First off I'd just like to say if yours is in a um "sensitive" place then it's probably best you keep that to yourself Let's keep this thread clean please

Reading through the Forehead Scoops thread in Sightings, Reports & Experiences the subject of birthmarks came up. To save going completely off topic I started this as the birthmark I want to talk about has nothing to do with foreheads...

I have an odd one on my hands. Well, technically it's two, mirror images. At the base of each of my thumbs I have an oval shaped patch of skin where the ridges are horizontal rather than vertical. They look like fingerprints on my palms. I've tried to take a photo but it's not showing up, I'll do a hand ink print later to see if that shows it.

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I don;t have a photo, but I have a small light colored one that looks something like a butterfly. It's on my stomach. I have another really tiny one on my innter thigh that looks like the big dipper

dont have a birth mark

I have a birthmark on my right arm that looks like a keyhole, as a kid I used to pretend it could be unlocked and reveal some hidden power in my arm...

I have a starburst-like freckle arrangement on my left wrist. The weird thing is that my mom and sister have the same birthmark on the same wrist in the same place.

I've got a huge one next to my belly button. Nothing special. My belly button though looks so much like the all seeing eye (eye of horus) that it's weird to look at

I've managed to get a clearer picture by using ink. I tried printing onto paper which worked, but my scanner's decided it's not playing so here are photos of my inky hands. Taken with my mobile again, so do excuse the quality.

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Has anyone seen anything like this before? I appear to be the only one with these "fingerprints", it would be nice to know I'm not alone...

I haven't seen anything like that Bebi, but I do believe birth marks and other strange markings are from past lives.

I have a very very faint darker spot on the back of my hand in the shape of lips.

I have a pac-man on my left ankle!! It looks so much like pacman I put it on a pac man site b4. lol

I have a red splotch on my left hip; my mom has the same exact birthmark on her right hip. Both of my children have a "V" shaped birthmark on their foreheads, the strange thing is my mom has the same exact thing on her forehead.

I share a weird toenail with my daughter, the same toe on the same foot too

I've got one of those strawberry-type birthmarks on my left arm... and a few freckles on my left cheek (of my face you pervs ) with reminds me of a constellation.

i have birthmark like question mark on my left arm

The lines on my palms look more like chains than lines.

I don't know if this can be considered a birthmark, but I was born with one of my little toes being completely bald and smooth, and that toe is still completely bald and smooth today. No nail, ever.

My mom, sister and I have weird toe-nails too; our pinky toe-nails are the tiniest of tiny (sometimes they even just pop off, it doesn't hurt) grow straight up and look like a little button.

i have one that looks a big like a fat dog on my arm

Two on my inner left arm, on the other side of the elbow, apricot coloured, quite largish...

I have a triangle or upside-down tear drop on my right inner anckle.
Strangely it was mentioned that birthmarks were believed to be markings of your past life .... Its my guess too ....
In "olden days" you would be killed for bearing the mark of the devil!

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I have one on my right leg at the back which looks like a rabbit its coffee coloured and quite big and very clear you can see the ears and fluffy tail and everything!

I've got no weird birth marks, but there is my third leg....

I have a ... sebacuous nemus, i think is what its called, just right of my left ear about two centimeters long.
It looks like a scar; I get asked about it all the time.
I like it, but I have to get it removed before I am twenty because apparently it can become cancerous.

I cant tell you where mine is( cos the OP doesnt want to know) but it is a little odd. I cant think what it could be if its not a birthmark but its a bit darker than normal I think. But the thing that makes me giggle is its shape: Its the soviet, crossed, Hammer and Sickle!

I was born C section I don't have birthmarks. Birth marks are caused by friction to the baby's skin as itit coming out of the birth canal.

I was c-section too, but it still doesn't explain mine.

Here's a Wiki link to birthmarks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthmark

Torchwood - personally I'm mature enough not to freak at certain body terminology, but I know from experience that a thread that contains it will normally go downhill fast and end up getting locked

Ive got a birthmark on my shin, its shaped like a footprint.

My 2 kids dont have birthmarks but they both have a dimple on their stomachs in exactly the same place.

I have a red dot behind my right ear.

I have a birthmark that looks like a squirrel with a skinny head and a bushy tail

I have a birthmark that is exactly the shape of Africa

I have a birthmark on my right arm between the elbow and wrist . And not that it resembles anything in it's shape.. ?

I have two on my side that look like large bore gunshot wounds that have healed up. I emphasize that I was born with them.
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I have a few.. My main one is about the size of your thumb and its on the side of my neck(my left side), with another fainter one which is on the opposite side of my neck alittle closer to my shoulder, which is down about an inch maybe.. so they almost line up. I also have a slightly smaller one on my.... lower lower back.. lol.. And I have a smaller one again which I cant really say where it is. I also have a funny little extra bit of cartilage which is near my ear.. So its on my upper jaw but its right near my ear.. so you wouldnt notice it unless I said first.

I have three, one on the inside of my knee, one on my side about 2 inches under my armpit and one on my chest.
My mum and I only found the other day that we have them all in the same places and they look identical

My 5 month old daughter has a brown birthmark in the middle of her back shaped like a bubble letter E or the end of an old key or the top of an arrow. I've never seen anything like it.

My cousin was born with the last two toes on each foot webbed like a duck. I have a birthmark on the back of my head and upper neck shaped like a nasty wound from a shotgun blast or something....

are birthmarks hereditary?

No, I dont think that they are, but the frequency where mother/child/siblings all share similar birthmarks is quite astounding.

After a fair bit of googling I have come up with a litle bit or information on mine....
Called a nevus sebaceous, apparently they are quite a big deal.
Need to get it removed within the next few years...I dont want it to go.

But apparently they can cause defects in the eye, heart, skeleton etc...
And a small number have a mental retardation Way to make me feel good, Wikipedia!!

Edit: to fix up spelling.

So birth marks could just be areas of skin with abnormal development? I mean, I have a wound on my elbow that is a few years old and looks like it has exploded.