{"id":34577,"date":"2016-11-02T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=34577"},"modified":"2016-11-03T02:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:41:25","slug":"jewels-of-the-month-more-emoji-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/jewels-of-the-month-more-emoji-earrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewels of the Month: More Emoji Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/consortium\/consort.html\" target=\"_blank\">Unicode Consortium<\/a> &#8212; aka <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-the-middle-finger-emoji-finally-got-the-thumbs-up-1729900518\" target=\"_blank\">Emoji Headquarters<\/a> &#8212; is killing it lately! The consortium used to approve new emojis at such a glacial pace that I started designing my own <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/get-a-middle-finger-emoji-on-your-iphone-and-your-earlobe\/\" target=\"_blank\">emoji-like jewelry<\/a> right along with pieces representing actual emoji. For instance, I created an <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-model-for-my-middle-finger-earring-struts-his-stuff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-slimstat-clicked=\"false\" data-slimstat-type=\"2\" data-slimstat-tracking=\"false\" data-slimstat-callback=\"false\">emoji-like middle-finger earring in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34578\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Middle-Finger-Emoji-Stud-Earring-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34578\" class=\"wp-image-34578 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finger_S_Z__27830_std.jpg\" alt=\"I kept the original design for my middle finger emoji. I prefer it to the Unicode\/iPhone version!\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finger_S_Z__27830_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finger_S_Z__27830_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finger_S_Z__27830_std-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/finger_S_Z__27830_std-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/get-a-middle-finger-emoji-on-your-iphone-and-your-earlobe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two years later<\/a>, Unicode announced a middle finger emoji and other frequently requested symbols, such as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/6\/16\/8792149\/taco-emoji-FINALLY\" target=\"_blank\">taco<\/a>. (Note: After Unicode approves new emojis, it still takes the phone manufacturers some time to update their operating systems with them.)<\/p>\n<p>Happily, we didn&#8217;t need to wait another two years for additional updates: Unicode announced 72 new emojis this summer. And this Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/10\/31\/ios-10-2-beta-devs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple released<\/a> its version<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/ios-10-2-emoji-first-look-shrug-fingers-crossed-face-palm\/\" target=\"_blank\"> of the new emojis in its developer preview of iOS 10.2<\/a>. That&#8217;s pretty speedy! <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/emojis-in-accessories-magazine-with-more-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve already pointed out<\/a> that we&#8217;re finally going to get crossed fingers on our phones &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34580\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emojipedia.org\/hand-with-index-and-middle-fingers-crossed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34580\" class=\"wp-image-34580 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/crossed.png\" alt=\"crossed\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Emojipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; though <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/emojis-in-accessories-magazine-with-more-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">my customers have had that on their earlobes already<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34581\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Crossed-Fingers-Single-Stud-Emoji-Earring-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34581\" class=\"wp-image-34581 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fingerscross.sil_.Z__65317_std.jpg\" alt=\"fingerscross-sil-z__65317_std\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fingerscross.sil_.Z__65317_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fingerscross.sil_.Z__65317_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fingerscross.sil_.Z__65317_std-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/fingerscross.sil_.Z__65317_std-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s causing a hubbub this week is Apple&#8217;s redesign of existing emojis to look more realistic. The new peach style is getting a bad review. People have been using the peach emoji to symbolize an ass, making it useful for sexting (along with the eggplant emoji for &#8230; you know), but Apple&#8217;s new peach doesn&#8217;t look quite as ass-like to some folks.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Y&#39;all done misused the peach emoji so often apply had to change it. Just watch, they bout to delete the eggplant in the next update. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R3cbBaODbI\">pic.twitter.com\/R3cbBaODbI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oscar Pimienta (@Opimi1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Opimi1\/status\/793532038171222016\">November 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now that I study it more, I think the peach still looks like a booty, but the old angle made the resemblance much more obvious. Alas! <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emojipedia.org\/ios-10-2-emoji-first-look-shrug-fingers-crossed-face-palm\/\" target=\"_blank\">In order to get useful things like a shrug and a face palm<\/a>, apparently we have to accept a less-perfect peach.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet chosen any emojis from the update to immortalize as earrings (hmmm &#8230; should I do the old peach?), but November&#8217;s Jewels of the Month include an old favorite: <a href=\"http:\/\/emojipedia.org\/extraterrestrial-alien\/\" target=\"_blank\">the cheerful alien<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34584\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Alien-Emoji-Single-Stud-Earring-%252d-Silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34584\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/alien-size__80801_std-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sterling silver. $35 for a single. Click to purchase.\" width=\"360\" height=\"352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/alien-size__80801_std-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/alien-size__80801_std-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sterling silver. $35 for a single. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new emoji of my own invention: the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-dayanti-valentines-day-countdown-14-of-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">foam finger<\/a> that fans wave at sporting events. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-dayanti-valentines-day-countdown-14-of-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">I previewed that design earlier this year<\/a>, but now it&#8217;s on my website, available for purchase. Get it for your big game!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34586\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Foam-Finger-%231-Emoji-Single-Stud-Earring-%252d-Silver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34586\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/foam-finger-resize.jpg\" alt=\"Sterling silver. $35 for a single. Click to purchase.\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/foam-finger-resize.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/foam-finger-resize-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/foam-finger-resize-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/foam-finger-resize-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sterling silver. $35 for a single. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because I&#8217;ve never felt that my emojis have to exactly match the real emojis, I&#8217;m still pondering an emoji change that Apple made in August. That&#8217;s when the company replaced its black pistol emoji with a green water-pistol emoji.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34587\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/08\/02\/488358957\/apple-ditches-pistol-emoji-in-favor-of-water-gun\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34587\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistol-emoji_custom-c6cc2806e5b210876f035543fe3c4c62acdec1c5-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"From Apple, via NPR. Click for source.\" width=\"498\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistol-emoji_custom-c6cc2806e5b210876f035543fe3c4c62acdec1c5-s800-c85.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistol-emoji_custom-c6cc2806e5b210876f035543fe3c4c62acdec1c5-s800-c85-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Apple, via NPR. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/kiss-kiss-bang-bang-new-gun-emoji-stud-earring\/\" target=\"_blank\">my little gun emoji earring in 2013<\/a>, after some hesitation. I&#8217;ve been in favor of stricter gun control since the morning of Dec. 9, 1980 &#8212; when I learned that John Lennon was murdered the day before outside his New York apartment building. (In case you missed it, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-week-in-review-and-more-recommended-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Washington Post recently reported only 22% of Americans are gun owners. And 3% of Americans &#8212; the super-owners, with an average of 17 guns each &#8212; account for half the guns in America<\/a>.) Despite that, I thought the gun emoji was adorable. I finally made a decision with the help of my friend Jay. As I wrote at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;When I told my friend Jay that I couldn\u2019t decide if I should do the earring, he wrote back,  &#8216;I think that unless you try to make (functioning) .22 caliber earrings, you\u2019ll probably be good.&#8217; That helped me make up my mind. I swore I would never, ever make a tiny earring gun that shoots actual tiny earring bullets. This earring is 100% harmless, unless it kills you with its cuteness.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do believe that emojis make a bigger social statement than you might think. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2015\/04\/08\/diverse-emoji-in-i0s38\/25478353\/\" target=\"_blank\">It was important that racially diverse emoji people were introduced last year<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/news\/a21894\/new-emojis-girls-play-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">This year, we finally got gender-diverse people emojis<\/a>, showing female characters doing more than getting massages and haircuts. <\/p>\n<p>That said, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/jewels-of-the-month-part-1-punk-platinum\/\" target=\"_blank\">a longstanding love of punk fashion<\/a> and the little gun earring reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/coolspotters.com\/celebrities\/nancy-spungen\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Spungen&#8217;s famous gun necklace<\/a>. I also have other, far more murderous designs. Hello, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/search.php?search_query=poison&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">poison rings<\/a>! Moreover, children see and use emojis online, but my jewelry isn&#8217;t for kids. I don&#8217;t expect one of my witty, grown-up customers to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Matilda-Sword-Necklace\" target=\"_blank\">my Matilda sword necklace<\/a>, buy a real sword, and slash at people like she&#8217;s Zorro. So that should be the end of it, right? Here&#8217;s the problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistolgreen.jpg\" alt=\"pistolgreen\" width=\"498\" height=\"521\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistolgreen.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistolgreen-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pistolgreen-300x314.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this small green water pistol on the sidewalk <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/01\/technology\/apple-pistol-emoji\/\" target=\"_blank\">the very day that the water-pistol emoji was announced<\/a>. I&#8217;m not kidding! That&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t stop thinking about it. I swear, the universe only communicates with me about trivial things. Like the time I was walking down the street wondering, &#8220;Do these jeans still suit me?&#8221; and a guy across the street yelled, &#8220;Hey! Those jeans really suit you.&#8221; Now I have had this small green water pistol deposited at my feet. What to do &#8230; what to do.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: A big thank you to Jennifer Heebner of JCK for including my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/style-360\/2016\/10\/28\/style-spotlight-halloween-theme-jewels\" target=\"_blank\">new alien earring on her list of Halloween-themed jewels<\/a>. The timing was perfect: I saw so many people doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oR1-UFrcZ0k\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;E.T. in the bike basket&#8221;<\/a> looks this Halloween.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unicode Consortium &#8212; aka Emoji Headquarters &#8212; is killing it lately! The consortium used to approve new emojis at such a glacial pace that I started designing my own emoji-like jewelry right along with pieces representing actual emoji. For instance, I created an emoji-like middle-finger earring in 2013. Two years later, Unicode announced a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/jewels-of-the-month-more-emoji-earrings\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,608,295,719,643,644],"tags":[868,967,970,969,968],"class_list":{"0":"post-34577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earrings","8":"category-emoji","9":"category-jewel-of-the-month","10":"category-jewelry","11":"category-single-earrings","12":"category-stud-earrings","13":"tag-emoji-jewelry","14":"tag-emojis","15":"tag-punk-earrings","16":"tag-studs","17":"tag-team-jewelry","18":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34577"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34599,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34577\/revisions\/34599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}