Vitiligo is recognized as an acquired autoimmune depigmentation disorder. Normally, the disease occurs before forty years of age but it has been reported to be effecting people irrespective of age and sex. Body produces antibodies against melanocytes and destroys them. As a result, white patches appear in the body. Vitiligo may be segmental or non-segmental. Objectives of this review article is to understand the underlying mechanism of occurrence of vitiligo, brief an updated information about the available treatments and the possible precautionary measures against vitiligo. All available literature about vitiligo and it__ampersandsignrsquo;s treatment procedures were studied and thus all available information has been reviewed and briefed in this article to represent a compact scenario of the pathogenesis and treatments of vitiligo to make the understanding of the disease clear. Vitiligo has significant social and psychological impacts and physiological adverse effects like hypopigmentation or depigmentation in the patient. The social and psychological impact that the disease brings with it is severe in most cases. Vitiligo is not completely curable but treatments include topical corticosteroids, immune-modulators, and UV therapy which causes repigmentation of white patches, micro pigmentation etc.