Former One Direction member Zayn Malik opened up about the restrictions he says were in place while he was with the group.
In a new interview with Complex magazine, the 23-year-old said a big no-no was having his facial hair.
“There were certain restrictions in terms of the way that we could come outside of that young teen boy look,” he revealed. “Mainly my beard, honestly. I wasn’t allowed to keep it. Eventually, when I got older, I rebelled against it, and decided to keep it anyway. That was just because I looked older than the rest of them."
Malik also admitted that he was not permitted to change his hair color either.
“I also wanted to dye my hair when I was in the band, but I wasn’t allowed to.”
These days, without any limitations, Malik has experimented with all kinds of different looks that he just couldn’t do back in his boy band days, including shaving and dyeing his hair.