Behold the horror that is probably the next trend in men's grooming and is about to be inflicted on us all.

Say what you will about Zayn, but he knows how to upstage his former bandmates. Niall Horan may have dropped his debut single yesterday but all Zayn has to do to get the attention back on him is shave off his beard.

The only problem is he decided to stop just below his lower lip, and now we're going to have to deal with men thinking that soul patches are back.

For the record, they are not and never will be.

 

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Zayn's fans, as you can imagine, have been freaking out at his 'new look'.