Provided are a skin evaluation apparatus, a skin evaluation method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a skin evaluation program capable of evaluating gloss of skin in consideration of both of a physical feature of the skin and an optical feature of the skin to quantitatively evaluate gloss of the skin closer to a practical point of view. The skin evaluation apparatus includes a shape information acquisition unit 22 that acquires information on a surface unevenness shape of the skin; an optical feature information acquisition unit 23 that acquires information on an optical feature of the skin; and an evaluation unit 24 that evaluates gloss of the skin on the basis of the information on the surface unevenness shape and the information on the optical feature.