PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically exclude face parts from a human face image.SOLUTION: A skin image analyzing apparatus operates as follows: extracting a lip area of a subject according to a color component of an original image (S240) extracting an eyebrow area and an eye area according to brightness or color components of areas located upper than the lip area (S250) extracting a nostril area according to brightness and/or color components of areas located upper than the lip area and areas other than the eyebrow area and the eye area (S260) generating a mask for specifying a skin area obtained by removing the lip, eyebrow, eye and nostril areas from a face area of the subject (S270) and analyzing a state of the skin of the subject according to original image data of the skin area (S280).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
