🤦‍♀️

Woman Facepalming Emoji 🤦‍♀️

What 🤦‍♀️ means

A shoulder-length portrayal of a woman with side-parted hair covering the back of her neck, holding her left hand up to the face, and placing the palm on the face, thus covering the eyes.

The 🤦‍♀️ Woman Facepalming emoji signifies a sense of hiding the face in embarrassment, regret, and disappointment. It also suggests an overall sense of SMH or 'Shaking My Head' to show feelings of cringe, disgust, and even a bit of shame.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you were texting your friend about how you forgot to do something and that led to a whole new scene of chaos, you can use 🤦‍♀️ in that conversation.
You can also use 🤦‍♀️ as a way of showing that something or someone embarrassed you quite badly.
🤦‍♀️ can be incorporated as a response to social media posts that evoke a great sense of cringe.
If someone was talking to you about an ironic situation that happened, or vice versa, use 🤦‍♀️.
If you just did something that would invariably lead to you to an uncomfortable or unfavored situation, use 🤦‍♀️ as a way of saying "Why am I like this".
Besides, 🤦‍♀️ is also a great response to something terrible, awful, and absolutely disheartening.

Other Names

🤦‍♀️ Ugh
🤦‍♀️ Instant Regret
🤦‍♀️ Disappointment
🤦‍♀️ Cringe
🤦‍♀️ Unstable Memory (forgetting stuff)
🤦‍♀️ Embarrassment
🤦‍♀️ Awful
🤦‍♀️ Terrible
🤦‍♀️ Woman Facepalm
🤦‍♀️ Dismay
🤦‍♀️ Remorse
🤦‍♀️ SMH
🤦‍♀️ Face Palm
🤦‍♀️ Why You No Understand

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :woman-facepalming: Slack:woman_facepalming: Discord
Keywords: again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, no, not, oh, omg, shock, smh, woman
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.