Pictures Of My Vitiligo

Pictures of my vitiligo

These pictures of my vitiligo were taken during and after my nutritional and UV therapy. They are not the most professional photos, admittedly. But hopefully they illustrate my progress well enough.  Unfortunately, I don’t really have any proper “before” pictures. This is because I never expected to re-pigment so I didn’t think I’d need any. 

Vitiligo before treatment showing 80% depigmentation

After 5 months: freckles emerging
Vitiligo after treatment showing almost complete re-pigmentation

13 months after starting: freckles filling in
Vitiligo after treatment showing suntan from UVb and natural nutrition treatment

After 18 months: more tanned than freckled (summer)
Vitiligo after treatment showing freckles of new pigment joining up for a more even natural skin tone

8 months later: looking less red and a more natural (winter)

Like many people with vitiligo (leukoderma), I always used to cover up. I avoided any photographs that might reveal my white patches.  However, you can clearly see the extensive vitiligo patches in the earlier shots. They already have some freckles in them at that stage. But, before that, they were totally white. When I started my nutritional supplementation I had no freckles anywhere. I just had normal areas of skin and extensive white vitiligo areas.

Picture of freckles appearing on previously white skin following natural nutritional treatment and UV light

After 2 months: (face previously totally white)
Picture of re-pigmentation of vitiligo on face showing progress: freckles almost completely joined up to form even skin tone

4 months after: freckles evening out
Picture of completed re-pigmentation of face following natural nutritional and UV light treatments

Freckles on face smoothing out after 6 months
Picture of natural skin colour after recovery of skin pigment

Face has returned to normal colour: April 2011

The following photos of my arms demonstrate how pigment can recover, even when it has been absent for a long time. Repigmentation can occur even after serious trauma (in this case, caused by a topical herbal treatment that resulted in bad burns and which took several weeks to heal).

Picture of completely white skin on arm before successful vitiligo treatment

Before treatment: arm so white it dazzled the camera!
Picture of burns on white skin after Chinese vitiligo treatment

Burns caused by Chinese herbal remedy
Picture of the first freckles appearing on arm during nutritional vitiligo treatment

After 3 months: skin is a milky colour with faint freckles
Picture of almost fully re-pigmented vitiligo on arm following nutritional supplementation

6 months after: light sprinkling of freckles
Picture of the natural process of re-pigmentation of vitiligo on arm

After 12 months: freckles growing and joining up

The photograph above shows just how dark and large the freckles became before they started to join up and smooth out into a lighter and more even colour. You may think that this was a difficult stage to go through because it looked worse than pure white skin. But, in fact, I was so excited to see the colour of my skin returning that I would not even have cared if it had come back in stripes! Besides which, it was obvious at this point that this was a process and I was actually quite fascinated by the various ways in which the vitiligo patches were re-pigmenting.

Picture showing re-pigmentation of vitiligo in the form of freckles, more successful higher up the arm and slower to improve on the hands

14 months after: pigment looking less mottled
Picture of re-pigmentation of vitiligo on hands

After 14 months: freckles blending in
Picture of progress in vitiligo re-pigmentation on arms and hands

14 months after: continued progress
Picture of freckles joining up after successful natural vitiligo treatment

After 15 months: skin tone more even
Picture of natural re-pigmentation of vitiligo on hands

6 months into therapy: hands previously pure white
Successful natural vitiligo cure picture

After 8 months: pigment becoming denser
Successful natural vitiligo cure picture: arm and hand

8 months into therapy: both arms looking good
Picture of freckled re-pigmentation on previously 100% vitiliginous skin

18 months after (and previously totally white)
Picture of previously pure white skin returning to its original skin colour as a result of natural nutritional vitiligo cure

After 18 months: pigment looking more uniform
Picture ofvitiligo re-pigmentation of elbow

Elbows after 18 months (previously pure white)
Picture of natural vitiligo re-pigmentation of left foot

After 18 months: feet previously pure white
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2 years after starting: skin colour on chest has evened out nicely
Chest and shoulders after vitiligo recovery

Almost impossible to see where vitiligo patches used to be
Left arm after vitiigo recovery

Left arm after 2 years
Right arm after vitiligo recovery

Right arm after 2 years

Perhaps the most thrilling thing about this whole process has been that my success story has (so far) proved permanent. It’s not a cure but it’s the closest thing I could ever have hoped for.

More before and after images on the Reviews & Testimonials Page.