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Finally, We Have Our Own Emojis! Here's How to Download Them

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Finally, We Have Our Own Emojis! Here’s How to Download Them
By Cristina Cleveland · Updated November 5, 2015
PHOTO COURTESY OF DOVE

There’s an emoji for everything – a hazelnut, a paper clip, 3 kinds of CD-roms. Yet somehow not one curly girl to be found – until now. Dove recently launched their own line of curly girl emojis so now we can hair twirl and heart eyes to our hearts’ delight.

According to Sali A. Tagliamonte, a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto who partnered with Dove Hair on this launch, “If people can use tools of communication that reflect who and what they are, this can have a positive effect on their self-confidence and quality of life.”

The best part? They did not simply release one curl pattern, one hair color, or one hair length. They got the memo that curls come in all shapes and sizes (and colors”> and gave us 131 variations to choose from.

We’re all for curly hair representation on every platform available, and considering 74% of us are using emojis daily this platform’s reach will be pretty all encompassing.

How to get them

Step 1 Download

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You can download the Dove “Love Your Curls Emojis Keyboard,” on the iTunes App Store or Google Play. And don’t worry, it’s free.

Step 2 Add “Dove Curls” to your third-party keyboard

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Once you’ve downloaded the keyboard, you can use it in your messages on Facebook Messenger, email, WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, and more.

Step 3 Click the globe icon and choose the Dove Curls keyboard

These instructions are for the iPhone, so far we’ve seen that Android users are having issues getting the emojis to work for them.

Have you used these emojis yet? Let us know how you’ve used them below!

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