There’s something uniquely alluring about having your nails painted stark white and black, with the happiness of a smiley face for good measure—a combination both timeless and trendy!

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

Following a weekend Costco run, we came across a Costco receipt marked with a smiley face and became curious. Is this a ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

Emoticons are expressions of emotions while emojis are used to explain things. So, for example, 😅😂🤣🥲 are emoticons while 🍎🍔⚽🚗 are emojis. Want to know more? Check out the link below!