What's up with the skin on my leg? (photo)

[GhostCurry]

Hi all.

Excuse my freckly stick legs.

I have very pale skin and freckles all over, but my right shin is weird. When I was a teenager, I had a kind of lesion on it, that took ages to go away. When it finally did, it took all the freckles from the surrounding area with it!

I know that sounds really weird and unlikely, but it's true. Take a look at the picture, there's this oval-shaped area where there are no freckles. I swear it wasn't always like that. If I try to put fake tan on my legs, it doesn't really "take" on that area.

Is this a thing? What could it be?

Anyone?

Probably slight scar tissue now so fake tan won't 'stick' as well as on non scarred skin.

I don't know, but I have something similar. I have very olive skin with many moles, but on the back of the top of one of my arms is a raggedy-edged patch of pure white skin. It has literally no pigment at all! When i tan it becomes really obvious and the edge is uneven which, as a child, made it look a bit like a dense white rash, although it is mostly a solid patch.

My mum told me it wasn't always like that but that when I was small I scratched my arm on something in the garden and this weird pigment-free patch was the result. Sounds similar but equally as baffling.

"My mum told me it wasn't always like that but that when I was small I scratched my arm on something in the garden and this weird pigment-free patch was the result."

Yes! Weird! So strange...

I am convinced it's something sinister

I wouldn't worry Ghost, mine appeared as a toddler and I'm mid-thirties now. Still going strong!

Terrible picture (and possibly upside down...) but you can just about make it out!

Oh, and I'm Epoxy, I always forget when I've namechanged.

Ah yes I see it. Thanks for the photo I guess the skin is fragile and odd things can affect pigmentation.

Vitiligo?

Could be vitiligo, but it's not in the usual places for vitiligo to show up, and the fact that it seems to be a result of trauma - is that a vitiligo thing? I thought it was genetic... but the body does some weird stuff.