about) have added options for silver hair, bald, redheaded, and curly haired people as potential contenders for their next release in mid-2018. Here’s what they might look like:
The Unicode panel has been taking people’s wishes for emojis to be more inclusive pretty seriously—last November they added breastfeeding and hijab emojis to the list of possible candidates. I mean, while this proposal is still in its early stages, I’m already over the moon with excitement! As a redheaded chick, I’ve always thought it would be so awesome to have an emoji that looked like me. Now, for my rainbow-haired friends, sorry, you might just have to wait a little while longer!
2018, I can’t wait for you! It was about time