An image processing apparatus includes a face-image storage unit storing a face image of a predetermined face as a registered face image; a color storage unit storing face-color information, which is information regarding a face color of the registered face image; a detector detecting a face image in an input image; a correcting unit correcting face-color information of the face image detected in the input image; and a comparator comparing the face image detected in the input image with the registered face image and obtaining a registered face image that is most similar to the detected face image as a comparison result. The correcting unit corrects face-color information of a face image detected in a next input image on the basis of the face-color information of the registered face image serving as the comparison result, which is stored in the color storage unit.