Zuvi ColorBox is a personal hair color creator for unique dyes

Taken straight out of your favorite cyberpunk-sci-fi flick, the Zuvi ColorBox is a personal hair color creator. It uses three shades — red, blue, and yellow — to make any color dye you want for your hair, which you select in a mobile app.

Imagine you wake up one day and you’re not feeling your hair color. I know, it happens to some folks all the time. But let’s start with that baseline. Instead of going to the store to pick out a specific dye, you open your phone, choose a color that looks like your mood, synthesize it using your Zuvi machine by picking the color out of thousands of available options in a mobile app and off you go. That’s pretty much exactly how it works with the Zuvi ColorBox, a personal hair color creator that’s on the way real soon.

It’s the first at-home DIY hair color creation machine that allows you to create any shade, in any amount, at any time. The obvious choice is to use it to create some wild, bright, and pretty zany colors, but you can get all the base colors too like blonde and so forth. There’s no mention about how much the dye refills will cost, but they appear to be in replaceable tubes. The dye is vegan and cruelty-free, and also devoid of ammonia, PPD, and peroxide. It’s a conditioner based formula with a smooth texture that spreads easily and openly without dripping everywhere and making a mess. For anyone that has ever dyed their hair, it sounds like a dream. It also creates minimal staining on towels, pillows, and other apparel.

How exactly does a personal hair color creator work?

Leveraging the color theory, the Zuvi ColorBox mixes your chosen color using the three primaries, red, blue, and yellow. It starts with a base cream dilutor and then adds the necessary shades to make a precise version of the app color you want. Within the app, you can choose from thousands of color combinations or create your own using customized ratios. You can even extract colors from photos, artwork, and other visual aides, all available to import in the app.

See a color you like while you’re out exploring? Snap a picture and upload it through the app to use it as inspiration. Zuvi says its “designed for people who see hair color as a form of self-expression,” and it’s easy to see why. This machine would essentially empower you to change your hair to whatever you want, whenever you want, and with a degree of accuracy you won’t always find from dyes off store shelves.

Even better, the price is reasonable enough that we might see a personal hair color creator in every home. Let’s see how expensive those dye refills are.