A face image obtaining apparatus which includes: a biological information preliminarily obtaining means for preliminarily obtaining biological information of a user; a biological information determining means for determining whether the biological information obtained by the biological information preliminarily obtaining means is applicable to biometric authentication; a biological information storing means for storing the biological information as biometric authentication information if the biological information is determined to be applicable to biometric authentication by the biological information determining means; an input means for obtaining biological information of the user through inputting action of the user for obtaining a face image of the user; and a face image obtaining and storing means. The face image obtaining and storing means obtains and stores the face image of the user if the biological information obtained through the inputting action of the user matches the biometric authentication information.