My Mother told me that if you get a Tatoo your skin will fall off.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- My freinds mother said that if you hold a cat without supporting its bottom, that its insides would fall out.— Jessie
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn