A travel face pillow provides a portable soft cushion for resting while supporting the head. The travel face pillow may comprise a face support pillow having a left hand pillow and a right hand pillow with the left hand pillow and a right hand pillow centered approximately 180 degrees from each other with the face support pillow surrounding a face opening, a head opening surrounding the face support pillow wherein the head opening is larger than the face opening, a pair of hand entrance slots extending between the head opening and the face opening with each of the pair of hand entrance slots aligned for providing hand access to one of a pair of hand pockets wherein each of the pair of hand pockets is adjacent to a one of the left hand pillow and the right hand pillow respectively, and a pair of thumb cushion tabs coupled to the face support pillow at the head opening with each one of the pair of thumb cushion tabs coupled and aligned respectively to one of the pair of hand pockets for receiving, and an outer surface surrounding the face support pillow.