hair

I used to take my bath with my older sister. Our favourite game was to pretend to shave ourselves with soap and our father's razor blade, the security cap on of course. Once, I tried the blades on my arm without the cap, but my sister got so scared that I could do it again and injure myself, that she told me thtat if I shaved my hair once again, it would grow very long and I would turn into a beast. And my mother confirmed. Scary, all the more that I started to feel bumps on my forehead, and thought there was horns growing...

Pierre

When i was little i used to believe that when you got your haircut, the barbers would "unscrew" the top of your head and screw a different hairstyle back on.

Jason

I have believed for a long time that there's a conditioner that can make your hair so shiny, that you can see your reflection in it! I don't think it really exists - do you?

Anthony

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

One day when I was 7 I was at work with my dad and I was outside with a pencil poking a spider web with it and dad came out to say lets go home he was done. I got in the truck and had the end of the pencil in my mouth and remembered where I had it at first and told my dad and he told me that spider webs will put hair on my chest for days after that I was always checking cause I was a girl and did not want that, to this day I still check it at times...pretty silly uh!!! 45 now

Gwenda S.

In the early seventies when I was just starting school my father used to teach at evening classes and my parents used to have parties for the students. The fashion at that time was for men to wear beards and have long hair, but my father didn't really go for that. So everytime I saw a man with a beard and long hair on the train or bus I would always think to myself 'That's a student'.

emma

i used yo believe that those washable markers could actually dye your hair and i use to like put that stuff in my hair in a way and well...obviously it didnt work

elizabeth

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

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

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

when i was young my brother had alot of dandruff, I asked him why his head was snowing and he got really mad. He still has alot of dandruff too!

aliena

Are used to believe it was my fault I had a ‘widows peak’ Because my sister told me, when i was a baby I’d sit in my highchair and put beans in my hair

Anon

My Mum always made me wash my hair after I got it cut. She told me that it bled after a haircut so I should wash it straight away! I now realise it was so my loose hair would not go all over her couch!

Anon

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

I used to believe that talking would make hair grow in your mouth

Ella

This is about my cousin. She's got dark red hair, and her mom loves her color. But at ten years old she badly wanted to bleach her hair, her mom told her that if she bleached her hair, it would go green, because she had red hair. Two years later she told me that i really shouldn't bleach my hair, I also got red hair, because it would go green, I didn't know how to react so I started a fitful laugh...and told her that wasn't true, and she was like "what?"

Red-head

My mother is a white person who grew up in Hawaii. She told me that everyone hated her because wasn't Asian; she was white and was a "Howlie".

I assumed this meant that they hated her because white people (in my mind) were really hairy and they looked like werewolves.

Actually, to this day, I don't really know if I'm not right.

helen

when i was little i used to chew my hair. i dont know why. one time my dad got sick of it i guess and told me somthing. he said with a super serous look on his face "if you keep doing that a ball will get bigger and bigger in your stomach and it will grow mold and they will have to cut open your body and take your stomach out.....i think ill take you to the docter so they can do that before it gets any worce" i was scared to death about that i never chewed my hair again, actully im scared if any hair gets near my mouth, i dont know if its true or not, but im still scared.......

samantha

I belived that beard and mustache were roots of hair. That it took long for the roots to grow out from ones chin and that's why only adults had them.

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