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Love Island sex codes - what 'beauty salon' means as Danica admits giving 'manicures'

Love Island fans are desperate for the Islanders to stop using confusing innuendos when talking about their sexual antics.

Danica Taylor is one of the latest Islanders to make reference to "the beauty salon" when chatting to the girls about what she'd got up to in bed with Billy Brown.

She revealed: "Me and Billy may have got a little bit carried away. It wasn’t long, just a little manicure, then he reciprocated."

The boys also have their own secret codes - telling Dami and Luca what had happened, Billy said: "Just cracking on with it, little bit of the 'salon's open' last night".

Dami Hope then asked: "Did she play with your pipette?"

A smirking Billy replied: "Yeah, and then the other way around."

But viewers are getting frustrated with the codes as they have no idea what they mean.

One fan said: "I’m tired of this beauty salon sh** because I don’t even know what these are code for."

While another said: "I’m a grown woman, what the f**k is a manicure!?"

Here’s everything you need to know about the secret codes used in the villa and exactly what they mean.

Love Island 2022 sex codes

Billy told the boys about his sexual antics with Danica using the "pipette" code (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

So far, none of the Islanders seem to have had sex while in the villa as there's been no code word for going all the way.

But there are a few code words to cover the other saucy antics they've been up to.

Opening the beauty salon

Earlier in the series Paige said her "beauty salon" was still closed (ITV)

The "beauty salon" is the code the girls use to talk about whether anything sexual has happened between their partners.

"Opening the beauty salon" means that something sexual has happened under the covers while the beauty salon being "closed" means that nothing beyond kissing has happened.

The beauty salon code was developed early on in the series when Ekin-Su asked the girls on the terrace: "Anything happened in the beauty salon last night, ladies?"

To which Paige replied: "No, mine's not up and running yet. It's still going through planning at the minute."

Manicure

Tasha said she gave Andrew a "manicure" in the hideaway (ITV)

The "manicure" code word first appeared after Tasha spent a steamy night in the hideaway with Andrew.

She described the evening to the girls saying: "I didn't [have sex] he had like a little manicure from me.”

Given the context of Tasha’s comments, the boys and girls can both get "manicures" so we're pretty sure it simply refers to a sex act performed on a partner with your hands.

Blow dry

Ekin-Su said she gave Davide a "blow dry" (ITV)

Last week, Ekin-Su added a new code word to the beauty salon innuendos when talking about a steamy bedtime session with Davide.

She said: "I blow dried something [and] it blow dried in exactly 10 seconds."

Given the context of the conversation, it seems that "blow dry" refers to oral sex.

Manicure with mouth

The dancer teased the Andrew treated her to a "mouth manicure" (ITV)

Tasha seemed to have broken the code a bit when she made things fairly obvious after her bedtime reconciliation with Andrew following the dramatic heart rate challenge.

Talking to the girls about what happened the next morning, she said: "Obviously, I was like, 'You've got a lot of making up to do' so yeah I had a manicure but with his mouth."

It's safe to assume that Tasha was also referring to oral sex with this code.

Pipette

Microbiologist Dami came up with the pipette code word for the boys (ITV)

It’s not just the girls who have established a code for their sex lives in the villa, the boys have too, although their code is a little less imaginative.

Earlier in the season, microbiologist Dami asked the other boys: "Did anyone use their pipettes last night? You guys know what pipettes are, right?"

Luca caught on quickly and it became fairly clear what the code meant when he replied: "My pipette is full to the f**king brim and if anything touches it, my pipette will explode."

Recently, Billy made a reference to his "pipette" when talking about his antics with Danica.

Pipette is fairly self explanatory and can be directly translated to penis.

What was the Love Island sex code last year?

Faye Winter used NVQ codes to describe her antics with Teddy (ITV)

Last year, the girls used NVQ levels to describe how they’d been getting busy under the sheets.

Faye Winter came up with the code to tell the other girls about her antics with Teddy.

The girls would use NVQ1 to describe kissing, while "graduation" was code for going the whole way.

Meanwhile, the Season 7 boys also came up with a sex code of their own using football analogies.

They used the term "one-nil" to describe a sex act performed on one person and "streakers" to describe total nudity.

Why do the Love Islanders have a sex code?

Chloe Burrows revealed the real reason behind the Love Island contestants' sex codes (Youtube)

As the season goes on the Islanders' sex codes are becoming more obvious, which has left viewers questioning why they even need to use them.

But previous villa star Chloe Burrows has revealed that there’s a very simple reason why the Islanders don’t just speak about their sex lives openly.

Speaking to heat, she said: “Because it's not PornHub."

Chloe went on to explain: "I feel like ITV don’t want to promote it (sex), but you (the audience) want to know about it, so it’s a nice way of doing it.”

*Love Island continues weeknights and Sundays at 9pm on ITV2

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