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!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I use to believe that your hair grew because you wash i.e like watering a plant — HJON
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- after my mom told me I had strawberry blonde hair - I used to look for the strawberries after I got a haircut— pearpod
- I used to believe that if I cut my dolls hair it would grow back just like mine did after a haircut. — diamond girl