Zuvi ColorBox Review: A Hair Dye Printer That Struggles

I’ve been dyeing my hair vivid colors since the seventh grade, when I turned my hair magenta for a Halloween costume, and it accidentally stayed that way. I’ve had nearly every shade under the sun, though my favorite has always been pink. I’ve had my hair dyed professionally, and I’ve done it at home. I've bleached it to a level 10 white blond and plastered fashion colors like purple over my natural brown (terrible idea, by the way). And I've flirted with beauty printers that create custom shades of foundation before and loved them. It makes perfect sense that I’d check out the Zuvi ColorBox, an at-home device that promises to do for hair what beauty printers do for makeup, dispensing colors to dye your hair any hue. Sadly, I can’t recommend it.

An Honorable Mission

The Zuvi ColorBox has a kinder core aesthetic and a compact footprint. The box comes with the machine, two “base” containers, three primary color cartridges, plus a few other accessories that I ultimately deemed useless. The included bowl was cracked, the whisk is flimsy, the combination tint brush and comb are both too small to be helpful, and you only get one pair of gloves, which is borderline insulting. It also didn't include a wall adapter for the required USB-C cable, and I will never stop talking about how much it bothers me that companies have stopped including all necessary components.