Get ready to be utterly captivated by Zac Efron's brand-new hairstyle—it's almost impossible to tear your eyes away! The beloved star from *High School Musical* has swapped his signature brunette locks for a bold, eye-catching new hue during a sun-soaked vacation alongside Nina Dobrev—whose recent engagement to Shaun White came to an abrupt end—along with their close friends Chace Crawford, Miles Teller, and Keleigh Teller.
During this seafaring escape, the 37-year-old Zac flaunted his bleach-blonde transformation as he posed with the group aboard a luxurious yacht, a snapshot shared on Keleigh’s Instagram page on September 18. This isn’t Zac’s first foray into lighter locks, though. Back in January 2019, he turned heads with a platinum-blonde makeover at the Sundance Film Festival, only to later reveal why he didn’t intend to keep the dye job for long. "That would require so much effort and chemicals," Zac confessed to *Entertainment Tonight* in April of that year. "I highly doubt it’ll stick."
While the actor admitted the blonde transformation came about after he "lost a bet," he also shared that he’d dabbled in a blonde look as a child, inspired by one of his childhood heroes. "Eminem was the epitome of cool when I was growing up," he recalled with a grin, adding, "This is my inner ‘Stan’ coming out."
And in 2016, Zac revisited yet another blast from his past hairstyle: the crimped ‘do he rocked in eighth grade. "I was at a summer camp for the arts," he explained to Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on *The Tonight Show*. "It was just me and a bunch of older girls, and they crimped my hair until I thought I was the coolest kid around... I’d just agree to whatever they suggested. It sounds a bit creepy, but it’s true." Zac then took it a step further, donning a lookalike wig Jimmy handed him, declaring to the late-night host, "This feels absolutely amazing!"
