The present invention discloses a face image processing process and apparatus. The scheme of the invention will project the face region of the image in the beforehand disciplinary pivot space, and reconstructs according to the projection result. As the beforehand disciplinary pivot space only reserves the low frequency partial component of the face image and removes the high-frequency part, thereby the reconstructed face image only contains low-frequency components in the image and removes the high-frequency components. In the face images, the low frequency part usually includes brightness, skin color, gesture, face shape, face expression and the like information, while the high-frequency part usually includes flecks, wrinkles, thickness veins and other details. As a result, by the projection and reconstruction of facial image in the pivot space, the skin color and veins of the face images become uniform, wrinkles decrease, spots disappear, and so on, so as to achieve the goal of the human face image improvement and face beautification. Since the scheme of the invention only process the part of the face image, which will not affect the whole image.