You have curly hair and want a color change, but nothing too drastic and definitely nothing damaging to your perfect curls. Sound familiar? Pintura highlights may be one of the best color techniques for curly hair. We’ll take a look at how this trend adds dimension to your bouncy tresses in a way that traditional foiled highlights never could. We also serve up some super hot pintura hair photos for your next salon appointment.

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What is Pintura Highlights?

Founded by Dennis Da Silva, Brazilian hairstylist, and co-founder of DevaCurl. The word pintura actually means “painting” in Brazilian Portuguese, most probably finding its root from Da Silva’s native language.

Pintura highlights work best on curly hair and coily-haired girls. That’s because tightly wound curls don’t reflect as much light as say, wavy curls, and therefore need the brighter highlights in order to show off that brilliant shine.

Are Pintura highlights damaging? Anytime you add permanent color to your hair, damage is involved. However, because no foils and extreme heat are used and because the roots and much of the natural hair can be left untouched, it is a much healthier option for your tresses.

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How to Get the Look?

Pintura highlights have a similar technique as to other popular hair-painting buzzwords you see everywhere: like balayage, for example. The difference lies in the amount of color applied from mid-hair down to the roots. Pintura highlights not only apply a heavy hand at the tips but actually begin working the color from the tips upward. Essentially, it’s a way of hand-painting natural-looking highlights on curly hair for a pretty pop of all-over color that truly shines through your hair.

Your colorist should strategically place the color where the light falls, as opposed to a foil technique where the colorist will most likely stretch the curl in order to place the color and wrap it in foil to process. When hand-painted using the Pintura technique, the colorist can leave your natural curl intact so that the color will actually hit the right spots for bursts of color. The colorist can go as heavy-handed with the color as you’d like, whether you want summer bronze, lots of blonde or a pop of pink. You can bring out the best of it at home using some popular products like the fan-favorite Light Defining Gel by DevaCurl.