Hello Aggie
I don't have much more information I am sorry to say. I think it is very individual as well as much as depending on what sort of lupus skin it is.
Lupus itself can cause pigment changes. Something to do with the melanin pigment that causes tanning.
My SCLE lesions had dead white centres looking rather like scar tissue. In fact I had been told it was but when the lesions cleared so did these weird centres . I was told that deposits of mucin had cleared Otherwise I was left with redness due to the tiny vessels being damaged by inflammation.
It seems that sometimes the pigment comes back but since we are avoiding the sun that might be less likely to happen. There are some treatments available that might help but this would have to be determined by a really expert dermatologist and I think there are only about half a dozen in the UK. St Johns Dermatology is the nation wide tops and works with St Thomas Lupus Unit.
I suspect that getting corrective cosmetic treatment on the NHS is about as hard as getting a sex change op.
There's a paragraph about it in this part of The Lupus Book
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA66,M1
I am glad your skin is so much better anyway but I do absolutely understand your wanting it perfectly normal again.
Many Hugs
Clare