hair

When I was a child, I used to believe men's mustaches were really long nose hairs growing out of their nostrils.

L.R.

I used to believe that if you cut a piece of a persons hair you could torcher them like a voodoo doll

bumchum

When I was little, I was horrified to find that I had hair above my eyes. Me, being the overdramatic one I am, didn't take time to notice that everyone else did and took drastic measures. I found my dad's razor and shaved them off. My mom couldn't stop laughing, and I still think it has something to do with the odd thickness and shape of my eyebrows now.

The Eyebrow-less Woman

when i was little, i belived that your brain was the part of your body that was growing the hair on your head and not your scalp.

gerkie

I used to believe that a mustache was just very long nosehair. I was disgusted when I read a book that said, "Santa stroked his long, curly, mustache." I thought that touching a mustache was grosser than picking your nose!

Kady

I once asked a balding family friend of ours how he lost his hair. He told me that he brushed his hair back too much until it fell out. I was terrified of brushing my hair for some time after that.

Aleks

My childhood best-friend had a very red-haired younger sister who had been told and believed that red-heads had a tiny orange growing from the top of their head, and once it was big enough they could pick it and eat it!

Paula

Until I was about 12 years old, I use to think that the reason old people were hard of hearing because they had hair growing out of their ears. I thought the hairs coming out made it harder to hear things.

AuTuMn

when i was about 12 i began going through puberty and i though that when the little hairs down there started growing in that i was turning into a man. I thought only men were hairy. in addition i thought that i was going to hell cause i still liked boys and my mother said gay men went to hell.

liz

My little 4 year old niece believes that cats come into her bedroom at night, chew some gum and stick it into her hair, which is why she always has knots in it, poor baby

Nan

I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.

~_~CoolKid93_~_

I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.

Angela

When I was little I used to believe that the reason old ladies had blue or purple hair was because it grew that way. I don't think my mum has ever laughed as hard as the day I adamantly told her Aunty Alice's hair grew purple and she revealed it was because it was dyed.

Renee Senogles

when i was about 5, my big brother alex used to buy different cloured hair sprays. but i always thought if he sprayed some on my hair it would never, ever come out, so i would have to live my life with red, blue and green streaked hair. what i didn't know was it was temporary. so when alex asked me if i wanted my hair a different colour, i screamed and ran out of his room and told my mum that he was trying to make my hair blue and green and it would never come off!
But a few years later, i would buy my own cans of hair spray and do my hair lots of wacky colours!

Kate

When I was about 5 I cut my eyelashes with a pair of scissors - my mother scolded me and told me that if I did that again my eyelashes would grow & grow really long .... That night I had a nightmare about re-cutting my eyelashes over and over again & I woke up crying. My mother comforted me saying " Mummy is sorry she lied to you, she will never lie to you again, eyelashes dont re-grow like that, I am sorry."

D

When I was in seventh grade, I had my first boyfriend. We were in science class one day, and I noticed that a strand of my hair had fallen out. He quickly took it and placed it on his head, then proceded to attempt to answer a difficult question, only to be devistated when he could not answer it correctly. I was a better student than he was, and he was convinced that putting a strand of someone else's hair on your head, you would gain their intelligence!

Anon

When I was little (About 5 - 12), my dad always told me that I had a 'cow lick'. For the longest time, he told me I had one because the cows licked me when I was little...

Cow-Licker :D

I was visiting my neighbors. My neighbor was shaving and put some aftershave on my cheeks. A little joke to him but a major problem to me.

I was sure I would grow a beard within a day!

Esther

I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger

Anonymous