I wanted to start this thread to show some people with vitiligo who have turned all the way or almost all the way white i thought it would be an interesting discussion

http://www.avrf.org/image...ree_cc.jpg

http://a.abcnews.com/imag...327_mn.jpg

http://a.abcnews.com/Heal...420&page=3

http://www.jacksonaction....age002.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/...zoomer.jpg

this is the person in the link above before

http://www.geocities.com/...egyal2.bmp

oh and since i understand this forum should be about musicians i may as well throw Mj's name in there. How do you think these people compare to him

cdcgold said:

Well, they seem to have remained the same gender and have all of their features still intact.

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I still don't think MJ has vitiligo

Picture of person who actually did bleach there skin

http://newswatchgambia.co...hing_2.jpg

have you seen the show Tyra did? there was a women on the show who had been bleaching for TEN years and she wasn't that much lighter than when she started if she was even lighter at all

also when they tried to trick the people into to thinking they could make them white the DERMATOLOGIST even said it couldn't be done.

As if Michael's name wouldn't be mentioned in such a thread. Can we toss this to GD anyway? Or better yet, quit awhile we're ahead?

I'm sorry but you can't Bleach your skin as white as mj's skin is its impossible after all these years someone would have figured out his secret if you could,how is he the only one. You can bleach you skin but it is not going to get any lighter than maybe a shade or two at that.

They only people i have ever seen with Stark white skin anywhere on there body like mj is people with vitiligo

cdcgold said:

Is that based on your years of extensive research on MJs skin swatches or are you just making that up?

Here's my take on it. If one were to actually bleach their skin to that extreme, it would actually, burn or turn pink, because of the person bleaching it until the skin raw. Michael, unlike other people may have chosen to let the disease be, or has chosen take the pigmentation out of his skin all together. I can see why. Why leave the disease to chance and have my skin color uneven, when I can medically have the color of my skin removed. This would leave an even tone all around.

Mars23 said:

I personally think Mike is speckled, like a pony.

It's a damn shame people don't know the difference between skin bleaching cream and depigmentation.

cdcgold said:

trueiopian said:

Me too.

hey hey hey i'm not trying to start something i just don't understand where this skin bleaching crap came from. My mom has a friend who's been bleaching her skin for a few years( don't ask me why) is she is not a shade lighter( even though she would like to believe so) . I just want to know if he bleached his skin why is he the only one who's ever gone from medium brown to white. There are so many self hating black people who would love to get their hands on this "magic turn you white formula" i think by now someone would have found out about it and started selling it on the black market. or at least there would be some "bleached white" people in Africa or India where bleaching is rampant. but there isn't any time you read about people who bleach from those countries those people are usaully horribly burned of maybe just a little lighter.

and i don't think he depigmented either i think his "even" complextion has always been the result of some very professional hollywood makeup and a personal make up artist. Oh and they do make waterproof/sweatproof makeup. what do you think they put on actors during rain and pool scenes. mj may have worn it at times when he knew he was going to get wet, but maybe not all the time which would account for those pictures where the makeup has come off and you can see the spots

how exactly does one "bleach" their skin? I'm not saying it can't be done,I was just wondering how it works.Bleach is a dangerous substance.I couldn't imagine rubbing it all over my skin!!

SoulAlive said:

They don't use actual bleach like laundry bleach but there are over the counter and prescription creams that people can use. Usually they might be recommended for age spots or scars, discolored areas from acne, etc.

Apparently a used prescription tube of 'bleaching' cream was found with Michael's things that he left in that storage room.

JackieBlue said:

Oh,okay.I know about those over-the-counter creams for spots and discolorations.I guess some people go overboard with that stuff,and use it for their whole body? lol

But I love how someone comes to a music forum on a Prince site and just decides to start a thread about vitiligo of all things then throws in Michael's name because after all, it is a music forum. But hey they're not trying to start anything...

Nikademus said:

JackieBlue said:

I guess this is their "discreet" way of starting another MJ thread?

shorttrini said:

He probably made a deal with a dermatologist to give him the digpigmentation treatment. Besides even if he did have vitiligo he could've got RE-pigmentation and remained black So I'm not buying that " I have vitiligo" sh!t

Plus- he gradually got lighter...
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trueiopian said:

He could have, but if we assume for a moment that he really does have full body vitiligo (not saying that he does, but assuming), it would be a lot easier to go the depigmentation route than the repigmentation one, since any new pigment would be destroyed too, meaning he would have to keep going back and getting it redone, and he would constantly be blotchy. Plus, it's unlikely that the repigmentation treatment would ever take enough to get him back to his original colour, so...

Or at least, that's my understanding of it.

Annika said:

From pictures I've seen it appears that Michael gradually got lighter and as far as I know vitiligo doesn't do that ish! Micheal Jackson had what is called [post in flammatory Hyper-pigmentation] as a result of severe adolescent acne.I think the whole Vitiligo explanation was devised by Jackson’s publicists and he is trapped in this tragic lie. Karen Frye made those comments on the michael jackson rebuttal show to the Martin Bashir documentary. Frye was on the MJ payroll, and so was his former ‘wife’ Debbie Rowe.Frye and Rowe say what MJ pays them to say. Frye never once used the word Vitiligo

trueiopian said:

Like I said, I'm not saying he actually has it. I was just responding to your post where you said if he did, he could have had it repigmented.

Annika said:

Um O.K.
Just giving my take on the topic
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Annika said:

You're right. Even if he were to repigment his skin, there is a chance that the disease could get worse with exposure to sunlight and stress. So, knowing this, he probably decided to do what it is, I mentioned before. It can get pretty costly and time consuming after awhile, even for somebody that has money.

trueiopian said:

Some of those pictures that you mentioned like most pictures of celebrities have been retouched. So, we really don't what the condition of his skin was. You cannot really go back a magazine or other tabloid photo's.