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A Period Emoji Is Headed to Your iPhone for Days When the Sobbing Face and Dagger Just Aren't Cutting It

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You know those days: One second you’re texting ten hearts in a row and the next you’re sending skulls and (toy) guns.

Luckily, we’re finally getting a simple emoji expression for that time of the month. On Wednesday, it was announced that 58 other new emojis are coming soon to an iPhone near you. Yep, a period emoji is now in play, and all thanks to a campaign led by girls’ rights group Plan International UK, which was backed by 55,000 people.

“With emoji becoming one of the fastest growing global languages, we realised having a period emoji could help change things,”the group said on their blog.

There are also a few variations on the already existing emojis on your phone, bringing the grand total up to 230. The Unicode Consortium, who approves the new emoji additions each year, is adding more inclusive emojis to its ranks, including a person in a wheelchair, prosthetic limbs, deaf and blind people emojis, and guide and service dogs.

There are also emojis for yawning, a flamingo, a waffle, a Hindu temple, a melting ice cube, onion, garlic, a parachute, a planet, a yo-yo, a sari, a pair of underwear, white and brown hearts and a banjo.

While Unicode will make these emojis available in March 2019, Apple has the ability to add them into whatever software update they choose. Typically, they opt for a fall emoji release.

So, goodbye weird euphemisms (“Riding the crimson wave?” Ugh.) And hello, perfect combo of period + TV + wine + chocolate bar emojis.

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Director, Branded Content + Cohost, Royally Obsessed Podcast

As Director of Branded Content at Gallery Media Group, Roberta helps oversee the ideation and execution of sponsored content and experiential campaigns across PureWow and ONE37pm, including PureWow’s 24 in ’24. She began her career in editorial nine years ago, and has written and edited countless articles on news, trends, fashion, beauty and the royal family. She’s also cohost of the Royally Obsessed podcast, named one of the best royals podcasts by The New York Times and Town & Country. She cowrote the book Royal Trivia: Your Guide to the Modern British Royal Family.