Stretch marks are colored lines or streaks that appear on your skin from weight gain or growth. They’re essentially tears on the skin, but aren’t an indication of a health issue. Stretch marks ...

The light’s energy calms blood vessels under your skin that could cause the marks. Fractional CO2 laser therapy is a new treatment that may smooth out old, white stretch marks. One study showed ...

Research shows that PDL (pulse dye laser) may help new stretch marks in the early, red, inflammatory phase. IPL laser may be ...

Over time they will often fade and appear white. Anyone can develop stretch marks, but they are more common in women than in men and can be more prominent in dark-skinned individuals. You are also ...

Fortunately, stretch marks tend to fade with time and turn white or closer to the color of your skin tone. “They will get less noticeable over time,” Kassouf says. If your stretch marks make ...

Mature stretch marks have a shiny, white or silver look. Retinoids, such as tretinoin, are compounds derived from vitamin A. Tretinoin can help to rebuild collagen and, in some studies ...

According to a 2016 review of studies, red stretch marks occur during the acute phase of this stretching, while white stretch marks are characteristic of the chronic phase. White stretch marks are ...

An curved arrow pointing right. New Image Beauty Bar specializes in Brazilian stretch mark camouflage. The procedure reduces the appearance of stretch marks by blending skin-tone colors to match ...

If your stretch marks appear dark-pink, red, or purple at first, they will “take 12 to 18 months to fade to the much lighter white-ish color of an ‘old’ stretch mark,” says Dr. Polla.