Case in point: Zac Efron, Chris Messina, J. Balvin, Jonah Hill. And I can keep going. Donald Glover even recently bleached his beard (and in the process, made a case for never bleaching your beard.) ...

Think back to the early 2000s, the era of boy bands, MySpace, mirror selfies, and hair that was colored in your basement sink with a bottle of bleach and peroxide, à la Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé.

If Esquire was to write up a list of things a person should do at least once in their life, bleaching your hair would be up there. Simply because... why not? Blondes have more fun, et cetera. Just ask ...