My mum used to call my freckles beauty spots when I was little, and I always thought they were called that - I thought they must make me more beautiful!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- My daughter belived that she was getting old because she had brown spots (freckles) like an old banana— lauren
- When I was about 5 or 6, I used to think the song 'Beauty and the Beast' was really 'Beauty and the Beef'.— Natski
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- when I saw those prepare to meet thy god signs I thought they were beauty parlours for religous ladies only!— knuckles
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- I used to believe that if you put cow poo on your face, it would get rid of my freckles. — Col x