hair

My 4 year old was really nervous at her first professional hair cut. With a little prodding I discovered that she belived that the length of your hair determined whether you were a boy or a girl. She was afraid she would turn into a boy if they cut her hair too short.

tjs

...i had and still have a "cow's lick" and was told that at birth a big cow came in and licked my forehead and thus my hair...i cannot rememeber if it puzzled me, frightened me, amazed me, but i have been fascinated with cows ever since...my son has an even bigger "cow's lick" than i had but he didn't buy the story AT all when i told him why...children nowadays are way smarter than what we were in the 70's! :)

Angela - South Africa

I had blonde hair when I was little, and I believed that people with brown or black hair had dirty hair and just needed to wash it to turn it back to blonde.

Joanna

My aunt once told my cousin and I that if we chewed on our hair too much, one long strand would grow out of our throats forever. I must have believed that until I was at least 11 years old.

Anon

My mom told me that if I chewed on my hair, mites would get in it at night.

tao

i used to belive broom is made by hair

Charles

When I was younger, I thought that since people's hair turned gray/white when they aged, then their skin would also lighten as well. Consequently, I thought that when I got old that my hair would turn gray and that my skin wuold become pale.

Anon

When I was little I saw a man with massive stiff dreadllocks tied back in a ponytail.
I had never seen dreadlocks before and I thought he had put branches in his hair.

Flicki

I used to believe that if you found a piece of hair in your mouth that it was a piece of one of your dead ancestor's hair.

Carrie

When i was like 6 i used to believe that aftershave made you grow hair. me and a friend put some on our face and freaked out because we thought we saw a hair.

Jack

When I was little my mom had blonde hair and my dad had black. So, I thought everybody who had blonde hair was a girl and everybody who had black hair was a guy. Anybody who had any other hair color was an alien.

Alisha

I used to believe that moustaches were overgrown nostril hairs.

Anon

when I was little I used to see people with long, flowy, shiny hair and wanted mine like theirs. So I mixed my moms hair products together to attempt to make a magical pretty hair potion, and put it all over my hair. I actaully thought it worked for a while there untill I noticed it was actually dulling and makind my hair a sticky mess. My mother found out I was wasting her hair products and I got in trouble and stopped the potion makeing. I can't belive I used to Belive in magical hair concoctions.

mimi

I used to believe that hair was only for men, and girls wore wigs

Anon

I used to believe that little girl's pony tails were crooked because their parents were terrible at fixing hair. Now that I have a daughter, I realize it is because she WON'T SIT STILL!

me again

I used to believe that your hair had an actual "part" line on the top of your head, because my mother would tell me to sit still so she could find the part. As soon as I was old enough to brush my own hair and see that my whole scalp was the same, I realized I'd been taken ;)

C.A.

I used to think i had the beginning stages of cancer as a little kid, because when I would wash my hair a little of my hair fell out. I guess I thought this because all the people i knew who had cancer had all there hair fall out. I didnt realize it was the treatment not the cancer that made hair fall out.

Shannon

I used to think people got armpit hair for each bad thing they did. So I thought Richard Simmons was an evil men and threw away my mum's workout tapes to save her.

Kate