Image Source: POPSUGAR Photography / Benjamin Stone [1]

This post was originally published in August 2017

What's frustrating: texting with my best friend (pictured above) and her having to use a blond emoji when expressing herself. It's just not cool. My friend has naturally bold red hair, and the emoji options just don't cut it — or look like her! What an identity crisis for redheads.

So I was pumped for all of the Princess Ariels out there who will hopefully soon get a keyboard option that properly expresses their hair color. A group called Unicode Consortium [2] has been working on this emoji project for a while. And in addition to gingers, the team is working on creating emoji [3] for white hair, curly hair, and bald heads. It's pretty awesome and inclusive for the beauty community!

According to a press release, the redhead emoji are proposed to debut in June 2018 [4]. When we did some digging, we found that the redhead emoji were inspired by two famous faces [5]: Jessica Chastain and Ed Sheeran. Specifically, these Instagram images:

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And here's what these little guys look like: