Tattoing over Vitiligo

Has anyone tattooed over their vitiligo? I was thinking about doing it but then came across the below:

Myth: Tattooing over a vitiligo patch is a good way to camouflage it.

Fact: Tattooing is actually a bad idea because a phenomenon called ‘Koebnerization’ can occur, in which the injury caused by tattoo needles stimulates the disease, and encourages it to spread.

Also, over a period of time tattoos display something called ‘Tyndall effect’ due to sinking of pigments into the lower layers of the skin. Even perfectly matched skin coloured pigments tattooed in, start looking bluish grey and unnatural in a couple of years due to this.

Thanks....

Jennifer

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  • I want to tattoo! but now I'm confused!

    • I would not recommend it. i have never seen good results and I've been in the cosmetic tattooing business for over 12 years and know others in the business all over the world. If you really want to give it a good try, there are few to no people who can do it well so get plenty of healed pictures of the practitioners work.

    • For vitiligo it is advised Micropigmentation a type of tatoo but more natural pigment and smaller nedels which they use to color lips...many ppl use it with out problem ..you have to find the right person to do it some one who can match ur color.

      • Micropigmentation is just a fancy word for tattooing. All cosmetic tattoo artists use the same kind of pigments which are intended to match natural coloring. I am a cosmetic tattoo artist. I am here because I get a good number of requests for this and I have not been able to do it without it producing an ashy color on medium dark (latino) skin. Most people do not advise it. The people who are willing to do it are either unskilled and just wanting to make the money or if they have been doing it a long time and claim they can do it, I would ask for healed pictures. 

  • I have gotten tattooed quit a few times but vitiligo drains the color.I don't recommend  it because its painful and does not work.I got both my eyes and mouth tattooed and they look the same as if I didn't get it.It also leaves skin more sensitive.I have gotten tattooed from more than one shop so its not the shop. 

  • Hi Jennifer,

    Tattoing perfectly matched skin coloured pigments would again leave me with 2 different colour anyway as I'm quite fair in the winter and very tanned in the summer (I don't necessarily need to sunbathe for that either) like lots of people.

    Good luck to you though x

  • Look at my pictures. so far I havent had any adverse or negative spreading. Its been two years. 

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