I've had vitiligo since I was 1. I don't ever actually remember seeing my skin without it. It's not as bad as most cases. But it has attacked my hands, knees and the top of my feet. If you look real close you can notice it's under my eye a lil and above my other eye a lil. I also had to listen to all the questions..." oh what happened? did you get burned?" " did you dip your fingers into boiling water?" "did your house burn down when you were lil and you got burned by the fire?" I use to feel like people would get grossed out by the vitiligo. If they knew anything about it they would know it's not contagious. Truth is not much can be done. I've seen skin specialist. Tried different creams and medicine..none have really helped. One helped once but the only way it would help was if I left the cream on too long and let it burn my skin, get a blister and be in pain for a good week. That was not fun to go thru in elementary. It's not life threatening. It does have to do with your nervous system but I won't die from it. Growing up with it just wasn't very pleasant.
Recently I saw online that a tattoo artist from another country tattooed a man with vitiligo. She tattooed a huge white spot under his neck with a color to match his original skin color. I wish I could have that done it would be awesome. Would some of the tattoo artists I know be willing to try it? I doubt it.. Well I haven't asked it just seems kinda hard to find the right tattoo ink to match my skin. Even if one was willing to try it there is still no telling how my skin would react to it. For the most part my skin has taken tattoo ink fairly well since I started collecting tattoos a few years back. I think part of the reason why I love collecting tattoos so much is because my skin has never been one solid color to begin with. It was always my mexican/costarican light tan and white vitiligo spots. So getting pretty colorful tattoos is a great thing. Maybe one day I can have something done to cover it up.
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