In this paper we investigate the use of facial skin mark information for biometric person verification. We performed statistical
analysis of the facial skin mark information. The position, size and color intensity of the skin marks are considered as features
for skin mark based face matching. Developed facial skin mark matcher has good performance, but can not be applied to faces
with no detected skin marks. Due to non-universality of skin mark information, a novel combination algorithm of traditional
Eigenfaces matcher with skin mark matcher has been proposed. The resulting combined face matcher has universality property
and delivers better performance than either single matcher. The AR Face Database was used in experiments.