This experiment was aimed to study the preference of mobile phone facial images captured under different simulated ambient lightings. The experiment was carried out by assessing the preference of images for two facial images under 11 lightings (5 correlated colour temperature levels at 2 illuminances plus a dark condition). Forty-five images were processed via CAT02 chromatic adaptation transform to simulate the pictures captured under different light environments. The results revealed that the preferred capture region was between 6500 and 8000K around -0.05 Duv. Furthermore, it was found that the preferred skin tones of all the 45 rendered had good agreement under all the ambient lightings of viewing, i.e.to have mean values of L*, C_ab*, h_ab of [76.3 25.1, 46.4°] units under D65/10 o conditions.