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. 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. The Zuvi ColorBox app was still in beta when I was using it, so there's a chance my assessment of it will no longer be relevant at some point. But I found it confusing and cumbersome. In theory, it's cool (a common theme with this product): You can choose from over 1,000 preconfigured hair dye shades, and see how they'd look over your base color (ranging from “light blond” to “light brown.") You can also upload an image and pick the color from it, which involved the app repeatedly asking for access to all of my phone photos, and then me realizing I had to precisely tap the chosen pixel for the color picker—there was no sliding the t