Signs and symptoms include: • Patchy loss of skin color. Usually, it appears on the hands, face, and areas around body openings, plus the genitals. • Premature whitening or graying of the hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, or even your beard • Loss of color in the tissues that line the inside of your mouth and nose It is difficult to determine how vitiligo will progress. At times, the patches stop forming without treatment; however, in most cases, pigment loss spreads. Eventually, most of the skin will be involved. There are times, however, when the skin gets color back.