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Are you ready to learn how to use the 🤦 (facepalm) emoji in your texts and social media messages? Also called the head-slap emoji, the person facepalming, or the hand-on-face emoji, this emoticon has a lot of variations—it comes in different hair and skin colors, and it also has more masculine and feminine versions: the 🤦♀️ (woman facepalming) and 🤦♂️ (man facepalming) emojis. In spite of all the options you have, each emoji basically has the same meanings, and we’re here to help you learn them all with this complete overview of the 🤦 (facepalm) emoji.
Things You Should Know
- The 🤦 (facepalm) emoji mainly represents embarrassment, both personal and secondhand. Use it to share embarrassing stories over text.
- The 🤦 (facepalm) emoji also expresses frustration, usually over someone else's poor performance or carelessness. Use it to vent when you’re irritated.
- Respond positively and offer sympathy when someone expresses embarrassment or frustration to you using the 🤦 (facepalm) emoji.
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