Whenever I would finish taking a bath, I would put on baby powder (a lot). Oh how I loved that feeling that I would get - I was just like my mother, primping and getting ready, feeling so grown-up.
My older sister told me that if I used any more powder, I would turn really white, ghost/sheet/snow white. After putting a lot on and seeing that it wasn't disappearing, I believed her.
I still don't use baby powder, even though I now know that it won't turn your skin a ghostly white.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a "ghost-driver" was a car driving with a white sheet over it.— Nynke
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- I used to believe that when I got old my red hair would turn pink before it went white.Anon
- I used to believe that if white people would turn brown in the sun then brown people would turn white.Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- When I was a kid I thought Mary had a little lamb whose FLEAS were white as snow.— jen